Acting credits
94
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.

Acting
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Acting credits
94
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
TMDB popularity
0.8
Low visibility
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TMDB ID: 12249
IMDb ID: nm0370564
Known for: Acting
Born: June 10, 1889
Died: November 23, 1973
Age: 84
Place of birth: Nanaura, Chiba, Japan
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1914 - 2020
Years active: 107
Average TMDB rating: 6.33
Wikidata: Q382068
Also known as
早川雪洲 • Kintarō Hayakawa • 早川 金太郎
Other jobs
Sessue Hayakawa (June 10, 1889 – November 23, 1973) was a Japanese and American Issei (Japanese immigrant) actor who starred in American, Japanese, French, German, and British films. Hayakawa was the first and one of the few Asian actors to find stardom in the United States as well as Europe. Between the mid-1910s and the late 1920s, he was as well known as actors Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks. He was one of the highest paid stars of his time; making $5,000 a week in 1915, and $2 million a year via his own production company during the 1920s. He starred in over 80 movies and has two films in the U.S. National Film Registry. His international stardom transitioned both silent films and talkies. Of his English-language films, Hayakawa is probably best known for his role as Colonel Saito in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai, for which he received a nomination for Academy Award Best Supporting Actor in 1957. He also appeared as the pirate leader in Disney's Swiss Family Robinson in 1960. In addition to his film acting career, Hayakawa was a theatre actor, film and theatre producer, film director, screenwriter, novelist, martial artist, and an ordained Zen master.




Movie credits linked with Sessue Hayakawa.
as (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive)
as Tajima
as The Mole (voice)
as Self
as The Old Man
as Kuala, Pirate Chief
as General Matsui
as Self
as Runi
as Mr. Sikita
as Self
as Col. Saito
as Inspector Kito
as Tomoyuki Yamashita
as Sakon Tachibana
as Joe Hayami
as Colonel Michio Suga
as Baron Kimura
Series credits linked with Sessue Hayakawa.