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Victor Sen Yung

December 31, 2022

Sen Yung, later known professionally as Victor Sen Young (born Sen Yew Cheung; October 18, 1914 – c. November 9, 1980);[1] one source lists his given name as Victor Cheung Young with the birth year 1915)[2]) was an American character actor, best known for playing Jimmy Chan in the Charlie Chan films and Hop Sing in the western series Bonanza. He was born in San Francisco, California to Gum Yung Sen and his first wife, both immigrants from China.[3]

Victor Sen Yung
Yung c. 1946
Born
Sen Yew Cheung or
Victor Cheung Young

(1914-10-18)October 18, 1914
San Francisco, California, U.S.
DiedNovember 9, 1980(1980-11-09) (aged 66)[1]
North Hollywood, California, U.S.
Resting placeGreenlawn Memorial Park, Colma, California
Other namesSen Yung
Sen Young
Victor Sen Young
Victor Young
OccupationActor
Years active1937–1980

When his mother died during the flu epidemic of 1919, his father placed Victor and his younger sister, Rosemary, in a children's shelter, and returned to his homeland to seek another wife. He returned in 1922 with his new wife, Lovi Shee, once again forming a household with his two children.[4]

Career

Sen Yung made his first significant acting debut in the 1938 film Charlie Chan in Honolulu, as the Chinese detective's "number two son", Jimmy Chan. In this movie, Sidney Toler replaced the recently deceased Warner Oland as Charlie Chan and Sen Yung replaced Oland's "number one son" Lee, who had been played by Keye Luke. Luke left the series in 1938, leading to the need for a "number two son".[5] Sen Yung played Jimmy Chan in 11 Charlie Chan films between 1938 and 1942.[5] Sen Yung played the character of Jimmy Chan very much as Luke played Lee Chan, namely as the bumbling, Americanized son who constantly hinders his father's work.[5] The cultural clash between Chan père, a Chinese immigrant whose values were fundamentally those of China as expressed in his amusing pseudo-Confucian aphorisms vs. his well meaning, but inept Americanized sons gave the series much of its appeal, together with the fact that for all of Charlie Chan's putdowns of his sons there was a genuine paternal love and warmth being expressed.[6]

Moonlighting from the popular Chan series, Sen Yung won critical acclaim playing the nuanced role of Ong Chi Seng, a young attorney assisting Howard Joyce (played by James Stephenson), defending Leslie Crosbie (played by Bette Davis), accused of murder in the classic Warner Bros. film noir melodrama, The Letter (1940), directed by William Wyler. In common with other Chinese-American actors, Sen Yung was cast in Japanese parts during World War II, such as his role as the treacherous Japanese-American Joe Totsuiko in the 1942 Humphrey Bogart film Across the Pacific.

During World War II he joined the U.S. Army Air Forces just as his erstwhile co-star Sidney Toler was set to revive the dormant Charlie Chan series at Monogram Pictures. According to author James L. Neibaur, Sen Yung's military obligations forced him to decline rejoining the series immediately, but Monogram gave him a standing invitation to work there when his tour of duty was up. He was temporarily replaced in the Charlie Chan series by Benson Fong, who played "number three son" Tommy Chan (and once by Keye Luke's real-life brother, Edwin Luke, as "number four son" Eddie Chan). Sen Yung's military service included work in training films at the First Motion Picture Unit and a role in the Army Air Forces' play and film Winged Victory.[7]

 
Victor Sen Young and Willie Best in Dangerous Money (1946)

In 1946 Sen Yung resumed his Hollywood career at Monogram, now billed as Victor Sen Young and reunited with Sidney Toler. Toler's health was failing; Monogram was conserving Toler's waning energy, limiting his scenes and giving him long rest periods during filming. To relieve the burden on Toler, Monogram entrusted much of the action to Victor Sen Young; he and either Mantan Moreland or Willie Best shared much of the footage in Toler's final three films, Dangerous Money, Shadows Over Chinatown, and The Trap. The addition of Moreland as Chan's black chauffeur, Birmingham Brown, reflected the fact that by this time the Chan pictures had a significant following among black Americans, who liked a film series that for once did not feature a white hero.[8] Moreland's popularity in the Chan pictures was so great that he was booked for a nationwide vaudeville tour, forcing him to be replaced in Dangerous Money by Willie Best.

