James Hong
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James Hong (吳漢章, pinyin: Wu Hanzhang, born February 22, 1929, in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is a Chinese American actor and the ex-president of the Association of Asian/Pacific American Artists (AAPAA).
For his early education, he moved to Hong Kong, and returned to the United States at age 10. He took civil engineering at the University of Southern California, but later became interested in acting and trained with Jeff Corey.
He has appeared in myriad supporting character roles in films and television - with his Internet Movie Database filmography containing 300 credits as of October 2006. He was a frequent guest star in the 1972-1975 television series, Kung Fu.
He is perhaps most-widely known as the immortal ghost sorcerer Lo Pan in John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China (1986) and the obtuse maître d' at the Chinese restaurant in the famous Seinfeld episode "The Chinese Restaurant".
He is also the voice of Daolon Wong, an evil wizard in the Jackie Chan Adventures TV series. He is also the voice of Chi Fu in Disney's Mulan, Mandarin in Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!, and Professor Chang in Teen Titans. He recently made a cameo appearance is the TV series Las Vegas as a 'cheating' holy Monk.
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- Pilato, Herbie J. The Kung Fu Book of Caine: The Complete Guide to TV's First Mystical Eastern Western. Boston: Charles A. Tuttle, 1993. ISBN 0-8048-1826-6
