Keye Luke
Biography
Date of Birth 18 June 1904, Guangzhou, China Date of Death 12 January 1991, Whittier, California, USA (stroke) Height 5' 6" (1.68 m) Keye Luke was a Chinese-born American actor. Luke was born in Canton, China to a father who owned an art shop,[1] and grew up in Seattle. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1944. Before becoming an actor he was a local artist in Hollywood and worked on several of the murals inside Grauman's Chinese Theater. Luke made his film debut in The Painted Veil in 1934, and the following year gained his first big role, as Charlie Chan's eldest son in Charlie Chan in Paris. It was a role he would continue to play, on and off, until The Sky Dragon in 1949, in which, having outlasted two stars of the series, he was older than the actor then playing his father. In 1972, he became the first actor of Chinese descent to play Charlie Chan himself, supplying the voice of "Mr. Chan" in the animated television series The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan. He was also known for his role of Master Po in the television series, Kung Fu. Luke as Master Po Luke as Master Po Luke was the first to voice Brak on Space Ghost. Luke was replaced after his death by Andy Merrill. He did some of the original artwork for the original King Kong pressbook. He played The Green Hornet's Japanese sidekick Kato in two movies in the early 1940s. Luke played the mysterious old Chinatown shopowner Mr. Wing in the two Gremlins movies. He had a significant role in Woody Allen's 1990 movie Alice, was the voice of Zoltar and Colonel Cronus in Battle of the Planets, played Governor Donald Cory in a 1969 episode of Star Trek entitled "Whom Gods Destroy", and was going to play Doctor Noonien Soong in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Brothers", but died before shooting started; Brent Spiner took over the role. Luke also provided the voice of the evil Mr. Han in Enter the Dragon starring Bruce Lee, and costarred in Mr. Moto's Gamble as Lee Chan. The film was reworked as a Mr. Moto film after the death of Warner Oland. In the Fractured Fairy Tales episode "The Enchanted Fly," one of the rewards offered to the man who would rescue and marry the princess is "an autographed picture of Keye Luke".
Charlie Chan at the Circus
Lee Chan
Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo
Lee Chan
Charlie Chan at the Opera
Lee Chan
Mr. Moto's Gamble
Lee Chan
The Amsterdam Kill
Chung Wei
Phantom of Chinatown
James Lee 'Jimmy' Wong
The Feathered Serpent
Lee Chan
Let's Go Collegiate
Buck Wing
East Side Kids - Bowery Blitzkrieg
Clancy (as Key Luke)
The Gang's All Here
George Lee
East Side Kids - Bowery Blitzkrieg
Clancy (as Key Luke)
Camarada X
World Press Attendee With Glasses (uncredited)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Mr. Wing
The Mighty Quinn
Dr. Raj
Dead Heat
Mr. Thule
A Fine Mess
Ishimine
Kung Fu: The Movie
Master Po
Gremlins
Grandfather (Mr. Wing)
Imperial Doctor
Just You and Me, Kid
Doctor Device
The Amsterdam Kill
Chung Wei
All This and World War II
Self (archive footage)
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
Cook in Kitchen
The Haunted Monastery
Lord Sun Ming
The Cat Creature
The Thief - Joe Sung
Enter The Dragon
Han (voice) (uncredited)
Master Po
The Hawaiians
Foo Sen
Noon Sunday
Colonel Oong
The Chairman
Professor Soong Li
Project X
Sen Chiu (as Key Luke)
The Volcano Monsters
Tsukioka / Policeman (voice) (uncredited)
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
Capt. Kuo Tai
Rodan
Shigeru (uncredited) (voice: English version)
The Adventures of Dr. Fu Manchu, 4 Full-Length Episodes
Lum Sen (1 episode, 1956)
Love Is a Many Splendored Thing
Lee Foo (uncredited)
Godzilla Raids Again
Shoichi Tsukioka
Buffalo Bill Jr:Vol 2 TV Series
(1 episode, 1956)
The Bamboo Prison
Comrade-Instructor Li Ching
Hell's Half Acre
Police Chief Dan
World for Ransom
Wong
South Sea Woman
Japanese deck officer (uncredited)
Fair Wind to Java
Pidada
Young Man with a Horn
Ramundo the Houseboy (uncredited)
Manhandled
Chinese Laundry Owner (uncredited)
The Feathered Serpent
Lee Chan
Waterfront at Midnight
Loy
Sleep, My Love
Jimmie Lin
Dr. Lee Wong How
Chinese Detective
Dr. Lee Wong How
3 Men in White
Dr. Lee Wong How
Journey for Margaret
Japanese Statesman (uncredited)
The Falcon's Brother
Jerry - Gay's Houseboy
Across the Pacific
Steamship Office Clerk
Somewhere I'll Find You
Thomas Chang (uncredited)
Invisible Agent
Surgeon
Submarine Raider
Tesei
Ah Foo
Kumi
No Hands on the Clock
Severino (uncredited)
Let's Go Collegiate
Buck Wing
They Met in Bombay
Mr. Toy (scenes deleted)
The Gang's All Here
George Lee
No, No, Nanette
Sung, Oriental Cafe Manager
Phantom of Chinatown
James Lee 'Jimmy' Wong
Disputed Passage
Andrew Abbott
Juicio por calumnia
Chang Howe
Mr. Moto's Gamble
Lee Chan
The Good Earth
Elder Son
Charlie Chan at the Olympics
Lee Chan
Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo
Lee Chan
Charlie Chan at the Opera
Lee Chan
Charlie Chan at the Race Track
Lee Chan
Fury
Reporter (uncredited)
Charlie Chan at the Circus
Lee Chan
Anything Goes
Ching (uncredited)
King of Burlesque
Wong
Charlie Chan in Shanghai
Lee Chan
Shanghai
Chinese Ambassador's Son
Mad Love
Dr. Wong, Gogol's Assistant
Murder in the Fleet
Consul's Secretary (uncredited)
Charlie Chan in Paris
Lee Chan
Pekin Club Emcee (uncredited)