Following Toler's death in 1947, Victor Sen Young appeared in five of the remaining six Charlie Chan features. His character "Jimmy" was renamed "Tommy" (author Scott MacGillivray contends that "Jimmy" was so closely associated with Sidney Toler that audiences would miss seeing Toler opposite him, resulting in Monogram making the change).

Victor Sen Young continued to work in motion pictures and television, in roles ranging from featured players (affable or earnest Asian characters) to bit roles (clerks, houseboys, waiters, etc.). He was cast as the compassionate Chinese restaurant owner "Quong Kee" in Tombstone, Arizona, in the 1957 episode, "Quong Kee", of the syndicated television anthology series Death Valley Days, hosted by Stanley Andrews. In the story, an aging Quong Kee recalls how in 1881 he brought together the Bostonians Art Gresham (Walter Kelley) and his mother (played by Mary Newton) with the saloon musician Ann Bailey (Eugenia Paul), who after a topsy-turvy romance became Mrs. Art Gresham.[9]

Arguably even more than for his work in the Charlie Chan films, Victor Sen Yung is well remembered as "Hop Sing," the irascible cook and general factotum on the iconic television series Bonanza, appearing in 109 episodes between 1959 and 1973.[10]Bonanza series creator David Dortort told the Archive of American Television that the "Hop Sing" character generated massive fandom - "Victor was just absolutely delightful. He loved the part; he loved doing it. In fact, he began to develop fans, to the extent that I wrote him in as the featured part in a number of shows.”[10]

In Bachelor Father (1957-62), Victor Sen Yung had a recurring role as the scheming "Uncle Charlie", a character that Asian rights activist Guy Aoki commends as "a slick, Americanized character. I thought it was great that way back in the ’50s, audiences saw a Chinese American who acted just like anyone else."[11]

In the early 1970s, Sen Yung had a recurring role in seven episodes of the tv series Kung Fu, which starred David Carradine as a Shaolin monk, also in the Old West.

Sen Yung was also an accomplished and talented chef. He frequently appeared on cooking programs, and authored The Great Wok Cookbook in 1974.[10]

Plane hijacking

In 1972, Sen Young was on Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 710, which was hijacked. The FBI stormed the plane, and in the ensuing gunfire Sen Young was shot in the lower back. He and another wounded passenger survived, but a third passenger and the two hijackers were killed.[12]

In 1975, he appeared on Garry Moore's To Tell The Truth and related the events of the hijacking. With Sen Young dressed in a sportcoat and flanked by two dissimilar imposters, none of the four panelists chose him as the character actor.

Death and legacy

Victor Sen Young died in his North Hollywood home in 1980. The actor, who ran a small mail-order Chinese pottery business, was creating clayware and curing the items with an oven, and died of natural gas poisoning from a gas leak. His body was found November 9, but he had reportedly been dead at least ten days, from possibly around October 31.[13]

Some reports suggested that he was murdered,[14] but police ultimately ruled the death accidental.[15] The eulogy at his funeral was given by fellow Bonanza actor Pernell Roberts, who also paid the funeral expenses.

The Victor Sen Young memorial scholarship is awarded each year by the Chinese Alumni Association of the University of California, Berkeley, where Sen Young majored in animal husbandry.

