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Sammee Tong is a Actor American born on 21 april 1901 at San Francisco (USA)
Sammee Tong (April 21, 1901 — October 27, 1964) was an American film and television character actor. One of Tong's more notable roles was that of Peter Tong on the sitcom Bachelor Father, which aired on all three national networks from 1957 to 1962.
In October 1964, Tong died of a barbiturate overdose at the age of 63. At the time of his death, he was appearing in a supporting role on the ABC sitcom, Mickey, starring Mickey Rooney.
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Nationality USA
Birth 21 april 1901 at San Francisco (USA)
Death 27 october 1964 (at 63 years) at Palms, Los Angeles (USA)
Birth 21 april 1901 at San Francisco (USA)
Death 27 october 1964 (at 63 years) at Palms, Los Angeles (USA)
In October 1964, Tong died of a barbiturate overdose at the age of 63. At the time of his death, he was appearing in a supporting role on the ABC sitcom, Mickey, starring Mickey Rooney.
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For Those Who Think Young (1964)
, 1h36Directed by Leslie H. Martinson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors James Darren, Pamela Tiffin, Paul Lynde, Tina Louise, Bob Denver, Robert Middleton
Roles Clyde
Rating52%
Rich kid and party animal Gardner Pruitt III (James Darren), known as “Ding” to his friends, is on the prowl for a new conquest in the form of teenager Sandy Palmer (Pamela Tiffin). In the meantime, Ding’s influential grandfather, B.S. Cronin (Robert Middleton) wants to curtail the romance and shut down a popular local college teen hangout.
, 2h34Directed by Stanley Kramer, Carey Loftin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Heist films, Chase films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Dorothy Provine, Moe Howard
Roles Laundryman
Rating74%
"Smiler" Grogan (Jimmy Durante), wanted by police in a tuna factory robbery fifteen years ago and on the run from the police, careens his 1957 Ford Victoria off twisting, mountainous State Highway 74 near Palm Springs in Southern California and crashes. Five motorists stop to help him - Melville Crump (Sid Caesar), a dentist, Lennie Pike (Jonathan Winters), a furniture mover, Dingy Bell (Mickey Rooney) and Benjy Benjamin (Buddy Hackett), two friends on their way to Las Vegas, and J. Russell Finch (Milton Berle), who owns Pacific Edible Seaweed Company in Fresno. Just before he dies, Grogan tells the five about $350,000 buried in Santa Rosita State Park near the Mexican border under a mysterious "big W".
Suicide Battalion (1958)
, 1h19Directed by Edward L. Cahn
Origin USA
Genres War
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Mike Connors, John Ashley, Bing Russell, Marjorie Stapp, Hilo Hattie, Sammee Tong
Roles Papa Lily
Rating43%
This story takes place during World War II in the Philippines. A group of American soldiers are recruited for a dangerous mission to destroy an enemy base and keep strategic documents out of the reach of the invading Japanese army.
The Midnight Story (1957)
, 1h30Directed by Joseph Pevney
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Tony Curtis, Marisa Pavan, Gilbert Roland, Jay C. Flippen, Argentina Brunetti, Ted de Corsia
Roles Restaurant Proprietor (uncredited)
Rating66%
Father Tomasino is stabbed to death. San Francisco traffic cop Joe Martini felt the priest was like an actual father to him. He asks to assist homicide Lieutenant Kilrain in his investigation, but after being rejected, Joe quits the force.
Slaughter on 10th Avenue (1957)
, 1h43Directed by Arnold Laven
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Richard Egan, Jan Sterling, Dan Duryea, Julie Adams, Walter Matthau, Charles McGraw
Rating65%
William Keating, procureur à la cour, est désigné pour enquêter sur la tentative de meurtre du docker Solly Pitts. Très vite, il soupçonne le truand Eddie Cook, auteur de nombreuses violences. Mais la victime ainsi que tous les témoins de la scène refusent de témoigner contre celui-ci...
Hell Bound (1957)
, 1h9Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors John Russell, Stuart Whitman, Stanley Adams, Frank Fenton (Moran), Dehl Berti, Chet Brandenburg
Roles Murdered Seaman (uncredited)
Rating62%
This script must be run from the command line
, 1h20Directed by Ishirō Honda
Origin Japon
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, La fin du monde, Kaiju films, Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, La préhistoire, Transport films, Animaux préhistoriques, Giant monster films, Godzilla films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Raymond Burr, Takashi Shimura, Kenji Sahara, Akira Takarada, Momoko Kōchi, Akihiko Hirata
Roles Dr. Yamane / Dr. Tabata (voice) (uncredited)
Rating63%
American reporter, Steve Martin (Raymond Burr), is brought to a hospital with dozens of maimed and wounded citizens. In flashback, Martin recalls stopping over in Tokyo, where a series of ship disasters catches his attention. When a survivor finally washes up on Odo Island, Martin flies there for the story with Tomo Iwanaga (Frank Iwanaga), a representative of the Japanese security forces and learns of the island inhabitants' belief in a sea monster god known to them as "Godzilla", which they believe is causing the disasters.
