Birthday
1889/06/10
Day of death
1973/11/23 (84 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Nanaura, Chiba, Japan
Also know as
早川雪洲, Kintarō Hayakawa, 早川 金太郎
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. Between the mid-1910s and the late 1920s, he was as well known as actors Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks. He was one of the highest paid stars of his time; making $5,000 a week in 1915, and $2 million...Read more
(1957) The Bridge on the River Kwai
as Col. Saito
(1955) House of Bamboo
as Inspector Kito
(1916) The Honorable Friend
as Makino
(1915) Temptation
as Opera Admirer
(1918) The City of Dim Faces
as Jang Lung
(1922) Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12
as Self
(1960) Hell to Eternity
as General Matsui
(1958) The Geisha Boy
as Mr. Sikita
(1937) Forfaiture
as Prince Hu-Long
(1959) Green Mansions
as Runi
(1960) Swiss Family Robinson
as Kuala, Pirate Chief
(1949) Tokyo Joe
as Baron Kimura
(1915) The Cheat
as Hishuru Tori [Haka Arakau]
(1942) Patrouille blanche
as ---
(1943) Le Soleil de minuit
as Matsui
(1943) Malaria
as ---
(1946) Le Cabaret du Grand Large
as Professeur Wang
(1947) Quartier chinois
as Tchang
(1920) The Devil's Claim
as Akbar Khan / Hassan
(1919) The Dragon Painter
as Tatsu - the Dragon Painter
(1950) Three Came Home
as Colonel Michio Suga
(1931) Daughter of the Dragon
as Ah Kee
(1914) The Wrath of the Gods
as Lord Yamaki
(1959) John Gunther's High Road
as Self
(1919) The Tong Man
as Luk Chen
(2019) Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood
as (archive footage)
(1914) The Last of the Line
as Tiah - Gray Otter's Son
(1937) Yoshiwara
as Ysamo, Kuli
(1958) The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
as Self
(1914) The Typhoon
as Tokorama
(1966) The Daydreamer
as The Mole (voice)
(1932) Running Hollywood
as Sessue Hayakawa
(1914) The Death Mask
as Running Wolf
(1937) The Daughter of the Samurai
as Iwao Yamato
(1915) The Clue
as Nogi
(1950) The Motherland Far Far Away
as Joe Hayami
(1917) The Secret Game
as Nara-Nara
(1918) His Birthright
as Yukio
(1953) 悲劇の将軍 山下奉文
as ---
(1950) Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
as ---
(1950) Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
as ---
(1964) The Frozen Moment
as Self
(1917) The Bottle Imp
as Lopaka
(1942) Gambling Hell
as Ying Tchaï
(1919) The Courageous Coward
as Suki Iota
(1919) The Man Beneath
as Dr. Chindi Ashutor
(1938) Tempête sur l'Asie
as Prinz Ling
(1917) The Call of the East
as Arai Takada
(1924) The Great Prince Shan
as Prince Shan
(1953) 47 Vendettas
as Sakon Tachibana
(1921) Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 20)
as Himself
(1916) The Victoria Cross
as Azimoolah
(1923) The Battle
as Le Marquis Yorisaka
(1967) Lover's Duet
as Tajima
(1961) The Big Wave
as The Old Man
(1918) The Temple Of Dusk
as Akira
(1915) The Secret Sin
as Lin Foo
(1921) Where Lights Are Low
as T''Su Wong Shih
(1921) The Swamp
as Wang
(1919) Bonds of Honor
as Yamashito / Sasamoto
(1920) Li Ting Lang
as Li Ting Lang
(1920) An Arabian Knight
as Ahmed
(1918) The Honor of His House
as Count Ito Onato
(1918) Hidden Pearls
as Tom Garvin
(1921) The First Born
as Chan Wang
(1918) The White Man's Law
as John A. Genghis
(1921) Black Roses
as Yoda
(1917) Forbidden Paths
as Sato
(1924) Sen Yan’s Devotion
as Sen Yan
(1914) O Mimi san
as Yorotomo
(2007) Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
(1924) I Have Killed
as Hideo
(1931) Around the World with Douglas Fairbanks
as Self
(1919) A Heart in Pawn
as Tomaya
(1918) The Bravest Way
as Kara Tamura
(1918) Banzai
as The American General
(1922) The Vermilion Pencil
as Tse Chan / The Unknown / Li Chan
(1922) Night Life in Hollywood
as Self
(1915) After Five
as Oki - the Valet
(2002) Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making
as Self (archive)
(1960) Escape to Paradise/Water Birds
as ---
(1916) The Soul of Kura San
as Toyo
(1917) Each to His Kind
as Rhandah
(1965) Taikouki
as Takeda Shingen
(2020) Asian Americans
as Self