Sessue Hayakawa

Acting · 1.1 popularity

Age

137

Movies

Born: June 10, 1889 – November 23, 1973
From: Nanaura, Chiba, Japan

Biography

Sessue Hayakawa (June 10, 1889 – November 23, 1973) was a Japanese and American Issei (Japanese immigrant) actor who starred in American, Japanese, French, German, and British films. Hayakawa was the first and one of the few Asian actors to find stardom in the United States as well as Europe. Between the mid-1910s and the late 1920s, he was as well known as actors Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks. He was one of the highest paid stars of his time; making $5,000 a week in 1915, and $2 million a year via his own production company during the 1920s. He starred in over 80 movies and has two films in the U.S. National Film Registry. His international stardom transitioned both silent films and talkies. Of his English-language films, Hayakawa is probably best known for his role as Colonel Saito in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai, for which he received a nomination for Academy Award Best Supporting Actor in 1957. He also appeared as the pirate leader in Disney's Swiss Family Robinson in 1960. In addition to his film acting career, Hayakawa was a theatre actor, film and theatre producer, film director, screenwriter, novelist, martial artist, and an ordained Zen master. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sessue Hayakawa, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

97 films

The Bridge on the River Kwai

19577.8

The Battle

192310.0

Swiss Family Robinson

19606.8

Green Mansions

19595.7

Hashimura Togo

1917

Le Cabaret du Grand Large

194610.0

The Geisha Boy

19586.3

The Motherland Far Far Away

19507.0

House of Bamboo

19556.2

Tokyo Joe

19496.1

Alien Souls

1916

Tempête sur l'Asie

19389.0

His Birthright

19186.2

The Cheat

19156.0

I Have Killed

19249.0

Forfaiture

19376.6

The Daughter of the Samurai

19376.0

Le Soleil de minuit

19438.0

Forbidden Paths

1917

Three Came Home

19506.7

Patrouille blanche

19427.0

The Illustrious Prince

19198.0

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

20074.3

Sen Yan’s Devotion

192410.0

47 Vendettas

1953

The Chinatown Mystery

191510.0

The Jaguar's Claws

1917

The Daydreamer

19665.1

Kurama Tengu and Katsu Kaishū

1953

Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 20)

1921

The Danger Line

19248.0

The Tong Man

19196.1

Yoshiwara

19376.0

His Debt

19199.0

Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood

20195.7

The First Born

19217.0

The Bottle Imp

1917

Hell to Eternity

19606.3

Li Ting Lang

19208.0

Daughter of the Dragon

19315.3

The Courageous Coward

19198.0

The Honor of His House

1918

Running Hollywood

19329.0

Five Days to Live

19229.0

After Five

1915

The Honorable Friend

1916

A Heart in Pawn

19198.0

Around the World in 80 Minutes with Douglas Fairbanks

193110.0

The Soul of Kura San

191610.0

O Mimi san

1914

Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making

2002

The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant

1958

Night Life in Hollywood

19227.0

Each to His Kind

1917

The Victoria Cross

1916

The Gray Horizon

19199.0

An Arabian Knight

19207.0

The Big Wave

196110.0

Bonds of Honor

19198.0

Escape to Paradise/Water Birds

1960

Les Miserables I: God and the Devil

19509.0

The Call of the East

1917

The Dragon Painter

19196.5

The Brand of Lopez

19207.0

The Tragic General: Yamashita Tomoyuki

1953

日本敗れず

19547.0

Hidden Pearls

1918

Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom

19507.0

The Bravest Way

1918

The White Man's Law

1918

The Man Beneath

19196.3

The Swamp

19218.0

Temptation

1915

The Typhoon

1914

The Beggar Prince

19209.0

The Secret Game

19175.6

Gambling Hell

19426.8

The Last of the Line

19146.8

John Gunther's High Road

195910.0

Malaria

19438.0

The Wrath of the Gods

19146.2

Quartier chinois

19477.0

Where Lights Are Low

19215.7

The Sun Rises from the East

19327.0

Black Roses

19219.0

The Vermilion Pencil

192210.0

The Great Prince Shan

192410.0

The Clue

1915

The Devil's Claim

19209.0

The Death Mask

19146.3

Banzai

19188.0

Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12

1922

The Frozen Moment

1964

Lover's Duet

1967

The Secret Sin

1915

The City of Dim Faces

19183.3

The Temple Of Dusk

19181.0