Heihachirō Ōkawa
Acting
Born September 9, 1905 · Soka, Saitama, Japan
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). (Wikkipedia)
Films (51)
One of Those Things
1971
Destroy All Monsters
1968
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
1964
Interpol Code 8
1963
Chûshingura
1962
Jūyaku kōho-sei nanbā 1
1962
Marines, Let's Go
1961
The Big Wave
1961
The Wind Cannot Read
1958
The Mysterians
1957
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957
Three Stripes in the Sun
1955
Floating Clouds
1955
Ghost Man
1954
土曜日の天使
1954
All of Myself
1954
The Eagle of the Pacific
1953
Geisha Girl
1952
A Ripple in a Morning
1952
Lil's Return from Shanghai
1952
Dancing Girl
1951
Tokyo File 212
1951
The Dawn of Freedom
1944
Wings of Victory
1942
Bouquet of the South Seas
1942
The Man Who Waited
1942
Sky of Hope
1942
Mother of the Red Hands
1941
Shanghai Moon
1941
A Sister's Promise
1940
Wedding Day
1940
Keshô yuki
1940
Hikari to kage (Zenpen)
1940
Easy Alley
1939
Ichiyo Higuchi
1939
Numazu Officer School
1939
Blizzard Ronin
1939
Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
1938
Learn from Experience, Part Two
1937
Learn from Experience, Part One
1937
A Woman's Sorrows
1937
Morning's Tree-Lined Street
1936
The Road I Travel with You
1936
Brother and Sister
1936
The Girl in the Rumor
1935
Five Men in a Circus
1935
Wife! Be Like a Rose!
1935
Drifting
1935
Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
1935
Romantic and Crazy
1934
Tipsy Life
1933