Heihachirō Ōkawa
Birthday
1905/09/09
Day of death
1971/05/27 (65 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Sōka, Saitama, Japan
Also know as
Henry Okawa, Ōkawa Heihachirō, Heihachirô 'Henry' Ôkawa, Хэйхатиро Окава, Хэйхатироо Оокава
Biography
Heihachiro Okawa (Japanese: 大川 平八郎 Hepburn: Ōkawa Heihachirō, 9 September 1905 – 27 May 1971), also sometimes credited as Henry Okawa (ヘンリー大川), was a Japanese film actor active from the 1930s to 1971. With hopes of starting a business, he traveled to the United States in 1923 and studied at Columbia University. He also studied at the Paramount Studios acting school and eventually began working in Hollywood, appearing in films by Howard Hawks and William Wellman. He returned to Japan in 1933 and ...Read more
Acting
(1940) Hikari to kage (Zenpen)
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(1942) The Man Who Waited
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(1961) Marines, Let's Go
as Yoshida (Hotel Manager)
(1962) Jūyaku kōho-sei nanbā 1
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(1939) Blizzard Ronin
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(1939) Easy Alley
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(1940) Keshô yuki
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(1933) Tipsy Life
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(1937) A Woman's Sorrows
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(1937) Learn from Experience, Part One
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(1937) Learn from Experience, Part Two
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(1939) Ichiyo Higuchi
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(1951) Tokyo File 212
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(1952) Geisha Girl
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(1954) Ghost Man
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(1935) Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
as Aoyama
(1935) Five Men in a Circus
as Kokichi
(1935) Wife! Be Like a Rose!
as Seiji (Kimiko's boyfriend)
(1935) The Girl in the Rumor
as Shintaro
(1936) The Road I Travel with You
as Asaji Amanuma
(1936) Morning's Tree-Lined Street
as Ogawa
(1938) Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
as Matsuzaki
(1942) Bouquet of the South Seas
as Harada, pilot
(1942) Wings of Victory
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(1944) The Dawn of Freedom
as Sub Corporal Ikema Ishihara
(1951) Dancing Girl
as Kayama
(1952) Lil's Return from Shanghai
as Takada
(1957) The Bridge on the River Kwai
as Captain Kanematsu
(1957) The Mysterians
as Person at Board Meeting
(1958) The Wind Cannot Read
as Lieutenant Nakamura
(1964) Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
as Astronomer (uncredited)
(1968) Destroy All Monsters
as Engineer
(1971) One of Those Things
as Kawasaki
(1955) Three Stripes in the Sun
as Father Yoshida (as Henry Okawa)
(1940) Wedding Day
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(1961) The Big Wave
as Yukio's Father
(1952) A Ripple in a Morning
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(1936) Brother and Sister
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(1935) Drifting
as Sankichi
(1962) Chûshingura
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(1941) Shanghai Moon
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(1955) Floating Clouds
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(1953) The Eagle of the Pacific
as (uncredited)
(1941) Mother of the Red Hands
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(1942) Sky of Hope
as Okada
(1939) Numazu Officer School
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(1934) Romantic and Crazy
as Count