Selected filmography

Television

  • Terry and the Pirates 2 episodes (Oriental in "Little Mandarin") (Taiwan in "The Randall Affair") (1953)
  • Adventures of Superman 1 episode (Harry Wong in "The Riddle of the Chinese Jade") (1953)
  • Chevron Theatre 1 episode (Yin Yun in "Black Lead") (1953)
  • Waterfront 1 episode (Cecil Imai in "Fog Bound") (1954)
  • Biff Baker, U.S.A. 1 episode (Yin Yun in "Black Lead") (1954)
  • Stories of the Century 1 episode (Chang (uncredited) in "Black Bart") (1954)
  • Your Favorite Story 1 episode ("The Man Trap") (1954)
  • Captain Midnight 1 episode (Ling in "The Lost Moon") (1954)
  • Medic 1 episode (Dr. Nagano in "Flash of Darkness") (1955) as Victor Sen-Yung
  • The Star and the Story 1 episode (Peng in "The Back to Beyond") (1955)
  • Crusader 1 episode (Lu Chen in "A Little Friend") (1956)
  • The Lone Ranger (ABC) 1 episode (Lee Po in "The Letter Bride") (1956) as Victor Sen Young
  • Crossroads 1 episode (Sam Lu in "Big Sombrero") (1957)
  • Richard Diamond, Private Detective 1 episode (Magan in "Chinese Honeymoon") (1958)
  • Navy Log 1 episode (Red Officer in "One Grand Marine") (1958)
  • Broken Arrow 1 episode (Ling Tang in "Courage of Ling Tang") (1958)
  • Death Valley Days 1 episode (Quon Lee in "Quon Lee") (1958)
  • Mike Hammer 1 episode ("The Last Aloha") (1959)
  • Yancy Derringer 1 episode (Hon Lee in "The Quiet Firecracker") (1959)
  • Man Without a Gun 1 episode (Ho Wang in "Daughter of the Dragon") (1959)
  • Bronco 1 episode (Mr. Fong in "Game at the Beacon Club") (1959)
  • Shotgun Slade 1 episode (Willy Sing - Tong man in "Sudden Death") (1960)
  • Thriller 1 episode (Bartender in "The Twisted Image") (1960)
  • Checkmate 1 episode (Han in "Terror From the East") (1961)
  • Hong Kong 2 episodes (Yang in "Blind Bargain") (1960) (Tung Poy in "Nightcry") (1961)
  • The Rifleman 1 episode (Wang Chi in "The Queue") (1961)
  • Perry Mason (CBS) 2 episodes (Mickey Fong in "The Case of the Garrulous Gambler") (1959) (Sheng in "The Case of the Malicious Mariner") (1961)
  • Bachelor Father 6 episodes (Cousin Charlie Fong/Lee) (1960–1961)
  • The Jack Benny Program 1 episode (Chinese cafeteria employee in "Jack Goes to Cafeteria") (1961)
  • Follow the Sun 1 episode (Wong in "Annie Beeler's Place") (1962)
  • Ensign O'Toole 1 episode (Shopkeeper in "Operation Kowana") (1962)
  • Hawaiian Eye 3 episodes (Archibald Chu Sin in "Secret of the Second Door") (1959) (Al in "Vanessa Vanishes") (1960) (Sam in "Blow Low, Blow Blue") (1963)
  • Mickey 1 episode (Fu Chu man in "The Way the Fortune Cookie Crumbles") (1964)
  • Kraft Suspense Theatre 1 episode (Captain Fong in "Jungle of Fear") (1965)
  • Mister Ed 1 episode (Waiter in "Coldfinger") (1965)
  • The Man From U.N.C.L.E. 1 episode (Servant in "The Abominable Snowman Affair") (1966)
  • The F.B.I. 2 episodes (Joseph Sakanishi in "The Hiding Place") (1966) (Mayor Eto in "The Death Wind") (1966)
  • Gomer Pyle, USMC 1 episode (Businessman in "You Bet Your Won Ton") (1967)
  • I Spy 2 episodes (Li Wing in "Weight of the World") (1965) (Han in "Pinwheel") (1968)
  • The Wild Wild West 1 episode (Baron Kyosai in "The Night of the Camera" (1968)
  • Hawaii Five-O 1 episode (Dr. Leo Kuh in "Face of the Dragon") (1969)
  • Here's Lucy 2 episodes (Waiter in "Lucy's Birthday") (1968) (Murphy in "Lucy and the Generation Gap") (1969)
  • Get Smart 2 episodes (Yamasaki in "A Tale of Two Tails") (1968) (Abe Fu Yung in "I Am Curiously Yellow") (1970)
  • Night Gallery 1 episode (Joseph the butler in "Rare Objects") (1972)
  • Bonanza 106 episodes Hop Sing (1959–1973)
  • The Paul Lynde Show 1 episode (Mr. Fong in "Back Talk") (1973)
  • The Red Pony (TV movie) (Mr. Sing/Carni man/Mr.Green) (1973)
  • Kung Fu 7 episodes (1972–1974)
  • Police Woman 1 episode (Ah Choy in "Nothing Left to Lose") (1975)
  • Barbary Coast 1 episode (Soong in "Guns for a Queen") (1975)
  • Isis 1 episode (Mr. Chen in "Year of the Dragon") (1976)
  • How the West Was Won 1 episode (Hospital attendant in "China Girl") (1979)

