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Victor Sen Yung

Ur. 18 października 1915Zm. 01 listopada 1980San Francisco, California, USA

Biografia

Victor Sen Young (born Victor Cheung Young or Sen Yew Cheung; October 18, 1915 – body discovered November 9, 1980) was an American character actor, best known for playing Jimmy Chan in the Charlie Chan films and Hop Sing in the Western series Bonanza. He was born in San Francisco, California to Gum Yung Sen and his first wife, both immigrants from China. His mother died during the flu epidemic of 1919. His father placed Victor and his younger sister, Rosemary, in a children's shelter, and returned to his homeland to seek another wife. He returned in 1922 with his new wife, Lovi Shee, forming a household with his two children. Sen Yung made his first significant acting debut in the 1938 film Charlie Chan in Honolulu, as the Chinese detective's "number two son", Jimmy Chan. Sen Yung played Jimmy Chan in 11 Charlie Chan films between 1938 and 1942. Moonlighting from the popular Chan series, Sen Yung won critical acclaim playing the nuanced role of Ong Chi Seng, a young attorney assisting Howard Joyce, in defending Leslie Crosbie, in The Letter. Like other Chinese-American actors, he was cast in Japanese parts during World War II, like his role as the treacherous Japanese-American Joe Totsuiko in the 1942 Humphrey Bogart film Across the Pacific. During World War II he joined the U.S. Army Air Forces just as his erstwhile co-star Sidney Toler was set to revive the dormant Charlie Chan series at Monogram Pictures. Sen Yung's military obligations forced him to decline rejoining the series immediately, but Monogram gave him a standing invitation to work there after his tour of duty. Sen Yung's military service included work in training films at the First Motion Picture Unit and a role in the Army Air Forces' play and film Winged Victory. In 1946 Sen Yung resumed his Hollywood career at Monogram, now billed as Victor Sen Young, and reunited with Sidney Toler. Toler's health was failing; Monogram was conserving Toler's waning energy, limiting his scenes and giving him long rest periods during filming. To relieve the burden on Toler, Monogram entrusted much of the action to Victor Sen Young; he and either Mantan Moreland or Willie Best shared much of the footage in Toler's final three films, Dangerous Money, Shadows Over Chinatown, and The Trap. The addition of Moreland as Chan's black chauffeur, Birmingham Brown, reflected the fact that by this time the Chan pictures had a significant following among black Americans, who liked a film series that for once did not feature a white hero. Moreland's popularity in the Chan pictures was so great that he was booked for a nationwide vaudeville tour. Following Toler's death in 1947, Victor Sen Young appeared in five of the remaining six Charlie Chan features. His character "Jimmy" was renamed "Tommy". Victor Sen Young continued to work in motion pictures and television in roles ranging from featured players (affable or earnest Asian characters) to bit roles (clerks, houseboys, waiters, etc.). Arguably even more than for his work in the Charlie Chan films, Victor Sen Yung is remembered as "Hop Sing," the irascible cook and general factotum on the iconic television series Bonanza, appearing in 107 episodes between 1959 and 1973. Sen Yung was also an accomplished and talented chef. He frequently appeared on cooking programs and authored The Great Wok Cookbook in 1974.

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Filmografia

Filmy i seriale od najnowszych

138 pozycji

The Man with Bogart's Face

Film • 1980

jako Mr. Wing

How the West Was Won

Serial • 1977

jako Hospital Attendant

Elita Zabójców

Film • 1975

jako Wei Chi

Barbary Coast

Serial • 1975

jako Soong

The Secrets of Isis

Serial • 1975

jako Mr. Chen

Police Woman

Serial • 1974

jako Ah Choy

The Red Pony

Film • 1973

jako Mr. Sing / Carni man / Mr. Green

Kung Fu

Serial • 1972

jako Old Mandarin

The Paul Lynde Show

Serial • 1972

Kung Fu: The Way of the Tiger, the Sign of the Dragon

Film • 1972

jako Chuen

Night Gallery

Serial • 1970

jako Joseph the Butler

The Hawaiians

Film • 1970

jako Chun Fat (uncredited)

Hawaii Five-O

Serial • 1969

jako Dr. Leo Kuh

A Flea in Her Ear

Film • 1968

jako Oke Saki

Here's Lucy

Serial • 1968

jako Headwaiter

The Movie Orgy

Film • 1968

jako Self (archive footage)

The F.B.I.

