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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 (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.
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...
Sep 4, 2017 · Other than die-hard fans of The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), very few modern movie buffs would even have heard of Sessue Hayakawa, much less be familiar with his career. His performance as Colonel Saito in David Lean’s masterly film made him known to millions around the world over half a century ago, but silent movie aficionados would ...
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. 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: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom is a biography of actor Sessue Hayakawa, written by Daisuke Miyao, assistant professor of film at the University of Oregon, and published by Duke University Press. [1] It won the 2007 Book Award in History from the Association of Asian American Studies [2] and the John Hope Franklin Book ...
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...
Sep 7, 2007 · Broodingly handsome, with an athlete's physique and agility, Hayakawa, born in Chiba, Japan, wasn't always the romantic lead. He played his share of bad guys and also his share of...