References

  1. ^ a b Wisconsin State Journal, November 10, 1980, Section 1, Page 10
  2. ^ Internet Movie Database
  3. ^ His father's name is given in the dedication to the Great Wok Cookbook.
  4. ^ United States Census, 1930, Household of Gum Young Sen, San Francisco (Districts 251-409), San Francisco, California. NARA Publication: T626, roll 209; Enumeration District Number: 0393; Family Number: 584; Sheet Number and Letter: 30B; Line Number: 59
  5. ^ a b c Backer 2012, p. 88.
  6. ^ Huang 2010, p. 265.
  7. ^ San Antonio Light, September 29, 1944, p. 8-C
  8. ^ Huang 2010, p. 263-264.
  9. ^ "Quong Kee on Death Valley Days". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved November 5, 2018.
  10. ^ a b c "The actor who played Bonanza's Hop Sing actually was an acclaimed chef". MeTV National Limited Partnership. March 13, 2019. Retrieved October 20, 2020.
  11. ^ Aoki, Guy (July 10, 2014). "INTO THE NEXT STAGE: REDISCOVERING SAMMEE TONG IN 'BACHELOR FATHER'". Rafu Shimpo. Retrieved October 20, 2020.
  12. ^ Ada Evening News, July 6, 1972, p. 1
  13. ^ "'Bonanza's' Hop Sing found dead". Evening Independent. St. Petersburg, Florida. November 10, 1980. p. 11-A. Retrieved June 3, 2018.
  14. ^ Valley Independent, November 11, 1980, page 8
  15. ^ Indiana (Pennsylvania) Gazette, November 10, 1980, page 4

Books

  • Backer, Roy (2012). Mystery Movie Series of 1930s Hollywood. Jefferson: McFarland. ISBN 9780786490189.
  • Huang, Yunte (2010). Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History. New York: Norton. ISBN 9780393079166.

