James Shigeta

James Shigeta

Birthday: 1929-06-17

Deathday: 2014-07-28

Place of birth: Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, USA

Also known as: James Saburo Shigeta, 繁田三郎

imdb_id: nm0793363

Biography:

James Saburo Shigeta (June 17, 1929 – July 28, 2014) was an American actor, singer, and musician of Japanese descent. He was noted for his roles in The Crimson Kimono (1959), Walk Like a Dragon (1960), Flower Drum Song (1961), Bridge to the Sun (1961), Die Hard (1988), and Mulan (1998). In 1960, he won the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer – Male, along with three other actors. In his early career, Shigeta often played romantic male lead roles, which were almost nonexistent for an actor of Asian descent during his time, making him a trailblazer in Asian American representation in media. The Goldsea Asian-American Daily magazine listed him as one of the "Most Inspiring Asian-Americans Of All Time". Before his Hollywood career he found success as a pop singer and performer abroad, especially in Japan and Australia.

Played in movies:

The Slanted Screen

Score: 10.0

Manila, Open City

Score: 8.2

Mulan

Score: 7.9

Die Hard

Score: 7.8

The Yakuza

Score: 7.1

Brother

Score: 7.1

Bridge to the Sun

Score: 6.8

The Crimson Kimono

Score: 6.7

Midway

Score: 6.6

Hart to Hart: Old Friends Never Die

Score: 6.5

Death Walks in Laredo

Score: 6.5

The Renegades

Score: 6.4

Drive

Score: 6.1

Flower Drum Song

Score: 6.1

The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Chinese Junk

Score: 6.0

China Cry

Score: 6.0

Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood

Score: 5.7

The Questor Tapes

Score: 5.7

Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb

Score: 5.7

Carol for Another Christmas

Score: 5.6

Nobody's Perfect

Score: 5.5

Lost Horizon

Score: 5.4

Midnight Man

Score: 5.1

Paradise, Hawaiian Style

Score: 5.1

Walk Like a Dragon

Score: 5.0

Cry for Happy

Score: 5.0

The People I've Slept With

Score: 4.6

Space Marines

Score: 3.3

Cage II: The Arena of Death

Score: 3.1

Cage

Score: 3.1

Tomorrow's Child

Score: 2.0

Beam Me Up, Sulu

Score: 0.0

Yorktown: A Time to Heal

Score: 0.0

The Killer Who Wouldn't Die

Score: 0.0

Samurai

Score: 0.0

Slaying the Dragon

Score: 0.0

The Young Lawyers

Score: 0.0

Hollywood Chinese

Score: 0.0

Operation Heartbeat

Score: 0.0

Qigong: Ancient Chinese Healing for the 21st Century

Score: 0.0

Matt Helm

Score: 0.0

Home from the Eastern Sea

Score: 0.0

Escape to Mindanao

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Score: 8.8

Babylon 5

Score: 8.0

Little House on the Prairie

Score: 7.9

The Outer Limits

Score: 7.8

The Outer Limits

Score: 7.8

Emergency!

Score: 7.8

Perry Mason

Score: 7.7

Kung Fu

Score: 7.7

Kung Fu

Score: 7.7

Airwolf

Score: 7.6

Mission: Impossible

Score: 7.6

The Rockford Files

Score: 7.6

Murder, She Wrote

Score: 7.5

Murder, She Wrote

Score: 7.5

Ellery Queen

Score: 7.4

Beverly Hills, 90210

Score: 7.3

Magnum, P.I.

Score: 7.3

Magnum, P.I.

Score: 7.3

Golden Globe Awards

Score: 7.2

Golden Globe Awards

Score: 7.2

The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest

Score: 7.2

The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest

Score: 7.2

Hawaii Five-O

Score: 7.1

The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries

Score: 7.1

seaQuest DSV

Score: 7.0

S.W.A.T.

Score: 7.0

The Streets of San Francisco

Score: 6.9

The Streets of San Francisco

Score: 6.9

Ironside

Score: 6.8

Once an Eagle

Score: 6.8

Renegade

Score: 6.7

Renegade

Score: 6.7

Simon & Simon

Score: 6.7

T. J. Hooker

Score: 6.4

The Love Boat

Score: 6.3

Police Woman

Score: 6.3

The Hitchhiker

Score: 6.2

Matt Houston

Score: 6.2

Jake and the Fatman

Score: 6.1

Medical Center

Score: 6.1

Kraft Mystery Theatre

Score: 6.0

The Lieutenant

Score: 6.0

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

Score: 6.0

Burke's Law

Score: 6.0

Threat Matrix

Score: 6.0

Ben Casey

Score: 5.6

Ben Casey

Score: 5.6

Dr. Kildare

Score: 5.5

Naked City

Score: 5.5

Masquerade

Score: 5.0

The Bing Crosby Show

Score: 5.0