Benson Fong
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Benson Fong ( October 10, 1916 – August 1, 1987) was a Chinese-American character actor. Born in Sacramento, California, Fong was from a mercantile family. After graduating from high school in Sacramento, he studied briefly in China before joining relatives in commercial activities in California. Description above from the Wikipedia article Benson Fong, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 10, 1916
Deathday: August 01, 1987
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The Glitter Dome
1984-11-18
The Glitter Dome
Overview: Al Mackey and Marty are homicide cops in Hollywood and hot on the trail of the murderer of a movie mogul that was moonlighting by making child porno pictures. Willie is one of several suspects with motive, opportunity and the evil means to carry out this act. A medal should be in order instead of being arrested
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-18
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Women in the Night
1948-01-02
Women in the Night
Overview: During WW2 six allied nations women at Shanghai University are arrested by the Germans accused of killing a German officer and forced to entertain the Japanese.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-02
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Chinatown at Midnight
1949-11-17
Chinatown at Midnight
Overview: A young man who steals valuable Oriental objects for a crooked antique dealer is hunted down by the police after his latest Chinatown robbery turns violent.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-17
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Our Man Flint
1966-01-16
Our Man Flint
Overview: When scientists use eco-terrorism to impose their will on the world by affecting extremes in the weather, Intelligence Chief Cramden calls in top agent Derek Flint.
Genres: Action Comedy Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-16
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Flower Drum Song
1961-11-09
Flower Drum Song
Overview: A young woman arrives in San Francisco's Chinatown from Hong Kong with the intention of marrying a rakish nightclub owner, unaware he is involved with one of his singers.
Genres: Music Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-11-09
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Deception
1946-10-26
Deception
Overview: After marrying her long lost love, a pianist finds the relationship threatened by a wealthy composer who is besotted with her.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-26
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Conquest of Space
1955-04-20
Conquest of Space
Overview: A team of American astronauts leave their space station on the first mission to Mars, but the captain's religious beliefs may get in the way.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-20
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Charley Varrick
1973-09-19
Charley Varrick
Overview: Charley Varrick robs a bank in a small town with his friends, but instead of obtaining a small amount of money, they discover they stole a very large amount of money belonging to the mob. Charley must now come up with a plan to not only evade the police but the mob as well.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-09-19
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The Love Bug
1968-12-23
The Love Bug
Overview: Down-on-his-luck race car driver Jim Douglas teams up with a little VW Bug that has a mind of its own, not realizing Herbie's worth until a sneaky rival plots to steal him.
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-23
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Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture
1949-03-02
Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture
Overview: Blackie is seen leaving a Chinese laundry where the proprietor has been murdered, and must track down the real killer in Chinatown.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-02
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Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge
1981-05-09
Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge
Overview: Spider-Man goes to China to help an official accused of World War II treachery. Two episodes of the TV series "Spider Man" edited together and released as a feature.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-09
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The Left Hand of God
1955-09-02
The Left Hand of God
Overview: A man in priestly robes, seemingly the long-awaited Father O'Shea, arrives at a little-frequented Catholic mission in 1947 China. Though the man seems curiously uncomfortable with his priestly duties, his tough tactics prove very successful in the Seven Villages, as around them China disintegrates in civil war and revolution. But he has a secret, and his friendship with mission nurse Anne (an attractive war widow) seems to be taking on an unpriestly tone.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-02
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Charlie Chan in the Secret Service
1944-02-14
Charlie Chan in the Secret Service
Overview: Charlie Chan is an agent of the US government working in Washington DC and he is assigned to investigate the murder of the inventor of a highly advanced torpedo. Aiding Chan is his overeager but dull-witted son Tommy and his daughter Iris.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-14
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Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat
1944-05-20
Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat
Overview: To solve the murder of a man shot in a locked room, Chan must wade through a Fun House, the writings of an unscrupulous author, and chess pieces.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-20
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The Shanghai Cobra
1945-09-29
The Shanghai Cobra
Overview: Someone is attempting to steal radium stored in a bank. Death by cobra venom connects a number of murders. Charlie Chan investigates.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-29
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The Red Dragon
1945-08-01
The Red Dragon
Overview: Chan is faced with suspects in a stolen atomic bomb formula case, that are being killed with bullets that are not fired from a gun.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-01
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The Scarlet Clue
1945-05-11
The Scarlet Clue
Overview: Chinese sleuth Charlie Chan discovers a scheme for the theft of government radar plans while investigating several murders.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-11
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Dark Alibi
1946-05-25
Dark Alibi
Overview: After three men are convicted of bank robberies, Charlie becomes suspicious. After some investigation Charlie finds the men are innocent and that the fingerprint evidence used to convict them had been forged. Charlie then proceeds to find the true bank robbers.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-25
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The Keys of the Kingdom
1944-12-15
The Keys of the Kingdom
Overview: A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a priest, flourishes in his calling as a priest in a more Christian area of the world, Father Chisholm struggles. He encounters hostility, isolation, disease, poverty and a variety of set backs which humble him, but make him more determined than ever to succeed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-15
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Kung Fu The Movie
1986-02-01
Kung Fu The Movie
Overview: In his travels, Caine meets up with an old man who has several surprises for him. The first being the destruction of the Shaolin order, the second being that the man is the father of the Emperor's nephew whom he killed in China, and the third is that he seeks his revenge using the son Caine never knew he had sired as the instrument of his death. It will take all of Caine's skill and wisdom to find a solution to this deadly predicament.