External links

 
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Sen Yung later known professionally as Victor Sen Young born Sen Yew Cheung October 18 1914 c November 9 1980 1 one source lists his given name as Victor Cheung Young with the birth year 1915 2 was an American character actor best known for playing Jimmy Chan in the Charlie Chan films and Hop Sing in the western series Bonanza He was born in San Francisco California to Gum Yung Sen and his first wife both immigrants from China 3 Victor Sen YungYung c 1946BornSen Yew Cheung or Victor Cheung Young 1914 10 18 October 18 1914San Francisco California U S DiedNovember 9 1980 1980 11 09 aged 66 1 North Hollywood California U S Resting placeGreenlawn Memorial Park Colma CaliforniaOther namesSen YungSen YoungVictor Sen YoungVictor YoungOccupationActorYears active1937 1980When his mother died during the flu epidemic of 1919 his father placed Victor and his younger sister Rosemary in a children s shelter and returned to his homeland to seek another wife He returned in 1922 with his new wife Lovi Shee once again forming a household with his two children 4 Contents 1 Career 2 Plane hijacking 3 Death and legacy 4 Selected filmography 5 Television 6 References 7 Books 8 External linksCareer EditSen Yung made his first significant acting debut in the 1938 film Charlie Chan in Honolulu as the Chinese detective s number two son Jimmy Chan In this movie Sidney Toler replaced the recently deceased Warner Oland as Charlie Chan and Sen Yung replaced Oland s number one son Lee who had been played by Keye Luke Luke left the series in 1938 leading to the need for a number two son 5 Sen Yung played Jimmy Chan in 11 Charlie Chan films between 1938 and 1942 5 Sen Yung played the character of Jimmy Chan very much as Luke played Lee Chan namely as the bumbling Americanized son who constantly hinders his father s work 5 The cultural clash between Chan pere a Chinese immigrant whose values were fundamentally those of China as expressed in his amusing pseudo Confucian aphorisms vs his well meaning but inept Americanized sons gave the series much of its appeal together with the fact that for all of Charlie Chan s putdowns of his sons there was a genuine paternal love and warmth being expressed 6 Moonlighting from the popular Chan series Sen Yung won critical acclaim playing the nuanced role of Ong Chi Seng a young attorney assisting Howard Joyce played by James Stephenson defending Leslie Crosbie played by Bette Davis accused of murder in the classic Warner Bros film noir melodrama The Letter 1940 directed by William Wyler In common with other Chinese American actors Sen Yung was cast in Japanese parts during World War II such as his role as the treacherous Japanese American Joe Totsuiko in the 1942 Humphrey Bogart film Across the Pacific During World War II he joined the U S Army Air Forces just as his erstwhile co star Sidney Toler was set to revive the dormant Charlie Chan series at Monogram Pictures According to author James L Neibaur Sen Yung s military obligations forced him to decline rejoining the series immediately but Monogram gave him a standing invitation to work there when his tour of duty was up He was temporarily replaced in the Charlie Chan series by Benson Fong who played number three son Tommy Chan and once by Keye Luke s real life brother Edwin Luke as number four son Eddie Chan Sen Yung s military service included work in training films at the First Motion Picture Unit and a role in the Army Air Forces play and film Winged Victory 7 Victor Sen Young and Willie Best in Dangerous Money 1946 In 1946 Sen Yung resumed his Hollywood career at Monogram now billed as Victor Sen Young and reunited with Sidney Toler Toler s health was failing Monogram was conserving Toler s waning energy limiting his scenes and giving him long rest periods during filming To relieve the burden on Toler Monogram entrusted much of the action to Victor Sen Young he and either Mantan Moreland or Willie Best shared much of the footage in Toler s final three films Dangerous Money Shadows Over Chinatown and The Trap The addition of Moreland as Chan s black chauffeur Birmingham Brown reflected the fact that by this time the Chan pictures had a significant following among black Americans who liked a film series that for once did not feature a white hero 8 Moreland s popularity in the Chan pictures was so great that he was booked for a nationwide vaudeville