Name
Kam Tong
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1906-12-18
Deathday
1969-11-08 (63 years old)
Place of Birth
San Francisco, California, USA
Biography
Kam Tong (December 18, 1906 – November 8, 1969) was a Chinese-American actor. He was best known for his role as Hey Boy on the CBS television series Have Gun, Will Travel and as Dr. Li in the film version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Flower Drum Song. Curiously, though appearing as a series regular on Have Gun, Will Travel he was never afforded a regular featured credit, always instead listed undistinguished from the support guest cast, perhaps an indication of inherent discrimination in that regard.
Kam was also a regular on the short run CBS-TV series Mr. Garlund in 1960. He appeared in many movies, often as an uncredited Chinese, Japanese, or Filipino character. He appeared in many television shows, including The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Big Valley, The Time Tunnel, The Final War of Olly Winter, and I Spy.
After serving in World War II in an OSS intelligence unit, he became involved in efforts to raise awareness over gun violence. He also owned and operated a restaurant called Shanghai Lil's in San Francisco.
On November 8, 1969, Kam Tong died of non-communicable disease. At the time of his death, he was 63 years old. At the time of his death he survived by his large extended friends and family.
Known For
6.1
A group of unlikely travelling companions find themselves on the same stagecoach to Cheyen...
6.1
A widowed doctor of both Chinese and European descent falls in love with a married America...
5.8
Mike Edwards and Danny Burke fly a cropduster, but due to Danny's gambling debts, a local ...
6.624
Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact that he has no loyalty to his home country after h...
5.4
Two-fisted newsreel photographer Johnny Williams is stationed in Burma and China in the ea...
3.9
A space ship crash lands on the third planet of a distant solar system, killing all hands ...
6.3
A young woman arrives in San Francisco's Chinatown, from Hong Kong, with the intention of ...
6.4
In order to get back into the good graces with his wife with whom he has had a misundersta...
7.05
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a...
- 1963 It Happened at the World's Fair as Uncle Walter Ling
- 1961 Flower Drum Song as Doctor Li
- 1964 Espionage Target: You as Mr. Kai (uncredited)
- 1955 Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing as Dr. Sen (uncredited)
- 1955 Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy as Chinese Busboy (uncredited)
- 1966 Dimension 5 as Kim Fong
- 1967 Kill a Dragon as Win Lim
- 1942 The Hidden Hand as Mallo
- 1954 This Is My Love as Harry
- 1966 Mister Buddwing as Dice Player
- 1960 Who Was That Lady? as Lee Wong (uncredited)
- 1942 Across the Pacific as T. Oki
- 1966 Stagecoach
- 1942 China Girl
- 1940 Drums of Fu Manchu as Crawford's Manservant
- 1938 International Settlement as Waiter
- 1966 Women of the Prehistoric Planet as Jung
- 1947 Dishonored Lady as Courtland's Houseboy
- 1960 Who Was That Lady? as Lee Wong
- 1941 The Man Who Came to Dinner as Chinese Guest (uncredited)
- 1942 Rubber Racketeers as Tom
- 1936 The General Died at Dawn as Houseboy (uncredited)
- 1966 The Time Tunnel ( 1 episode ) as Sgt. Itsugi
- 1958 Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse ( 1 episode )
- 1957 Have Gun, Will Travel ( 91 episodes ) as Hey Boy
- 1962 The Virginian ( 1 episode ) as Ning Yang
- 1965 The Big Valley ( 1 episode ) as Wing Lee
- 1952 Cavalcade of America ( 1 episode )
- 1956 Telephone Time ( 1 episode )
- 1959 The Third Man ( 1 episode )
- 1961 Kraft Mystery Theatre ( 1 episode )
- 1965 The Big Valley ( 1 episode ) as Key
- 1965 The Big Valley ( 1 episode ) as Wong
- 1962 The Virginian ( 1 episode ) as Chang
- 1982 All The Wrong Shoes ( 20 episodes )
- 1954 The Lone Wolf ( 1 episode ) as Chang
- 1964 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. ( 1 episode ) as Yukio
- 1964 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. ( 1 episode ) as Ra Pandu
- 1966 CBS Playhouse ( 1 episode ) as Chief Elder
- 1955 Crossroads ( 1 episode ) as Japanese Officer
