
Victor Sen Yung
Highest Rated: 100% The Letter (1940)
Lowest Rated: 50% Flower Drum Song (1961)
Birthday: Oct 18, 1915
Birthplace: San Francisco, California, USA
Victor Sen Yung was an Asian-American actor at a time when Asian actors were, more often than not, relegated to playing cooks, servants, peasants, or sadistic villains with inscrutable plans for worldwide domination. For many minority actors who wished to move beyond the stereotypes, maintaining employment in Hollywood came with making difficult choices, since those types of roles were sometimes the only thing available. Sen Yung is probably best known for his role as the Cartwright family's cook, Hop Sing, on the classic Western television program "Bonanza." The role was that of a stereotypical "Oriental"--hair-triggered, and always ready to chase the character of Hoss around with a cleaver whenever the big guy came near the soup. He is also well-known, especially by crime buffs, for his role as Jimmy, the Number Two son in a series of Charlie Chan mysteries produced in the 1930s for 20th Century Fox and later, after World War II, for the poverty row studio Monogram. Sen Yung served proudly in the U.S. military during the war, but when it came to the movies he played a U.S. traitor in the Humphrey Bogart war picture "Across the Pacific." In 1972, the actor found himself embroiled in an airline hijacking and was shot (but survived) when FBI agents and hijackers opened fire. He died at the age of 65 of asphyxiation from carbon monoxide poisoning while baking clayware in his oven.






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Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Red Pony |
Mr. Sing/ |
- | 1973 |
No Score Yet | 91% | Kung Fu |
Chuen/ |
- | 1971 |
No Score Yet | 42% | Souls for Sale | Wing Young (Character) | - | 1962 |
50% | 72% | Flower Drum Song | Frankie Wing (Character) | - | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bonanza: The Stranger | Hop Sing (Character) | - | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Saga of Hemp Brown | Chang (Character) | - | 1958 |
No Score Yet | 42% | The Hunters | Korean Farmer (Character) | - | 1958 |
89% | 74% | Men in War | Korean Sniper (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Forbidden | Allan Chung (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Groom Wore Spurs | Ignacio (Character) | - | 1951 |
86% | 79% | Woman on the Run | Sammy Chung (Character) | - | 1950 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | State Department: File 649 | Johnny Han (Character) | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Golden Eye | Tommy Chan (Character) | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Docks of New Orleans | Tommy Chan (Character) | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Shanghai Chest | Tommy Chan (Character) | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shadows Over Chinatown | Jimmy Chan (Character) | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Flame | Chang (Character) | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet | 17% | The Trap | Jimmy Chan (Character) | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet | 29% | The Chinese Ring | Tommy Chan (Character) | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet | 0% | Dangerous Money | Jimmy Chan (Character) | - | 1946 |
No Score Yet | 40% | China | Lin Wei (Character) | - | 1943 |
No Score Yet | 68% | Moontide | Takeo (Character) | - | 1942 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Little Tokyo, U.S.A. | Okono (Character) | - | 1942 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Yank on the Burma Road | Wing (Character) | - | 1942 |
80% | 59% | Across the Pacific | Joe Totsuiko (Character) | - | 1942 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Manila Calling | Armando (Character) | - | 1942 |
No Score Yet | 25% | Dead Men Tell | Jimmy Chan (Character) | - | 1941 |
No Score Yet | 62% | Charlie Chan in Rio | Jimmy Chan (Character) | - | 1941 |
No Score Yet | 71% | Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise | Jimmy Chan (Character) | - | 1940 |
100% | 82% | The Letter | Ong Chi Seng (Character) | - | 1940 |
80% | 61% | Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum | Jimmy Chan (Character) | - | 1940 |
No Score Yet | 71% | Charlie Chan in Panama | Jimmy Chan (Character) | - | 1940 |
No Score Yet | 50% | Charlie Chan in Reno | Jimmy Chan (Character) | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet | 61% | Charlie Chan at Treasure Island | Jimmy Chan (Character) | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet | 46% | Charlie Chan in Honolulu | James Chan (Character) | - | 1938 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Police Woman | Ah Choy (Guest Star) | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kung Fu |
Unknown (Character), Unknown (Guest Star) |
1973-1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Paul Lynde Show | Mr. Fong (Guest Star) | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bonanza | Hop Sing (Character) | 1970-1972 1966-1968 1964 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Good Life | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Get Smart | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1969-1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Terry and the Pirates | Oriental (Guest Star) | |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shotgun Slade | Unknown (Guest Star) | |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Here's Lucy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1968-1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I Spy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1968 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. | Businessman (Guest Star) | 1967 |
100% | No Score Yet | The Man From U.N.C.L.E. | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bachelor Father | Unknown (Character) | 1961-1962 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Perry Mason | Mickey Fong (Guest Star) | 1961 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Thriller | Unknown (Character) | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bronco | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mike Hammer | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Death Valley Days | Unknown (Character) | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lone Ranger | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Star and the Story | Unknown (Character) | 1955 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Biff Baker U.S.A. | Yin Yun (Guest Star) | 1954 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Superman | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1953 |
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