Serial • 1965

jako Mayor Eto

Get Smart

Serial • 1965

Serial • 1961

jako Self

Flower Drum Song

Film • 1961

jako Frankie Wing

87th Precinct

Serial • 1961

jako Charlie, 1st Tattoo Parlor Owner

Dragon by the Tail

Film • 1961

jako Dr. Wing Chin-Ni

Mister Ed

Serial • 1961

The Barbara Stanwyck Show

Serial • 1960

jako Dr. Wing Chin-Ni

Thriller

Serial • 1960

jako Bartender

Hong Kong

Serial • 1960

jako Yang

Hawaiian Eye

Serial • 1959

Bonanza

Serial • 1959

jako Hop Sing

Yancy Derringer

Serial • 1958

jako Hon Lee

Film • 1956

jako Hank - Bayliss' Houseboy (uncredited)

The Family Nobody Wanted

Film • 1956

Flight to Hong Kong

Film • 1956

jako Airline Ticket Clerk (uncredited)

Broken Arrow

Serial • 1956

jako Ling Tang

The Adventures of Dr. Fu Manchu

Serial • 1956

jako Broadcaster (uncredited)

The Rawhide Years

Film • 1956

jako Chang - Steward (uncredited)

Chiński szlak

Film • 1955

jako Cpl. Wang

Navy Log

Serial • 1955

Lewa ręka Pana Boga

Film • 1955

jako John Wong

Soldier of Fortune

Film • 1955

jako Goldie - Hotel Waiter (uncredited)

Jump Into Hell

Film • 1955

jako Lt. Thatch

Port of Hell

Film • 1954

jako Detonation Ship Radioman

Captain Midnight

Serial • 1954

The Shanghai Story

Film • 1954

jako Sun Lee

Jubilee Trail

Film • 1954

jako Mickey - Chinese Man (uncredited)

The Lone Wolf

Serial • 1954

jako Jack Wong

Trader Tom of the China Seas

Film • 1954

jako Wang

Forbidden

Film • 1953

jako Allan Chung

The Blue Gardenia

Film • 1953

jako Blue Gardenia Waiter (uncredited)

Target Hong Kong

Film • 1953

jako Johnny Wing (uncredited)

Terry and the Pirates

Serial • 1952

Adventures of Superman

Serial • 1952

jako Harry Wong

Cripple Creek

Film • 1952

jako Postal Clerk (uncredited)

The Sniper

Film • 1952

jako Tom

Hong Kong

Film • 1952

jako Mr. Howe (uncredited)

Film • 1949

State Department: File 649

Film • 1949

jako Johnny Han

Rogues' Regiment

Film • 1948

jako Rickshaw Boy (uncredited)

The Feathered Serpent

Film • 1948

jako Tommy Chan

The Golden Eye

Film • 1948

jako Tommy Chan (as Victor Sen Young)

The Shanghai Chest

Film • 1948

jako Tommy Chan

Docks of New Orleans

Film • 1948

jako Tommy Chan

Half Past Midnight

Film • 1948

jako Sam

To the Ends of the Earth

Film • 1948

jako Chinese Pilot (uncredited)

The Chinese Ring

Film • 1947

jako Tommy Chan

Intrigue

Film • 1947

jako Western Union Clerk (uncredited)

The Flame

Film • 1947

jako Chang

The Crimson Key

Film • 1947

jako Wing - Houseboy

Web of Danger

Film • 1947

jako Sam

The Trap

Film • 1946

jako Jimmy Chan

Dangerous Millions

Film • 1946

jako Lin Chow

Dangerous Money

Film • 1946

jako Jimmy Chan

G.I. War Brides

Film • 1946

jako Waiter (uncredited)

Shadows Over Chinatown

Film • 1946

jako Jimmy Chan

Betrayal from the East

Film • 1945

jako Omaya

Winged Victory

Film • 1944

jako Lee (uncredited)

Lost Angel

Film • 1943

jako Chinese Man (uncredited)

Night Plane from Chungking

Film • 1943

jako Captain Po

China

Film • 1943

jako Lin Wei

Manila Calling

Film • 1942

jako Armando

Across the Pacific

Film • 1942

jako Joe Totsuiko

Little Tokyo, U.S.A.

Film • 1942