Anthony Chinn
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Biography
Anthony Chinn (1930, Georgetown, Guyana – 22 October 2000, Georgetown, Guyana), the child of Chinese and Brazilian parents, was a supporting actor who appeared in over 50 films and television series throughout a career which spanned more than four decades.
Career
Chinn made his film début in the United Kingdom in 1957. He moved to London in 1961 and for the next several years appeared in British TV series such as The Avengers, Danger Man, The Protectors and Steptoe and Son. He also had early uncredited roles in the James Bond films Dr. No (1962), Goldfinger (1964) and You Only Live Twice (1967), later playing a Taiwanese businessman in A View to a Kill (1985). Chinn played the Kitai in John Huston's The Kremlin Letter (1969), Benson in The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) and Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978). He appeared as Mohan in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and as Mactilburgh's technician in The Fifth Element (1997).
Chinn also worked in theatre and appeared in TV advertisements for brands such as McEwan's beer.
Selected filmography
- Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst (1957) - Chinese People's Liberation Army Officer
- The Abominable Snowman (1957) - Majordomo
- The Camp on Blood Island (1958) - Japanese Sentry (uncredited)
- Next to No Time (1958)
- The Savage Innocents (1960) - Kiddok
- The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961) - Japanese Sniper (uncredited)
- Satan Never Sleeps (1962) - Ho San's Driver (uncredited)
- Dr. No (1962) - Chen, Descontamination Technician (uncredited)
- Tarzan's Three Challenges (1963) - Tor
- Goldfinger (1964) - Servant at Stud Farm (uncredited)
- A Countess from Hong Kong (1967) - Hawaiian
- You Only Live Twice (1967) - SPECTRE Guard (uncredited)
- Pretty Polly (1967) - Japanese Proprietor
- The Chairman (1969) - Chinese Officer
- Doppelgänger (1969) - Mongolian Rescue Crew Member (uncredited)
- The Gamblers (1970) - Nono
- The Kremlin Letter (1970) - Kitai
- Craze (1974) - Customer (uncredited)
- Rollerball (1975) - Reporter (uncredited)
- The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) - Chinese Assassin
- Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978) - Chinese Doorman
- Mihail, câine de circ (1979)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) - Mohan
- High Road to China (1983) - General Wong
- A View to a Kill (1985) - Taiwanese Tycoon
- The Fifth Element (1997) - Mactilburgh's Technician