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 childrens 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 detectives 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 Yungs 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 Yungs 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. Tolers health was failing; Monogram was conserving Tolers 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 Tolers final three films, Dangerous Money, Shadows Over Chinatown, and The Trap. The addition of Moreland as Chans 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. Morelands popularity in the Chan pictures was so great that he was booked for a nationwide vaudeville tour.Following Tolers 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.

Kino niedostępny od Victor Sen Yung

The Movie Orgy

Self (archive footage)

Film 1968

Chinatown at Midnight

Hotel Proprietor

Film 1949

Flower Drum Song

Frankie Wing

Film 1961

Charlie Chan in Reno

Jimmy Chan

Film 1939

Forbidden

Allan Chung

Film 1953

Castle in the Desert

Jimmy Chan

Film 1942

Moontide

Jimmy Takeo

Film 1942

She Demons

Sammy Ching

Film 1958

The Breaking Point

Mr. Sing

Film 1950

Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum

Jimmy Chan (as Sen Yung)

Film 1940

Murder Over New York

Jimmy Chan

Film 1940

Charlie Chan in Rio

Jimmy Chan

Film 1941

Dead Men Tell

Jimmy Chan

Film 1941

Shadows Over Chinatown

Jimmy Chan

Film 1946

The Trap

Jimmy Chan

Film 1946

The Flame

Chang

Film 1947

Jet Attack

Capt. Chon

Film 1958

The Letter

Ong Chi Seng

Film 1940

Across the Pacific

Joe Totsuiko

Film 1942

Docks of New Orleans

Tommy Chan

Film 1948

The Chinese Ring

Tommy Chan

Film 1947

The Feathered Serpent

Tommy Chan

Film 1948

Horrible Horror

Sammy Ching in 'She Demons'

Film 1986

The Golden Eye

Tommy Chan (as Victor Sen Young)

Film 1948

Tuna Clipper

Oriental Dock Worker

Film 1949

Night Plane from Chungking

Captain Po

Film 1943

Shadows Over Shanghai

Wang

Film 1938

The Crimson Key

Wing - Houseboy

Film 1947

Mr. Moto Takes a Chance

Soldier

Film 1938

The Sickle or the Cross

Major

Film 1949

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

Chuen

Film 1972

The Killer Elite

Wei Chi

Film 1975

Web of Danger

Sam

Film 1947

Secret Agent of Japan

Fu Yen

Film 1942

Escape to Paradise

Film 1939

Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture

Film 1949

The Good Earth

Peasant (uncredited)

Film 1937

Thank You, Mr. Moto

Onlooker with Street Acrobats / Elevator Operator (uncredited)

Film 1937

Cripple Creek

Postal Clerk (uncredited)

Film 1952

The Hawaiians

Chun Fat (uncredited)

Film 1970

The Rawhide Years

Chang - Steward (uncredited)

Film 1956

Valley of Fire

Ching Moon

Film 1951

And Baby Makes Three

Lem Kee

Film 1949

Jubilee Trail

Mickey - Chinese Man (uncredited)

Film 1954

Double or Nothing

Minor Role (uncredited)

Film 1937

Little Tokyo, U.S.A.

Film 1942

Secrets of Monte Carlo

Chinese Clerk (uncredited)

Film 1951

To the Ends of the Earth

Chinese Pilot (uncredited)

Film 1948

Rogues' Regiment

Rickshaw Boy (uncredited)

Film 1948

G.I. War Brides

Waiter (uncredited)

Film 1946

Grounds for Marriage

Oscar, Chris' Valet

Film 1951

Accused of Murder

Hank - Bayliss' Houseboy (uncredited)

Film 1956

Intrigue

Western Union Clerk (uncredited)

Film 1947

Hong Kong

Mr. Howe (uncredited)

Film 1952

The Law and the Lady

Chinese Manager (uncredited)

Film 1951

Lost Angel

Chinese Man (uncredited)