Genres: Drama Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-02-01
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A Time for Love
1974-07-19
A Time for Love
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Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-07-19
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He Is My Brother
1975-01-29
He Is My Brother
Overview: Two shipwrecked boys become the focal point of a religious power struggle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-29
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Dragonfly Squadron
1954-03-21
Dragonfly Squadron
Overview: A Korean War film with a secondary plot of the training of South Korean pilots, to fly fighters in air defense, by American Air Force instructors,led by Major Brady, a famed and skilled-but-grounded pilot, assigned to the Kongku base.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-21
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Dragon Seed
1944-07-20
Dragon Seed
Overview: The lives of a small Chinese village are turned Upside down when the Japanese invade it. An heroic young Chinese woman leads her fellow villagers in an uprising against Japanese Invaders.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-20
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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
1944-11-15
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Overview: In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Japanese homeland.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-15
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The Fighting Devil Dogs
1938-05-27
The Fighting Devil Dogs
Overview: Two marine lieutenants battle a masked would-be world conqueror who uses electricity as a weapon.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-27
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His Majesty O'Keefe
1954-01-16
His Majesty O'Keefe
Overview: Men steal for it. Nations go to war for it. The it is oil - and it grows on trees. Coconut oil is the precious lifeblood of 1870s South Seas traders. And lots of real blood will be spilled to get it! Screen royalty Burt Lancaster is His Majesty O'Keefe in this last of three adventures that (along with The Flame and the Arrow and The Crimson Pirate) blew a revitalizing wind into the sails of the swashbuckler genre. Action, cunning and derring-do are watchwords of the title seafarer as he befriends, defends and ultimately rules the islanders of exotic Yap. Lensed on gorgeus Fiji locations, grandly scored by Robert Farnon and rousingly directed by Byron Haskin, His Majesty O'Keefe delivers heroics of regal proportions.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-16
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Oliver's Story
1978-12-15
Oliver's Story
Overview: Oliver Barrett IV is emotionally devastated by the death of his wife Jenny, and, while he tries to lose himself in his work as a lawyer, the long hours don't ease his pain, especially when he finds that his leftist views conflict with those of the senior partners at the firm. Eventually, Oliver's inconsolable grief begins to alienate those around him, until he finds new love with Marcie Bonwit, the wealthy and beautiful heiress to the Bonwit Teller fortune. Despite his affection for her, Oliver finds it difficult to leave the memory of Jenny behind, which causes major problems in their relationship.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-15
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Peking Express
1951-08-01
Peking Express
Overview: A group of refugees fleeing Chinese Communist rule via train are beset by a gang of terrifying outlaws.
Genres: Drama Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-01
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Three Husbands
1950-11-10
Three Husbands
Overview: When a recently deceased playboy gets to heaven and is granted one wish--granted to all newcomers--he requests that he be able to see the reactions of three husbands, with whom he regularly played poker, to a letter he left each of them claiming to have had an affair with each's wife.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-10
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Secret Agent X-9
1945-07-24
Secret Agent X-9
Overview: American, Chinese and Australian agents join forces to stop the Nazis from obtaining the formula for synthetic fuel.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-24
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Submarine Command
1951-11-01
Submarine Command
Overview: Submarine commander Ken White is forced to suddenly submerge, leaving his captain and another crew member to die outside the sub during WW II. Subsequent years of meaningless navy ground assignments and the animosity of a former sailor, leave White (now a captain) feeling guilty and empty. His life spirals downward and his wife is about to leave him. Suddenly, he is forced into a dangerous rescue situation at the start of the Koren War.... reassigned to the same submarine where all of his problems began.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-01
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Five Gates to Hell
1959-09-23
Five Gates to Hell
Overview: A group of nurses, doctors and nuns are taken hostage in Vietnam and sent up river to a castle hideout so they can cure an ailing war general.
Genres: Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-09-23
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Back at the Front
1952-10-01
Back at the Front
Overview: Further misadventures of comic soldiers Willie and Joe, now in Japan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-01
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The Purple Heart
1944-02-25
The Purple Heart
Overview: This is the story of the crew of a downed bomber, captured after a run over Tokyo, early in the war. Relates the hardships the men endure while in captivity, and their final humiliation: being tried and convicted as war criminals.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-25
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Kung Fu: The Way of the Tiger, the Sign of the Dragon
1972-02-22
Kung Fu: The Way of the Tiger, the Sign of the Dragon
Overview: After avenging the death of his teacher, a Shaolin monk flees China to the American West and helps people while being pursued by bounty hunters.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-02-22
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First Yank into Tokyo
1945-09-05
First Yank into Tokyo
Overview: A U.S. pilot undergoes plastic surgery and drops into Japan to get a captive scientist's (Marc Cramer) atomic secrets.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-05
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Moonlight
1982-09-14
Moonlight
Overview: A fast-food delivery man for a New York Chinese restaurant gets involved with international terrorists and is recruited by undercover agents to help track down the leader in this prospective pilot.
