Personal Info
Birth date
1875-04-21 (150 Years)
Day of death
1966-05-01
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Watsonville, California, USA
Also known as
Lee Tong Foo
Frank Lee
Lee Tung Foo
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lee Tung Foo (also known as Frank Lee) was a Chinese American Vaudeville performer born in California who performed in English, German, and Latin. He became a film actor later in his life. At the age of 45, he ran a Chinese restaurant he bought in New York City called Jung Sy Mandarin Restaurant. He opened a second restaurant, Imig Sy, and both were strategically placed near Broadway. By the 1930s he returned to theater work, playing some minor roles until 1932, when he was cast as Wang Yun in the film, The Skull Murder Mystery. He continued with minor roles, being cast as the servant of the Detective, Mr. Wong, in the 1939 film The Mystery of Mr. Wong. His last work was in The Manchurian Candidate, an uncredited role as a "Man in Lobby" at the age of 87.
Filmography
Dangerous Assignment
3.5
Overview:
A U.S. government agent travels the world on undercover missions in this 1950s series. Star Brian Donlevy originated the role on radio in the '40s.Terry and the Pirates
3
Overview:
Terry and the Pirates is a short-lived American adventure series based on Milton Caniff's popular comic strip, was telecast from June 26, 1953 to November 21, 1953. The syndicated series ran for 18 episodes and was produced by Don Sharpe Enterprises. Canada Dry Ginger Ale was the show's original sponsor.The Mystery of Mr. Wong
5.7
Overview:
Detective James Lee Wong must find the "Eye of the Daughter of the Moon," a priceless but cursed sapphire stolen in China and smuggled to America. His search takes him into the heart of Chinatown and to the dreaded "House of Hate" to find the deadly gem before it can kill again.Mrs. Parkington
6.1
Overview:
In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by mine owner and financier Augustus Parkington. He moves them to New York, tries to remake her into a society woman, and establishes their home among the wealthiest of New York's high society. Family and social life is not always peaceful, however, and she guides us, in flashbacks, through the rises and falls of the Parkington family fortunes.Mr. Wong, Detective
5.5
Overview:
A chemical manufacturer is killed just after asking detective James Wong to help him. So detective Wong decides to investigate this as well as two subsequent murders.Mission to Moscow
5.306
Overview:
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.Phantom of Chinatown
5.733
Overview:
In the middle of a pictorial lecture on his recent expedition to the Mongolian Desert, Dr. John Benton,the famous explorer, drinks from the water bottle on his lecture table, collapses and dies. His last words "Eternal Fire" are the only clue Chinese detective Jimmy Wong and Captain Street of the police department have to work on.They Were Expendable
6.6
Overview:
After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat, leaving Lt. "Rusty" Ryan frustrated. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, however, Ryan and his buddy Lt. Brickley are told they can finally take their squadron into battle. The PT boats quickly prove their worth, successfully shooting down Japanese planes, relaying messages between islands, and picking off a multitude of enemy ships.The Sheepman
6.8
Overview:
A stranger in a Western cattle-town behaves with remarkable self-assurance, establishing himself as a man to be reckoned with. The reason appears with his stock: a herd of sheep, which he intends to graze on the range. The horrified inhabitants decide to run him out at all costs.Invisible Agent
5.8
Overview:
The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany in this comedy-thriller.Criss Cross
7.142
Overview:
An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster husband.The Purple Heart
6
Overview:
This is the story of the crew of a downed bomber, captured after a run over Tokyo, early in the war. Relates the hardships the men endure while in captivity, and their final humiliation: being tried and convicted as war criminals.Across the Pacific
6.6
Overview:
Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-martialed out of the army and boards a Japanese ship for the Orient in late 1941. But has Leland really been booted out, or is there some other motive for his getting close to fellow passenger Doctor Lorenz? Any motive for getting close to attractive traveler Alberta Marlow would however seem pretty obvious.The Chinese Ring
4.9
Overview:
Soon after a Chinese princess comes to the US to buy planes for her people, she is murdered by a poison dart fired by an air rifle.Flight Command
5.636
Overview:
A rookie flyer, Ens. Alan Drake, joins the famous Hellcats Squadron right out of flight school in Pensacola. He doesn't make a great first impression when he is forced to ditch his airplane and parachute to safety when he arrives at the base but is unable to land due to heavy fog. On his first day on the job, his poor shooting skills results in the Hellcats losing an air combat competition. His fellow pilots accept him anyways but they think he's crossed the line when they erroneously conclude that while their CO Billy Gray is away, Drake has an affair with his wife Lorna. Drake is now an outcast and is prepared to resign from the Navy but his extreme heroism in saving Billy Gray's life turns things around.California Passage
