
Philip Ahn
Born March 29, 1905 · Highland Park, Los Angeles, California, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Philip Ahn (born Pil Lip Ahn (안필립), March 29, 1905 – February 28, 1978) was a Korean American actor. He was the first Korean American film actor to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Ahn's first film was A Scream in the Night in 1935. He appeared in the Bing Crosby film Anything Goes, though director Lewis Milestone had initially rejected him because his English was too good for the part. His first credited roles came in 1936 in The General Died at Dawn and Stowaway, opposite Shirley Temple. He starred opposite Anna May Wong in Daughter of Shanghai (1937) and King of Chinatown (1937). During World War II, Ahn often played Japanese villains in war films. Mistakenly thought to be Japanese, he received several death threats. He enlisted in the United States Army, having served in the Special Services as an entertainer. He was discharged early because of an injured ankle and returned to making films. Ahn appeared in Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, Around the World in Eighty Days, Thoroughly Modern Millie and Paradise, Hawaiian Style, with Elvis Presley. He got to play Korean characters in Korean War movies such as Battle Circus (1953) and Battle Hymn (1956). In 1952, Ahn made his television debut on the Schlitz Playhouse, a series he would make three additional appearances on. Ahn would also be cast in four episodes of ABC's Adventures in Paradise, four episodes of the ABC/Warner Brothers crime drama Hawaiian Eye, and the CBS crime drama Hawaii Five-O. He made three appearances each on Crossroads, Bonanza, and M*A*S*H. He would also appear in two television movies. Ahn's most notable television role was as "Master Kan" on the television series Kung Fu. A Presbyterian, Ahn felt that the Taoist homilies his character quoted did not contradict his own religious faith.
Notable Appearances
Movies

Around the World in 80 Days

One-Eyed Jacks

They Were Expendable

Thoroughly Modern Millie

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Never So Few

The Keys of the Kingdom

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

Back to Bataan

Halls of Montezuma

China Girl

Impact

God Is My Co-Pilot

The Good Earth

Red Snow

Shock Corridor

The Great Impostor

Battle Hymn

Paradise, Hawaiian Style

The Shanghai Story

The Karate Killers

The World's Greatest Athlete

The Left Hand of God

Across the Pacific

Judgment: The Court Martial of the Tiger of Malaya — General Yamashita

Confessions of an Opium Eater

His Majesty O'Keefe

Forever Yours

Blood on the Sun

Charlie Chan in Honolulu

The General Died at Dawn

Macao

Behind the Rising Sun

The Story of Dr. Wassell

Yesterday's Enemy

Fair Wind to Java

The Miracle of the Bells

The Purple Heart

A Yank on the Burma Road

Kung Fu: The Movie

China Sky

The Amazing Mrs. Holliday

Singapore

Daughter of Shanghai

Saigon

Drums of Fu Manchu

King of Chinatown

Around the World
TV Shows

Ironside

Mannix

M*A*S*H

Love, American Style

Lawman

The Wild Wild West

My Three Sons

Mission: Impossible

Have Gun, Will Travel

Four Star Playhouse

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

The F.B.I.

Wanted: Dead or Alive

The Big Valley

One Step Beyond

The Rebel

Telephone Time

Stoney Burke

Sanford and Son

Police Woman

Hawaiian Eye

Adventures in Paradise

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

Checkmate

Switch

Navy Log

The Streets of San Francisco

The Time Tunnel

Wonder Woman

It Takes a Thief

Laredo

Anna and the King

The Barbara Stanwyck Show

Pete and Gladys

The Islanders

The Third Man

The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.

Johnny Midnight

Tightrope

The Magician

Ensign O'Toole

Kraft Mystery Theatre

Hey, Jeannie!

General Electric Theater

Jungle Jim

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Kung Fu
More Movies

The Killer Who Wouldn't Die

Stowaway

December 7th

They Met in Bombay

A Girl Named Tamiko

Rogues' Regiment

I Was an American Spy

The Sex Serum of Dr. Blake

Betrayal from the East

The Big Hangover

Jump Into Hell

Hong Kong Confidential

Intrigue

Ship Ahoy

State Department: File 649

Dragon Seed

Shanghai

Diamond Head

The Chinese Ring

Hell's Half Acre

The Tuttles of Tahiti

North of Shanghai

Japanese War Bride

The Shadow

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

China Venture

Desirable

The Man from Down Under

Klondike Annie

The Way to the Gold

Women in the Night

The Cobra Strikes

Cocoon

Island of Lost Men

Dragon by the Tail

The Creeper

Something to Sing About

Battle Zone

Don Winslow of the Coast Guard

Thank You, Mr. Moto

Let's Get Tough

The Sickle or the Cross

China Passage

Submarine Raider

Panama Patrol

The Adventures of Smilin' Jack

China

A Scream in the Night

Secrets of Monte Carlo

Hawaii Calls

Roaring Timber

Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts

Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture

Red Barry

Disputed Passage

China's Little Devils

Target Hong Kong

China Corsair




