Lee Tung Foo

Lee Tung Foo

Born: April 21, 1875
Died: May 1, 1966
in Watsonville, California, USA
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Lee Tung Foo (also known as Frank Lee) was a Chinese American Vaudeville performer born in California who performed in English, German, and Latin. He became a film actor later in his life.

At the age of 45, he ran a Chinese restaurant he bought in New York City called Jung Sy Mandarin Restaurant. He opened a second restaurant, Imig Sy, and both were strategically placed near Broadway. By the 1930s he returned to theater work, playing some minor roles until 1932, when he was cast as Wang Yun in the film, The Skull Murder Mystery. He continued with minor roles, being cast as the servant of the Detective, Mr. Wong, in the 1939 film The Mystery of Mr. Wong. His last work was in The Manchurian Candidate, an uncredited role as a "Man in Lobby" at the age of 87.

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The Sheepman
Title: The Sheepman
Character: Willie (uncredited)
Released: May 1, 1958
Type: Movie
A stranger in a Western cattle-town behaves with remarkable self-assurance, establishing himself as a man to be reckoned with. The reason appears with his stock: a herd of sheep, which he intends to graze on the range. The horrified inhabitants decide to run him out at all costs.
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Badlands of Montana
Title: Badlands of Montana
Character: Ling
Released: May 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Wanting to follow in his late father's footsteps, eager reformer Steve Brewster runs for mayor of a small Montana town but is forced to flee and join a gang of notorious outlaws after he's provoked into killing two corrupt officials in self-defense. Gang leader Hammer takes Steve in, and Steve falls for his daughter, Susan, but his loyalties are divided when he's appointed marshal of his hometown.
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Title: Terry and the Pirates
Released: November 25, 1952
Type: TV
Terry and the Pirates is a short-lived American adventure series based on Milton Caniff's popular comic strip, was telecast from June 26, 1953 to November 21, 1953. The syndicated series ran for 18 episodes and was produced by Don Sharpe Enterprises. Canada Dry Ginger Ale was the show's original sponsor.
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Title: Dangerous Assignment
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: TV
A U.S. government agent travels the world on undercover missions in this 1950s series. Star Brian Donlevy originated the role on radio in the '40s.
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Short Grass
Title: Short Grass
Character: Lin
Released: December 24, 1950
Type: Movie
Steve Llewellyn hung up his guns after killing a man in self-defense, left Willow Creek and went on the drift for five years. Now he’s back. And the bad blood stirred up by his return and the violence caused by a cattleman’s grab for all the good grasslands mean Steve must strap on his sidearms again. Rod Cameron -- who became a marquee draw with a pair of espionage serials in the 1940s and went on to establish himself as a popular cowboy star -- makes Steve a hero to reckon with in Short Grass, one of the actor’s 10 films with busy shoot-‘em-up director Lesley Selander. Johnny Mack Brown, a sagebrush stalwart in his own right, plays the marshal who allies with Steve. Adding to the Western pedigree is costar Cathy Downs, who plays the title role in the iconic My Darling Clementine. Buffs will note other familiar faces, including Alan Hale, Jr., well remembered as the skipper who takes a “three-hour tour” to Gilligan’s Island.
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California Passage
Title: California Passage
Character: Cook (uncredited)
Released: December 15, 1950
Type: Movie
A series of reversals bring two desperate people together. When a saloon owner is framed by his partner for a stagecoach robbery, he fights to secure an acquittal.
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The Cariboo Trail
Title: The Cariboo Trail
Character: Ling
Released: August 1, 1950
Type: Movie
A cattleman fights to establish a ranch in the middle of gold country.
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There's a Girl in My Heart
Title: There's a Girl in My Heart
Character: Charlie Li
Released: December 19, 1949
Type: Movie
A Gay-Nineties musical set in NYC's Bowery and East-Side explores the life of its inhabitants---an Irish policeman and his tap-dancing daughter and music-hall wife; a German professor of music and his singing daughter; and an Italian café-owner, a kindly priest, a struggling young doctor and a saloon-keeper. And a political ward-heeler, Terrence Dowd, who has a deceptive and dishonest plan to sell them all out in order to build a fight arena. But he meets his match in property-owner Claire Adamson.
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Criss Cross
Title: Criss Cross
Character: Chinese Cook (uncredited)
Released: February 4, 1949
Type: Movie
An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster husband.
