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  1. Oct 16, 2020 · Before there was Rudolph Valentino, there was Sessue Hayakawa. Women raved over him, men wanted to be him, and the camera adored him. But behind his sensational allure, the Japanese silent film star hid more than a few Hollywood demons. From his wild personal life to his dark past, the secrets of this forgotten legend are finally out.

  2. Dec 5, 2016 · Today, there aren’t many Asian film hunks. But in 1915, Sessue Hayakawa was among the first sex symbols. by Rachel King December 5, 2016. Sessue Hayakawa in Moving Picture World magazine,...

  3. 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.

  4. Nov 25, 1973 · TOKYO, Nov. 24 (UPI) —Sessue Hayakawa, the motiorpicture star who won an Academy Award nomination for his role as the Japanese prisoncamp commandant in “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” died last...

  5. Kintarō Hayakawa , known professionally as Sessue Hayakawa , 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. Hayakawa was the first actor of Asian descent to achieve stardom as a leading man in the United States and Europe.

  6. While the actor Sessue Hayakawa (1886–1973) is perhaps best known today for his Oscar-nominated turn as a Japanese military officer in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), in the early twentieth century he was an internationally renowned silent film star, as recognizable as Charlie Chaplin or Douglas Fairbanks.

  7. While the actor Sessue Hayakawa (1886-1973) is perhaps best known today for his Oscar-nominated turn as a Japanese military officer in The Bridge on the River ...

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