Keye Luke
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Keye Luke (Chinese: 陸錫麒, Cantonese: Luk Shek Kee; June 18, 1904 – January 12, 1991) was a Chinese-American actor. He was known for playing Lee Chan, the "Number One Son" in the Charlie Chan films, the original Kato in the 1939–1941 Green Hornet film serials, Brak in the 1960s Space Ghost cartoons, Master Po in the television series Kung Fu, and Mr. Wing in the Gremlins films. He was the first Chinese-American contract player signed by RKO, Universal Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and was one of the most prominent Asian actors of American cinema in the mid-twentieth century.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.0073 |
| Birthday | 1904-06-18 |
| Place of Birth | Guangzhou, China |
| Also Known As | Key Luke, 陸錫麒, Luk Shek Kee, |
1984
Gremlins
7.145/7141
After receiving an exotic small animal as a Christmas gift, a young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet, which unlea...
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Gremlins
1990
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
6.525/2993
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Gremlins 2: The New Batch
1981
Fly Away Home
6/4
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Fly Away Home
1940
Phantom of Chinatown
6/18
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1990
Alice
6.3/351
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1937
Charlie Chan at the Olympics
6.8/26
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1979
Just You and Me, Kid
5.5/20
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Just You and Me, Kid
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Charlie Chan at the Circus
6.4/29
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1936
Charlie Chan at the Race Track
7.1/23
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Charlie Chan at the Race Track
1935
Charlie Chan in Paris
6.6/22
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1935
Charlie Chan in Shanghai
6.724/29
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1936
Charlie Chan at the Opera
6.8/36
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1935
Mad Love
7/126
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1954
Hell's Half Acre
5.45/20
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World for Ransom
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World for Ransom
1942
Invisible Agent
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Invisible Agent
1968
Project X
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1957
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
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Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
1955
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
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Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
1942
The Falcon's Brother
6.353/17
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The Falcon's Brother
1941
Bowery Blitzkrieg
6.136/11
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Bowery Blitzkrieg
1937
Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo
6.3/24
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Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo
1937
Charlie Chan on Broadway
7.1/24
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1952
Hong Kong
5.1/11
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1986
Kung Fu: The Movie
5.3/18
In his travels, Caine meets up with an old man who has several surprises for him. The first being the destruction of the Shaolin order, the second bei...
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Kung Fu: The Movie
1948
The Feathered Serpent
6.077/13
In order to learn the location of a fabled Aztec treasure, a professor kidnaps his colleague, the only man able to read the ancient Aztec script that...
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The Feathered Serpent
1934
Happiness Ahead
6.6/5
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Happiness Ahead
1948
Sleep, My Love
6.349/53
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Sleep, My Love
1970
The Hawaiians
5.5/20
A wanderer returns home only to find political turmoil, disease and romantic difficulties.
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The Hawaiians
1938
Mr. Moto's Gamble
6.432/22
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Mr. Moto's Gamble
1943
Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
6/5
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Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
1942
A Yank on the Burma Road
5.667/3
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A Yank on the Burma Road
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First Yank into Tokyo
6/6
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1936
King of Burlesque
6.25/10
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1948
Waterfront at Midnight
7/2
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Waterfront at Midnight
1953
South Sea Woman
5/11
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South Sea Woman
1941
No Hands on the Clock
5.6/8
A wise-cracking private detective's honeymoon is interrupted by a kidnapping case.
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No Hands on the Clock
1950
Young Man with a Horn
6.4/58
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1973
The Cat Creature
5.4/14
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The Cat Creature
1942
Destination Unknown
7/2
Foreign spies and police pursue an attractive Dutch spy throughout Peking.
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1942
A Tragedy at Midnight
5.2/5
The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find a woman with a knife in her back in his bedroom.
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A Tragedy at Midnight
1944
3 Men in White
6.375/12
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1945
Secret Agent X-9
6.2/6
American, Chinese and Australian agents join forces to stop the Nazis from obtaining the formula for synthetic fuel.
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1942
Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant
6.5/4
The doctor (Lionel Barrymore) has a Kansan (Van Johnson), an Australian and an Asian from Brooklyn to choose from.
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2012
Keye Luke
0/0
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1974
Judge Dee and the Monastery Murders
7/1
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2019
Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood
5.7/7
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1954
The Bamboo Prison
6.4/9
A communist POW sides with his North Korean guards against his fellow prisoners.
