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.
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).
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Filmography (Movies)
One of Those Things
Character:Kawasaki
Release Date:22/01/1971
Destroy All Monsters
Character:Engineer
Release Date:01/08/1968
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
Character:Astronomer
Release Date:20/12/1964
Interpol Code 8
Character:Quyen
Release Date:31/08/1963
Chûshingura
Character:
Release Date:03/11/1962
Jūyaku kōho-sei nanbā 1
Character:
Release Date:07/07/1962
Marines, Let's Go
Character:Yoshida (Hotel Manager)
Release Date:15/08/1961
The Big Wave
Character:Yukio's Father
Release Date:02/04/1961
The Wind Cannot Read
Character:Lieutenant Nakamura
Release Date:10/06/1958
The Mysterians
Character:Person at Board Meeting
Release Date:28/12/1957
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Character:Captain Kanematsu
Release Date:11/10/1957
Three Stripes in the Sun
Character:Father Yoshida (as Henry Okawa)
Release Date:23/11/1955
Floating Clouds
Character:
Release Date:15/01/1955
Ghost Man
Character:
Release Date:13/10/1954
土曜日の天使
Character:
Release Date:24/08/1954
All of Myself
Character:Kadokura
Release Date:12/05/1954
The Eagle of the Pacific
Character:(uncredited)
Release Date:21/10/1953
Geisha Girl
Character:
Release Date:02/05/1952
A Ripple in a Morning
Character:
Release Date:01/05/1952
Lil's Return from Shanghai
Character:Takada
Release Date:04/04/1952
Dancing Girl
Character:Kayama
Release Date:17/08/1951
Tokyo File 212
Character:
Release Date:26/01/1951
The Dawn of Freedom
Character:Sub Corporal Ikema Ishihara
Release Date:10/02/1944
Wings of Victory
Character:
Release Date:14/10/1942
Bouquet of the South Seas
Character:Harada, pilot
Release Date:21/05/1942
The Man Who Waited
Character:
Release Date:23/04/1942
Sky of Hope
Character:Okada
Release Date:14/01/1942
Mother of the Red Hands
Character:
Release Date:03/09/1941
Shanghai Moon
Character:
Release Date:01/07/1941
A Sister's Promise
Character:Hideo Nogami
Release Date:30/10/1940
Wedding Day
Character:
Release Date:20/03/1940
Keshô yuki
Character:
Release Date:14/02/1940
Hikari to kage (Zenpen)
Character:
Release Date:18/01/1940
Easy Alley
Character:
Release Date:19/09/1939
Ichiyo Higuchi
Character:
Release Date:31/05/1939
Numazu Officer School
Character:
Release Date:21/02/1939
Blizzard Ronin
Character:
Release Date:11/01/1939
Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
Character:Matsuzaki
Release Date:29/09/1938
Learn from Experience, Part Two
Character:
Release Date:18/12/1937
Learn from Experience, Part One
Character:
Release Date:01/10/1937
A Woman's Sorrows
Character:
Release Date:21/01/1937
Morning's Tree-Lined Street
Character:Ogawa
Release Date:01/11/1936
The Road I Travel with You
Character:Asaji Amanuma
Release Date:11/09/1936
Brother and Sister
Character:
Release Date:21/06/1936
The Girl in the Rumor
Character:Shintaro
Release Date:22/12/1935
Five Men in a Circus
Character:Kokichi
Release Date:21/10/1935
Wife! Be Like a Rose!
Character:Seiji (Kimiko's boyfriend)
Release Date:15/08/1935
Drifting
Character:Sankichi
Release Date:01/06/1935
Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
Character:Aoyama
Release Date:01/03/1935
Romantic and Crazy
Character:Count
Release Date:03/05/1934
Tipsy Life
Character:
Release Date:04/05/1933
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