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Layne Tom Jr. is a Actor American born on 29 june 1927 at Los Angeles (USA)
Layne Tom Jr. (born June 19, 1927, died January 14, 2015) was an American actor. He holds the sole distinction of playing three different Charlie Chan sons: as Charlie Chan Jr. in Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937), as Tommy Chan in Charlie Chan in Honolulu (1938), and in 1940's Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise as Willie Chan, Chan's number seven son.
He also appeared with child star Shirley Temple in Stowaway (1936) as an uncredited Chinese Boy in the Musical Band. He was credited as Mako with Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall, and C. Aubrey Smith in The Hurricane (1937), and as an uncredited extra in San Francisco (1936) with stars Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, and Spencer Tracy.
After he got out of the Navy when World War II ended, he turned down a five-year movie contract with Monogram Pictures to go to college instead to become an architect. He only returned to show business to film two documentaries about Charlie Chan: Layne Tom, Jr: The Adventures of Charlie Chan, Jr. and Legacy of Charlie Chan as himself.
His daughter Kiana Tom is a television host, star of Kiana's Flex Appeal fitness series and one of the most widely recognized fitness experts in the world.
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Layne Tom Jr.
He also appeared with child star Shirley Temple in Stowaway (1936) as an uncredited Chinese Boy in the Musical Band. He was credited as Mako with Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall, and C. Aubrey Smith in The Hurricane (1937), and as an uncredited extra in San Francisco (1936) with stars Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, and Spencer Tracy.
After he got out of the Navy when World War II ended, he turned down a five-year movie contract with Monogram Pictures to go to college instead to become an architect. He only returned to show business to film two documentaries about Charlie Chan: Layne Tom, Jr: The Adventures of Charlie Chan, Jr. and Legacy of Charlie Chan as himself.
His daughter Kiana Tom is a television host, star of Kiana's Flex Appeal fitness series and one of the most widely recognized fitness experts in the world.
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Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise (1940)
Directed by Eugene Forde
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Themes Children's films
Actors Sidney Toler, Victor Sen Yung, Robert Lowery, Marjorie Weaver, Lionel Atwill, Don Beddoe
Roles Willie Chan
Rating70%
The famed detective seeks to unmask a killer on a voyage across the Pacific Ocean.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
, 2h9Directed by Frank Capra, Charles Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about children, Politique, Scoutisme, Political films, White House in fiction
Actors Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Charles Lane, Thomas Mitchell
Roles Boy Ranger (uncredited)
Rating80%
The governor of an unnamed western state, Hubert "Happy" Hopper (Guy Kibbee), has to pick a replacement for recently deceased U.S. Senator Sam Foley. His corrupt political boss, Jim Taylor (Edward Arnold), pressures Hopper to choose his handpicked stooge, while popular committees want a reformer, Henry Hill. The governor's children want him to select Jefferson Smith (James Stewart), the head of the Boy Rangers. Unable to make up his mind between Taylor's stooge and the reformer, Hopper decides to flip a coin. When it lands on edge – and next to a newspaper story on one of Smith's accomplishments – he chooses Smith, calculating that his wholesome image will please the people while his naïveté will make him easy to manipulate.
Charlie Chan in Honolulu (1938)
, 1h7Directed by H. Bruce Humberstone
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Children's films
Actors Sidney Toler, Victor Sen Yung, Phyllis Brooks, Eddie Collins, John King, Claire Dodd
Roles Tommy Chan
Rating66%
The film opens with Detective Chan rushing to the hospital to be with his daughter as she prepares to give birth to his first grandchild. While Charlie Chan waits at the hospital, his "number two" son Jimmy intercepts a message intended for Charlie about a murder on board the freighter Susan B. Jennings.
Shadows Over Shanghai (1938)
, 1h5Directed by Charles Lamont
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors James Dunn, Ralph Morgan, Robert Barrat, Paul Sutton, Edward Woods, Chester Gan
Roles Chinese boy at school (uncredited)
Rating55%
The Hurricane (1937)
, 1h50Directed by John Ford, Stuart Heisler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes La fin du monde, Seafaring films, Météorologie, Prison films, Transport films, Catastrophe climatique, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall, Mary Astor, C. Aubrey Smith, Thomas Mitchell, Raymond Massey
Roles Mako
Rating70%
As a passenger ship sails by the bleak ruins of a deserted island, Dr. Kersaint (Thomas Mitchell) blows his former home a kiss. When a fellow passenger asks him about the place, he tells its tragic story, segueing into a flashback.
Daughter of Shanghai (1937)
, 1h2Directed by Robert Florey
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Actors Anna May Wong, Philip Ahn, Charles Bickford, Buster Crabbe, Cecil Cunningham, J. Carrol Naish
Roles Chinese Candy Vendor (uncredited)
Rating65%
Lan Ying Lin and government agent Kim Lee battle alien smugglers.
Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937)
, 1h11Directed by H. Bruce Humberstone
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Sports films, Films about the Olympic Games
Actors Warner Oland, Katherine DeMille, Keye Luke, Pauline Moore, Allan Lane, Paul Panzer
Roles Charlie Chan Jr
Rating69%
When Chan's oldest son, Lee (Keye Luke), is chosen to compete in the Olympics, Chan is proud as can be. Meanwhile, over the skies of Chan's Honolulu, the "Hopkins plane" is demonstrating an improvement of remote radio control to the US military. However, the aircraft is hijacked by a concealed stowaway, the device stolen, and the test pilot murdered. When Chan, followed by his astute second son, Charlie Jr. (Layne Tom Jr.), tracks down the stowaway, he finds only the man's body.
Stowaway (1936)
, 1h27Directed by William A. Seiter
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Musical
Themes Films about children, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Shirley Temple, Robert Young, Alice Faye, Eugene Pallette, Helen Westley, Philip Ahn
Roles Chinese Boy in the Musical Band (uncredited)
Rating70%
Barbara "Ching-Ching" Stewart is an orphan living in Sanchow, China. When bandits threaten, she is sent to Shanghai for safety. Accidentally separated from her guide, Ching-Ching finds herself in Shanghai all alone with her dog until she meets a westerner, Tommy Randall, a rich playboy traveling about the world by ocean liner. Ching-Ching then accidentally becomes a stowaway on his ship. When discovered, she is provided for by Tommy and Susan Parker, a passenger on the ship engaged to the son of her traveling companion, Mrs Ruth Hope. Susan and Tommy become romantically involved. Ching-Ching plays Cupid in furthering their romance. The couple realize they adore Ching-Ching and want to do the best for her after learning she will be put off the ship and sent to an orphan's asylum. Susan breaks her engagement with Richard Hope, Ruth's son, after discovering his selfish nature and marries Tommy. The two adopt Ching-Ching.