James Hong | ||
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Character Sweatshop Owner | ||
Date of birth February 22, 1929 | ||
Place of birth Minneapolis, Minnesota | ||
IMDb profile |
James Hong is a Chinese-American actor with a career spanning decades with over 600 film and TV credits, as well as being one of the founders of the East West Players, the oldest theater of color in the U.S.. Hong starred on the TV series The New Adventures of Charlie Chan and as David Lo Pan in the film Big Trouble in Little China. He also had roles in the films Chinatown, R.I.P.D (with Stéphanie Szostak, Devin Ratray, Robert Knepper, Mike O'Malley, and Michael Tow), and Everything Everywhere All at Once, and had memorable guest appearances in episodes of Seinfeld and The Big Bang Theory. He also leant his voice to characters of Chi-Fu in the 1998 film Mulan (with Ming-Na Wen, Miguel Ferrer, and B.D. Wong) and Mr. Ping in the Kung Fu Panda media franchise (with Lucy Liu and David Cross). He reprised his role of the latter in Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness (with Wayne Knight, Alfred Molina, Christopher McDonald, Malcolm McDowell, Wendie Malick, R. Lee Ermey, and Wallace Shawn). He also voiced Father Bests in the stop-motion animated Netflix film Wendell & Wild.
He portrays a sweatshop owner in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Debt".