Heihachirō Ōkawa

Personal Info

Known For:
Acting

Birthday:
September 9, 1905

Place of Birth:
Sōka, Saitama, Japan

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Heihachirō Ōkawa

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).

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Known For

Filmography

Year Movie Role
1971 One of Those Things Kawasaki
1968 Destroy All Monsters Engineer
1964 Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster Astronomer (uncredited)
1962 Jūyaku kōho-sei nanbā 1
1962 Chûshingura
1961 Marines, Let's Go Yoshida (Hotel Manager)
1961 The Big Wave Yukio's Father
1958 The Wind Cannot Read Lieutenant Nakamura
1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai Captain Kanematsu
1957 The Mysterians Person at Board Meeting
1955 Three Stripes in the Sun Father Yoshida (as Henry Okawa)
1955 Floating Clouds
1954 Ghost Man
1954 All of Myself Kadokura
1953 The Eagle of the Pacific (uncredited)
1952 Lil's Return from Shanghai Takada
1952 Geisha Girl
1952 A Ripple in a Morning
1951 Tokyo File 212
1951 Dancing Girl Kayama
1944 The Dawn of Freedom Sub Corporal Ikema Ishihara
1942 The Man Who Waited
1942 Bouquet of the South Seas Harada, pilot
1942 Wings of Victory
1942 Sky of Hope Okada
1941 Shanghai Moon
1941 Mother of the Red Hands
1940 Hikari to kage (Zenpen)
1940 Keshô yuki
1940 Wedding Day
1939 Blizzard Ronin
1939 Easy Alley
1939 Ichiyo Higuchi
1939 Numazu Officer School
1938 Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro Matsuzaki
1937 A Woman's Sorrows
1937 Learn from Experience, Part Two
1937 Learn from Experience, Part One
1936 Morning's Tree-Lined Street Ogawa
1936 The Road I Travel with You Asaji Amanuma
1936 Brother and Sister
1935 The Girl in the Rumor Shintaro
1935 Five Men in a Circus Kokichi
1935 Wife! Be Like a Rose! Seiji (Kimiko's boyfriend)
1935 Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts Aoyama
1935 Drifting Sankichi
1934 Romantic and Crazy Count
1933 Tipsy Life
Year TV Show Role
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