Dr. Fu Manchu is a fictional character first featured in a series of novels by English author Sax Rohmer during the first half of the 20th century. Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward ( 15 February 1883 - 1 June 1959) better known as Sax Rohmer, was a prolific English Novelist The character was also featured extensively in cinema, television, radio, comic strips and comic books for over 90 years, and has become an archetype of evil criminal genius while inspiring the Fu Manchu moustache. An archetype ( pronounced: /ˈɑːkɪtaɪp/ (Brit or /ˈɑrkɪtaɪp/ (Amer A Fu Manchu mustache is a full Mustache that extends downward past the lips and on either side of the chin

Contents 1 Characters 1.1 Fu Manchu 1.1.1 Kâramanèh 1.1.2 Fah lo Suee 1.2 Commissioner Sir Denis Nayland Smith and Dr. Petrie 2 Racial debate 3 Cultural impact 4 Books 5 In other media 5.1 Film serials 5.2 Feature films 5.3 Television 5.4 Music 5.5 Radio 5.6 Comic strips 5.7 Comic books 5.8 Games 6 See also 7 Listen To 8 References 9 External links

Characters

Fu Manchu

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Imagine a person, tall, lean and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan, . William Shakespeare ( baptised Satan, ( Standard Hebrew Satan'el, English accuser) is a term that originates from the Abrahamic faiths, being traditionally . . one giant intellect, with all the resources of science past and present . . . Imagine that awful being, and you have a mental picture of Dr. Fu-Manchu, the yellow peril incarnate in one man. Yellow Peril (sometimes Yellow Terror) was a color metaphor for race that originated in the late nineteenth century with Immigration of Chinese –The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu

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A master criminal, Fu Manchu's murderous plots are marked by the extensive use of arcane methods; he disdains guns or explosives, preferring dacoits, Thuggee, and members of other secret societies as his agents armed with knives, or using "pythons and hamadryads. The word Dacoity is the anglicized version of the Indian word dakaitee (डकैती or ڈکیتی or ডাকাতি which comes from Thuggee (or tuggee, ठग्गी) (from Hindi thag ‘thief’ from Sanskrit sthaga ‘scoundrel’ from sthagati Common names pythons The Pythonidae are a family of non- Venomous Snakes found in Africa, Asia The King Cobra ( Ophiophagus hannah) is the world's longest venomous Snake, with a length that can be as large as 5 . . fungi and my tiny allies, the bacilli. A fungus (ˈfʌŋgəs is a eukaryotic Organism that is a member of the kingdom Fungi (ˈfʌndʒaɪ This page is about the bacterial genus For the class see Bacilli. . . my black spiders" and other peculiar animals or natural chemical weapons.

According to Cay Van Ash (a friend and biographer of Sax Rohmer, who wrote his own authorized pastiches Ten Years Beyond Baker Street and The Fires of Fu Manchu) "Fu Manchu" was a title of honor, which meant "the Warlike Manchu. The Manchu people ( Manchu: Manju;, Mongolian: Манж Russian: Маньчжуры are a Tungusic people who originated in " It was thought that the character had been a member of the Imperial family who backed the losing side in the Boxer Rebellion. The Boxer Rebellion, or Boxer Movement, was an uprising by members of the Chinese Society of Right and Harmonious Fists against foreign influence In the earliest books, Fu Manchu is an assassin sent on missions by the Si-Fan, but he quickly rises to become head of that dreaded secret society. At first, the Si-Fan's goal is to throw the Europeans out of Asia; later, the group attempts to intervene more generally in world politics, while funding itself by more ordinary crime. Dr. Fu Manchu has extended his already considerable lifespan by use of the elixir vitae, a formula he spent decades trying to perfect. The elixir of life, from Arabic الإكسير also known as the elixir of immortality or Dancing Water or Persian: Aab-e-Hayaat آب حیات When China falls to Communism, the Si-Fan and Fu Manchu fight to restore the China of old. China ( Wade-Giles ( Mandarin) Chung¹kuo² is a cultural region, an ancient Civilization, and depending on perspective a National Communism is a Socioeconomic structure that promotes the establishment of an egalitarian, classless, stateless Society based

Kâramanèh

Prominent among his agents was the "seductively lovely" Kâramanèh. Her real name is unknown. She was sold to the Si-Fan by Egyptian slave traders while still a child. Kara falls in love with the editor of the first three books in the series, Dr. Petrie. She rescues Petrie and Nayland Smith many times. Dr Fu Manchu is a Fictional character first featured in a series of novels by English author Sax Rohmer during the first half of the 20th century Eventually the couple are united and she wins her freedom. They marry and have a daughter, Fleurette who figures in later novels. Author Lin Carter later created a son for Dr. Linwood Vrooman Carter ( June 9, 1930 - February 7, 1988) was an American author of Science fiction and Fantasy Petrie and Kara, but this is not considered canonical.

