Victor Wong

Movie Actor

Victor Wong was born in San Francisco, California, United States on July 30th, 1927 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 74, Victor Wong biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
July 30, 1927
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
San Francisco, California, United States
Death Date
Sep 12, 2001 (age 74)
Zodiac Sign
Leo
Profession
Film Actor, Journalist, Stage Actor, Television Actor
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UC Berkley University of Chicago San Francisco Art Institute, UC Berkley, University of Chicago, San Francisco Art Institute
Victor Wong Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
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Olive Thurman, Robin Goodfellow, Carol Freeland, Dawn Rose, (m. 19??; his death)
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5, including Lyon Wong
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Victor Wong Life

He appeared in supporting roles in films throughout the 1980s and 1990s, including Chinese sorcerer Egg Shen in John Carpenter's Best Picture-winning The Last Emperor (1988), and Grandpa Mori in the 3 Ninjas tetralogy (1992-98). Wayne Wang, an independent filmmaker, also starred in several roles, including "alter-ego" Wayne Wang.

Wong began his career as an on-air reporter and later a pioneering photojournalist for KQED. Mark Rothko, who he encountered during his studies at the San Francisco Art Institute, saw him collaborate with a number of Beat Generation figures, including Jack Kerouac, who fictionalized him as "Arthur Ma" in his book Big Survival.

Early life and education

Wong was born in San Francisco and spent his childhood in Chinatown, near the Stockton Street Tunnel to Chinese parents. Sare King Wong's father, who was born and raised in Guangdong province, and later moved to Shanghai as a news journalist. Alice was a devout Christian who brought his family every week to the First Chinese Baptist Church. Wong was one of five children; his siblings included Sarah Wong Lum, Zeppelin Wong, and twins Shirley Wong and Betty Wong Brown. Victor Wong, the grandfather of Sare King Wong, had founded the Young China newspaper with Dr. Sun Yat-sen, who later led his acting career to Hong Kong.

When his father took up teaching and principal at a school for the children of local Chinese laborers, Wong and his family immigrated to Courtland, California, where he was two years old. The family will return to Chinatown in three years, and his father was active in local politics. For a large part of his adult life, he would live in Sacramento, California.

Wong studied political science and journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, and theology at the University of Chicago under Paul Tillich, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Martin Buber. Wong appeared in The Second City comedian troupe in Chicago and stayed with Langston Hughes. Wong returned to San Francisco for the summer, appearing in a theatre performance and never returning to Chicago; under Mark Rothko, he revived his study at the San Francisco Art Institute, earning a master's degree in 1962.

Personal life

Wong was married four times, including Olive Thurman Wong (daughter of civil rights activist Howard Thurman), Carol Freeland, Robin Goodfellow, and Dawn Rose. Emily and Heather were his two children, three sons, Anton, Lyon, and Duncan. Emily and Anton were from his first marriage to Olive Thurman.

Lyon Wong, the son of a young man, was killed while walking home in Sacramento in 1986. Wong was asked to film the prologue scene for Big Trouble in Little China shortly after Lyon's funeral; after shooting the scene, Wong sustained his first stroke. Wong and Dawn Rose, who was an artist in Locke, married in 1998 and later opened an art gallery and teahouse in Walnut Grove, nearing the establishment of an art gallery and teahouse in 2001.

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Victor Wong Career

Acting career

After his news career ended, Wong returned to acting, starting in the local Asian American theatre and later appearing on Broadways in New York City. In October 1980, Wong made his Asian American Theater Company (AATC) debut in San Francisco by appearing in Genny Lim's production of Paper Angels. Since his palsy was on Social Security Disability Insurance at the time, he was on Social Security Disability Insurance at the time. He appeared in the plays Family Devotions and Sound and Beauty, written by David Henry Hwang, in New York.

His stage performances led to television work and, eventually, film work; his film debut was in 1984's Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart, directed by Wayne Wang. Wong starred in between film roles in Sacramento, California, where he championed the local performing arts. He appeared in the Hong Kong film Cageman (1992). Grandpa Mori appeared in the 3 Ninjas franchise, the cult-classics, Big Trouble in Little China, and Tremors. Director Bernardo Bertolucci had trouble with Wong on the set of The Last Emperor, despite claims of historical authenticity and a reduction of the bulk of Wong's scenes in the film, which received the Best Picture Oscar for 1987.

He worked closely with director Wayne Wang. In 1985 film Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart, the independent filmmaker and fellow San Franciscan first cast him in the lead role, then went on to include him in Eat a Bowl of Tea and Life Is Cheap... Toilet Paper Is Expensive (both 1989 and 1993) but The Joy Luck Club (1993) is a newspaper published in the United States. Wang later referred to Wong as his role model for living life.

After suffering two strokes, he resigned from acting in 1998. Wong returned to art and held a solo exhibition at the B. Sakata Garo gallery in Sacramento.

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