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Personal Info

Known Credits 47

Gender Male

Birthdate 1905-09-09 (120 Y.O)

Place Of Birth Sōka, Saitama, Japan

Also Known For Henry OkawaŌkawa HeihachirōHeihachirô 'Henry' ÔkawaХэйхатиро ОкаваХэйхатироо Оокава

Heihachirō Ōkawa

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 ...

Known For

One of Those Things

Destroy All Monsters

Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster

Chûshingura

Jūyaku kōho-sei nanbā 1

Acting

1971 -- One of Those Things | Kawasaki

1968 -- Destroy All Monsters | Engineer

1964 -- Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster | Astronomer (uncredited)

1962 -- Chûshingura |

1962 -- Jūyaku kōho-sei nanbā 1 |

1961 -- Marines, Let's Go | Yoshida (Hotel Manager)

1961 -- The Big Wave | Yukio's Father

1958 -- The Wind Cannot Read | Lieutenant Nakamura

1957 -- The Mysterians | Person at Board Meeting

1957 -- The Bridge on the River Kwai | Captain Kanematsu

1955 -- Three Stripes in the Sun | Father Yoshida (as Henry Okawa)

1955 -- Floating Clouds |

1954 -- Ghost Man |

1953 -- The Eagle of the Pacific | (uncredited)

1952 -- Geisha Girl |

1952 -- A Ripple in a Morning |

1952 -- Lil's Return from Shanghai | Takada

1951 -- Dancing Girl | Kayama

1951 -- Tokyo File 212 |

1944 -- The Dawn of Freedom | Sub Corporal Ikema Ishihara

1942 -- Wings of Victory |

1942 -- Bouquet of the South Seas | Harada, pilot

1942 -- The Man Who Waited |

1942 -- Sky of Hope | Okada

1941 -- Mother of the Red Hands |

1941 -- Shanghai Moon |

1940 -- Wedding Day |

1940 -- Keshô yuki |

1940 -- Hikari to kage (Zenpen) |

1939 -- Easy Alley |

1939 -- Ichiyo Higuchi |

1939 -- Numazu Officer School |

1939 -- Blizzard Ronin |

1938 -- Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro | Matsuzaki

1937 -- Learn from Experience, Part Two |

1937 -- Learn from Experience, Part One |

1937 -- A Woman's Sorrows |

1936 -- Morning's Tree-Lined Street | Ogawa

1936 -- The Road I Travel with You | Asaji Amanuma

1936 -- Brother and Sister |

1935 -- The Girl in the Rumor | Shintaro

1935 -- Five Men in a Circus | Kokichi

1935 -- Wife! Be Like a Rose! | Seiji (Kimiko's boyfriend)

1935 -- Drifting | Sankichi

1935 -- Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts | Aoyama

1934 -- Romantic and Crazy | Count

1933 -- Tipsy Life |