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Philip Ahn

Philip Ahn

Actor · 1905 – 1978 · Highland Park, Los Angeles, California, USA

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.

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  • Movie6.7
  • Movie6.8

    One-Eyed Jacks

    1961 · 262 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Back to Bataan

    1945 · 72 votes

  • Movie5.5

    Never So Few

    1959 · 72 votes

  • Movie7.1

    The Keys of the Kingdom

    1944 · 55 votes

  • Movie5.4

    China Girl

    1942 · 15 votes

  • Movie6.1
  • Movie6.8

    Thoroughly Modern Millie

    1967 · 102 votes

  • Movie6.3

    The Left Hand of God

    1955 · 44 votes

  • Movie6.5

    They Were Expendable

    1945 · 140 votes

  • Movie5.5
  • Movie6.6

    Across the Pacific

    1942 · 87 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Macao

    1952 · 53 votes

  • Movie6.9

    Shock Corridor

    1963 · 304 votes

  • Movie6.4

    The Story of Dr. Wassell

    1944 · 24 votes

  • Movie5.5

    Diamond Head

    1962 · 11 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Impact

    1949 · 67 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Blood on the Sun

    1945 · 42 votes

  • Movie6.3

    The Good Earth

    1937 · 81 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Halls of Montezuma

    1951 · 43 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Battle Hymn

    1957 · 27 votes

  • Movie7.1

    God Is My Co-Pilot

    1945 · 10 votes

  • Movie5.3

    Kung Fu: The Movie

    1986 · 18 votes

  • Movie6.1

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  • TV7.7

    Perry Mason

    1957 · 139 votes

  • TV7.5

    Bonanza

    1959 · 500 votes

  • TV6.8

    Ironside

    1967 · 71 votes

  • TV7.9

    M*A*S*H

    1972 · 769 votes

  • TV6.2

    Love, American Style

    1969 · 21 votes

  • TV6.8

    Mannix

    1967 · 56 votes

  • TV7.6

    Mission: Impossible

    1966 · 320 votes

  • TV7.2

    Hawaii Five-O

    1969 · 164 votes

  • TV7.3

    Have Gun, Will Travel

    1957 · 44 votes

  • TV6.5

    Dragnet

    1951 · 36 votes

  • TV5.7

    One Step Beyond

    1959 · 15 votes

  • TV6.8

    Four Star Playhouse

    1952 · 11 votes

  • TV5.6

    The F.B.I.

    1965 · 25 votes

  • TV6.6

    My Three Sons

    1960 · 41 votes

  • TV6.4

    Police Woman

    1974 · 33 votes

  • TV6.2

    The Big Valley

    1965 · 59 votes

  • TV7.6

    The Wild Wild West

    1965 · 86 votes

  • TV7.1

    Wanted: Dead or Alive

    1958 · 38 votes

  • TV5.6

    Hawaiian Eye

    1959 · 10 votes

  • TV6.0

    Lawman

    1958 · 13 votes

  • TV7.1
  • TV6.1

    Adventures in Paradise

    1959 · 7 votes

  • TV6.6

    Switch

    1975 · 11 votes

  • TV7.2

    The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

    1964 · 75 votes