4
Overview:
A series of reversals bring two desperate people together. When a saloon owner is framed by his partner for a stagecoach robbery, he fights to secure an acquittal.Stand Up and Fight
5.8
Overview:
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.They Knew What They Wanted
5.55
Overview:
While courting a young woman by mail, a rich farmer sends a photograph of his foreman instead of his own, which leads to complications when she accepts his marriage proposal.Mr. Wong in Chinatown
5.2
Overview:
A pretty Chinese woman, seeking help from San Francisco detective James Lee Wong, is killed by a poisoned dart in his front hall, having time only to scrawl "Captain J" on a sheet of paper. She proves to be Princess Lin Hwa, on a secret military mission for Chinese forces fighting the Japanese invasion. Mr. Wong finds two captains with the intial J in the case, neither being quite what he seems; there's fog on the waterfront and someone still has that poison-dart gun...The General Died at Dawn
6.2
Overview:
China, 1930s, during the ravaging civil war. General Pen entrusts O'Hara, an intrepid American adventurer, with the mission of providing a large sum of money to Mr. Wu with the task of buying weapons in Shanghai to help end General Yang's tyranny that keeps an entire province under his ruthless iron boot.Calcutta
6.3
Overview:
Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. When their buddy Bill is murdered they investigate. Neale meets Bill's fiancée Virginia and becomes suspicious of a deeper plot while also falling for her charms.Behind the Rising Sun
5.7
Overview:
A Japanese publisher urges his American-educated son to side with the Axis.Phantom Raiders
6.1
Overview:
In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick Carter and his eccentric associate Bartholomew to investigate. Nick recognizes influential nightclub owner Al Taurez as a shady operator, but getting the goods on him depends on slick diversions involving the heavyweight champ of the Pacific Tuna Fleet, a Panamanian bombshell armed with American slang, a young couple in love and a whole raft of crooks and cutthroats.Barricade
5
Overview:
In China, a singer and a journalist meet while traveling on a train attacked by bandits.Dead Men Tell
6.3
Overview:
When the elderly woman sponsoring a treasure hunt is murdered on board her docked ship, Charlie Chan must deal with a treasure map in four pieces, the ghost of a hanged pirate, a talking parrot, a recalcitrant sea captain and several suspicious passengers - and a second murder.Top of the Town
5.2
Overview:
In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story skyscraper. Unfortunately, the attending audience is quite bored until someone starts the place swinging. Musical numbers include: "Blame It on the Rhumba," "Where Are You?" "Jamboree," "Top of the Town," "I Feel That Foolish Feeling Coming On," "There's No Two Ways About It," "Fireman Save My Child"Badlands of Montana
4
Overview:
Wanting to follow in his late father's footsteps, eager reformer Steve Brewster runs for mayor of a small Montana town but is forced to flee and join a gang of notorious outlaws after he's provoked into killing two corrupt officials in self-defense. Gang leader Hammer takes Steve in, and Steve falls for his daughter, Susan, but his loyalties are divided when he's appointed marshal of his hometown.There's a Girl in My Heart
NYR
Overview:
A Gay-Nineties musical set in NYC's Bowery and East-Side explores the life of its inhabitants---an Irish policeman and his tap-dancing daughter and music-hall wife; a German professor of music and his singing daughter; and an Italian café-owner, a kindly priest, a struggling young doctor and a saloon-keeper. And a political ward-heeler, Terrence Dowd, who has a deceptive and dishonest plan to sell them all out in order to build a fight arena. But he meets his match in property-owner Claire Adamson.Acting
1958The Sheepman as Willie (uncredited)
1957Badlands of Montana as Ling
1952Terry and the Pirates (1 Episode) as Unknown
1952Dangerous Assignment (1 Episode) as Unknown
1950Short Grass as Lin
1950California Passage as Cook (uncredited)
1950The Cariboo Trail as Ling
1949There's a Girl in My Heart as Charlie Li
1949Criss Cross as Chinese Cook (uncredited)
1948Strange Gamble as Wong
1948The Checkered Coat as Kim
1947The Chinese Ring as Armstrong's Majordomo
1946Calcutta as Kim (uncredited)
1945They Were Expendable as Asian Bartender (uncredited)
1944Mrs. Parkington as Sam (uncredited)
1944Laura as Waldo's Servant (uncredited)
1944Barbary Coast Gent as Wong Gee (uncredited)
1944The Purple Heart as Unknown
1943Behind the Rising Sun as Dinner Guest
1943Mission to Moscow as Tsiang Ting Fu - Chinese Ambassador (uncredited)
1942Across the Pacific as Sam Wing On
1942Invisible Agent as Gen. Chin Lee (uncredited)
1941Secret of the Wastelands as Doy Kee
1941Dead Men Tell as Ship's Cook
1940Flight Command as Jung, Gary's Servant
1940Phantom of Chinatown as Foo
1940They Knew What They Wanted as Ah Gee, the Cook
1940Phantom Raiders as Mr. Yamamoto
1939Barricade as Houseboy
1939Mr. Wong in Chinatown as Willie
1939The Mystery of Mr. Wong as Willie
1939Stand Up and Fight as Chinese cook
1938Mr. Wong, Detective as Tchin
1937Top of the Town as Chinese Ambassador
1936The General Died at Dawn as Mr. Chen
1932The Skull Murder Mystery as Wang Yun