Richard Loo (Actor)

Reviews of Richard Loo Movies

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Movies starring Richard Loo have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average score of 58%.

The Sand Pebbles - released in 1966 - is Richard Loo's highest rated movie, with a score of 78% based on 128 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Richard Loo is The Conqueror - released in 1956 - with a score of 27% based on 42 reviews.

Actor Biography

Richard Loo was a prolific actor who appeared in over 120 films between 1931 and 1982. He was most often stereotyped as the Japanese enemy pilot, spy or interrogator during the Second World War. Chinese by ancestry and Hawaiian by birth, Loo spent his youth in Hawaii, then moved to California as a teenager. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley and began a career in business. However, the stock market crash of 1929 and the subsequent economic depression forced him to start over. He became involved with amateur, then professional, theater companies and in 1931 made his first film. Like most Asian actors in non-Asian countries, he played primarily small, stereotypical roles, though he rose quickly to familiarity, if not fame, in a number of films.

Richard Loo has acted in films with Philip Ahn, Victor Sen Yung, Keye Luke and Benson Fong.

Richard Loo has worked with these film directors: Edward Dmytryk, William Nigh, Robert Wise and Samuel Fuller.