Anthony Chinn
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| Citizenship | British |
| OccupationTemplate:Pluralize from text | Actor |
| Years active | 1957–2000 |
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Anthony Chinn (1930 – 22 October 2000) was a Guyanese actor based in England who appeared in over 50 films and television series throughout a career which spanned more than four decades.[1][2]
Career and death
Chinn was born in Georgetown, Guyana. He made his film début in the United Kingdom in 1957.[3] He moved to London in 1961[4] and for the next several years appeared in British TV series such as The Avengers, Danger Man, The Protectors and Steptoe and Son, as well as two episodes of UFO.[5]
Chinn also had early uncredited roles in the James Bond films Dr. No (1962), Goldfinger (1964) and You Only Live Twice (1967), later playing a Taiwanese businessman in A View to a Kill (1985).[3] Chinn played the Kitai in John Huston's The Kremlin Letter (1969), a Chinese assassin in The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) and a Chinese doorman in Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978).[5] He appeared as Mohan in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and as Mactilburgh's technician in The Fifth Element (1997).[3]
Chinn also worked in theatre and appeared in TV advertisements for brands such as McEwan's beer. He was hospitalised with a serious and life threatening brain bleed on 21 October 2000 and died from the haemorrhage the next day at a London hospital. The Guyanese actor was buried in North London and was survived by his four sons and two grandchildren.[6][2][4]
Selected filmography
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- Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst (1957) - Chinese People's Liberation Army Officer
- The Abominable Snowman (1957) - Majordomo
- The Camp on Blood Island (1958) - Japanese Sentry (uncredited)
- Next to No Time (1958)
- The Savage Innocents (1960) - Kiddok
- The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961) - Japanese Sniper (uncredited)
- Satan Never Sleeps (1962) - Ho San's Driver (uncredited)
- Dr. No (1962) - Chen, Descontamination Technician (uncredited)
- Tarzan's Three Challenges (1963) - Tor
- Goldfinger (1964) - Servant at Stud Farm (uncredited)
- A Countess from Hong Kong (1967) - Hawaiian
- You Only Live Twice (1967) - SPECTRE Guard (uncredited)
- Pretty Polly (1967) - Japanese Proprietor
- The Chairman (1969) - Chinese Officer
- Doppelgänger (1969) - Mongolian Rescue Crew Member (uncredited)
- The Gamblers (1970) - Nono
- The Kremlin Letter (1970) - Kitai
- Craze (1974) - Customer (uncredited)
- Rollerball (1975) - Reporter (uncredited)
- The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) - Chinese Assassin
- Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978) - Chinese Doorman
- Mihail, câine de circ (1979)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) - Mohan
- High Road to China (1983)[4] - General Wong
- The Optimist (1984) - Chinese spy
- A View to a Kill (1985) - Taiwanese Tycoon
- The Fifth Element (1997) - Mactilburgh's Technician
References
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- ^ Anthony Chinn at asianstarz.com, retrieved 3 January 2009
- ^ a b Brennan, Sandra: Anthony Chinn, at AllRovi (via nytimes.com), retrieved 3 January 2009
- ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Anthony Chinn". BFI. Archived from the original on 13 January 2018.
- ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Frozen Looks for an Eskimo". Evening Times. Glasgow. 22 November 1983. p. 2.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Anthony Chinn". www.aveleyman.com.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Production of Rose Marie | Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
External links
- Anthony Chinn at IMDbTemplate:Edit at Wikidata
- Anthony Chinn at asianstarz.com
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