14. The karate fight between Captain Marco and Chungjin, the Communist agent, was the first time that two karateka had faced-off in an American-made film. Who played Chungjin?
From Quiz The (Original) Manchurian Candidate
Answer:
Henry Silva
For a Brooklynite of Spanish-Sicilian descent, Henry Silva made a dandy Korean! Silva grew up in Harlem and when he was 13 he put paid to his regular schooling to study acting. He paid his way by working as a dishwasher and a waiter and 14 years later, when he was 27, he auditioned for a place at the prestigious Actors Studio, to study under its Artistic Director, the prominent acting teacher Lee Strasberg. Silva was one of five successful applicants out of 3,500 hopefuls! Strasberg taught the Stanislavsky Method and trained such luminaries as Marlon Brando, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Shelley Winters, Anthony Franciosa, Eva Marie Saint, James Dean, Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro...it's a long list of stars, and it even includes Marilyn Monroe who was already a star when she took lessons from Strasberg.
If you answered Han Suyin, you are hereby sentenced to one year of non-stop viewings of 'A Many-Splendored Thing', a sappy romance based on the novel of the same name by novelist/physician Suyin.
James Shigeta and Jack Soo starred in the film version of 'Flower Drum Song' (as Wang Ta, the romantic lead, and Sammy Fong, the playboy nightclub owner, respectively). You may remember Soo as the wise-cracking Sergeant Nick Yemana on 'Barney Miller'.
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