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Kintarō Hayakawa (Japanese: 早川 金太郎, Hepburn: Hayakawa Kintarō, June 10, 1886 – November 23, 1973), known professionally as Sessue Hayakawa (早川 雪洲, Hayakawa Sesshū), was a Japanese actor and a matinée idol. He was a popular star in Hollywood during the silent film era of the 1910s and early 1920s.
Sessue Hayakawa. Actor: The Bridge on the River Kwai. Sessue Hayakawa was born in Chiba, Japan. His father was the provincial governor and his mother a member of an aristocratic family of the "samurai" class.
Sessue Hayakawa. Actor: The Bridge on the River Kwai. Sessue Hayakawa was born in Chiba, Japan. His father was the provincial governor and his mother a member of an aristocratic family of the "samurai" class.
Dec 5, 2016 · That distinction goes to Sessue Hayakawa, the Japanese star of Cecil B. DeMille’s cinematic rape drama, The Cheat. This 1915 film was a huge hit in spite of (or more likely because of) the fact...
Apr 30, 2024 · Sessue Hayakawa is ready for his close-up as TCM’s May Star of the Month. Best known for his indelible Oscar nominated performance as the brutal Colonel Saito in David Lean’s Academy Award-winning 1957 epic The Bridge on the River Kwai .
Sessue Hayakawa (June 10, 1886 – November 23, 1973) was one of the first Asian actors and filmmakers to gain great fame and success in the United States. He starred in both English-language and Japanese-language films.
Oct 13, 2016 · Sessue Hayakawa is now best known for his role as Colonel Saito in Bridge on the River Kwai, but in the 1920s, Hayakawa was one of the “biggest stars” of the Hollywood...
Died Nov. 23, 1973 of complications from pneumonia in Tokyo, Japan. S essue Hayakawa portrayed Col. Saito, a Japanese imperial army officer whose duty was to build a bridge over the River...
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.
Feb 1, 2010 · In the classic silent film The Cheat (1915), Sessue Hayakawa plays Tori, a successful Japanese fine arts dealer and ivory broker in New York, who attempts to seduce Edith, a flighty young “smart set” married society woman.