Film 1943

Target Hong Kong

Johnny Wing (uncredited)

Film 1953

Peking Express

Chinese Captain (uncredited)

Film 1951

Key to the City

MC at the Blue Duck (uncredited)

Film 1950

Flight to Hong Kong

Airline Ticket Clerk (uncredited)

Film 1956

Manila Calling

Armando

Film 1942

The Blue Gardenia

Blue Gardenia Waiter (uncredited)

Film 1953

Soldier of Fortune

Goldie - Hotel Waiter (uncredited)

Film 1955

Winged Victory

Lee (uncredited)

Film 1944

Jump Into Hell

Lt. Thatch

Film 1955

International Settlement

Bellboy / Onlooker in Street

Film 1938

Torchy Blane in Chinatown

Chinese Entertainer with Sword

Film 1939

The Sniper

Tom

Film 1952

The Groom Wore Spurs

Ignacio

Film 1951

Barricade

Undetermined Role

Film 1939

20,000 Men a Year

Harold Chong

Film 1939

A Ticket to Tomahawk

Long Time

Film 1950

Men in War

North Korean Sniper Prisoner

Film 1957

The Mad Martindales

Jefferson Gow

Film 1942

Port of Hell

Detonation Ship Radioman

Film 1954

They Met in Bombay

Gin Ling (uncredited)

Film 1941

Half Past Midnight

Sam

Film 1948

Oh, You Beautiful Doll

Houseboy

Film 1949

Trader Tom of the China Seas

Wang

Film 1954

Dangerous Millions

Lin Chow

Film 1946

A Flea in Her Ear

Oke Saki

Film 1968

Seriale telewizyjne niedostępny od Victor Sen Yung

Mister Ed

Tv 1961

Here's Lucy

Headwaiter

Tv 1968

Kung Fu

Tv 1972

The F.B.I.

Mayor Eto

Tv 1965

Hawaii Five-O

Dr. Leo Kuh

Tv 1968

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

Tv 1964

Perry Mason

Mickey Fong

Tv 1957

Night Gallery

Joseph the Butler

Tv 1970

Hawaiian Eye

Tv 1959

Mickey

Tv 1964

Get Smart

Tv 1965

China Smith

Tv 1952

The Wild Wild West

Baron Kyosai

Tv 1965

Thriller

Bartender

Tv 1960

Yancy Derringer

Hon Lee

Tv 1958

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

Magan

Tv 1957

Adventures of Superman

Harry Wong

Tv 1952

The Paul Lynde Show

Tv 1972

Navy Log

Tv 1955

The Rifleman

Tv 1958

Terry and the Pirates

Tv 1952

Dr. Fu Manchu

Tv 1956

Captain Midnight

Tv 1954

The Barbara Stanwyck Show

Dr. Wing Chin-Ni

Tv 1960

Isis

Mr. Chen

Tv 1975

The Jack Benny Program

Chinese cafeteria employee

Tv 1950

Bonanza

Hop Sing (uncredited)

Tv 1959

Get Smart

Abe Fu Yung

Tv 1965

Hong Kong

Yang

Tv 1960

Here's Lucy

Murphy

Tv 1968

The Mike Douglas Show

Self

Tv 1961

Bonanza

Hop Sing

Tv 1959

Perry Mason

Sheng

Tv 1957

How the West Was Won

Hospital Attendant

Tv 1977

Kung Fu

Master Ling (uncredited)

Tv 1972

Kung Fu

Chu

Tv 1972

The F.B.I.

Joseph Sakanishi

Tv 1965

Broken Arrow

Ling Tang

Tv 1956

Barbary Coast

Soong

Tv 1975

Kung Fu

Chuen (archive footage) (uncredited)

Tv 1972

87th Precinct

Charlie, 1st Tattoo Parlor Owner

Tv 1961

The Lone Wolf

Jack Wong

Tv 1954