Nancy Kwan
Nancy Kwan Ka-shen (Cantonese: 關家蒨; born May 19, 1939) is a Hong Kong-born American actress, author, and philanthropist. She meteorically rose to fame by starring in the Hollywood films The World of Suzie Wong (1960) and Flower Drum Song (1961), which were among the first to cast Asian actors in major roles. Her dazzling 'oriental' style and signature bob cut became iconic and cemented her status as an exotic sex symbol. Later in life, Kwan became involved in philanthropy for AIDS awareness. In 1997, she published a book about her son who died from the disease and donated its profits to support the promotion of AIDS awareness.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.0833 |
| Birthday | 1939-05-19 |
| Place of Birth | Hong Kong, British Crown Colony [now China] |
| Also Known As | 关家蒨, Nancy Kwan, Guan Nanshi, Nancy Kwan Ka-shen, |
1968
The Wrecking Crew
5.689/74
When Count Contini attempts to destroy the world's economy by masterminding the theft of $1 billion in U.S. gold, ICE chief MacDonald summons secret a...
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The Wrecking Crew
1993
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
6.911/818
This film is a glimpse into the life, love and the unconquerable spirit of the legendary Bruce Lee. From a childhood of rigorous martial arts training...
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Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
1961
Flower Drum Song
6.3/36
A young woman arrives in San Francisco's Chinatown, from Hong Kong, with the intention of marrying a rakish nightclub owner, unaware he is involved wi...
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Flower Drum Song
1983
The Last Ninja
3.6/9
A successful art dealer is sought out by law enforcement after terrorists take some scientists hostage. Finding no possible solution, a law enforcemen...
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The Last Ninja
1960
The World of Suzie Wong
6.6/43
A Hong Kong prostitute tries modeling and falls for the artist who's painting her.
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The World of Suzie Wong
1966
Lt. Robin Crusoe U.S.N.
5.742/31
Lt. Robin Crusoe is a navy pilot who bails out of his plane after engine trouble. He reaches a deserted island paradise where he builds a house and be...
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Lt. Robin Crusoe U.S.N.
2020
Be Water
6.798/57
In 1971, after being rejected by Hollywood, Bruce Lee returned to his parents’ homeland of Hong Kong to complete four iconic films. Charting his strug...
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Be Water
2006
Ray of Sunshine
8/1
Rachael, an aspiring pianist with a troubled past, disguises herself as a boy and searches for her father, a free-wheeling musician who abandoned her...
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Ray of Sunshine
2005
Murder on the Yellow Brick Road
8/1
A pretty young songbird found murdered on Hollywood Boulevard. The crusty old Private Eye who was in love with her. A smooth-talking seductress who hi...
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Murder on the Yellow Brick Road
1970
The McMasters
4.591/11
When a black Civil War veteran becomes co-owner of the southern McMasters ranch, the incensed local Confederate veterans come gunning for him and his...
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The McMasters
1978
Night Creature
3.8/5
A big-game hunter brings a killer leopard to his private island and turns it loose so he can hunt it down. However, unexpected visitors arrive at the...
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Night Creature
1964
Fate Is the Hunter
6.512/41
An airline executive refuses to believe that pilot error, by his friend, caused a fatal crash and persists in looking for another reason.
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Fate Is the Hunter
2007
Anna May Wong - Frosted Yellow Willows: Her Life, Times and Legend
0/0
Documentary of Anna May Wong, a Chinese-American woman who endured many hardships and heartaches to become an international star of film, stage and te...
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Anna May Wong - Frosted Yellow Willows: Her Life, Times and Legend
1989
Night Children
3.833/6
A veteran cop (David Carradine) investigates the crimes of an anarchist street gang that causes chaos wherever they go. Meanwhile, his wife (Nancy Kwa...
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Night Children
1976
Project: Kill
5.083/12
A former government assassin flees a mind-control program in the Philippines, pursued by his ex-partner, the local police and Asian gangsters.
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Project: Kill
1964
Honeymoon Hotel
4.556/9
A man left at the alter goes on his honeymoon trip anyway, taking his best man along instead.
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Honeymoon Hotel
2010
To Whom It May Concern: Ka Shen's Journey
8/1
The definitive and true-life story of Nancy Kwan Ka-Shen, who as a young Eurasian girl from Hong Kong, captured the hearts and minds of cinemagoers ar...
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To Whom It May Concern: Ka Shen's Journey
1985
Walking the Edge
5.368/19
A Los Angeles taxi driver helps a distraught woman on the run from gangsters after they murder her husband and young son.
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Walking the Edge
1969
The Girl Who Knew Too Much
6/3
A runaway truck containing the corpse of a slain gang leader rolls into a California nightclub owned by Johnny Cain, a hard bitten former free-lance a...
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The Girl Who Knew Too Much
1988
Keys to Freedom
4.3/3
The keys to freedom for citizens of Hong Kong are U.S. passports, as their city quakes with the imminent transition to Chinese Communist rule. A deadl...
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Keys to Freedom
1973
Wonder Women
4.67/44
Dr. Tsu is a brilliant surgeon with her own exotic island off the coast of Manila. Using her sexy, all-girl army of martial-arts experts, Tsu kidnaps...
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Wonder Women
1963
Tamahine
5/11
The headmaster of a stuffy British boys' school receives a surprise visit from the now-grown, and very voluptuous, daughter he fathered years earlier...
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Tamahine
1981
Angkor: Cambodia Express
4/4
In a tale of drama and adventure, young journalist Andy Cameron (Robert Walker) has to get into Cambodia (it is assumed this is during the genocidal r...
