Yahoo Web Search

Search results

  1. Kintarō Hayakawa ( Japanese: 早川 金太郎, Hepburn: Hayakawa Kintarō, June 10, 1886 – November 23, 1973), known professionally as Sessue Hayakawa (早川 雪洲, Hayakawa Sesshū), was a Japanese actor and a matinée idol. He was a popular star in Hollywood during the silent film era of the 1910s and early 1920s.

  2. Sessue Hayakawa. Actor: The Bridge on the River Kwai. Sessue Hayakawa was born in Chiba, Japan. His father was the provincial governor and his mother a member of an aristocratic family of the "samurai" class.

  3. Sessue Hayakawa (June 10, 1886 – November 23, 1973) was one of the first Asian actors and filmmakers to gain great fame and success in the United States. He starred in both English-language and Japanese-language films.

  4. Sessue Hayakawa. Actor: The Bridge on the River Kwai. Sessue Hayakawa was born in Chiba, Japan. His father was the provincial governor and his mother a member of an aristocratic family of the "samurai" class.

  5. Mar 22, 2022 · Sessue Hayakawa was Hollywood's first heartthrob and highest-paid actor, threw wild parties in his castle, and then vanished from pop culture.

  6. Dec 5, 2016 · That distinction goes to Sessue Hayakawa, the Japanese star of Cecil B. DeMille’s cinematic rape drama, The Cheat. This 1915 film was a huge hit in spite of (or more likely because of) the fact...

  7. Jul 6, 2020 · In the pantheon of matinee idols of the silent film era in Hollywood was an unlikely star, Japanese actor Sessue Hayakawa, who had legions of fans and earned $7,500 a week in his heyday for movies like Cecil B. deMille’s 1915 The Cheat, The Tong Man and An Arabian Knight.

  8. Sessue Hayakawa (June 10, 1889 – November 23, 1973) was a Japanese and American Issei (Japanese immigrant) actor who starred in American, Japanese, French, German, and British films. Hayakawa was the first and one of the few Asian actors to find stardom in the United States as well as Europe.

  9. Apr 30, 2024 · Sessue Hayakawa is ready for his close-up as TCMs May Star of the Month. Best known for his indelible Oscar nominated performance as the brutal Colonel Saito in David Lean’s Academy Award-winning 1957 epic The Bridge on the River Kwai .

  10. Sep 4, 2017 · Other than die-hard fans of The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), very few modern movie buffs would even have heard of Sessue Hayakawa, much less be familiar with his career. His performance as Colonel Saito in David Lean’s masterly film made him known to millions around the world over half a century ago, but silent movie ...