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Many there are, I doubt not, who will regard the Eastern girl with horror. I ask their forgiveness in that I regarded her quite differently. No man having seen her could have condemned her unheard. Many, having looked into her lovely eyes, had they found there what I found, must have forgiven her almost any crime. –The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu

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Fah lo Suee

Fu Manchu's daughter, Fah lo Suee, is a devious mastermind in her own right, plotting to take control of the Si-Fan from her father and making things difficult for him. Her real name is unknown. Fah lo Suee was a term of endearment from her childhood. She is introduced anonymously in the third book in the series and plays a larger role in several later entries. She rebelled against her father and sided with his enemies (within and outside of the Si-Fan) on several occasions. She was known for a time as Koreani after being brainwashed by her father, but her memory was later restored. She is infamous for taking on false identities, like her father. Among them are Madame Ingomar and Queen Mamaloi. The daughter of Fu Manchu has been played by numerous actresses over the years from Anna May Wong to Myrna Loy to Tsai Chin among others. Anna May Wong (or Wong Liu Tsong,, January 3 1905 – February 2 1961 was an American actress, the first Chinese American movie star and the first Myrna Loy ( August 2, 1905 – December 14, 1993) was an American Motion picture Actress. Tsai Chin ( born November 30, 1936) also known as Irene Chow, is a Chinese -born actress living in England Her name has been altered for the big screen several times.

Commissioner Sir Denis Nayland Smith and Dr. Petrie

Opposing Fu Manchu in the early stories are Commissioner Sir Denis Nayland Smith and Dr. Commissioner is a designation that may be used for a variety of official positions especially referring to a high-ranked public (administrative or Police) official or an analogous Petrie. They are in the Holmes and Watson tradition, with Dr. Sherlock Holmes is a famous fictional detective of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who first appeared in Publication in 1887 Petrie narrating the stories while Nayland Smith carries the fight, combating Fu Manchu more by dogged determination than intellectual brilliance (except in extremis). Nayland Smith and Fu Manchu share a grudging respect for one another, as each believes a man must keep his word even to an enemy.

Smith is an official of the British government with a roving commission which allows him to exercise authority over any group that can help him in his mission. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located He resembles Sherlock Holmes and James Bond, both in their physical description, in their acerbic manner, and in their deductive geniuses. Sherlock Holmes is a famous fictional detective of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who first appeared in Publication in 1887 James Bond 007 is a Fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve Novels and two Short story He has been criticized as being a racist and jingoistic character, especially in the early entries in the series, and gives voice to anti-Asian sentiments that may be unpalatable to the modern reader. List of racism-related topics|Racism by country Racism, by its simplest definition is the belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that Jingoism is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as "extreme Patriotism in the form of aggressive foreign policy" Asian or Asiatic is a Demonym for people from Asia. However the use of the term varies by country and person often referring to people from a particular .

Smith has been played by many actors of varying ages over the years.

Racial debate

Even at the time of publication, there were objections to the "negative stereotyping" involved in the Fu Manchu character. ^[1]

More recent admirers of the novels have claimed that Fu Manchu should not in fact be seen as specifically Chinese but as a pure creation, with no real-world referents at all. Scholars however, contend that the character is built upon a well-known structure of "racist and imperialist assumptions" about Chinese, and "catered to the racist and sensationalistic proclivities of his intended audience",^[2] though perhaps he should be viewed as a more nuanced portrayal than simply a soulless stereotype. ^[2]

The sexuality of the character has also received attention, with several critics making the argument that he serves to "pervert" Chinese "masculine expression"^[2] and is representative of an "assault" of "effeminate stereotypes" on Asian men, which has caused some conflict within feminist literary theory. ^[3]

The author himself, while "bemused" at the furor, defended his character by saying that the portrait was "fundamentally truthful" because "criminality was often rampant among the Chinese", especially in Limehouse. Limehouse is a place in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is on the northern bank of the River Thames opposite Rotherhithe and between Ratcliff ^[1]

