Heihachirō Ōkawa
Born: 1905-09-09 in Soka, Saitama, Japan
Died: 1971-05-27
Known For: Acting
Biography
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
1971
- One of Those Things as Kawasaki
1968
- Destroy All Monsters as Engineer
1967
- King Kong Escapes ... (Translator)
1965
- Frankenstein Conquers the World ... (Translator)
1964
- Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster as Astronomer (uncredited)
1963
- Interpol Code 8 as Quyen
1961
- The Big Wave as Yukio's Father
- Marines, Let's Go as Yoshida (Hotel Manager)
1958
- The Wind Cannot Read as Lieutenant Nakamura
1957
- The Bridge on the River Kwai as Captain Kanematsu
- The Mysterians as Person at Board Meeting
1955
- Floating Clouds
- Three Stripes in the Sun as Father Yoshida (as Henry Okawa)
1954
- All of Myself as Kadokura
- 土曜日の天使
- Ghost Man
1953
- The Eagle of the Pacific as (uncredited)
1952
1951
- Dancing Girl as Kayama
- Tokyo File 212
1944
- The Dawn of Freedom as Sub Corporal Ikema Ishihara
1942
- Sky of Hope as Okada
- The Man Who Waited
- Wings of Victory
- Bouquet of the South Seas as Harada, pilot
1940
- Wedding Day
- Hikari to kage (Zenpen)
- Keshô yuki
- A Sister's Promise as Hideo Nogami
1938
- Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro as Matsuzaki
1936
- Morning's Tree-Lined Street as Ogawa
- The Road I Travel with You as Asaji Amanuma
- Brother and Sister
1935
- Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts as Aoyama
- Wife! Be Like a Rose! as Seiji (Kimiko's boyfriend)
- Drifting as Sankichi
- Five Men in a Circus as Kokichi
- The Girl in the Rumor as Shintaro
1934
- Romantic and Crazy as Count