RICHARD LOO BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:
Richard Loo was born on October 1st, 1903 in Maui, Hawaii. He is one of the most familiar Asian actors seen in American films between the 1930's and 1940's. Loo was raised in Hawaii and his family relocated to California when he was a teenager.
After high school, Loo attended the University of California and began to embark on a career in business. When the stock market crashed in 1929, things were not going so well for him financially and he decided to re-think his career goals.
Loo began working in local amateur theater productions and realized how much he enjoyed acting. Loo also took notice that there were not very many Asian American actors on the scene.
By 1931 he was appearing on the big screen in his first film and soon added such credits as, "Student Tour" (1934), "Mad Holiday" (1936), "That Certain Woman" (1937) and "Panama Patrol" (1939).
During the course of his career he would add over 120 film roles, with some of the more well known ones, "The Purple Heart" (1944), "The Keys of the Kingdom" (1944), "God Is My Co-Pilot" (1945), "Back to Bataan" (1945) starring John Wayne and Anthony Quinn, "The Steel Helmet" (1951), "The Conqueror" (1956) starring John Wayne and Susan Hayward and "The Sand Pebbles" (1966) starring Steve McQueen and Richard Crenna. One of his latest film roles was in 1974 portraying Hai Fat in, "The Man With The Golden Gun", a James Bond film.
In addition to his film work he also appeared in a number of television commercials for Toyota cars and added a variety of television appearances to his resume such as, "The Incredible Hulk", "Kung Fu", "Perry Mason", "Wagon Train", "The Dakotas", "Bewitched", "Ironside" and "Police Story".
Throughout his lifetime, Richard Loo married twice, first to Hollywood agent, Bessie Loo in 1929 and they had two children together before the marriage ended in 1960. His second wife was Hope Loo whom he wed in 1964 and he had one step daughter from his wife's previous relationship. This marriage lasted until Loo passed away on November 20th, 1983 in Los Angeles, California after suffering from cerebral hemorrhaging.
Filmography
1981 The Incredible Hulk
1977 The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries
1977 Police Story
1976 The Quest
1976 Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur
1974 The Man with the Golden Gun
1972-1974 Kung Fu
1974 Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
1973 McCloud
1973 Ironside
1972 The Delphi Bureau
1972 The Sixth Sense
1971 Chandler
1971 One More Train to Rob
1970 Which Way to the Front?
1970 One More Time
1968-1970 It Takes a Thief
1970 Bewitched
1969 Here Come the Brides
1969 Marcus Welby, M.D.
1968 Hawaii Five-O
1967 My Three Sons
1967 Family Affair
1966 The Sand Pebbles
1966 The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1966 I Dream of Jeannie
1966 The Wild Wild West
1966 The Wackiest Ship in the Army
1965 Burke's Law
1965 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
1965 Honey West
1965 I Spy
1963 Perry Mason
1963 Wagon Train
1963 The Outer Limits
1963 The Dakotas
1963 Diamond Head
1962 A Girl Named Tamiko
1962 Confessions of an Opium Eater
1962 The Beachcomber
1961 Bonanza
1961 Seven Women from Hell
1961 Follow the Sun
1961 Maverick
1960-1961 Hong Kong
1961 Espionage: Far East
1959 The Scavengers
1958 Hong Kong Affair
1958 The Quiet American
1958 Tombstone Territory
1957 Battle Hymn
1956 Around the World in Eighty Days
1955-1956 TV Reader's Digest
1954-1956 Cavalcade of America
1956 Four Star Playhouse
1956 The Man Called X
1956 The Conqueror
1956 Crossroads
1956 Navy Log
1955 Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
1955 House of Bamboo
1955 Soldier of Fortune
1954 The Bamboo Prison
1954 My Little Margie
1954 December Bride
1954 Living It Up
1954 The Shanghai Story
1954 Hell and High Water
1953 China Venture
1953 Fireside Theatre
1953 Summer Theatre
1953 Destination Gobi
1953 Target Hong Kong
1952 5 Fingers
1951 I Was an American Spy
1951 Operation Pacific
1951 Chinatown Chump
1951 The Steel Helmet
1949 Malaya
1949 The Clay Pigeon
1949 State Department: File 649
1948 Rogues' Regiment
1948 The Golden Eye
1948 The Cobra Strikes
1948 Half Past Midnight
1948 To the Ends of the Earth
1948 Women in the Night
1947 Beyond Our Own
1947 Web of Danger
1947 Seven Were Saved
1947 The Beginning or the End
1946 Tokyo Rose
1945 Prison Ship
1945 First Yank Into Tokyo
1945 Back to Bataan
1945 China's Little Devils
1945 China Sky
1945 God Is My Co-Pilot
1945 Betrayal from the East
1944 The Keys of the Kingdom
1944 The Story of Dr. Wassell
1944 The Purple Heart
1943 Rookies in Burma
1943 Jack London
1943 So Proudly We Hail!
1943 Destroyer
1943 Behind the Rising Sun
1943 Yanks Ahoy
1943 China
1943 The Falcon Strikes Back
1943 The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
1943 Flight for Freedom
1943 City Without Men
1942 Star Spangled Rhythm
1942 Road to Morocco
1942 Flying Tigers
1942 Manila Calling
1942 Across the Pacific
1942 Wake Island
1942 Little Tokyo, U.S.A.
1942 Bombs Over Burma
1942 Submarine Raider
1942 Remember Pearl Harbor
1942 A Yank on the Burma Road
1941 Secret of the Wastelands
1941 They Met in Bombay
1941 Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery
1940 Doomed to Die
1940 The Fatal Hour
1939 Barricade
1939 Daughter of the Tong
1939 Island of Lost Men
1939 Lady of the Tropics
1939 Miracles for Sale
1939 Mr. Wong in Chinatown
1939 Panama Patrol
1939 North of Shanghai
1938 Shadows Over Shanghai
1938 Too Hot to Handle
1938 Blondes at Work
1937 Thank You, Mr. Moto
1937 West of Shanghai
1937 That Certain Woman
1937 Outlaws of the Orient
1937 The Singing Marine
1937 The Soldier and the Lady
1937 Lost Horizon
1937 The Good Earth
1936 After the Thin Man
1936 Stowaway
1936 Mad Holiday
1936 Shadow of Chinatown
1936 Shadow of Chinatown
1936 Roaming Lady
1935 China Seas
1935 Captured in Chinatown
1935 Shadows of the Orient
1935 Stranded
1934 The Mysterious Mr. Wong
1934 The Painted Veil
1934 Student Tour
1934 Now and Forever
1933 The Bitter Tea of General Yen
1932 The Secrets of Wu Sin
1932 War Correspondent