Cultural impact

The character of Fu Manchu became a stereotype often associated with the Yellow Peril. A stereotype (from Greek: stereo + týpos = "solid impression" is a generalized perception of first impressions behaviors presumed by a group Yellow Peril (sometimes Yellow Terror) was a color metaphor for race that originated in the late nineteenth century with Immigration of Chinese Fu Manchu has inspired numerous other characters, and is the model for most villains in later "Yellow Peril" thrillers. ^[4] Examples include Pao Tcheou, Dr. Pao Tcheou is a Fictional character from a series of French novels Azimn, Ancient Wu from True Crime: Streets of LA, Ming the Merciless from Flash Gordon, Li Chang Yen from The Big Four, James Bond adversary Dr. No, Lo-Pan from Big Trouble in Little China and Iron Man foes the Mandarin and especially the Yellow Claw. True Crime Streets of LA is a Video game developed by Luxoflux and published by Activision for the Xbox, PlayStation 2 Ming the Merciless is a Fictional character who first appeared in the Flash Gordon Comic strip in 1934 Flash Gordon is the hero of a Science fiction adventure Comic strip originally drawn by Alex Raymond, which was first published on January 7, James Bond 007 is a Fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve Novels and two Short story Dr No (also Dr No and Doctor No This novel was inspired by Fleming's having read Sax Rohmer 's Fu Manchu stories Lo-Pan is a Fictional character portrayed by actor James Hong in the 1986 Comedy / Action film Big Trouble in Little China Big Trouble in Little China (also known as John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China) is a 1986 American Comedy / Iron Man is a Fictional character that appears in Comic books published by Marvel Comics. The Mandarin is a Fictional character, a Marvel Comics Supervillain and the Archenemy of Iron Man. The Yellow Claw is a fictional Comic book Supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe, created by EC Comics great

"Comrade Li" in Peter George's "Commander-1" (1965) is essentially the same type of villain - despite his name having only a thin veneer of Communism or Marxism, being rather a suave philosopher steeped in ancient Chinese learning whose cold-blooded machinations bring about a nuclear holocaust in which nearly all humanity perishes (including China, which he sought to make great) and who eventually meets a suitable gruesome and ignominious end. Peter Bryan George ( March 24 1924 - June 11 1966) was a British author most famous for the Cold War thriller novel Communism is a Socioeconomic structure that promotes the establishment of an egalitarian, classless, stateless Society based Marxism is the political philosophy and practice derived from the work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Nuclear holocaust refers to the possibility of nearly complete annhilation of human Civilization by Nuclear warfare.

Fu Manchu is also one of the earliest known examples of a supervillain, with Professor Moriarty being among the few other precedents. A supervillain or supervillainess is a variant of the Villain character type commonly found in Comic books, Action movies and Professor James Moriarty is a Fictional character who is the best known Antagonist (and Nemesis) of the detective Sherlock Holmes.

The style of facial hair associated with him in film adaptations has become known as the Fu Manchu moustache although Rohmer's writings described the character as possessing no such accoutrement. A Fu Manchu mustache is a full Mustache that extends downward past the lips and on either side of the chin

