
Heihachirō Ōkawa
Biography
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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Acting (49 movies)

Hikari to kage (Zenpen)
1940

The Man Who Waited
1942

Marines, Let's Go
1961

Jūyaku kōho-sei nanbā 1
1962

Blizzard Ronin
1939

Easy Alley
1939

Keshô yuki
1940

A Woman's Sorrows
1937

Tokyo File 212
1951

The Girl in the Rumor
1935

Tipsy Life
1933

The Dawn of Freedom
1944

Five Men in a Circus
1935

Bouquet of the South Seas
1942

Morning's Tree-Lined Street
1936

Learn from Experience, Part Two
1937

Dancing Girl
1951

The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957

The Mysterians
1957

Destroy All Monsters
1968

Wife! Be Like a Rose!
1935

Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
1938

Wings of Victory
1942

The Road I Travel with You
1936

The Wind Cannot Read
1958

One of Those Things
1971

Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
1964

Learn from Experience, Part One
1937

Geisha Girl
1952

Ghost Man
1954

Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
1935

Three Stripes in the Sun
1955

Wedding Day
1940

The Big Wave
1961

A Ripple in a Morning
1952

Brother and Sister
1936

Drifting
1935

Chûshingura
1962

Shanghai Moon
1941

Floating Clouds
1955

The Eagle of the Pacific
1953

Mother of the Red Hands
1941

Sky of Hope
1942

Numazu Officer School
1939

Romantic and Crazy
1934

All of Myself
1954

Interpol Code 8
1963

A Sister's Promise
1940

土曜日の天使
1954
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