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Khan!
''Khan!'' is an American television detective series. Set in Chinatown, San Francisco, the titular character is a Chinese-American detective, played by Khigh Dhiegh. Khan's police contact was Lt. Gubbins, played by Vic Tayback. Series regulars were rounded out by his children Kim (played by Evan C. Kim) and Anna ( Irene Yah-Ling Sun), who helped him solve crimes. Four episodes were aired in February 1975 on CBS; all seven of the produced episodes were aired during its Australian broadcast run on Channel Seven in 1976. Production and publicity In November 1974, CBS announced the series would replace ''Planet of the Apes'' starting in February 1975, with Khigh Dhiegh filling the lead role. Khan was billed as a "wily Asian private investigator" who blended modern skills and technology (with help from his daughter and son) with his culture's innate wisdom. Dhiegh insisted on having no onscreen billing for his role, despite playing the title character. In an interview with Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Campanella
Joseph Anthony Campanella (November 21, 1924 – May 16, 2018) was an American character actor. He appeared in more than 200 television and film roles from the early 1950s to 2009. Campanella was best remembered for his roles as Joe Turino on ''Guiding Light'' from 1959 to 1962, Lew Wickersham on the detective series ''Mannix'' from 1967 to 1968, Brian Darrell on the legal drama '' The Bold Ones: The Lawyers'' from 1969 to 1972, Harper Deveraux on the soap opera ''Days of Our Lives'' from 1987 to 1992, ''Science International'' from 1976 to 1979, and his recurring role as Jonathan Young on ''The Bold and the Beautiful'' from 1996 to 2005. He narrated the ''Discover'' science series on the Disney Channel from 1992 until 1994. Campanella voiced the character of Dr. Curt Connors/The Lizard on '' Spider-Man: The Animated Series'' (1994–1997). Campanella was nominated for a Daytime and Primetime Emmy Award and a Tony Award throughout his career. Early life Campanella was born in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khigh Dhiegh
Khigh Alx Dhiegh ( or ; born Kenneth Dickerson; August 25, 1910 – October 25, 1991) Includes short biographical summary of Khigh Dhiegh. was an American television and motion picture actor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudanese ancestry, noted for portraying East Asian roles. He is perhaps best remembered for portraying villains, in particular his recurring TV guest role as People's Republic of China, Chinese agent Wo Fat on ''Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series), Hawaii Five-O'' (from the pilot in 1968 to the final episode in 1980), and brainwashing expert Dr. Yen Lo in 1962's ''The Manchurian Candidate (1962 film), The Manchurian Candidate.'' Life and death He was born Kenneth Dickerson in Spring Lake, New Jersey. Dhiegh stated his mother was "Chinese, Spanish, English, and Egyptian" and his father was "Italian, Portuguese, and Zulu"; he was raised in New York City, living in all the boroughs except Staten Island. He moved to Arizona in 1977. Dhiegh died on October 25, 1991, at Desert Samar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irene Yah-Ling Sun
Irene Yah-Ling Sun (born September 1, 1946) is an American actor. She is best known for her appearance as judoka Myrna Wong in the 1978 film ''Harper Valley PTA''. Early life Sun was born on September 1, 1946 in Shanghai, China and raised in Taiwan; her family later moved to Manhattan, where she studied ballet. Career Sun made her stage debut as a dancer in ''Flower Drum Song'', followed by ''The World of Suzie Wong''. Sun was a series regular in the short-lived ''Khan!'' (1975), as Anna, the daughter of the titular character (played by Khigh Dhiegh), helping her father solve crimes alongside her brother Kim (played by Evan C. Kim). Other television guest spots include appearances in ''Hawaii Five-O'', ''The Rockford Files'', and ''Quincy, M.E.'' She also helped assemble an extensive collection of memorabilia depicting how Asian Americans have been portrayed in popular culture along with her friend, the film editor, writer, and book dealer Yoshio Kishi. The collection was acq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Carlson (actor)
Richard Dutoit Carlson (April 29, 1912 – November 25, 1977) was an American actor, television and film director, and screenwriter. Early life Carlson was the son of a Danish-born lawyer in Albert Lea, Minnesota. He majored in drama at the University of Minnesota, where he wrote and directed plays and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated ''cum laude'' with a Master of Arts degree. Carlson then opened his own repertory theater in Saint Paul, Minnesota. When the theater failed, Carlson moved to New York City. Career Broadway In 1935, Carlson made his acting debut on Broadway in ''Three Men on a Horse'', and appeared with Ethel Barrymore in ''Ghost of Yankee Doodle'' (1937-8) and ''Whiteoaks'' (1938). In 1937, he wrote and staged the play ''Western Waters'', which ran for only seven performances. He also appeared in ''Now You've Done It'' (1937). Early films Carlson then moved to California, where he joined the Pasadena Playhouse. His first film role was in ''The Youn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vic Tayback
Victor E. Tayback (January 6, 1930 – May 25, 1990) was an American actor. He is known for his role as Mel Sharples in the film '' Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore'' (1974) and the television series '' Alice'' (1976–1985). The latter earned him two consecutive Golden Globe Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. Life and career Tayback was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Helen (née Hanood) and Najeeb James Tayback. His parents were immigrants from Aleppo, Syria. He moved with his family to Burbank, California during his teenage years and attended Burbank High School, from which he graduated in 1947. He also attended Glendale Community College and the Frederick A. Speare School of Radio and TV Broadcasting. Tayback served in the United States Navy before beginning his acting career at the age of 25. A lifetime member of the Actors Studio, he was a familiar face on television in the 1960s and 1970s, appearing on numerous series, including ''The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'', '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Police Drama