Books

• The Insidious Dr Fu Manchu (1913) (also known as The Mystery of Dr Fu-Manchu). The Insidious Dr Fu Manchu (1913 (USA title also known as The Mystery of Dr Fu Manchu (UK title is the first novel in the Dr Fu Manchu (sometimes “Fu-Manchu” This is a combination of short stories originally published in magazines. The first was The Zayat Kiss which was published in The Storyteller (1912).
• The Return of Dr Fu Manchu (1916) (also known as The Devil Doctor)
• The Hand of Fu Manchu (1917) (also known as The Si-Fan Mysteries)
• Daughter of Fu Manchu (1931) narrated by Shan Greville rather than Dr. Petrie.
• The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932) also narrated by Shan Greville.
• The Bride of Fu Manchu (1933) narrated by Alan Sterling.
• The Trail of Fu Manchu (1934) narrated third person.
• President Fu Manchu (1936) narrated third person.
• The Drums of Fu Manchu (1939) narrated by Bart Kerrigan.
• The Island of Fu Manchu (1940) narrated by Bart Kerrigan.
• The Shadow of Fu Manchu (1948) narrated third person.
• Re-Enter Fu Manchu (1957) narrated third person.
• Emperor Fu Manchu (1959) narrated by Tony McCay was Rohmer's last novel.
• The Wrath of Fu Manchu (1973). This was a posthumous anthology containing the title novella, first published in 1952 and three later short stories: The Eyes of Fu Manchu (1957), The Word of Fu Manchu (1958), and The Mind of Fu Manchu (1959).
• Ten Years Beyond Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes Matches Wits with the Diabolical Dr. Fu Manchu (1984). First of two authorized pastiche by Cay van Ash, Sax Rohmer's former assistant and biographer. The novel is set in a gap in the narrative of Rohmer's third Fu Manchu novel, The Hand of Fu Manchu (1917) and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story, His Last Bow (1917).
• The Fires of Fu Manchu (1987). The second of two authorized pastiches by Cay van Ash, Sax Rohmer's former assistant and biographer. The novel is set in 1917 and falls between Rohmer's novels, The Hand of Fu Manchu (1917) and Daughter of Fu Manchu (1931). A third Van Ash title The Seal of Fu Manchu was never completed. Both Van Ash pastiches are narrated by Dr. Petrie.
• The League of Dragons was an unpublished, unauthorized novel involving a young Sherlock Holmes matching wits with Fu Manchu in the nineteenth century. The novel's author, George Alec Effinger labored for two decades to finish and publish the book. George Alec Effinger ( January 10, 1947 &ndash April 27, 2002) was an American science fiction author, born in 1947 Excerpts have been published in the anthologies, Sherlock Holmes in Orbit (1995) and My Sherlock Holmes (2003). The Effinger pastiche is narrated by Conan Doyle's character, Reginald Musgrave.
• The Terror of Fu Manchu is the title of a forthcoming authorized Fu Manchu novel expected to relaunch the series by William Patrick Maynard. It is set within a gap in the narrative of The Hand of Fu Manchu (1917) and is narrated by Dr. Petrie. Expected publication of the first in the projected new series of novels is 2008.
• Anno Dracula (1994). Anno Dracula is a 1992 novel by British writer Kim Newman. The book is an Alternate history novel that contains characters from multiple Only described as "the Devil Doctor", he appeared in a cameo as one of the criminal rulers of the London underworld. Written by Kim Newman. Kim Newman (born July 31, 1959) is an English journalist, film critic, and Fiction Writer.
• Fu Manchu appears anonymously as The Doctor in several of August Derleth's Sherlock Holmes pastiches in his Solar Pons series. August William Derleth ( February 24 1909 &ndash July 4 1971) was an American writer and anthologist Solar Pons is a Fictional Detective created by August Derleth as a Pastiche of Arthur Conan Doyle 's Sherlock Holmes. Derleth's successor, Basil Copper continued this tradition after Derleth's death. Basil Copper (1924 –) is an English writer and former journalist and newspaper editor
• Ian Fleming's James Bond novel Doctor No (1958) appeared to borrow heavily from Fu Manchu for his half Chinese/ half German, criminal mastermind.

In other media

Film serials

Fu Manchu first appeared on the big screen in the 1923 British film serial The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu starring Harry Agar Lyons. Lyons returned to the role the next year in the creatively titled The Further Mysteries of Fu Manchu.

Fu Manchu returned to the serial format in 1940 in Republic Pictures' Drums of Fu Manchu, a 15-episode serial considered to be one of the best the studio ever made. Drums of Fu Manchu ( 1940) is a 15-Chapter Republic Movie Serial based on the Fu Manchu stories by Sax Rohmer, starring It was later edited and released as a feature film in 1943. Republic had wanted to do a second serial Fu Manchu Strikes Back, but the State Department persuaded them to refrain from doing so because China was a war-time ally against Japan.

Feature films

In 1929 Fu made his American film debut in The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu starring Warner Oland, best known for his portrayal of Charlie Chan. The Mysterious Dr Fu Manchu is a 1929 film starring Warner Oland as Dr Warner Oland ( October 3, 1879 &ndash August 6, 1938) was a Swedish actor most remembered for his role as " Charlie Charlie Chan is a fictional Chinese-American Detective created by Earl Derr Biggers, who acknowledged that he was inspired by the career of Oland repeated the role in 1930's The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu and 1931's Daughter of the Dragon. Daughter of the Dragon ( 1931) is a movie directed by Lloyd Corrigan, released by Paramount Pictures, and starring Anna May Wong as Oland appeared in character in the 1931 musical, Paramount on Parade where the Devil Doctor was seen to murder both Philo Vance and Sherlock Holmes. Philo Vance is a Fictional character who starred in 12 Crime novels written by S Sherlock Holmes is a famous fictional detective of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who first appeared in Publication in 1887