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Angkor: Cambodia Express
1985
Reel Horror
3.2/8
Evil spirits that emerge from cans of old movie film terrorize a neighborhood.
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Reel Horror
1962
The Main Attraction
4/6
An affable drifter on the lam for a murder he didn't commit hides out in a circus.
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The Main Attraction
2009
You Don't Know Jack: The Jack Soo Story
0/0
The film tells actor Jack Soo's story through a montage of film and television clips, rare footage, interviews with family members, friends, co-worker...
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You Don't Know Jack: The Jack Soo Story
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
1965
The Wild Affair
5.286/7
Young office assistant Majorie will marry soon, however, she's plagued by doubts if her fiance is the right one. On her last day at work, her male col...
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The Wild Affair
1995
Encyclopedia of Martial Arts: Hollywood Celebrities
10/1
The first video to combine international martial arts together with interviews and demonstrations by celebrities of Hollywood.
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Encyclopedia of Martial Arts: Hollywood Celebrities
2009
Mr. Yunioshi: An Asian Perspective
0/0
Mr. Yunioshi: An Asian Perspective provides some insightful commentary of how far we've come concerning Asian characterizations in Hollywood movies fr...
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Mr. Yunioshi: An Asian Perspective
1966
Arrivederci, Baby!
5.857/21
Nick Johnson has wed several times, but all his rich wives were 'accidentally' killed after some time. Now he's married a young Italian widow, but she...
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Arrivederci, Baby!
1967
The Corrupt Ones
5.375/12
Freelance photographer Cliff Wilder (Robert Stack) finds himself the target of various colorful villains in this quest for an ancient Chinese treasure...
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The Corrupt Ones
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
1990
Cold Dog Soup
5.3/12
A taxi driver (Quaid) pounds Zen parables (if time money, is time the root of all evil?) into his passenger in a high-speed, idiosyncratic tour of the...
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Cold Dog Soup
1990
Sally's Beauty Spot
6/2
A large black mole above an Asian woman's breast serves as a metaphor for cultural and racial difference in this engaging experimental film. Off-scree...
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Sally's Beauty Spot
1974
The Pacific Connection
5.25/4
Ben is a farm boy who comes into conflict with the Evil Spanish Governor and his two sons. To assist in their oppression the Governor hires a Samurai...
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The Pacific Connection
2007
Hollywood Chinese
0/0
Hollywood Chinese is a captivating look at cinema history through the lens of the Chinese American experience. Directed by triple Sundance award-winni...
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Hollywood Chinese
2017
Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming
6.7/18
A young Canadian poet with Chinese and Persian parents travels to Iran to perform at a poetry festival.
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Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming
1975
Supercock
4.5/4
An American cowboy in the Philippines gets mixed up in cockfighting.
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Supercock
1988
Slaying the Dragon
8/1
A highly-critical documentary about the history of Asian-American actresses in Hollywood. Features interviews with pioneering Asian-American actresses...
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Slaying the Dragon
1995
Rebellious
7.667/3
Late stuntman Bernhard Pock wrote, directed, and starred in this gritty modern-day fairy tale about a biker poet on a journey of self-discovery. Pock...
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Rebellious
2016
Paint It Black
5.8/26
The death of Michael leaves behind the two women he loved, his girlfriend and his mother, both of whom blame each other for his suicide. Joined by the...
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Paint It Black
1990
Miracle Landing
5.833/15
Based on a real, in-flight incident in 1988, a passenger jet loses a portion of its fuselage in flight over Hawaii and is forced to make an emergency...
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Miracle Landing
1990
Babies
0/0
The physical and emotional trauma of three close-knit women trying to have children is explored.
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Babies
1966
The Magic Stone
10/1
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The Magic Stone
1974
Spring Comes Not Again
0/0
Spring Comes Not Again is a tragic story of romance and betrayal, set in contemporary Hong Kong. The film opens with a deeply distraught Betty (Nancy...
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Spring Comes Not Again
1975
Fortress in the Sun
8/1
The most expensive message action film ever to hit the screen. An international-geared vehicle showcasing two of Asia's great acting talents.
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Fortress in the Sun
1999
Mr. P's Dancing Sushi Bar
8/1
A film about a small sushi counter in the lobby of a hotel in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, for Japanese commercial employees sent to the United States.
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Mr. P's Dancing Sushi Bar
1971
Karioka etchos de America
0/0
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Karioka etchos de America
1979
Streets of Hong Kong
9/1
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Streets of Hong Kong
1996
For Life or Death
5.6/5
A man named Kaan Woo (James Lew) is escaping his dark past, having been involved with a cult of brown shroud-wearing, druid-like monk warriors that ha...
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For Life or Death
1968
Cocoon
7.667/3
In this pilot film to the "Hawaii Five-0" television series, special law officer Steve McGarrett tracks down Red Chinese operatives and their spy ring...
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Cocoon
1975
That Lady from Peking
4/3
Max Foster (Carl Betz), an American newspaper reporter, is in Hong Kong to assist a defecting Russian diplomat. In return for arranging an escape, the...
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That Lady from Peking
1973
Heiße Ware aus Hong Kong
0/0
Made for German TV documentary about the early craze of Hong Kong Martial Arts Cinema. While critical on the subject and not too well informed, it nev...
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Heiße Ware aus Hong Kong
2023
Bruce Lee: A Life in Ten Pictures
0/0
Revealing the life of the acclaimed martial artist and actor through ten defining images. Bruce Lee's image is famous around the world, but these icon...
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Bruce Lee: A Life in Ten Pictures
2001
The Unbeatable Bruce Lee
8.4/4
A look at the life of superstar Bruce Lee.
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