Khigh Dhiegh
Biography
Khigh Dhiegh was an American actor who spent decades playing East Asian characters, frequently villains, on television and in film. Born in Spring Lake in 1910, he began acting in the early 1930s after a customer at his mother's bookshop invited him to understudy a butler's part in Noël Coward's Design for Living. His stage work included Broadway appearances in Flower Drum Song and The Teahouse of the August Moon, and he took an Obie Award in 1961 for his performance as Schlink in In the Jungle of Cities off-Broadway. He was best remembered as Dr. Yen Lo in The Manchurian Candidate (1962) and as Wo Fat, the Chinese agent he played across the run of Hawaii Five-O from 1968 to 1980. He also starred as the title character of the short-lived 1975 series Khan! and played Four Finger Wu in the 1988 miniseries Noble House. He died in 1991.
81years old at death
- Born Spring Lake
- Died Mesa
- Star sign: VirgoThe sign runs August 23 to September 22
- Also credited as Khigh Alx Dhiegh
Movie Career
- Films
- 7
- Career span
- 14 years1957 to 1971
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