Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1905-09-09
Day of Death
1971-05-27
Place of Birth
Soka, Saitama, Japan
Heihachirō Ōkawa
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 co-starred in the Photo Chemical Laboratories (PCL) film Horoyoi jinsei. He later appeared in foreign films under the name Henry Okawa. He is best known for Moyuru ōzora (1940), Dawn of Freedom (1944) Tokyo File 212 (1951), Floating Clouds (1955) and The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957). (Wikkipedia)
Filmography (53)
One of Those Things
1971
Destroy All Monsters
1968
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
1964
Interpol Code 8
1963
Chûshingura
1962
Jūyaku kōho-sei nanbā 1
1962
Marines, Let's Go
1961
The Big Wave
1961
The Wind Cannot Read
1958
The Mysterians
1957
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957
Three Stripes in the Sun
1955
Floating Clouds
1955
Ghost Man
1954
