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 Disneys 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.
Col. Saito
Film 1957
Inspector Kito
Film 1955
Makino
Film 1916
Opera Admirer
Film 1915
Jang Lung
Film 1918
Self
Film 1922
General Matsui
Film 1960
Prince Hu-Long
Film 1937
Kuala, Pirate Chief
Film 1960
Baron Kimura
Film 1949
Hishuru Tori [Haka Arakau]
Film 1915
Film 1942
Matsui
Film 1943
Film 1943
Professeur Wang
Film 1946
Tchang
Film 1947
Akbar Khan / Hassan
Film 1920
Tatsu - the Dragon Painter
Film 1919
Colonel Michio Suga
Film 1950
Ah Kee
Film 1931
Lord Yamaki
Film 1914
Self
Film 1959
Luk Chen
Film 1919
(archive footage)
Film 2019
Tiah - Gray Otter's Son
Film 1914
Ysamo, Kuli
Film 1937
Self
Film 1958
Tokorama
Film 1914
Sessue Hayakawa
Film 1932
Running Wolf
Film 1914
Iwao Yamato
Film 1937
Nogi
Film 1915
Joe Hayami
Film 1950
Nara-Nara
Film 1917
Yukio
Film 1918
Film 1953
Film 1950
Film 1950
Self
Film 1964
Lopaka
Film 1917
Ying Tchaï
Film 1942
Suki Iota
Film 1919
Dr. Chindi Ashutor
Film 1919
Prinz Ling
Film 1938
Arai Takada
Film 1917
Prince Shan
Film 1924
Sakon Tachibana
Film 1953
Himself
Film 1921
Azimoolah
Film 1916
Le Marquis Yorisaka
Film 1923
Tajima
Film 1967
The Old Man
Film 1961
Akira
Film 1918
Lin Foo
Film 1915
T''Su Wong Shih
Film 1921
Wang
Film 1921
Yamashito / Sasamoto
Film 1919
Li Ting Lang
Film 1920
Ahmed
Film 1920
Count Ito Onato
Film 1918
Tom Garvin
Film 1918
Chan Wang
Film 1921
John A. Genghis
Film 1918
Yoda
Film 1921
Sato
Film 1917
Sen Yan
Film 1924
Yorotomo
Film 1914
Self (archive footage)
Film 2007
Hideo
Film 1924
Self
Film 1931
Tomaya
Film 1919
Kara Tamura
Film 1918
The American General
Film 1918
Tse Chan / The Unknown / Li Chan
Film 1922
Self
Film 1922
Oki - the Valet
Film 1915
Self (archive)
Film 2002
Film 1960
Toyo
Film 1916
Rhandah
Film 1917
Takeda Shingen
Tv 1965
Self
Tv 2020