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Chester Gan is a Actor American born on 4 july 1908

Chester Gan

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Nationality USA
Birth 4 july 1908
Death 29 june 1959 (at 50 years)

Chester Gan or at times Chester Gann (July 4, 1908 – June 29, 1959) was an American actor of Chinese descent. He played almost a hundred roles, typically portraying Asian stereotypes, from the Chinese cook or waiter to the Japanese enemy soldier.

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Chester Gan (53 films)

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Blood Alley
Blood Alley (1955)
, 1h55
Directed by William A. Wellman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Paul Fix, Anita Ekberg, Mike Mazurki, James Hong
Rating61% 3.0984253.0984253.0984253.0984253.098425
The ship of Captain Tom Wilder, an American Merchant Mariner, is seized by the Chinese Communists and he is imprisoned by them for two years in the vicinity of Amoy Island. Captain Wilder is helped to escape from prison, dressed as a Soviet officer. The huge Chinese who transports him to Chiku Shan village (Big Han) will not tell him why he has been broken out of prison.
China
China (1943)
, 1h19
Directed by John Farrow, Hal Walker, Oscar Rudolph, Harve Foster, Gerd Oswald
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Adventure
Themes Political films
Actors Loretta Young, Alan Ladd, William Bendix, Philip Ahn, Richard Loo, Victor Sen Yung
Roles Japanese General
Rating65% 3.294953.294953.294953.294953.29495
In 1941, in Mei-Ki, China, war profiteer David Jones (Alan Ladd) narrowly escapes with his life when Chinese Captain Tao-Yuan-Kai arrests him for selling oil to the Japanese but releases him because he is American. Japanese aircraft bomb the town, and Jones drives toward Shanghai with his partner, Johnny Sparrow (William Bendix), who has brought with him an orphaned baby boy.
Crash Dive
Crash Dive (1943)
, 1h46
Directed by Otto Brower, Archie Mayo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, La bataille de l'Atlantique, Underwater action films, Submarine films, Political films, Children's films
Actors Tyrone Power, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, James Gleason, May Whitty, Harry Morgan
Roles Lee Wong
Rating62% 3.148373.148373.148373.148373.14837
A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new executive officer, Lt. Ward Stewart (Tyrone Power), has been transferred back into submarines after commanding his own PT boat. At the submarine base in New London, Connecticut, he asks his new captain, Lt. Cmdr. Dewey Connors (Dana Andrews), for a weekend leave to settle his affairs before taking up his new assignment. On a train bound for Washington D.C., Stewart accidentally encounters New London school teacher Jean Hewlett (Anne Baxter) and her students. Despite her initial resistance to his efforts, he charms her and they fall in love.
China Girl
China Girl (1942)
, 1h35
Directed by Henry Hathaway
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films, Children's films
Actors Gene Tierney, George Montgomery, Sig Ruman, Lynn Bari, Myron McCormick, Robert Blake
Rating61% 3.09413.09413.09413.09413.0941
The year is 1941, and in Luichow, China, a news cameraman named Johnny Williams (George Montgomery) is taken into custody by the Japanese military, because they want him to take pictures for them of the Burma Road construction. Johnny will get $20,000 for his work, but he isn't interested.
Across the Pacific
Across the Pacific (1942)
, 1h33
Directed by John Huston, Vincent Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Spy, Historical, Romance
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet, Charles Halton, Richard Loo, Monte Blue
Roles Capt. Higoto
Rating67% 3.3973.3973.3973.3973.397
In late 1941, Captain Rick Leland (Humphrey Bogart) is court-martialed and discharged from the U.S. Coast Artillery after he is caught stealing. He tries to join the Canadian Army, but is coldly rebuffed. He subsequently boards a Japanese ship, the Genoa Maru, in Halifax, apparently to make his way to China via the Panama Canal to fight for Chiang Kai-shek.
Flying Tigers
Flying Tigers (1942)
, 1h42
Directed by David Miller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors John Wayne, John Carroll, Anna Lee, Gordon Jones, Paul Kelly, Mae Clarke
Roles Mike
Rating66% 3.3468753.3468753.3468753.3468753.346875
Jim Gordon (John Wayne in his first war film) leads the Flying Tigers, a squadron of freelance American pilots who fly Curtiss P-40 fighters against Japanese aircraft in the skies over China. The pilots are a mixed bunch, motivated by money (they receive a bounty for each aircraft shot down), or just the thrill of aerial combat.
Moontide
Moontide (1942)
, 1h35
Directed by Fritz Lang, Archie Mayo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Jean Gabin, Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell, Claude Rains, Jerome Cowan, Ralph Byrd
Roles Henry Hirota
Rating67% 3.394833.394833.394833.394833.39483
The film tells about a man who fears he has committed a murder when he was drunk.
The Maltese Falcon
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
, 1h40
Directed by John Huston
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Films about animals, Films about birds
Actors Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Elisha Cook, Jr.
Roles Bit Part (uncredited)
Rating78% 3.9489053.9489053.9489053.9489053.948905
In 1539 the Knight Templars of Malta, paid tribute to Charles V of Spain, by sending him a Golden Falcon encrusted from beak to claw with rarest jewels—but pirates seized the galley carrying this priceless token and the fate of the Maltese Falcon remains a mystery to this day —
Man-Made Monster
Man-Made Monster (1941)
, 59minutes
Directed by George Waggner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Horror
Actors Lionel Atwill, Lon Chaney, Jr., Anne Nagel, Frank Albertson, Samuel S. Hinds, William B. Davidson
Roles Chinese Boy, Wong
Rating60% 3.0498553.0498553.0498553.0498553.049855
A tragic accident occurs when a bus hits a high power line. The incident has claimed the lives of all on board, except for one Dan McCormick (Lon Chaney, Jr.), who survives because he is, surprisingly, immune to the deadly electricity. McCormick does a sideshow exhibit as Dynamo Dan, the Electric Man and is taken in by Dr. John Lawrence (Samuel S. Hinds), who wants to study him. Dr. Lawrence's colleague, mad scientist Dr. Paul Rigas (Lionel Atwill) has something else in mind, though. He wants to create an army of electrobiologically-driven zombies. He gives McCormick progressively higher doses of electricity until his mind is ruined and left dependent on the addicting electrical charges. This temporarily gives McCormick the touch of death, making him capable of killing anyone he touches by electrocution. After accidentally killing Lawrence, Rigas insures McCormick's conviction to see what will happen if he is sent to the electric chair. McCormick survives, and with a super charge in his glowing body he kills several people, including Rigas, before running out of electricity and dying.
Singapore Woman
Singapore Woman (1941)
, 1h4
Directed by Jean Negulesco
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Brenda Marshall, Dorothy Tree, David Bruce, Virginia Field, Jerome Cowan, Bruce Lester
Roles Waiter at Crow's Nest (uncredited)
Rating56% 2.818172.818172.818172.818172.81817