tour forcing him to be replaced in Dangerous Money by Willie Best Following Toler s death in 1947 Victor Sen Young appeared in five of the remaining six Charlie Chan features His character Jimmy was renamed Tommy author Scott MacGillivray contends that Jimmy was so closely associated with Sidney Toler that audiences would miss seeing Toler opposite him resulting in Monogram making the change Victor Sen Young continued to work in motion pictures and television in roles ranging from featured players affable or earnest Asian characters to bit roles clerks houseboys waiters etc He was cast as the compassionate Chinese restaurant owner Quong Kee in Tombstone Arizona in the 1957 episode Quong Kee of the syndicated television anthology series Death Valley Days hosted by Stanley Andrews In the story an aging Quong Kee recalls how in 1881 he brought together the Bostonians Art Gresham Walter Kelley and his mother played by Mary Newton with the saloon musician Ann Bailey Eugenia Paul who after a topsy turvy romance became Mrs Art Gresham 9 Arguably even more than for his work in the Charlie Chan films Victor Sen Yung is well remembered as Hop Sing the irascible cook and general factotum on the iconic television series Bonanza appearing in 109 episodes between 1959 and 1973 10 Bonanza series creator David Dortort told the Archive of American Television that the Hop Sing character generated massive fandom Victor was just absolutely delightful He loved the part he loved doing it In fact he began to develop fans to the extent that I wrote him in as the featured part in a number of shows 10 In Bachelor Father 1957 62 Victor Sen Yung had a recurring role as the scheming Uncle Charlie a character that Asian rights activist Guy Aoki commends as a slick Americanized character I thought it was great that way back in the 50s audiences saw a Chinese American who acted just like anyone else 11 In the early 1970s Sen Yung had a recurring role in seven episodes of the tv series Kung Fu which starred David Carradine as a Shaolin monk also in the Old West Sen Yung was also an accomplished and talented chef He frequently appeared on cooking programs and authored The Great Wok Cookbook in 1974 10 Plane hijacking EditIn 1972 Sen Young was on Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 710 which was hijacked The FBI stormed the plane and in the ensuing gunfire Sen Young was shot in the lower back He and another wounded passenger survived but a third passenger and the two hijackers were killed 12 In 1975 he appeared on Garry Moore s To Tell The Truth and related the events of the hijacking With Sen Young dressed in a sportcoat and flanked by two dissimilar imposters none of the four panelists chose him as the character actor Death and legacy EditThis section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Victor Sen Yung news newspapers books scholar JSTOR March 2017 Learn how and when to remove this template message Victor Sen Young died in his North Hollywood home in 1980 The actor who ran a small mail order Chinese pottery business was creating clayware and curing the items with an oven and died of natural gas poisoning from a gas leak His body was found November 9 but he had reportedly been dead at least ten days from possibly around October 31 13 Some reports suggested that he was murdered 14 but police ultimately ruled the death accidental 15 The eulogy at his funeral was given by fellow Bonanza actor Pernell Roberts who also paid the funeral expenses The Victor Sen Young memorial scholarship is awarded each year by the Chinese Alumni Association of the University of California Berkeley where Sen Young majored in animal husbandry Selected filmography EditThe Good Earth 1937 Chinese peasant boy uncredited Double or Nothing 1937 Minor Role uncredited Thank You Mr Moto 1937 Onlooker with Street Acrobats Chinese Elevator Operator uncredited International Settlement 1938 Bellboy Onlooker in Street uncredited Mr Moto Takes a Chance 1938 Khmer soldier uncredited Shadows Over Shanghai 1938 Wang as Sen Yung Charlie Chan in Honolulu 1938 James Chan as Sen Yung Torchy Blane in Chinatown 1939 Chinese Entertainer with Sword uncredited Charlie Chan in Reno 1939 James Chan as Sen Yung Charlie Chan at Treasure Island 1939 Jimmy Chan as Sen Yung 20 000 Men a Year 1939 Harold Chong Barricade 1939 Minor Role uncredited Escape to Paradise 1939 uncredited Charlie Chan in Panama 1940 Jimmy Chan as Sen