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1946
Lost City of the Jungle
6.5/5
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Lost City of the Jungle
1939
Sued for Libel
6.3/5
A New York City newspaper is sued for libel after reporting the wrong verdict in a murder trial.
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Sued for Libel
1941
The Gang's All Here
5.4/10
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The Gang's All Here
1938
International Settlement
6/7
In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers falls in loves with a French singer (Del Rio).
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International Settlement
1945
Between Two Women
6.1/5
A young doctor proves his worth at a metropolitan hospital.
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1939
Barricade
6.5/4
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Barricade
1942
Across the Pacific
6.6/87
Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact that he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-martialed out of the army and boards a Japanese s...
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Across the Pacific
1968
Nobody's Perfect
6.333/3
This military service comedy chronicles the misadventures of the U.S.S. Bustard in Japan. The crew has stolen a Buddha statue from a Japanese village,...
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Nobody's Perfect
1977
The Amsterdam Kill
5.2/12
Former DEA Agent Quinlan, removed from the force some years earlier for stealing confiscated drug money, is hired by Chung Wei, a leader in the Amster...
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The Amsterdam Kill
1941
Let's Go Collegiate
5.4/5
Rawley University is about to receive a star athlete who could give it the first championship rowing team it's ever had. Unfortunately, he gets drafte...
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Let's Go Collegiate
1942
Somewhere I'll Find You
5.7/14
Journalist brothers feud over a woman they both fall for while covering World War II in the far east.
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Somewhere I'll Find You
2012
Battle of the Planets: The Movie
0/0
A compilation of several Battle of the Planets episodes with a new story and uncut death scenes.
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1947
Dark Delusion
6.8/5
Spoiled socialite Cynthia Grace is suffering from a blood clot. Not unexpectedly, Tommy Coalt falls in love with Cynthia, much to her parents' dismay....
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Dark Delusion
1953
Fair Wind to Java
5.6/10
The Dutch East Indies, at the end of the nineteenth century. An adventurous captain of an American merchant vessel is looking for a sunken Dutch vesse...
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Fair Wind to Java
1934
The Painted Veil
6.4/39
The wife of a doctor in China falls in love with a diplomat.
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The Painted Veil
1935
Shanghai
7.3/3
A New York socialite travels to Shanghai to visit her ailing aunt and falls in love with a Russian banker, who harbors a family secret.
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Shanghai
1989
The Mighty Quinn
6.038/143
Police chief Xavier Quinn investigates the gruesome murder of Donald Pater, one of the wealthiest residents on a Caribbean island. He was found decapi...
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The Mighty Quinn
1985
Blade in Hong Kong
9/1
Joe Blade is an unclaimed TV pilot film. An American, Blade works in Hong Kong, the home of his adoptive father Chang Chin-tzu. When Chang Chin-tzu is...
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Blade in Hong Kong
1959
Gigantis, the Fire Monster
6.4/40
A prehistoric monster called Gigantis emerges alongside another creature named Angurus.
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Gigantis, the Fire Monster
1935
Oil for the Lamps of China
7.214/7
An American oil company representative risks sacrificing his marriage for his career in the rural lands of China.
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Oil for the Lamps of China
1988
Dead Heat
6.2/241
Detective Roger Mortis is killed in action while investigating a string of mysterious robberies: until he's brought back from the dead with a chemical...
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Dead Heat
1935
Murder in the Fleet
6.6/5
A traitor is lurking somewhere aboard the USS Carolina, and Lt. Tom Randolph is determined to find the offender. First a revolutionary new piece of te...
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Murder in the Fleet
1942
North to the Klondike
7.125/4
Based upon the novel by Jack London, two friends in the Klondike aid settlers being terrorized by outlaws.
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North to the Klondike
1972
Kung Fu: The Way of the Tiger, the Sign of the Dragon
7.2/30
After avenging the death of his teacher, a Shaolin monk flees China to the American West and helps people while being pursued by bounty hunters.
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Kung Fu: The Way of the Tiger, the Sign of the Dragon
1949
Manhandled
5.158/19
Merle Kramer works as a stenographer for a psychiatrist. She is casually dating Karl Benson, a private eye and former cop. Merle mentions in passing t...
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Manhandled
1940
The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
6.8/6
Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato.
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The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
1946
Tokyo Rose
7/2
Lotus Long plays the title role, an American-educated Japanese woman broadcasting enemy propaganda to American troops. Captured GI Pete Sherman is one...
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Tokyo Rose
1940
The Green Hornet
6/12
A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious masked gangster and his aide.
