Acting
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Philip Ahn (born Pil Lip Ahn (안필립), March 29, 1905 – February 28, 1978) was a Korean American actor. He was the first Korean American film actor to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Ahn's first film was A Scream in the Night in 1935. He appeared in the Bing Crosby film Anything Goes, though director Lewis Milestone had initially rejected him because his English was too good for the part. His first credited roles came in 1936 in The General Died at Dawn and Stowaway, opposite Shirley Temple. He starred opposite Anna May Wong in Daughter of Shanghai (1937) and King of Chinatown (1937). During World War II, Ahn often played Japanese villains in war films. Mistakenly thought to be Japanese, he received several death threats. He enlisted in the United States Army, having served in the Special Services as an entertainer. He was discharged early because of an injured ankle and returned to making films. Ahn appeared in Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, Around the World in Eighty Days, Thoroughly Modern Millie and Paradise, Hawaiian Style, with Elvis Presley. He got to play Korean characters in Korean War movies such as Battle Circus (1953) and Battle Hymn (1956). In 1952, Ahn made his television debut on the Schlitz Playhouse, a series he would make three additional appearances on. Ahn would also be cast in four episodes of ABC's Adventures in Paradise, four episodes of the ABC/Warner Brothers crime drama Hawaiian Eye, and the CBS crime drama Hawaii Five-O. He made three appearances each on Crossroads, Bonanza, and M*A*S*H. He would also appear in two television movies. Ahn's most notable television role was as "Master Kan" on the television series Kung Fu. A Presbyterian, Ahn felt that the Taoist homilies his character quoted did not contradict his own religious faith.
Perry Mason
1957 · TV
Ironside
1967 · TV
Hawaii Five-O
1968 · TV
Bonanza
1959 · TV
Dragnet
1951 · TV
Love, American Style
1969 · TV
Mission: Impossible
1966 · TV
Mannix
1967 · TV
The Wild Wild West
1965 · TV
Lawman
1958 · TV
M*A*S*H
1972 · TV
My Three Sons
1960 · TV
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957 · TV
Four Star Playhouse
1952 · TV
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1957 · TV
The F.B.I.
1965 · TV
One Step Beyond
1959 · TV
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958 · TV
The Big Valley
1965 · TV
The Time Tunnel
1966 · TV
The Rebel
1959 · TV
Sanford and Son
1972 · TV
Stoney Burke
1962 · TV
Hawaiian Eye
1959 · TV
Telephone Time
1956 · TV
Police Woman
1974 · TV
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964 · TV
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1951 · TV
Adventures in Paradise
1959 · TV
Checkmate
1960 · TV
Switch
1975 · TV
Navy Log
1955 · TV
The Streets of San Francisco
1972 · TV
It Takes a Thief
1968 · TV
Wonder Woman
1975 · TV
Pete and Gladys
1960 · TV
Johnny Midnight
1960 · TV
The Islanders
1960 · TV
Laredo
1965 · TV
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
1966 · TV
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
1960 · TV
The Third Man
1959 · TV
The Magician
1973 · TV
Tightrope
1959 · TV
Around the World in 80 Days
1956 · Movie
Ensign O'Toole
1962 · TV
Hey, Jeannie!
