Heihachirō Ōkawa

Heihachirō Ōkawa

  • Birthday: 1905-09-09
  • Deathday: 1971-05-27
  • Place of birth: Sōka, Saitama, Japan
  • Also know as: Henry Okawa

Biography

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)

Filmography

Five Men in a Circus

1935

As Kokichi

The Road I Travel with You

1936

As Asaji Amanuma

Easy Alley

1939

As

Tipsy Life

1933

As

Bouquet of the South Seas

1942

As Harada, pilot

The Big Wave

1961

As Yukio's Father

Keshô yuki

1940

As

One of Those Things

1971

As Kawasaki

Romantic and Crazy

1934

As Count

Geisha Girl

1952

As

Ghost Man

1954

As

Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro

1938

As Matsuzaki

Dancing Girl

1951

As Kayama

Wife! Be Like a Rose!

1935

As Seiji (Kimiko's boyfriend)

Three Stripes in the Sun

1955

As Father Yoshida (as Henry Okawa)

Drifting

1935

As Sankichi

The Girl in the Rumor

1935

As Shintaro

The Dawn of Freedom

1944

As Sub Corporal Ikema Ishihara

Marines, Let's Go

1961

As Yoshida (Hotel Manager)

Destroy All Monsters

1968

As Engineer

Wedding Day

1940

As

The Wind Cannot Read

1958

As Lieutenant Nakamura

The Bridge on the River Kwai

1957

As Captain Kanematsu

The Mysterians

1957

As Person at Board Meeting

Eagle of the Pacific

1953

As (uncredited)

Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster

1964

As Astronomer (uncredited)

Sky of Hope

1942

As Okada

47 Ronin

1962

As

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