Nevertheless, the most famous early incarnation of the character was The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932) starring Boris Karloff and Myrna Loy. The Mask of Fu Manchu is an Adventure / crime Film released in 1932, featuring Boris Karloff as Fu Manchu and Boris Karloff ( 23 November, &ndash 2 February,) was an English actor who emigrated to Canada in the 1910s Myrna Loy ( August 2, 1905 – December 14, 1993) was an American Motion picture Actress. The film's tone has long been considered racist and offensive, but only added to its cult status alongside its campy humor and Grand Guignol sets and torture sequences. The film was suppressed for many years, but has since received critical re-evaluation and been released on DVD uncut.

Other than an obscure, unauthorized 1946 Spanish film El Otro Fu Manchu, Fu was absent from the big sceen for about twenty five years, until Towers of London began a series starring Christopher Lee in 1965. Harry Alan Towers (born in London on October 19, 1920) is a Radio and Film producer and Screenwriter, who has produced Christopher Frank Carandini Lee CBE, CStJ (born 27 May 1922 is a two-time Screen Actors Guild Award-nominated Saturn Award-winning English Actor Towers and Lee would make one Fu Manchu film per year through the end of the decade: The Face of Fu Manchu (1965), The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966), The Vengeance of Fu Manchu (1967), The Blood of Fu Manchu (1968), and finally The Castle of Fu Manchu (1969)

His last authorized film appearance was The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu, a 1980 spoof starring Peter Sellers as both Fu Manchu and Nayland Smith. The Face of Fu Manchu is a 1965 thriller based on the character of Fu Manchu, the Chinese villain created by The Brides of Fu Manchu is a 1966 British thriller based on the fictional Asian villain Fu Manchu, created by Sax Rohmer The Vengeance of Fu Manchu is a 1967 British Film directed by Jeremy Summers starring Christopher Lee, Douglas The Castle of Fu Manchu ( 1969) also known by its German title Die Folterkammer des Dr ‎ The Fiendish Plot of Dr Fu Manchu is a 1980 Comedy film, notable as the final film to star Peter Sellers while he was alive Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar) A parody (ˈpɛɹədiː US, [ˈpaɹədiː] UK) in contemporary usage is a work created to mock comment on or poke fun at an original work its subject Richard Henry Sellers, CBE, commonly known as Peter Sellers ( 8 September 1925 &ndash 24 July 1980) was a British The film, taking place in contemporary times bore little connection to any prior film or the original books. However Peter Sellers' characterisation of Fu Manchu and Nayland Smith were aged as the characters of the Harry Alan Towers films set in the late 1920s would have been, and seems to fit in with the Towers series.

Jess Franco, who had directed Harry Alan Towers' films, The Blood of Fu Manchu and The Castle of Fu Manchu, also directed the second of three Towers films based on Rohmer's Sumuru character, The Girl From Rio and an unauthorized 1986 Spanish film about Fu Manchu's daughter, Esclavas del Crimen. Jesús (or Jess) Franco (born May 12, 1930 as Jesús Franco Manera) is a Spanish Film director, writer Harry Alan Towers (born in London on October 19, 1920) is a Radio and Film producer and Screenwriter, who has produced The Castle of Fu Manchu ( 1969) also known by its German title Die Folterkammer des Dr

Nicolas Cage cameos as Fu Manchu in Rob Zombie's faux trailer Werewolf Women of the SS, which is part of the 2007 film Grindhouse. Nicolas Cage (born Nicholas Kim Coppola; January 7, 1964) is an Academy Award -winning American actor Robert Bartleh Cummings (born January 12, 1965) better known by his Stage name, Rob Zombie, is an American Musician Grindhouse is a 2007 Film co-written produced and directed by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino. Grindhouse is a 2007 Film co-written produced and directed by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino.

Harry Alan Towers has announced several unsuccessful plans to revive the character since the early 1970s. Nicolas Cage (born Nicholas Kim Coppola; January 7, 1964) is an Academy Award -winning American actor Robert Bartleh Cummings (born January 12, 1965) better known by his Stage name, Rob Zombie, is an American Musician Grindhouse is a 2007 Film co-written produced and directed by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino. Grindhouse is a 2007 Film co-written produced and directed by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino. Harry Alan Towers (born in London on October 19, 1920) is a Radio and Film producer and Screenwriter, who has produced The most recent was announced at Cannes in 2007.

