He had that hat he'd throw at people? If not he was sure a dead ringer.
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SirWizard — 10 years ago(August 31, 2015 12:24 PM)
You are on IMDb. Why don't you get off your lazy keyboard and do your own homework instead of asking others to do it for you?!
Try looking up the details yourself before posting your question/comment. Look up the characters with Asian names: Chunjin played by Henry Silva, who is of Sicilian and Spanish ancestry, and doesn't look Asian.
And Dr. Yen Lo played by Khigh Dhiegh, who was of Anglo-Egyptian-Sudanese ancestry, but played Asians to great effect, especially Red Chinese villain Wo Fat on Hawaii Five-O. He is the person you are thinking of as the portly "bad asian guy".
Then look up Goldfinger. The portly bad Asian guy there, playing Oddjob, is Harold Sakata (born Toshiyuki Sakata in Hawaii) of Japanese ancestry.
(The only other Asians in the cast were Burt Kwouk, who had a full head of hair and the wrong body build to be the bad Asian guy, and Mai Ling, a pretty young Asian woman who could not have played any kind of "guy".
So, with no matching names, your question is lazy and absurd.
Now if you had said you saw a resemblance between the bad Asian guys, Dr. Lo in this movie and Oddjob in Goldfinger, that would have been a fair comment. But dead ringer? No. -
ecarle — 10 years ago(March 15, 2016 09:50 AM)
And Dr. Yen Lo played by Khigh Dhiegh, who was of Anglo-Egyptian-Sudanese ancestry, but played Asians to great effect, especially Red Chinese villain Wo Fat on Hawaii Five-O.
Khigh Dhiegh played Wo Fat in both the pilot movie of Hawaii Five-O and in numerous episodes thereafter, as a "recurring villain."
TV Guide always listed the character as "the Wily Wo Fat."
Not terribly politically correctbut fitting.
And he's QUITE wily as the chief villain in "The Manchurian Candidate." And funny, too ("Always with humor," he admonishes a too-serious Russian colleague," it lessens the burdens of the day.")
I love this movie and I think its pretty close to perfect, but I always rather regret that Khigh Dhiegh leaves the story before it is halfway over. You'd think in late Hays Code Hollywood, we would see Dr. Lo meet some sort of rough justice for having Harvey kill so many innocents. But we never learn his fate.