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Philip Ahn
Catalogued films 66Actor 66
Philip Ahn (born Pillip Ahn (안필립), March 29, 1905 – February 28, 1978) was an American actor and activist of Korean descent. With over 180 film and television credits between 1935 and 1978, he was one of the most recognizable and prolific Asian-American character actors of his time. He is widely regarded as the first Korean American film actor in Hollywood. The son of Korean independence activist Ahn Changho, Ahn was a longtime advocate for his father's legacy and the Korean-American community, helping to establish memorials to his father in his native Seoul and later arranging for his remains to be buried there.
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The Killer Who Wouldn't Die
Judgment: The Court Martial of the Tiger of Malaya — General Yamashita
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Kung Fu: The Way of the Tiger, the Sign of the Dragon
The Sex Serum of Dr. Blake
Cocoon
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Paradise, Hawaiian Style
Diamond Head
A Girl Named Tamiko
Confessions of an Opium Eater
Dragon by the Tail
Yesterday's Enemy
Hong Kong Confidential
The Way to the Gold
Battle Hymn
The Left Hand of God
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
The Shanghai Story
Hell's Half Acre
His Majesty O'Keefe
Target Hong Kong
Battle Zone
Red Snow
Macao
Japanese War Bride
Secrets of Monte Carlo
China Corsair
I Was an American Spy
The Big Hangover
Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture
State Department: File 649
Rogues' Regiment
The Creeper
The Cobra Strikes
The Miracle of the Bells
The Chinese Ring
Saigon
Intrigue
Back to Bataan
China Sky
Betrayal from the East
Forever Yours
China's Little Devils
China
December 7th
The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
Behind the Rising Sun
Don Winslow of the Coast Guard
They Got Me Covered
China Girl
Submarine Raider
Let's Get Tough
A Yank on the Burma Road
The Shadow
Island of Lost Men
King of Chinatown
Red Barry
Roaring Timber
China Passage
Thank You, Mr. Moto
Something to Sing About
Daughter of Shanghai
The General Died at Dawn
A Scream in the Night
Desirable