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Heihachirō Ōkawa
Heihachiro Okawa (Japanese: 大川 平八郎 Hepburn: Ōkawa Heihachirō, 9 September 1905 – 27 May 1971), also sometimes credited as Henry Okawa (ヘンリー大川), was a Japanese film actor active from the 1930s to 1971. With hopes of starting a business, he traveled to the United States in 1923 and studied at Columbia University. He also studied at the Paramount Studios acting school and eventually began working in Hollywood, appearing in films by Howard Hawks and William Wellman. He returned to Japan in 1933 and co-starred in the Photo Chemical Laboratories (PCL) film Horoyoi jinsei. He later appeared in foreign films under the name Henry Okawa.
He is best known for Moyuru ōzora (1940), Dawn of Freedom (1944) Tokyo File 212 (1951), Floating Clouds (1955) and The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957).
(Wikkipedia)
As actor
One of Those Things
Destroy All Monsters
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
Interpol Code 8
Jūyaku kōho-sei nanbā 1
Chûshingura
Marines, Let's Go
The Big Wave
The Wind Cannot Read
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Mysterians
Three Stripes in the Sun
Floating Clouds
Ghost Man
All of Myself
Husband Comes Home Every Suturday
Love Express
The Eagle of the Pacific
Lil's Return from Shanghai
Geisha Girl
A Ripple in a Morning
Tokyo File 212
Dancing Girl
The Dawn of Freedom
The Man Who Waited
Wings of Victory
Bouquet of the South Seas
Sky of Hope
Shanghai Moon
Mother of the Red Hands