Most Recent Role: Mr. Wong on Police Woman
Alias Name(s): Phillip Ahn, Phil Ahn
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Highland Park, California
Birthday: 3-29-1905
Birth Name: Pil Lip Ahn
Date of Death: 2-28-1978
Cause of Death: complications from surgery for lung cancer
Alias Name(s): Phillip Ahn, Phil Ahn
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Highland Park, California
Birthday: 3-29-1905
Birth Name: Pil Lip Ahn
Date of Death: 2-28-1978
Cause of Death: complications from surgery for lung cancer
Most Recent Appearance
The Human Rights Of Tiki Kim
Wednesday 1 February 1978 on NBC
A young girl from Korea is abducted and held to prevent her from talking about the murder she witnessed.
Philip provided the voice for Chang, the wisest of seagulls, in Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1973).
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Mayor Tom Bradley of Los Angeles declared November 14 "Philp Ahn and Korean Heritage Day" in 1984, the day Philip's star was placed on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame.
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Studied electrical engineering at Polytechnic High School.
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He helped bring the Korean Friendship Bell to San Pedro, California.
(edit) His youngest brother, Ralph, is a film and television actor, and appeared with him in Confessions Of An Opium Eater (1962). (edit)
(edit) His youngest brother, Ralph, is a film and television actor, and appeared with him in Confessions Of An Opium Eater (1962). (edit)
(about his playing Japanese villains in WWII films)
Philip Ahn: True, I hated the Japanese, but I told myself that if I was going to play the enemy, I was going to play him as viciously as I could. In 'Back To Bataan' I slapped little children and went so far as to hang a teacher from an American flagpole. I took pride in being the most evil man alive. (edit) (about people believing he really lived like Master Kan from "Kung Fu")
Philip Ahn: I was raised a Presbyterian and I'll always be a Presbyterian. I'm an actor, who is paid to read the lines as they have been written. Have I ever questioned their authenticity? I prefer to think the philosophies Kan expresses are genuine, that they are taken from the Tao religion, which teaches everyone to do good and which preaches non-violence until you are backed up a tree and must defend yourself. That is where kung fu becomes justified in our stories. Hence a TV series. (edit)
Philip Ahn: True, I hated the Japanese, but I told myself that if I was going to play the enemy, I was going to play him as viciously as I could. In 'Back To Bataan' I slapped little children and went so far as to hang a teacher from an American flagpole. I took pride in being the most evil man alive. (edit) (about people believing he really lived like Master Kan from "Kung Fu")
Philip Ahn: I was raised a Presbyterian and I'll always be a Presbyterian. I'm an actor, who is paid to read the lines as they have been written. Have I ever questioned their authenticity? I prefer to think the philosophies Kan expresses are genuine, that they are taken from the Tao religion, which teaches everyone to do good and which preaches non-violence until you are backed up a tree and must defend yourself. That is where kung fu becomes justified in our stories. Hence a TV series. (edit)
Other Appearances
| Star |
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Kung Fu
Master Kan |
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Adventures in Paradise
The Bamboo Curtain Ling |
Adventures in Paradise
Build My Gallows Low Mr. Chee |
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Adventures in Paradise
Command at Sea Reverend Yen |
Adventures in Paradise
One Little Pearl Ling Wan |
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Alcoa Hour
The Last Train to Pusan Major Pak |
Alcoa Premiere
The Fortress Chinese Major |
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