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Strange Gamble
Title: Strange Gamble
Character: Wong
Released: October 8, 1948
Type: Movie
Hoppy and his pals arrive in a remote town to investigate the counterfeiting of both U.S. and Mexican money; his only clues are the name "Mordigan" and a drawing of a comet. He quickly finds out that Mordigan is the town "boss"; but what or who is "the comet", and why are Mordigan and his henchmen intent on persecuting a young woman, her drunken brother, and her deathly ill sister-in-law who've also just arrived in town?
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The Checkered Coat
Title: The Checkered Coat
Character: Kim
Released: July 16, 1948
Type: Movie
A psychiatrist tries to help a patient who loses consciousness after he kills someone. When the doctor provides the patient with a letter that explains his problem, he inadvertently implicates himself in the crimes.
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The Chinese Ring
Title: The Chinese Ring
Character: Armstrong's Majordomo
Released: December 6, 1947
Type: Movie
Soon after a Chinese princess comes to the US to buy planes for her people, she is murdered by a poison dart fired by an air rifle.
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Calcutta
Title: Calcutta
Character: Kim (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1946
Type: Movie
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.
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They Were Expendable
Title: They Were Expendable
Character: Asian Bartender (uncredited)
Released: December 7, 1945
Type: Movie
Shortly after Pearl Harbor, a squadron of PT-boat crews in the Philippines must battle the Navy brass between skirmishes with the Japanese. The title says it all about the Navy's attitude towards the PT-boats and their crews.
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Mrs. Parkington
Title: Mrs. Parkington
Character: Sam (uncredited)
Released: October 12, 1944
Type: Movie
In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by mine owner and financier Augustus Parkington. He moves them to New York, tries to remake her into a society woman, and establishes their home among the wealthiest of New York's high society. Family and social life is not always peaceful, however, and she guides us, in flashbacks, through the rises and falls of the Parkington family fortunes.
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Laura
Title: Laura
Character: Waldo's Servant (uncredited)
Released: October 11, 1944
Type: Movie
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.
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Barbary Coast Gent
Title: Barbary Coast Gent
Character: Wong Gee (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and headed for the gold rush region of Nevada. He discovers a real mine which lead to several complications.
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The Purple Heart
Title: The Purple Heart
Released: February 25, 1944
Type: Movie
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.
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Behind the Rising Sun
Title: Behind the Rising Sun
Character: Dinner Guest
Released: August 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A Japanese publisher urges his American-educated son to side with the Axis.
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Mission to Moscow
Title: Mission to Moscow
Character: Tsiang Ting Fu - Chinese Ambassador (uncredited)
Released: April 29, 1943
Type: Movie
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
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Across the Pacific
Title: Across the Pacific
Character: Sam Wing On
Released: September 4, 1942
Type: Movie
Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-marshaled out of the army and boards a Japanese ship for the Orient in late 1941. But has Leland really been booted out, or is there some other motive for his getting close to fellow passenger Doctor Lorenz? Any motive for getting close to attractive traveller Alberta Marlow would however seem pretty obvious.
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Invisible Agent
Title: Invisible Agent
Character: Gen. Chin Lee (uncredited)
Released: August 7, 1942
Type: Movie
The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany in this comedy-thriller.
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Secret of the Wastelands
Title: Secret of the Wastelands
Character: Doy Kee
Released: November 15, 1941
Type: Movie
Hoppy is leading a scientific expedition and the Chinese who have a hidden settlement nearby are trying to stop them. Saulters and his outlaw gang are also in the area looking for a gold mine. When Saulters men attack, the gold mine is found. Hoppy agrees to file for the Chinese and heads after Saulters in the chase to the land office.
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Dead Men Tell
Title: Dead Men Tell
Character: Ship's Cook
Released: March 28, 1941
Type: Movie
When the elderly woman sponsoring a treasure hunt is murdered on board her docked ship, Charlie Chan must deal with a treasure map in four pieces, the ghost of a hanged pirate, a talking parrot, a recalcitrant sea captain and several suspicious passengers - and a second murder.
