Sunday, October 18, 2009

Happy Birthday, Victor

Sen Yung, who later went by Victor Sen Yung, was born today in 1915 in San Francisco. He began by playing Number Two Son - Jimmy - with Sidney Toler Warner Oland in the Charlie Chan movies. After a break to serve in the USAF in WWII, he returned to Hollywood and Chan, playing Jimmy in the last Sidney Toler movies and then moving to the Roland Winters ones, where (confusingly) he played Tommy (who'd been played by Benson Fong in the Tolers...). After Chan, he continued to work in Hollywood and television, where he's probably best known as Hop Sing on Bonanza.

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At 8:16 AM, October 18, 2009 Blogger Mimi had this to say...

Please, sir, what is his last name and how old is he?

 
At 9:38 AM, October 18, 2009 Blogger The Ridger, FCD had this to say...

Shoot, I'm sorry. I forgot to give his birth year. I'm sorry, but he's been dead for 29 years.

 
At 9:59 AM, October 18, 2009 Blogger Barry Leiba had this to say...

Another correction: he never played with Warner Oland. He started in the Charlie Chan movies after Mr Oland's time, and was in the Sidney Toler series beginning in 1938.

 
At 1:37 PM, October 18, 2009 Blogger The Ridger, FCD had this to say...

I thought I'd changed that Oland to Toler! Dangit. This post was ill-fated!

 

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