Kam Fong
Biography
Born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1918, Kam Fong (born Kam Tong Chun) is best known to television viewers for playing Detective Chin Ho Kelly…moreBorn
5/27/1918, Honolulu, HIDied
10/18/2002Birth Name
Kam Tong ChunGender
MaleCredits
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Star (1)
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Hawaii Five-O
Chin Ho Kelly
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S 2:
Ep 15
Blind Tiger
12/31/69
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Ep 14
Which Way Did They Go?
12/24/69
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Ep 13
The Joker's Wild, Man, Wild
12/17/69
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Ep 12
The Devil and Mr. Frog
12/10/69
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Ep 11
Leopard on the Rock
12/3/69
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Ep 15
Blind Tiger
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Hawaii Five-O
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Guest Star (4)
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Magnum, P.I.
Kanki
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Ep 17
The Love-For-Sale Boat
2/14/85
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Ep 17
The Love-For-Sale Boat
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Magnum, P.I.
Kam Chung
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Ep 20
The Last Page
3/4/82
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Ep 20
The Last Page
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Hawaii Five-O
Chin Ho Kelly
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Ep 2
Cocoon (2)
9/20/68
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Ep 1
Cocoon (1)
9/20/68
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Cocoon (2)
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Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
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Ep 16
Murder is a Private Affair
6/10/60
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Murder is a Private Affair
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Magnum, P.I.
Trivia and Quotes
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Kam Fong's grave is at Diamond Head Memorial Park on Oahu, very near the location of the sound stage used for filming scenes for later episodes of Hawaii Five-O.
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Kam Fong's birth name, Kam Tong Chun, means "golden temple" in Chinese. An elementary school teacher mistakenly taught him to write his name as Kam Fong Chun.
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On hearing of his death, Hawaii Five-O producer Leonard Freeman's widow said Kam Fong was a "dear, dear man and I adored him."
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Kam Fong: (on Hollywood remakes of successful TV shows like "Hawaii Five-O") If they did "Five-O" again, everybody would compare Jack Lord to the new guy. Its never the same. The original is always better than the remake.
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Kam Fong: (on working with Jack Lord, an actor notorious for being inaccessible and aloof) (But) he was a softy with a marshmallow heart. He loved kids. He had a baby son and lost him. I think it always affected him.
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Kam Fong: (on growing up poor and hungry after his father and mother divorced) It was a very hard life. To this day, I never have breakfast or lunch, even on Sundays. My wife gets angry with me. Its a fallback to when I was a youngster around the 1930s. We had nothing but soda crackers, water, and sugar.
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