Heihachirō Ōkawa
Known for: Acting
Born: September 9, 1905
Died: May 27, 1971
Place of birth: Soka, Saitama, Japan
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 co-starred in the Photo Chemical Laboratories (PCL) film Horoyoi jinsei. He later appeared in foreign films under the name Henry Okawa. He is best known for Moyuru ōzora (1940), Dawn of Freedom (1944) Tokyo File 212 (1951), Floating Clouds (1955) and The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957). (Wikkipedia)
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Filmography
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9.0
One of Those Things
1971
6.9
Destroy All Monsters
1968
6.1
King Kong Escapes
1967
6.7
Frankenstein Conquers the World
1965
7.0
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
1964
7.5
Interpol Code 8
1963
7.1
Chûshingura
1962
NR
Jūyaku kōho-sei nanbā 1
1962
7.0
Marines, Let's Go
1961
10.0
The Big Wave
1961
6.4
The Wind Cannot Read
1958
6.3
The Mysterians
1957
7.8
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957
7.0
Three Stripes in the Sun
1955
NR
The History of Love
1955
7.7
Floating Clouds
1955
6.7
Ghost Man
1954
10.0
Husband Comes Home Every Suturday
1954NR
Love Express
1954
NR
All of Myself
1954
7.8
The Eagle of the Pacific
1953
6.5
Geisha Girl
1952
7.0
A Ripple in a Morning
1952
7.5
Lil's Return from Shanghai
1952
6.4
Dancing Girl
1951
5.1
Tokyo File 212
1951
NR
The Dawn of Freedom
1944
6.8
Wings of Victory
1942
6.3
Bouquet of the South Seas
1942
8.0
The Man Who Waited
1942
8.0
Sky of Hope
1942
NR
Mother of the Red Hands
1941
8.0
Shanghai Moon
1941
NR
The Sisters' Agreement
1940
NR
Wedding Day
1940
NR
Keshô yuki
1940
NR
Hikari to kage (Zenpen)
1940
10.0
Easy Alley
19398.0
Ichiyo Higuchi
1939
7.0
Numazu Officer School
1939
NR
Blizzard Ronin
1939
6.6
Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
1938
6.3
Learn from Experience, Part Two
1937
6.7
Learn from Experience, Part One
1937
6.7
A Woman's Sorrows
1937
6.7
Morning's Tree-Lined Street
1936
NR
The Responsibility of Kissing
1936
6.7
The Road I Travel with You
1936
6.3
Brother and Sister
1936
6.2
The Girl in the Rumor
1935
6.0
Five Men in a Circus
1935
7.2
Wife! Be Like a Rose!
1935
NR
Drifting
1935
6.6
Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
1935
NR
Romantic and Crazy
1934NR
Odoriko nikki
1934
10.0
Tipsy Life
1933