Name
Heihachirō Ōkawa
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1905-09-09
Deathday
1971-05-27 (66 years old)
Place of Birth
Soka, Saitama, Japan
Biography
Heihachiro Okawa (Japanese: 大川 平八郎 Hepburn: Ōkawa Heihachirō, 9 September 1905 – 27 May 1971), also sometimes credited as Henry Okawa (ヘンリー大川), was a Japanese film actor active from the 1930s to 1971. With hopes of starting a business, he traveled to the United States in 1923 and studied at Columbia University. He also studied at the Paramount Studios acting school and eventually began working in Hollywood, appearing in films by Howard Hawks and William Wellman. He returned to Japan in 1933 and co-starred in the Photo Chemical Laboratories (PCL) film Horoyoi jinsei. He later appeared in foreign films under the name Henry Okawa.
He is best known for Moyuru ōzora (1940), Dawn of Freedom (1944) Tokyo File 212 (1951), Floating Clouds (1955) and The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957).
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Known For
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The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort ...
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After a meteorite unleashes a three-headed beast upon Tokyo, Mothra tries to unite with Go...
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During WWII, Germans obtain the immortal heart of Frankenstein's monster and transport it ...
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After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors a...
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At the turn of the century, all of the Earth's monsters have been rounded up and kept safe...
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A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a...
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Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-wri...
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Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despit...
- 1940 Hikari to kage (Zenpen)
- 1942 The Man Who Waited
- 1961 Marines, Let's Go as Yoshida (Hotel Manager)
- 1962 Jūyaku kōho-sei nanbā 1
- 1939 Blizzard Ronin
- 1939 Easy Alley
- 1940 Keshô yuki
- 1954 Ghost Man
- 1936 The Road I Travel with You as Asaji Amanuma
- 1938 Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro as Matsuzaki
- 1935 The Girl in the Rumor as Shintaro
- 1936 Morning's Tree-Lined Street as Ogawa
- 1952 Lil's Return from Shanghai as Takada
- 1939 Ichiyo Higuchi
- 1951 Tokyo File 212
- 1937 Learn from Experience, Part Two
- 1951 Dancing Girl as Kayama
- 1933 Tipsy Life
- 1952 Geisha Girl
- 1935 Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts as Aoyama
- 1937 Learn from Experience, Part One
- 1937 A Woman's Sorrows
- 1935 Wife! Be Like a Rose! as Seiji (Kimiko's boyfriend)
- 1942 Wings of Victory
- 1935 Five Men in a Circus as Kokichi
- 1942 Bouquet of the South Seas as Harada, pilot
- 1944 The Dawn of Freedom as Sub Corporal Ikema Ishihara
- 1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai as Captain Kanematsu
- 1957 The Mysterians as Person at Board Meeting
- 1964 Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster as Astronomer
- 1958 The Wind Cannot Read as Lieutenant Nakamura
- 1971 One of Those Things as Kawasaki
- 1968 Destroy All Monsters as Engineer
- 1955 Three Stripes in the Sun as Father Yoshida (as Henry Okawa)
- 1940 Wedding Day
- 1961 The Big Wave as Yukio's Father
- 1952 A Ripple in a Morning
- 1936 Brother and Sister
- 1935 Drifting as Sankichi
- 1962 Chûshingura
- 1941 Shanghai Moon
- 1955 Floating Clouds
- 1953 The Eagle of the Pacific as (uncredited)
- 1941 Mother of the Red Hands
- 1942 Sky of Hope as Okada
- 1939 Numazu Officer School
- 1934 Romantic and Crazy as Count
- 1954 All of Myself as Kadokura
- 1963 Interpol Code 8 as Quyen
- 1940 The Sisters' Agreement as Hideo Nogami
- 1954 Husband Comes Home Every Suturday
- 1936 The Responsibility of Kissing
- 1954 Love Express
- 1934 Odoriko nikki
- 1955 The History of Love
- 1966 King of the Raccoon Dogs
