Sessue Hayakawa
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...
Also Known As
早川雪洲, Kintarō Hayakawa, 早川 金太郎
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Sessue Hayakawa's Movies
The Bridge on the River Kwai
11 Oct 1957
Swiss Family Robinson
21 Dec 1960
The Cheat
13 Dec 1915
House of Bamboo
01 Jul 1955
The Geisha Boy
02 Nov 1958
Tokyo Joe
26 Oct 1949
Green Mansions
19 Mar 1959
Three Came Home
20 Feb 1950
The Dragon Painter
28 Sept 1919
Daughter of the Dragon
24 Sept 1931
Hell to Eternity
01 Aug 1960
The Wrath of the Gods
08 Jun 1914
The Daydreamer
01 Jun 1966
The Tong Man
14 Dec 1919
Gambling Hell
11 Apr 1942
Forfaiture
24 Nov 1937
Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood
13 Oct 2019
The Last of the Line
24 Dec 1914
The Secret Game
03 Dec 1917
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
23 May 2007