The police show, or police crime drama, is a subgenre of procedural drama and detective fiction that emphasizes the investigative procedure of a police officer or department as the protagonist(s), as contrasted with other genres that focus on either a private detective, an amateur investigator or the characters who are the targets of investigations. While many police procedurals conceal the criminal's identity until the crime is solved in the narrative climax (the so-called whodunit), others reveal the perpetrator's identity to the audience early in the narrative, making it an inverted detective story. Whatever the plot style, the defining element of a police procedural is the attempt to accurately depict the profession of law enforcement, including such police-related topics as forensic science, autopsies, gathering evidence, search warrants, interrogation and adherence to legal restrictions and procedure. Early history The roots of the police procedural have been traced to at lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Private Investigator
A private investigator (often abbreviated to PI and informally called a private eye), a private detective, or inquiry agent is a person who can be hired by individuals or groups to undertake investigatory law services. Private investigators often work for attorneys in civil and criminal cases. History In 1833, Eugène François Vidocq, a French soldier, criminal, and privateer, founded the first known private detective agency, "Le Bureau des Renseignements Universels pour le commerce et l'Industrie" ("The Office of Universal Information For Commerce and Industry") and hired ex-convicts. Much of what private investigators did in the early days was to act as the police in matters for which their clients felt the police were not equipped or willing to do. Official law enforcement tried many times to shut it down. In 1842, police arrested him in suspicion of unlawful imprisonment and taking money on false pretences after he had solved an embezzlement case. Vidocq later suspecte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marilyn Beck
Marilyn Beck (December 17, 1928 – May 31, 2014) was a syndicated Hollywood columnist and author. Career Beck began working as a newspaper and magazine writer in the early 1960s. One of her first interviews was with the "Red Light Bandit" serial rapist Caryl Chessman on San Quentin's death row, shortly before he was executed. She wrote her first column for Bell McClure syndicate in 1967. Three years later, she was named Sheilah Graham's successor for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Beck's Hollywood column moved to the New York Times Special Features in 1972 as she reported on the doings of stars the likes of Elvis Presley, Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. She became affiliated with Tribune Media Services in 1980, and a decade later moved to Creators Syndicate. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, her column was seen in papers with a combined readership upwards of 25 million, maintaining a large print reader ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judge Dee And The Monastery Murders
''The Haunted Monastery'' is a ''gong'an'' detective novel written by Robert van Gulik and set in Imperial China (roughly speaking the Tang Dynasty). It is a fiction based on the real character of Judge Dee (Di Renjie), a magistrate and statesman of the Tang court, who lived roughly 630–700. The book contains eight illustrations by the author as well as a diagram of the Monastery where the action takes place. Plot introduction Judge Dee and his three wives are on their way back from a visit to family in the capital accompanied by the Judge's aide Tao Gan when a terrible storm and a broken axle forces the party to take shelter for the night in an isolated Taoist monastery of sinister repute. The wives go directly to bed but the Judge is required to pay a courtesy visit to the Abbot. Judge Dee is a Confucist and has a poor opinion of Taoism which, like Buddhism, encourages adherents to become monks & nuns. He, however, diplomatically keeps his opinion to himself as he endures the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portrayal Of East Asians In American Film
Portrayals of East Asians in American film and theatre has been a subject of controversy. These portrayals have frequently reflected an ethnocentric perception of East Asians rather than realistic and authentic depictions of East Asian cultures, colors, customs, and behaviors. Yellowface, a form of theatrical makeup used by European-American performers to represent an East Asian person (similar to the practice of blackface used to represent African-American characters), continues to be used in film and theater. In the 21st century alone, ''Grindhouse'' (in a trailer parody of the Fu Manchu serials), ''Balls of Fury'', ''I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry'', '' Crank: High Voltage'', and ''Cloud Atlas'' all feature yellowface or non-East Asian actors as East Asian caricatures. Early East Asian American film actors Sessue Hayakawa The Japanese actor Sessue Hayakawa began appearing in films around 1914. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitewashing In Film
Whitewashing is a casting practice in the film industry in which white actors are cast in non-white roles. As defined by Merriam-Webster, to whitewash is "to alter...in a way that favors, features, or caters to white people: such as...casting a white performer in a role based on a nonwhite person or fictional character." According to the BBC, films in which white actors have played other races include all genres. African-American roles and roles of Asian descent have been whitewashed, as well as characters from the ancient world in the genre of classical and mythological films. History In the early 20th century, white actors caricatured different ethnicities by blackface or yellowface, commonly exaggerating the perceived stereotypes of other ethnicities. For example, Swedish-born actor Warner Oland played the Chinese detective Charlie Chan in ''Charlie Chan Carries On'' (1931) and subsequent films. Because of the lack of characters of color in the film industry, these roles we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