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The Green Hornet
1941
Burma Convoy
7/2
A truck convoy traveling the Burma Road is menaced by a group of smugglers.
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Burma Convoy
1939
North of Shanghai
8/1
In this newspaper drama, a female reporter and a newsreel cameraman are both assigned to cover the Sino-Japanese war. They meet on the boat ride over...
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North of Shanghai
1942
Spy Ship
7/3
A radio reporter begins to suspect that a commentator at his station may be using her position to broadcast shipping information to enemy spies. With...
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Spy Ship
1944
Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
6.25/10
Andy is going to Wainwright College as did his father. He sees a pretty blonde on the train and he is alternately winked at or slapped every time he s...
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Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
1935
Here's to Romance
7/1
Kathleen Gerard, a high society wife fed up with her husband's artistic "protegées", decides to take one of her own in Nino, a promising tenor, patron...
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Here's to Romance
1937
The Good Earth
6.3/81
China, during the rule of the Qing Dynasty. The arranged marriage between Wang Lung, a humble farmer, and O-Lan, a domestic slave, will endure the man...
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The Good Earth
1940
No, No, Nanette
6.2/5
Perky young Nanette attempts to save the marriage of her uncle and aunt by untangling Uncle Jimmy from several innocent but ensnaring flirtations. Att...
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No, No, Nanette
1940
Comrade X
6.1/27
An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.
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Comrade X
1940
Wildcat Bus
5.5/7
A broke playboy signs on to help a young beauty save her ailing bus line.
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Wildcat Bus
1949
Sky Dragon
8/4
All the passengers on an airplane headed for San Francisco are drugged, and when they wake up, it is discovered that a quarter-million dollars is miss...
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Sky Dragon
1986
A Fine Mess
4.6/34
Two friends discover a plot to fix a horse race and try to capitalize on it, but soon have to deal with the two men who fixed it, the police investig...
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A Fine Mess
1943
Salute to the Marines
7.2/5
It is a comic book propaganda film which has Beery as a retired USMC NCO who, when the Japanese invade the Philippines, leads a heroic defense, first...
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Salute to the Marines
1970
Noon Sunday
4.167/6
Two mercenaries are hired to commit a political assassination.
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Noon Sunday
1956
Around the World in 80 Days
6.671/603
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a ve...
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Around the World in 80 Days
1983
The Nightingale
5.25/4
A kitchen maid and a nightingale help save an emperor with the power of song and friendship.
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The Nightingale
1969
The Chairman
5.481/26
An American scientist is sent to Red China to steal the formula for a newly developed agricultural enzyme. What he is not told by his bosses is that a...
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The Chairman
1939
Disputed Passage
7/3
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Disputed Passage
1955
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
6.054/93
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Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
1943
The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
5.667/3
A movie serial in 12 chapters: The famous comic strip character is on a mission to protect a secret tunnel passage between China and India.
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The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
1945
How DOooo You Do
7.5/2
Murder occurs when several of the most popular radio personalities of the '40s converge on a desert resort.
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How DOooo You Do
1983
Cocaine and Blue Eyes
4.333/4
Michael Brennen, a San Francisco private eye gets dragged into a drug-smuggling operation while searching for the girlfriend of a deal client, leading...
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Cocaine and Blue Eyes
1942
Mexican Spitfire's Elephant
5.429/7
A pair of shipboard smugglers have a large diamond hidden inside a small elephant statuette, which they plant on absentminded Lord Epping to get it pa...
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Mexican Spitfire's Elephant
1986
Kappa
7/1
Deconstructing the myth of Oedipus within the framework of an ancient Japanese folk story, the Yonemotos craft a highly charged discourse of loss and...
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Kappa
1942
Mr. and Mrs. North
4.375/8
Married sleuths (Gracie Allen, William Post Jr.) find a corpse in their closet and round up suspects.
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Mr. and Mrs. North
1976
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
4.4/17
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1974
Judgment: The Court Martial of the Tiger of Malaya — General Yamashita
8/1
Dramatization of the trial of General Yamashita.
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1986
T.J. Hooker: Blood Sport
5/2
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T.J. Hooker: Blood Sport
1957
Rodan! The Flying Monster
5.7/3
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Rodan! The Flying Monster
1952
The Congregation
9/1
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1935
The Casino Murder Case
6.818/11
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1986
The Last Electric Knight
0/0
Ernie Reyes Jr plays a child with magical kung fu powers who has to find a new parent once his grandfather gets too sick to take care of him.
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