Keye Luke (traditional Chinese: 陸錫éº'; simplified Chinese:
陆é"¡éº'; pinyin: Lù XÄ«qÃ, Cantonese: Luk Shek Kee; June 18, 1904
â€" January 12, 1991) was a Chinese-born American film and television
actor, technical advisor and artist and a founding member of the
Screen Actors Guild.He was known for playing Lee Chan, the "Number One
Son" in the Charlie Chan films, the original Kato in the 1939â€"1941
Green Hornet film serials, Brak in the 1960s Space Ghost cartoons,
Master Po in the television series Kung Fu, and Mr. Wing in the
Gremlins films.He was the first Chinese-American contract player
signed by RKO, Universal Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and was one
of the most prominent Asian actors of American cinema in the mid-20th
century.Luke was born in Guangzhou, China, to a father who owned an
art shop, but grew up in Seattle. He was part of the Luke family, a
relative of Washington assistant attorney-general Wing Luke, for whom
Seattle's Wing Luke Asian Museum was named. He had four siblings who
all emigrated from China to California during the Great Depression.
His younger brother Edwin Luke also became an actor in the Charlie
Chan series.
陆é"¡éº'; pinyin: Lù XÄ«qÃ, Cantonese: Luk Shek Kee; June 18, 1904
â€" January 12, 1991) was a Chinese-born American film and television
actor, technical advisor and artist and a founding member of the
Screen Actors Guild.He was known for playing Lee Chan, the "Number One
Son" in the Charlie Chan films, the original Kato in the 1939â€"1941
Green Hornet film serials, Brak in the 1960s Space Ghost cartoons,
Master Po in the television series Kung Fu, and Mr. Wing in the
Gremlins films.He was the first Chinese-American contract player
signed by RKO, Universal Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and was one
of the most prominent Asian actors of American cinema in the mid-20th
century.Luke was born in Guangzhou, China, to a father who owned an
art shop, but grew up in Seattle. He was part of the Luke family, a
relative of Washington assistant attorney-general Wing Luke, for whom
Seattle's Wing Luke Asian Museum was named. He had four siblings who
all emigrated from China to California during the Great Depression.
His younger brother Edwin Luke also became an actor in the Charlie
Chan series.
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