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Sessue Hayakawa
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| Known for: | The Bridge on the River Kwai, Swiss Family Robinson, The Cheat |
| Birth name: | Kintaro Hayakawa |
| Birthday: | 10 June 1889, Nanaura, Chiba, Japan |
Trivia
His father had been the governor of the Chiba Prefecture in Japan.
His father belonged to the military nobility, but he left the Navy Academy for a theatrical stage career. He worked with the female tragic star, Sada Yacco. Then, he travelled through Europe, studying the classics and returned to Japan where he presented works by Shakespeare ("Otelo" in his own translation), Ibsen, and others, in the Imperial Dramatic Company. During a USA tour in 1913, 'Thomas Harper Ince' noticed him, and prompted him into a film career of exotic vilains.
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