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Artist. Before becoming an actor, he was an artist in Seattle and, later, Hollywood. Luke worked on several of the murals inside Grauman's Chinese Theatre. He did some of the original artwork for the pressbook of the original King Kong (1933).
Keye Luke was born in Canton, China. He grew up in Seattle, Washington, and entered the film business as a commercial artist and a designer of movie posters. He was hired as a technical advisor on several Asian-themed films, and made his film debut in The Painted Veil (1934).
- June 18, 1904
- January 12, 1991
May 4, 2020 · In the 1970s, he became just as famous as Master Po, a blind sage in Kung Fu, a hit television series. In a screen, stage and television career that lasted more than half a century, Luke racked up more than 150 credits as a movie, television, and voice actor.
May 20, 2015 · Keye Luke (1904-1991), the Chinese-American actor whose Hollywood career spanned seven decades, made his screen debut in an uncredited supporting role in The Painted Veil (1934), but his big break came when he was cast as Lee Chan, detective Charlie Chan’s “Number One Son,” at Fox (soon to become Twentieth Century-Fox).
Actor: Gremlins 2: The New Batch. Keye Luke was born in Canton, China. He grew up in Seattle, Washington, and entered the film business as a commercial artist and a designer of movie posters.
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- Guangzhou, China
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- Whittier, California, USA
Jan 16, 1991 · He made his debut in a small part in a well-reviewed film drawn from Somerset Maugham’s novel “The Painted Veil,” and he became one of the few Chinese actors who kept relatively busy in an...
Luke was an artist before he was an actor. He painted murals and the ceiling at the famous Grauman's Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood. Then - I'm condensing this as to not give away too much - he became involved in the Chan movie series, which starred Warner Oland as the famous detective.