Television

Fu Manchu was first brought to television in NBC's 1952 short film The Zayat Kiss starring John Carradine. John Carradine ( February 5, 1906 &ndash November 27, 1988) was an American Actor, perhaps best known for his roles in It was intended to be a series of mystery films starring the character, but only an unsold pilot was produced.

From 3rd September 1956 till 26th November 1956, Hollywood Television Service (a subsidiary of Republic Pictures) produced a 13-episode syndicated programme, The Adventures of Fu Manchu starring Glen Gordon as Dr Fu Manchu, Lester Matthews as Sir Dennis Nayland Smith, Clark Howat as Dr John Petrie, Carla Balenda as Betty Leonard, Laurette Luez as Karamaneh (Fu Manchu's woman servant) and John George as Kolb (his dwarf flunkey). Republic Pictures (also known as Republic Entertainment Inc) is an independent film television and video distribution company that was originally a movie production-distribution The Adventures of Fu Manchu was a 1956 American television series Lester Matthews (1900 - 1975 was an English Actor born on the 6 June 1900 in Nottingham. John George can refer to the following people Germans John George Elector of Brandenburg (1525-1598 John George I Elector of The shows would start off with a chess game, telling us that the white pieces were good/life and the black pieces bad/death, that the Devil was said to play chess for men's souls and so does Fu Manchu who is evil incarnate. At the end of each episode, after Nayland Smith and Petrie had foiled Fu Manchu's latest fiendish scheme, he would signify that it was over by breaking a black chess piece. It was directed by noted serial director Frank Andreon as well as William Witney. Unlike the Holmes/Watson type relationship of the films, the series featured Smith as a law enforcement officer and Petrie using his medical knowledge to complement each other.

In 1990, Spanish television broadcast the spoof, The Daughter of Fu Manchu featuring an impressive performance by Paul Naschy as the Devil Doctor. Paul Naschy (born Jacinto Molina on September 6, 1934 in Madrid) is a Spanish movie Actor, Screenwriter, and

In an episode of Black Books, Bernard Black described Manny as "Half Iago. Black Books was a British sitcom broadcast on Channel 4 starring Dylan Moran, Bill Bailey and Tamsin Greig Bernard Ludwig Black is a fictional Bookseller and the main character in the sitcom Black Books. Emmanuel "Manny" Bianco is a fictional Bookseller and a central character in the British comedy sitcom Black Books, portrayed . . half Fu Manchu. . . all bastard!"

In Series 3 of Trigger Happy TV, Dom Jolly poses as Fu Manchu offering Rickshaw rides to chinatown. He says "I'm Fu Manchu and you ride with me. I give you silly crazy fast tour of china town. I ride you long time. " and then cycles away leaving the cabin of the rickshaw behind with the passengers inside.

In the South Park episodes Imaginationland parts II and III Fu Manchu is seen among the many villainous characters. South Park is an animated American television comedy series created and written by Trey Parker and Matt Stone for Comedy Central " Imaginationland " or " Kyle Sucks Cartman's Balls The Trilogy " (as it appears in the episode is episode 1110 (#163 of Comedy Central 's animated

Music

Jamaican reggae pioneer Desmond Dekker recorded a song titled "Fu Man Chu" in 1968 with the chorus, "This is the face of Fu Manchu. Desmond Dekker ( July 16 1941 — May 25 2006) was a Jamaican Ska and Reggae Singer and Songwriter "

Frank Black (of the Pixies) recorded a song called "Fu Manchu" in 1993. Pixies are an American Alternative rock band formed in Boston Massachusetts in 1986

British band The Wildhearts include Fu Manchu on their list of admired villains in the song "Rooting For The Bad Guy". The Wildhearts are a rock group from Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

Village Green Preservation Society on the similarly titled album by The Kinks mentions Fu Manchu, alongside other fictional villains, Moriarty and Dracula, in its list of things to preserve, "Help save Fu Manchu, Moriarty and Dracula". The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society is a pop-rock album released by the British music group The Kinks on 22 November The Kinks were an English pop and rock group formed in 1963 and categorised in the US as a British Invasion band Professor James Moriarty is a Fictional character who is the best known Antagonist (and Nemesis) of the detective Sherlock Holmes. Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary Antagonist the vampire Count Dracula.

