1. Keye Luke was a Chinese-born American actor, and a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild.
28 Facts About Keye Luke
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Keye Luke had four siblings who all moved from Seattle to California during the Great Depression.
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In Seattle, Keye Luke attended Franklin High School, where he contributed cartoons and illustrations to school publications.
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Keye Luke became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1944.
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Keye Luke worked on several of the murals inside Grauman's Chinese Theatre.
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Keye Luke did some of the original artwork for the pressbook of the original King Kong.
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Keye Luke painted a mural for the casino set in The Shanghai Gesture.
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Keye Luke published a limited edition set of pen and ink drawings of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam in the 1950s.
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Keye Luke created illustrations for the books The Unfinished Song of Achmed Mohammed by Earle Liederman, Blessed Mother Goose by Frank Scully and an edition of Messer Marco Polo by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne.
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Keye Luke became a regular in the series where Lee alternately helped and distracted his father in each of his murder cases.
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Keye Luke appeared seven times as Lee Chan opposite Warner Oland's Charlie Chan.
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Keye Luke left the Charlie Chan series in 1938, shortly after Oland died.
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Unlike Boris Karloff, who preceded him in the Mr Wong role, Keye Luke played the detective without any exotic touches.
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Universal mounted a low-budget serial consisting largely of action footage from older films; Keye Luke was hired to match old footage of Sabu in the serial Lost City of the Jungle.
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Keye Luke returned to the Chan mysteries, which were then being produced by Monogram and starred Roland Winters as Chan.
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In both of these films, Keye Luke was older than the actor playing his father.
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Keye Luke had a featured Broadway role in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Flower Drum Song, directed by Gene Kelly in 1958.
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Keye Luke had a featured role in The Chairman starring Gregory Peck.
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Keye Luke dubbed the voice of the evil Mr Han in Enter the Dragon starring Bruce Lee.
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Keye Luke played the mysterious old Chinatown shopowner Mr Wing in the two Gremlins movies and he had a significant role in Woody Allen's movie Alice.
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Keye Luke was a regular cast member in two short lived sitcoms, Anna and the King starring Yul Brynner and Sidekicks.
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Keye Luke appeared as Lin Fong in an episode of Dragnet 1967.
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Keye Luke played Master Po in the television series Kung Fu.
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In 1985, Keye Luke appeared as "The Ancient One" in the ABC soap opera General Hospital, for the Asian Quarter storyline, which showcased Keye Luke and young actress Kimberly McCullough, whom he mentored.
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In 1986 Keye Luke appeared in season two of The Golden Girls as Sophia's love interest.
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Keye Luke played two separate roles in the sitcom Night Court, first as a defendant and later as Mac Robinson's grandfather-in-law.
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Keye Luke died of a stroke on January 12,1991, at the age of 86.
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Keye Luke is buried at Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier, California.