1956 · TV
Kraft Mystery Theatre
1961 · TV
Anna and the King
1972 · TV
General Electric Theater
1953 · TV
Jungle Jim
1955 · TV
One-Eyed Jacks
1961 · Movie
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951 · TV
They Were Expendable
1945 · Movie
Halls of Montezuma
1951 · Movie
Never So Few
1959 · Movie
Thoroughly Modern Millie
1967 · Movie
The Good Earth
1937 · Movie
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
1955 · Movie
Kung Fu
1972 · TV
The Keys of the Kingdom
1944 · Movie
Back to Bataan
1945 · Movie
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
1973 · Movie
China Girl
1942 · Movie
God Is My Co-Pilot
1945 · Movie
Shock Corridor
1963 · Movie
Judgment: The Court Martial of the Tiger of Malaya — General Yamashita
1974 · Movie
The Great Impostor
1960 · Movie
The Left Hand of God
1955 · Movie
Impact
1949 · Movie
The Karate Killers
1967 · Movie
Across the Pacific
1942 · Movie
The Story of Dr. Wassell
1944 · Movie
Battle Hymn
1957 · Movie
Red Snow
1952 · Movie
Forever Yours
1945 · Movie
The Shanghai Story
1954 · Movie
Yesterday's Enemy
1959 · Movie
The General Died at Dawn
1936 · Movie
Behind the Rising Sun
1943 · Movie
The World's Greatest Athlete
1973 · Movie
Paradise, Hawaiian Style
1966 · Movie
Drums of Fu Manchu
1940 · Movie
Charlie Chan in Honolulu
1938 · Movie
The Killer Who Wouldn't Die
1976 · Movie
His Majesty O'Keefe
1954 · Movie
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
1943 · Movie
Macao
1952 · Movie
Confessions of an Opium Eater
1962 · Movie
A Yank on the Burma Road
1942 · Movie
Dragon Seed
1944 · Movie
Singapore
1947 · Movie
December 7th
1943 · Movie
The Miracle of the Bells
1948 · Movie
The Purple Heart
1944 · Movie
The Big Hangover
1950 · Movie
Blood on the Sun
1945 · Movie
Fair Wind to Java
1953 · Movie
Hong Kong Confidential
1958 · Movie
Kung Fu: The Movie
1986 · Movie
Around the World
1943 · Movie
China Sky
1945 · Movie
I Was an American Spy
1951 · Movie
Daughter of Shanghai
1937 · Movie
Dragon by the Tail
1961 · Movie
King of Chinatown
1939 · Movie
China Venture
1953 · Movie
State Department: File 649
1949 · Movie
The Shadow
1940 · Movie
Diamond Head
1962 · Movie
They Met in Bombay
1941 · Movie
Saigon
1947 · Movie
Let's Get Tough
1942 · Movie
Submarine Raider
1942 · Movie
Women in the Night
1948 · Movie
Something to Sing About
1937 · Movie
Thank You, Mr. Moto
1937 · Movie
The Man from Down Under
1943 · Movie
Ship Ahoy
1942 · Movie
Japanese War Bride
1952 · Movie
The Way to the Gold
1957 · Movie
Cocoon
1968 · Movie
Kung Fu: The Way of the Tiger, the Sign of the Dragon
1972 · Movie
North of Shanghai
1939 · Movie
Hell's Half Acre
1954 · Movie
The Cobra Strikes
1948 · Movie
Jump Into Hell
1955 · Movie
Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture
1949 · Movie
Stowaway
1936 · Movie
The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
1943 · Movie
The Chinese Ring
1947 · Movie
A Girl Named Tamiko
1962 · Movie
Klondike Annie
1936 · Movie
Island of Lost Men
1939 · Movie
Roaring Timber
1937 · Movie
Rogues' Regiment
1948 · Movie
Intrigue
1947 · Movie
China's Little Devils
1945 · Movie
Target Hong Kong
1953 · Movie
Shanghai
1935 · Movie
Betrayal from the East
1945 · Movie
Disputed Passage
1939 · Movie
Don Winslow of the Coast Guard
1943 · Movie
The Sickle or the Cross
1949 · Movie
China
1943 · Movie
The Tuttles of Tahiti
1942 · Movie
Battle Zone
1952 · Movie
The Creeper
1948 · Movie
The Sex Serum of Dr. Blake
1970 · Movie
A Scream in the Night
1935 · Movie
Desirable
1934 · Movie
Hawaii Calls
1938 · Movie
Panama Patrol
1939 · Movie
Secrets of Monte Carlo
1951 · Movie
China Corsair
1951 · Movie
Red Barry
1938 · Movie
Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts
1937 · Movie
Barricade
1939 · Movie
China Passage
1937 · Movie