Californian Stoner rock band Fu Manchu

Montréal French speaking rock singer Robert Charlebois composed a song entitled "Fu Man Chu (Chus d'dans)" in 1972, in which he refers to the Fu Man Chu and Gene Autry black and white movies of the 1950-1960s. Fu Manchu is a Southern Californian Alternative rock / Stoner rock band who released their debut single "Kept Between Trees" in 1990 Through the story of Bill, the hero, the song highlights the main events of the second half of the 20th Century, starting with Bill initially dreaming about being attached to a railway track when the train is coming, then his posting abroad to war (presumably Vietnam) and finally ends with Lady Trenton loosing her virginity to Bill, whom she saved from the villains after his trip to the milky way.

Radio

Fu Manchu earliest radio appearances were on the Collier Hour 1927-31 on the Blue Network. The Blue Network was the on-air name of an American radio production and distribution service from 1942 to 1945 which traced its formal origins back to 1927 This was a radio programme designed to promote Collier's magazine and presented weekly dramatizations of the current issues stories and serials. Collier's Weekly was an American Magazine founded by Peter Fenelon Collier and published from 1888 to 1957 Fu was voiced by Arthur Hughes. A self titled show on CBS followed in 1932-33. John C. Daly, and later Harold Huber, played Fu.

Additionally, there were "pirate" broadcast from the Continent into Britain, from Radio Luxembourg and Radio Lyons in 1936 through 1937. Frank Cochrane voiced Fu Manchu. The BBC produced a competing series, The Peculiar Case of the Poppy Club starting in 1939. That same year The Shadow of Fu Manchu aired in the United States as a thrice weekly serial dramatizing the early novels. The series stared Gale Gordon as Dr. James Petrie, and Bruno Lang as Fu Manchu. (As a side note: both Gordon and Lang worked together three years earlier on the radio series "The Interplanetary Adventures of Flash Gordon", with Gordon as Flash and Lang cast as the Ming The Merciless. )

The last Fu Manchu radio series The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu aired in 1944 on NBC.

A character with the name "Fred Fu Manchu" appeared as a famous Chinese bamboo saxophonist as part of The Goon Show, a 1950's British radio comedy programme. The Goon Show was a British Radio comedy programme originally produced and broadcast by the BBC Home Service from 1951 to 1960 He appeared in his very own episode, "The Terrible Revenge of Fred Fu Manchu" in 1955 (announced as "Fred Fu-Manchu and his Bamboo Saxophone"), as well as making minor appearances in other episodes (including "China Story", "The Siege of Fort Night" and "The Lost Emperor"(as "Doctor Fred Fu Manchu: oriental tattooist")). ^[5] The character was invented and performed by Spike Milligan, who used the character to mock British xenophobia and self-satisfaction, the traits summoning the original Fu Manchu into existence, and not as a slur against Asians. Terence Alan Patrick Seán Milligan KBE ( 16 April, 1918 &ndash 27 February 2002) known as Spike Milligan, was an Anglo ^[6]

Comic strips

Fu was first brought to newspaper comic strips in a black and white daily strip drawn by Leo O'Mealia and ran from 1931 to 1933. The strips were adaptations of the first two Fu Manchu novels and part of the third. They were copyrighted by "Sax Rohmer and The Bell Syndicate, Inc".

Comic books

Fu Manchu made his first comic book appearance in Detective Comics # 17, and continued, as one feature among many in the anthology series, until #28. Detective Comics is an American comic book published monthly by DC Comics since 1937 best-known for introducing the iconic Superhero Batman These were reprints of the earlier Leo O'Mealia strips. Original Fu stories in comics had to wait for Avon's one-shot The Mask of Dr. Avon Publications was an American paperback book and Comic book publisher Fu Manchu in 1951. A similar British one-shot The Island of Fu Manchu was published in 1956.