Yung Charlie Chan s Murder Cruise 1940 Jimmy Chan as Sen Yung Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum 1940 Jimmy Chan as Sen Yung The Letter 1940 Ong Chin Seng as Sen Yung Murder Over New York 1940 Jimmy Chan as Sen Yung Dead Men Tell 1941 Jimmy Chan as Sen Yung They Met in Bombay 1941 Gihan Long uncredited Charlie Chan in Rio 1941 Jimmy Chan as Sen Yung A Yank on the Burma Road 1942 Frankie Wing Yung as Sen Yung Castle in the Desert 1942 Jimmy Chan as Sen Yung Secret Agent of Japan 1942 Fu Yelen as Sen Yung Moontide 1942 Takeo as Sen Yung The Mad Martindales 1942 Jefferson Gown Little Tokyo U S A 1942 Okino Across the Pacific 1942 Joe Toshiko as Sen Yung Manila Calling 1942 Armando China 1943 Linn Wei third brother as Sen Yung Night Plane from Chungking 1943 Captain Pole as Sen Yung Lost Angel 1943 Chinese Man uncredited Winged Victory 1944 Lee Chang as Sen Yung Betrayal from the East 1945 Omaya as Sen Yung Shadows Over Chinatown 1946 Jimmy Chan as Victor Sen Young G I War Brides 1946 Chinese Waiter uncredited Dangerous Money 1946 Jimmy Chan as Victor Sen Young Dangerous Millions 1946 Linn Chow as Victor Sen Young The Trap 1946 Jimmy Chan as Victor Sen Young Web of Danger 1947 Sam hotel porter The Crimson Key 1947 Frankie Wing Yung houseboy The Flame 1947 Lee Chang as Victor Sen Young The Chinese Ring 1947 Tommy Chan as Victor Sen Young Intrigue 1947 Western Union clerk uncredited To the Ends of the Earth 1947 Chinese pilot uncredited Docks of New Orleans 1948 Tommy Chan as Victor Sen Young Half Past Midnight 1948 Sam hotel porter Shanghai Chest 1948 Tommy Chan as Victor Sen Young The Golden Eye 1948 Tommy Chan as Victor Sen Young Rogues Regiment 1948 Rickshaw boy uncredited The Feathered Serpent 1948 Tommy Chan as Victor Sen Young State Department File 649 1949 Johnny Honda Boston Blackie s Chinese Venture 1949 Movie Theatre Ticket Taker uncredited Tuna Clipper 1949 Oriental dock worker The Sickle or the Cross 1949 Major Red Light 1949 Vincent Houseboy uncredited Oh You Beautiful Doll 1949 Houseboy uncredited Chinatown at Midnight 1949 Hotel proprietor And Baby Makes Three 1949 Lem Kee uncredited Key to the City 1950 Chinese MC at the Blue Duck uncredited A Ticket to Tomahawk 1950 Long Time The Breaking Point 1950 Mr Sing Woman on the Run 1950 Sammy Chung Grounds for Marriage 1951 Oscar Chris valet The Groom Wore Spurs 1951 Ignacio Secrets of Monte Carlo 1951 Chinese clerk uncredited Peking Express 1951 Chinese captain uncredited The Law and the Lady 1951 Chinese Manager uncredited Valley of Fire 1951 Laundryman Ching Moon uncredited Hong Kong 1952 Mr Howe uncredited The Sniper 1952 Thomas uncredited Cripple Creek 1952 Chinese interpreter uncredited Target Hong Kong 1953 Frankie Wing Yung uncredited The Blue Gardenia 1953 Waiter uncredited Forbidden 1953 Allan Chung Trader Tom of the China Seas 1954 George Wang Jubilee Trail 1954 Mickey Chinese man uncredited The Shanghai Story 1954 Sun Lee Port of Hell 1954 Detonation Ship Radioman Jump Into Hell 1955 Lt Thatch uncredited Soldier of Fortune 1955 Goldie Hotel Waiter uncredited The Left Hand of God 1955 John Wong Blood Alley 1955 Cpl Wang uncredited The Rawhide Years 1955 Chang steward uncredited Flight to Hong Kong 1956 Airline Ticket Clerk uncredited Accused of Murder 1956 Hank Bayliss houseboy uncredited Men in War 1957 North Korean prisoner sniper She Demons 1958 Sammy Ching Jet Attack 1958 Captain Chone The Hunters 1958 Korean farmer The Saga of Hemp Brown 1958 Chang Bartender uncredited Flower Drum Song 1961 Frankie Wing Yung Confessions of an Opium Eater 1962 Frank Wing Yung A Flea in Her Ear 1968 Okie Sakae The Hawaiians 1970 Chun Fat uncredited The Killer Elite 1975 Wei Chi The Man with Bogart s Face 1980 Frankie Wing Yung final film role Television EditTerry and the Pirates 2 episodes Oriental in Little Mandarin Taiwan in The Randall Affair 1953 Adventures of Superman 1 episode Harry Wong in The Riddle of the Chinese Jade 1953 Chevron Theatre 1 episode Yin Yun in Black Lead 1953 Waterfront 1 episode Cecil Imai in Fog Bound 1954 Biff Baker U S A 1 episode Yin Yun in Black Lead 1954 Stories of the Century 1 episode Chang uncredited in Black Bart 1954 Your Favorite Story 1 episode The Man Trap 1954 Captain Midnight 1 episode Ling in The Lost Moon 1954 Medic 1 episode Dr Nagano in Flash of Darkness 1955 as Victor Sen Yung The Star and the Story 1 episode Peng in The Back to Beyond 1955 Crusader 1 episode