Genres: Action Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-14
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Walk Like a Dragon
1960-06-01
Walk Like a Dragon
Overview: California, 1870s. The cowboy Lincoln 'Linc' Bartlett finds out there's a slave auction of Chinese women in San Francisco and he intervenes and purchases the Chinese Kim Sung from the auction with the intent of setting her free. But it doesn't occur to Linc that setting her free isn't enough. Where is she going to go? Kim doesn't speak English and she's just going to be exploited by somebody else. Linc takes Kim home to serve as a housekeeper. Ma Bartlett Linc's mother, is not happy that a Chinese girl is living in her home, and even less happy when Kim and her son fall in love. Their affair also arouses the jealousy of Cheng Lu, a Chinese immigrant.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-01
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Destroyer
1943-08-19
Destroyer
Overview: Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the crew, is Steve Boleslavski, a shipyard welder that helped build her, who reenlists, with his old rank of Chief bosuns mate. After failing her sea trials, she is assigned to the mail run, until caught up in a disparate battle with a Japanese sub. After getting torpedoed, and on the verge of sinking, the Captain, and crew hatch a plan to try and save the ship, and destroy the sub.
Genres: Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-19
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Hazard
1948-05-28
Hazard
Overview: A compulsive gambler bets her freedom against a $16,000 debt to a crime boss…and loses. But before he can collect, she skips town, with a private detective hot on her trail.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-28
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China Sky
1945-05-16
China Sky
Overview: During World War II, an American mission hospital is headed up by Dr. Gray Thompson and Dr. Sara Durand. Sara is secretly in love with Gray but hides her feelings as his new wife, Louise, arrives at the hospital. Sparks fly, however, when Louise becomes jealous of Sara, and then tries to convince her husband to leave war-torn China behind for a calmer life in the United States. But Thompson is attached to both Sara and the people who need his help.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-16
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Girls! Girls! Girls!
1962-11-21
Girls! Girls! Girls!
Overview: When he finds out his boss is retiring to Arizona, a sailor, Ross Carpenter, has to find a way to buy the Westwind, a boat that he and his father built. He is also caught between two women: insensitive club singer Robin and sweet Laurel.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-11-21
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The Strongest Man in the World
1975-02-06
The Strongest Man in the World
Overview: Medfield College science major Dexter Riley and his classmates have been working on a new vitamin compound when a lab accident creates a supercharged mix that ends up in Dexter's cereal box, giving him superhuman strength. The powerful formula comes to the attention of the college dean and two rival cereal companies, touching off a hilarious chain of events.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-06
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Charlie Chan at the Opera
1936-12-04
Charlie Chan at the Opera
Overview: A dangerous amnesiac escapes from an asylum, hides in the opera house, and is suspected of getting revenge on those who tried to murder him 13 years ago.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-04
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Behind the Rising Sun
1943-08-01
Behind the Rising Sun
Overview: A Japanese publisher urges his American-educated son to side with the Axis.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-01
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China
1943-04-21
China
Overview: Shortly before Pearl Harbor, American opportunist Jones and partner Johnny are in China to sell oil to the invading Japanese army. Cynical about the sufferings of the Chinese, Jones meets compassionate teacher Carolyn Grant while travelling cross-country to Shanghai. Sparks fly between these strong-willed characters, neither budging an inch. But when Jones witnesses a Japanese atrocity, his feelings toward his customers (and Carolyn) begin to change...
Genres: War Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-21
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Jinxed!
1982-10-22
Jinxed!
Overview: Harold, a professional gambler, and his girlfriend Bonita, a lounge singer, follow Willie, a young blackjack dealer, around the western U.S. Harold has a jinx on Willie and can't lose with him. Bonita and Willie meet and fall for each other and plot to do away with Harold and collect on his life insurance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-22
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Back to Bataan
1945-05-30
Back to Bataan
Overview: An Army colonel leads a guerrilla campaign against the Japanese in the Philippines.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-30
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Calcutta
1946-12-20
Calcutta
Overview: Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. When their buddy Bill is murdered they investigate. Neale meets Bill's fiancée Virginia and becomes suspicious of a deeper plot while also falling for her charms.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-20
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S.O.B.
1981-07-01
S.O.B.
Overview: A movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes her top off.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-07-01
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Travis Logan, D.A.
1971-03-11
Travis Logan, D.A.
Overview: Sand devises a scheme to murder his former business partner and maintains his innocence throughout the trial, as he is prosecuted by District Attorney Travis Logan.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-11
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