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Flight Command
Title: Flight Command
Character: Jung, Gary's Servant
Released: December 27, 1940
Type: Movie
A rookie flyer, Ens. Alan Drake, joins the famous Hellcats Squadron right out of flight school in Pensacola. He doesn't make a great first impression when he is forced to ditch his airplane and parachute to safety when he arrives at the base but is unable to land due to heavy fog. On his first day on the job, his poor shooting skills results in the Hellcats losing an air combat competition. His fellow pilots accept him anyways but they think he's crossed the line when they erroneously conclude that while their CO Billy Gray is away, Drake has an affair with his wife Lorna. Drake is now an outcast and is prepared to resign from the Navy but his extreme heroism in saving Billy Gray's life turns things around.
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Phantom of Chinatown
Title: Phantom of Chinatown
Character: Foo
Released: November 18, 1940
Type: Movie
In the middle of a pictorial lecture on his recent expedition to the Mongolian Desert, Dr. John Benton,the famous explorer, drinks from the water bottle on his lecture table, collapses and dies. His last words "Eternal Fire" are the only clue Chinese detective Jimmy Wong and Captain Street of the police department have to work on.
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They Knew What They Wanted
Title: They Knew What They Wanted
Character: Ah Gee, the Cook
Released: October 19, 1940
Type: Movie
While courting a young woman by mail, a rich farmer sends a photograph of his foreman instead of his own, which leads to complications when she accepts his marriage proposal.
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Phantom Raiders
Title: Phantom Raiders
Character: Mr. Yamamoto
Released: June 7, 1940
Type: Movie
In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick Carter and his eccentric associate Bartholomew to investigate. Nick recognizes influential nightclub owner Al Taurez as a shady operator, but getting the goods on him depends on slick diversions involving the heavyweight champ of the Pacific Tuna Fleet, a Panamanian bombshell armed with American slang, a young couple in love and a whole raft of crooks and cutthroats.
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Barricade
Title: Barricade
Character: Houseboy
Released: December 8, 1939
Type: Movie
In China, a singer and a journalist meet while traveling on a train attacked by bandits.
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Mr. Wong in Chinatown
Title: Mr. Wong in Chinatown
Character: Willie
Released: August 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A pretty Chinese woman, seeking help from San Francisco detective James Lee Wong, is killed by a poisoned dart in his front hall, having time only to scrawl "Captain J" on a sheet of paper. She proves to be Princess Lin Hwa, on a secret military mission for Chinese forces fighting the Japanese invasion. Mr. Wong finds two captains with the intial J in the case, neither being quite what he seems; there's fog on the waterfront and someone still has that poison-dart gun...
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The Mystery of Mr. Wong
Title: The Mystery of Mr. Wong
Character: Willie
Released: March 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Detective James Lee Wong must find the "Eye of the Daughter of the Moon," a priceless but cursed sapphire stolen in China and smuggled to America. His search takes him into the heart of Chinatown and to the dreaded "House of Hate" to find the deadly gem before it can kill again.
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Stand Up and Fight
Title: Stand Up and Fight
Character: Chinese cook
Released: January 6, 1939
Type: Movie
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
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Mr. Wong, Detective
Title: Mr. Wong, Detective
Character: Tchin
Released: October 5, 1938
Type: Movie
A chemical manufacturer is killed just after asking detective James Wong to help him. So Detective Wong decides to investigate this as well as two subsequent murders.
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Top of the Town
Title: Top of the Town
Character: Chinese Ambassador
Released: April 17, 1937
Type: Movie
In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story skyscraper. Unfortunately, the attending audience is quite bored until someone starts the place swinging. Musical numbers include: "Blame It on the Rhumba," "Where Are You?" "Jamboree," "Top of the Town," "I Feel That Foolish Feeling Coming On," "There's No Two Ways About It," "Fireman Save My Child"
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The General Died at Dawn
Title: The General Died at Dawn
Character: Mr. Chen
Released: November 17, 1936
Type: Movie
China, 1930s, during the ravaging civil war. General Pen entrusts O'Hara, an intrepid American adventurer, with the mission of providing a large sum of money to Mr. Wu with the task of buying weapons in Shanghai to help end General Yang's tyranny that keeps an entire province under his ruthless iron boot.
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The Skull Murder Mystery
Title: The Skull Murder Mystery
Character: Wang Yun
Released: March 1, 1932
Type: Movie
When the skeleton of a young man is dug up in an alley, a mysterious Chinese merchant and his eccentric upstairs tenants come under suspicion. The team of Inspector Carr and Dr. Crabtree use the skull of the victim to solve the murder.