Lu Chen in A Little Friend 1956 The Lone Ranger ABC 1 episode Lee Po in The Letter Bride 1956 as Victor Sen Young Crossroads 1 episode Sam Lu in Big Sombrero 1957 Richard Diamond Private Detective 1 episode Magan in Chinese Honeymoon 1958 Navy Log 1 episode Red Officer in One Grand Marine 1958 Broken Arrow 1 episode Ling Tang in Courage of Ling Tang 1958 Death Valley Days 1 episode Quon Lee in Quon Lee 1958 Mike Hammer 1 episode The Last Aloha 1959 Yancy Derringer 1 episode Hon Lee in The Quiet Firecracker 1959 Man Without a Gun 1 episode Ho Wang in Daughter of the Dragon 1959 Bronco 1 episode Mr Fong in Game at the Beacon Club 1959 Shotgun Slade 1 episode Willy Sing Tong man in Sudden Death 1960 Thriller 1 episode Bartender in The Twisted Image 1960 Checkmate 1 episode Han in Terror From the East 1961 Hong Kong 2 episodes Yang in Blind Bargain 1960 Tung Poy in Nightcry 1961 The Rifleman 1 episode Wang Chi in The Queue 1961 Perry Mason CBS 2 episodes Mickey Fong in The Case of the Garrulous Gambler 1959 Sheng in The Case of the Malicious Mariner 1961 Bachelor Father 6 episodes Cousin Charlie Fong Lee 1960 1961 The Jack Benny Program 1 episode Chinese cafeteria employee in Jack Goes to Cafeteria 1961 Follow the Sun 1 episode Wong in Annie Beeler s Place 1962 Ensign O Toole 1 episode Shopkeeper in Operation Kowana 1962 Hawaiian Eye 3 episodes Archibald Chu Sin in Secret of the Second Door 1959 Al in Vanessa Vanishes 1960 Sam in Blow Low Blow Blue 1963 Mickey 1 episode Fu Chu man in The Way the Fortune Cookie Crumbles 1964 Kraft Suspense Theatre 1 episode Captain Fong in Jungle of Fear 1965 Mister Ed 1 episode Waiter in Coldfinger 1965 The Man From U N C L E 1 episode Servant in The Abominable Snowman Affair 1966 The F B I 2 episodes Joseph Sakanishi in The Hiding Place 1966 Mayor Eto in The Death Wind 1966 Gomer Pyle USMC 1 episode Businessman in You Bet Your Won Ton 1967 I Spy 2 episodes Li Wing in Weight of the World 1965 Han in Pinwheel 1968 The Wild Wild West 1 episode Baron Kyosai in The Night of the Camera 1968 Hawaii Five O 1 episode Dr Leo Kuh in Face of the Dragon 1969 Here s Lucy 2 episodes Waiter in Lucy s Birthday 1968 Murphy in Lucy and the Generation Gap 1969 Get Smart 2 episodes Yamasaki in A Tale of Two Tails 1968 Abe Fu Yung in I Am Curiously Yellow 1970 Night Gallery 1 episode Joseph the butler in Rare Objects 1972 Bonanza 106 episodes Hop Sing 1959 1973 The Paul Lynde Show 1 episode Mr Fong in Back Talk 1973 The Red Pony TV movie Mr Sing Carni man Mr Green 1973 Kung Fu 7 episodes 1972 1974 Police Woman 1 episode Ah Choy in Nothing Left to Lose 1975 Barbary Coast 1 episode Soong in Guns for a Queen 1975 Isis 1 episode Mr Chen in Year of the Dragon 1976 How the West Was Won 1 episode Hospital attendant in China Girl 1979 References Edit a b Wisconsin State Journal November 10 1980 Section 1 Page 10 Internet Movie Database His father s name is given in the dedication to the Great Wok Cookbook United States Census 1930 Household of Gum Young Sen San Francisco Districts 251 409 San Francisco California NARA Publication T626 roll 209 Enumeration District Number 0393 Family Number 584 Sheet Number and Letter 30B Line Number 59 a b c Backer 2012 p 88 Huang 2010 p 265 San Antonio Light September 29 1944 p 8 C Huang 2010 p 263 264 Quong Kee on Death Valley Days Internet Movie Database Retrieved November 5 2018 a b c The actor who played Bonanza s Hop Sing actually was an acclaimed chef MeTV National Limited Partnership March 13 2019 Retrieved October 20 2020 Aoki Guy July 10 2014 INTO THE NEXT STAGE REDISCOVERING SAMMEE TONG IN BACHELOR FATHER Rafu Shimpo Retrieved October 20 2020 Ada Evening News July 6 1972 p 1 Bonanza s Hop Sing found dead Evening Independent St Petersburg Florida November 10 1980 p 11 A Retrieved June 3 2018 Valley Independent November 11 1980 page 8 Indiana Pennsylvania Gazette November 10 1980 page 4Books EditBacker Roy 2012 Mystery Movie Series of 1930s Hollywood Jefferson McFarland ISBN 9780786490189 Huang Yunte 2010 Charlie Chan The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History New York Norton ISBN 9780393079166 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Victor Sen Yung Victor Sen Yung at IMDb Victor Sen Yung at Find a Grave Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Victor Sen Yung amp oldid 1128829870, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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