James Hong
Hong at the 2007 Jules Verne Adventure Film Special Awards Presentation
Born	February 22, 1929 (1929-02-22) (age 79) Minneapolis, Minnesota

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Biography

Early life

Hong was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His father, Frank W. Hong, immigrated from Hong Kong to Chicago through Canada and was a restaurant owner. Hong Kong ( officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located on China 's south coast on the Pearl River Delta, and borders Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page ^[1] For his early education, Hong moved to Hong Kong, and returned to the United States at age ten. Hong Kong ( officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located on China 's south coast on the Pearl River Delta, and borders The United States of America —commonly referred to as the He studied civil engineering at the University of Southern California, but later became interested in acting and trained with Jeff Corey. Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design construction and maintenance of the physical and naturally built The University of Southern California (commonly referred to as USC, SC, Southern California, and incorrectly Jeff Corey (born Arthur Zwerling August 10, 1914 &mdash August 16, 2002) was

Career

His career in show business began in the 1950s when he redubbed soundtracks of several Asian films, including the redubbing of characters Ogata and Dr. In filmmaking, dubbing or looping is the process of recording or replacing voices for a Motion picture. Serizawa in the 1956 Japanese film Godzilla, King of the Monsters!. Godzilla King of the Monsters! is a 1956 American black-and-white Science fiction Film adapted from the 1954 Hong was one of the original founding members, in 1965, of the East West Players, one of the first Asian American theatre organizations. East West Players is an Asian American theatre organization in Los Angeles founded in 1965. Asian Americans are Americans of Asian ancestry. They include sub-ethnic groups such as Chinese Americans Filipino Americans Indian He has appeared in myriad supporting character roles in films and television—his Internet Movie Database filmography contained 300 credits as of October 2006. He was a frequent guest star on the 1972-1975 television series Kung Fu, and is perhaps most widely known as the immortal ghost sorcerer Lo Pan in John Carpenter’s Big Trouble in Little China (1986), the eye manufacturer Chew in Blade Runner, the low-rent private eye in Black Widow and the obtuse maître d’ at the Chinese restaurant in the famous Seinfeld episode “The Chinese Restaurant”. This article is specifically about the original TV series (1972–1975 "Kung Fu" Lo-Pan is a Fictional character portrayed by actor James Hong in the 1986 Comedy / Action film Big Trouble in Little China John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American Film director, Screenwriter, producer, film score Big Trouble in Little China (also known as John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China) is a 1986 American Comedy / Blade Runner is a 1982 American Science fiction Film, directed by Ridley Scott. The maître d' (short for maître d'hôtel literally "master of the hotel" in a suitably staffed Restaurant or Hotel is the person Seinfeld is an American Situation comedy, or sitcom that originally aired on NBC from July 5 1989 to May 14 1998 lasting nine seasons "The Chinese Restaurant" was the 17th episode of Seinfeld. He also played a flight attendant in the original 1979 film The In-Laws. The In-Laws is a 1979 American Comedy film starring Alan Arkin and Peter Falk. Hong had a small role in the 1998 independent film, Broken Vessels. The year 1998 in film involved some significant events Events February 14 - Sharon Stone marries Phil Bronstein An independent film, or indie film, is a film that is produced outside of the Hollywood Studio system, a series of oligopolistic practices by several Broken Vessels is a 1998 Medical drama Film directed by Scott Ziehl and written by Ziehl along with David Baer and John McMahon Recently, he played the role of Mr. Takato in the movie "Chasing Zoey". Zoey 101 Chasing Zoey (The working title previously known as Zoey 101 The Dance) is the fourth TV movie of Zoey 101. He was a "not existing" man who taught Michael Barret how to drive in stick shift.

James Hong speaks to fans at a convention appearance

Hong was the voice of Daolon Wong, an evil wizard in the Jackie Chan Adventures TV series. This is a list of characters from the animated television series Jackie Chan Adventures. Jackie Chan Adventures is a successful American animated television series chronicling the adventures of a fictionalized version of Action He was the voice of Chi Fu in Disney’s Mulan, Mandarin in Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!, and Professor Chang in Teen Titans. Mulan is a 1998 Animated feature film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, and released by Walt Disney Pictures on June 19 1998 Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! (commonly known by its initialism SRMTHG) is an American / Japanese Animated television series Teen Titans is an American animated television series created by Sam Register and Glen Murakami, developed by David Slack He made a cameo appearance in the TV series Las Vegas as a cheating holy monk. Las Vegas is an American Television series that aired on NBC from September 22, 2003 to February 15, 2008 MONK is a Monte Carlo software package for simulating nuclear processes particularly for the purpose of determining the neutron multiplication factor or k-effective

Hong's voice also appeared as Colonel Zhou Peng in the video game Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction, Dr. Mercenaries Playground of Destruction is a Third-person shooter which takes place in the near future Chan in 2007's Def Jam Icon, Ancient Wu in True Crime: Streets of LA, and reprising his role as Chew in the video game of Blade Runner. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Def Jam Icon is a Fighting game, and is the third in Electronic Arts 's Def Jam -licensed hip hop Video game series True Crime Streets of LA is a Video game developed by Luxoflux and published by Activision for the Xbox, PlayStation 2 He recently appeared in two movies Balls of Fury and Kung Fu Panda. Balls of Fury is an American Sports comedy film starring Dan Fogler and Christopher Walken. Kung Fu Panda is an American animated Comedy film released in 2008

References

• Pilato, Herbie J. The Kung Fu Book of Caine: The Complete Guide to TV’s First Mystical Eastern Western. Boston: Charles A. Tuttle, 1993. ISBN 0-8048-1826-6

External links

• James Hong official web site
• James Hong at the Internet Movie Database