The Left Hand of God (1955)
, 1h27Directed by Edward Dmytryk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance, Western
Themes Films about religion, Children's films
Actors Humphrey Bogart, Gene Tierney, Lee J. Cobb, Agnes Moorehead, E. G. Marshall, Jean Porter
Rating63%
In 1947, Catholic priest Father O'Shea (Humphrey Bogart) makes his way to a remote mission in China to replace a priest who was killed there. He meets Dr. David Sigman (E.G. Marshall), his wife Beryl (Agnes Moorehead), and nurse Anne Scott (Gene Tierney), the only other Western residents. They run a hospital for the surrounding villagers, at a time when competing warlords and Communists are engaged in civil war.
Woman on the Run (1950)
, 1h17Directed by Norman Foster
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Ann Sheridan, Dennis O'Keefe, Robert Keith, Ross Elliott, John Qualen, Frank Jenks
Roles Witness to Suzie's Fall (uncredited)
Rating71%
As the film opens, a man, Frank Johnson (Ross Elliott), is walking his dog in the city at night. He witnesses a man in a car talking about a crime. The man then gets shot. But whoever shot that man then sees Frank and shoots at him. The shot misses, however, because it is mistakenly aimed at Frank's shadow. The killer then flees in the car.
God Is My Co-Pilot (1945)
, 1h30Directed by Robert Florey
Origin USA
Genres War, Action, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Dennis Morgan, Dane Clark, Raymond Massey, Stanley Ridges, Alan Hale, Richard Loo
Roles Chinese Civilian (uncredited)
Rating64%
At age 34, Army Air Force pilot Major Robert Lee Scott Jr. (Dennis Morgan) is considered too old to fly in combat, but he is recruited and volunteers to fly in a secret bombing mission from the Philippines against Tokyo, the Japanese capital. When the mission is cancelled after his arrival in India because of the fall of the Philippines, Scott is promoted to Colonel and is then assigned to fly transport aircraft. He flies dangerous, unescorted missions over The Hump from Burma to China in order to supply aviation gasoline and other much-needed supplies to the three squadrons of the American Volunteer Group, the Flying Tigers.
China (1943)
, 1h19Directed 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 Aide to Japanese General
Rating65%
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.
Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
, 2h1Directed by Howard Hawks
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Richard Barthelmess, Rita Hayworth, Thomas Mitchell, Allyn Joslyn
Roles Sam the Cook
Rating75%
Geoff Carter (Cary Grant) is a pilot and the manager of Barranca Airways, a small, barely solvent company owned by "Dutchy" Van Ruyter (Sig Ruman) carrying airmail from the fictional South American port town of Barranca through a high pass in the Andes Mountains. Bonnie Lee (Arthur), a piano-playing entertainer, arrives one day and becomes infatuated with Carter, despite his fatalistic attitude about the dangerous mountain flying, and stays on in Barranca (not at Carter's invitation, as he insists on telling her). One of the characters dies due to irresponsible flying.
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 Alien in Airplane (uncredited)
Rating65%
Lan Ying Lin and government agent Kim Lee battle alien smugglers.
Youth on Parole (1937)
, 1h2Directed by Phil Rosen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Marian Marsh, Gordon Oliver, Miles Mander, Margaret Dumont, Milburn Stone, Peggy Shannon
Roles Chinese Orchestra Leader (uncredited)
Rating62%
'Bobbie' Blake, (Marian Marsh), and Phillip Henderson, (Gordon Oliver), are complete strangers, looking in a jewellery store window, when a hood known as “The Sparkler”, (Miles Mander), sets them up to take the wrap, stashing some of the loot in their pockets, as the gang makes their getaway.
Love Before Breakfast (1936)
, 1h10Directed by Walter Lang
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Carole Lombard, Preston Foster, Cesar Romero, Janet Beecher, Betty Lawford, Richard Carle
Roles Steward (uncredited)
Rating61%
Kay Colby (Carole Lombard) is a Park Avenue beauty with two suitors: fiancé Bill Wadsworth (Cesar Romero) and Scott Miller (Preston Foster). To clear his way, Scott buys the oil company Bill works for and sends him to Japan. Then he sends his own girl friend, Countess Campanella (Betty Lawford), to Honolulu to get her out of the way as well. Kay is upset by Bill's leaving, and annoyed by Scott pressing his suit, but Scott has the assistance and approval of Kay's mother (Janet Beecher) in his efforts, and the advice of his friend and business partner, Brinkerhoff (Richard Carle).