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Heihachirō Ōkawa

AKA: Henry Okawa
Birthday: 1905-09-09
Died: 1971-05-27
Birthplace: Sōka, Saitama, Japan


Heihachiro Okawa (Japanese: 大川 平八郎 Hepburn: Ōkawa Heihachirō, 9 September 1905 – 27 May 1971), also sometimes credited as Henry Okawa (ヘンリー大川), was a Japanese film actor active from the 1930s to 1971. With hopes of starting a business, he traveled to the United States in 1923 and studied at Columbia University. He also studied at the Paramount Studios acting school and eventually began working in Hollywood, appearing in films by Howard Hawks and William Wellman. He returned to Japan in 1933 and co-starred in the Photo Chemical Laboratories (PCL) film Horoyoi jinsei. He later appeared in foreign films under the name Henry Okawa. He is best known for Moyuru ōzora (1940), Dawn of Freedom (1944) Tokyo File 212 (1951), Floating Clouds (1955) and The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957). (Wikkipedia)

Filmography

Marines, Let's Go
Character: Yoshida (Hotel Manager)


The Road I Travel with You
Character: Asaji Amanuma

Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
Character: Matsuzaki
The Girl in the Rumor
Character: Shintaro
Morning's Tree-Lined Street
Character: Ogawa

Lil's Return from Shanghai
Character: Takada

Dancing Girl
Character: Kayama


Wife! Be Like a Rose!
Character: Seiji (Kimiko's boyfriend)

Five Men in a Circus
Character: Kokichi
Bouquet of the South Seas
Character: Harada, pilot
The Dawn of Freedom
Character: Sub Corporal Ikema Ishihara

The Bridge on the River Kwai
Character: Captain Kanematsu
The Mysterians
Character: Person at Board Meeting
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
Character: Astronomer (uncredited)

The Wind Cannot Read
Character: Lieutenant Nakamura
One of Those Things
Character: Kawasaki
Destroy All Monsters
Character: Engineer

Three Stripes in the Sun
Character: Father Yoshida (as Henry Okawa)
The Big Wave
Character: Yukio's Father

Drifting
Character: Sankichi


The Eagle of the Pacific
Character: (uncredited)
Sky of Hope
Character: Okada

Romantic and Crazy
Character: Count