In the 1970s, Fu Manchu appeared as the father of the character Shang-Chi in the series Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu. Shang-Chi ( is a Marvel Comics character often called the "Master of Kung Fu " Shang-Chi ( is a Marvel Comics character often called the "Master of Kung Fu " However Marvel Comics lost the rights to the character in the 1980s, so in later appearances, Fu Manchu is never named, only referred to as Shang-Chi's 'father,' and never shown out of shadow. Marvel Comics is an American comic book company owned by Marvel Publishing Inc In a recent Black Panther storyline, he is referred to as "Mr. The Black Panther ( T'Challa) is a Fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe who is the first modern Black Han", apparently a play on the name of the main villain in Enter the Dragon. Enter the Dragon ( aka The Deadly Three, originally titled Blood and Steel is a 1973 American Martial arts film directed

Fu Manchu appeared as a villain in the first volume of Alan Moore's comic book series The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, but was referred to only as "the Doctor" or "the Devil Doctor" as the character is not in the public domain. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume I is a Comic book Limited series written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin O'Neill Alan Moore (born November 18 1953 in Northampton) is an English Writer most famous for his influential work in Comics, including the acclaimed A comic book (often shortened to simply comic and sometimes called a comic paper or comic magazine) is a Magazine or Book of narrative The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a Comic book series written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin O'Neill. In Moore's storyline, Fu Manchu is engaged in a struggle with the infamous Professor Moriarty to control London's organized crime. Professor James Moriarty is a Fictional character who is the best known Antagonist (and Nemesis) of the detective Sherlock Holmes. In The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier he is stated as being a distant relative of Dr. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Black Dossier is an original Graphic novel in the Comic book series The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Julius No and also stated as being the great-grandfather of Sachs. Dr Julius No is a Fictional character and the main Antagonist in the James Bond film and novel Dr Doctor Sax ( Doctor Sax Faust Part Three) is a novel by Jack Kerouac published in 1959.

Fu Manchu and his daughter are the inspiration for the character Hark and his daughter Anna Hark in the comic book series Planetary as well as Ming the Merciless and Princess Aura in Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon series. Planetary is an American Comic book series created by Warren Ellis (writer and John Cassaday (artist published by the Wildstorm Ming the Merciless is a Fictional character who first appeared in the Flash Gordon Comic strip in 1934 Princess Aura is a fictional character in the Flash Gordon comic strips and serials Alexander Gillespie Raymond ( October 2, 1909 – September 6, 1956) was an American Comic strip artist best known for creating the Flash Gordon is the hero of a Science fiction adventure Comic strip originally drawn by Alex Raymond, which was first published on January 7, Fu Manchu was also the inspiration for Ra's Al Ghul in Batman and The Mandarin and The Yellow Claw in his own four issue Atlas (Marvel) Comics series as well as Marvel Comics' Nick Fury and Iron Man series. Ra's al Ghul, sometimes written Rā's al Ghūl (رأس الغول is a DC Comics Supervillain and an enemy of Batman. Batman (originally referred to as the Bat-Man and still referred to at times as the Batman) is a fictional Comic book Superhero co-created The Mandarin is a Fictional character, a Marvel Comics Supervillain and the Archenemy of Iron Man. The Yellow Claw is a fictional Comic book Supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe, created by EC Comics great Marvel Comics is an American comic book company owned by Marvel Publishing Inc Colonel Nicholas Joseph "Nick" Fury is a fictional World War II army hero and present-day super-spy in the Marvel Comics Iron Man is a Fictional character that appears in Comic books published by Marvel Comics.

Games

Li Sheng, from Evil Genius (video game), is completely inspired in Fu Manchu. Evil Genius is a 2004 Real-time strategy and simulation Video game.

Several adventures for the Daredevils roleplaying game feature the villainous Dr. Fantasy Games Unlimited, often referred to as just FGU, is a Publishing house for both table-top and Role-playing games A role-playing game ( RPG; often roleplaying game) is a Game in which the participants assume the roles of Fictional characters. Ling, inspired by Fu Manchu

In the game Croc 2, one of the bosses name is Goo Man Chu, a play on Fu Manchu

In the online computer game City of Heroes, one of the facial features that one can add to a player character is the Fu Manchu moustache. Croc 2 (working title Croc 2 Kingdoms of the Gobbos) released in 1999, is the sequel to Croc Legend of the Gobbos, developed City of Heroes (CoH is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game based on the Superhero Comic book Genre, developed by

See also

• Xenophobia
• Sinophobia
• Yellow Peril
• Li Shoon
• Fu Manchu moustache

Listen To

• Theater of the Ears: The Shadow of Fu Manchu Radio Dramas

References

External links

• Fu Manchu at the Internet Movie Database
• The Page of Fu Manchu
• The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu by Sax Rohmer
• The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu by Sax Rohmer
• Dr Hermes Reviews reviews of all the Fu Manchu books as well as those featuring Sax Rohmer's other criminal mastermind, Sumuru
• A database and cover gallery of Fu Manchu comic book appearances

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