Nancy Kwan

Nancy Kwan

Birthday: 1939-05-19

Place of Birth: Hong Kong, British Crown Colony [now China]

Biography: Nancy Kwan is a Hong Kong-born Eurasian-American actress, who played a pivotal role in the acceptance of actors of Asian ancestry in major Hollywood film roles. Widely praised for her beauty, Kwan was considered a sex symbol in the 1960s.

Movies

The Wrecking Crew
The Wrecking Crew

When Count Contini attempts to destroy the world's economy by masterminding the theft of $1 billion ...

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Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story

This film is a glimpse into the life, love and the unconquerable spirit of the legendary Bruce Lee. ...

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Flower Drum Song
Flower Drum Song

A young woman arrives in San Francisco's Chinatown, from Hong Kong, with the intention of marrying a...

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The Last Ninja
The Last Ninja

A successful art dealer is sought out by law enforcement after terrorists take some scientists hosta...

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The World of Suzie Wong
The World of Suzie Wong

A Hong Kong prostitute tries modeling and falls for the artist who's painting her....

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Lt. Robin Crusoe U.S.N.
Lt. Robin Crusoe U.S.N.

Lt. Robin Crusoe is a navy pilot who bails out of his plane after engine trouble. He reaches a deser...

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Be Water
Be Water

In 1971, after being rejected by Hollywood, Bruce Lee returned to his parents’ homeland of Hong Kong...

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Ray of Sunshine
Ray of Sunshine

Rachael, an aspiring pianist with a troubled past, disguises herself as a boy and searches for her f...

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Murder on the Yellow Brick Road
Murder on the Yellow Brick Road

A pretty young songbird found murdered on Hollywood Boulevard. The crusty old Private Eye who was in...

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The McMasters
The McMasters

When a black Civil War veteran becomes co-owner of the southern McMasters ranch, the incensed local ...

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Night Creature
Night Creature

A big-game hunter brings a killer leopard to his private island and turns it loose so he can hunt it...

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Fate Is the Hunter
Fate Is the Hunter

An airline executive refuses to believe that pilot error, by his friend, caused a fatal crash and pe...

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Anna May Wong - Frosted Yellow Willows: Her Life, Times and Legend
Anna May Wong - Frosted Yellow Willows: Her Life, Times and Legend

Documentary of Anna May Wong, a Chinese-American woman who endured many hardships and heartaches to ...

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Night Children
Night Children

A veteran cop (David Carradine) investigates the crimes of an anarchist street gang that causes chao...

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Project: Kill
Project: Kill

A former government assassin flees a mind-control program in the Philippines, pursued by his ex-part...

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Honeymoon Hotel
Honeymoon Hotel

A man left at the alter goes on his honeymoon trip anyway, taking his best man along instead....

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To Whom It May Concern: Ka Shen's Journey
To Whom It May Concern: Ka Shen's Journey

The definitive and true-life story of Nancy Kwan Ka-Shen, who as a young Eurasian girl from Hong Kon...

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Walking the Edge
Walking the Edge

A Los Angeles taxi driver helps a distraught woman on the run from gangsters after they murder her h...

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The Girl Who Knew Too Much
The Girl Who Knew Too Much

A runaway truck containing the corpse of a slain gang leader rolls into a California nightclub owned...

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Keys to Freedom
Keys to Freedom

The keys to freedom for citizens of Hong Kong are U.S. passports, as their city quakes with the immi...

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Wonder Women
Wonder Women

Dr. Tsu is a brilliant surgeon with her own exotic island off the coast of Manila. Using her sexy, a...

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Tamahine
Tamahine

The headmaster of a stuffy British boys' school receives a surprise visit from the now-grown, and ve...

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Angkor: Cambodia Express
Angkor: Cambodia Express

In a tale of drama and adventure, young journalist Andy Cameron (Robert Walker) has to get into Camb...

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Reel Horror
Reel Horror

Evil spirits that emerge from cans of old movie film terrorize a neighborhood....

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The Main Attraction
The Main Attraction

An affable drifter on the lam for a murder he didn't commit hides out in a circus....

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You Don't Know Jack: The Jack Soo Story
You Don't Know Jack: The Jack Soo Story

The film tells actor Jack Soo's story through a montage of film and television clips, rare footage, ...

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Nobody's Perfect
Nobody's Perfect

This military service comedy chronicles the misadventures of the U.S.S. Bustard in Japan. The crew h...

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The Wild Affair
The Wild Affair

Young office assistant Majorie will marry soon, however, she's plagued by doubts if her fiance is th...

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Encyclopedia of Martial Arts: Hollywood Celebrities
Encyclopedia of Martial Arts: Hollywood Celebrities

The first video to combine international martial arts together with interviews and demonstrations by...

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Mr. Yunioshi:  An Asian Perspective
Mr. Yunioshi: An Asian Perspective

Mr. Yunioshi: An Asian Perspective provides some insightful commentary of how far we've come concern...

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Arrivederci, Baby!
Arrivederci, Baby!

Nick tries to kill his wife to get her money, but when learning of this, she plans the same for him!...

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The Corrupt Ones
The Corrupt Ones

Freelance photographer Cliff Wilder (Robert Stack) finds himself the target of various colorful vill...

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Blade in Hong Kong
Blade in Hong Kong

Joe Blade is an unclaimed TV pilot film. An American, Blade works in Hong Kong, the home of his adop...

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Cold Dog Soup
Cold Dog Soup

A taxi driver (Quaid) pounds Zen parables (if time money, is time the root of all evil?) into his pa...

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Sally's Beauty Spot
Sally's Beauty Spot

A large black mole above an Asian woman's breast serves as a metaphor for cultural and racial differ...

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The Pacific Connection
The Pacific Connection

Ben is a farm boy who comes into conflict with the Evil Spanish Governor and his two sons. To assist...

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Hollywood Chinese
Hollywood Chinese

Hollywood Chinese is a captivating look at cinema history through the lens of the Chinese American e...

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Window Horses
Window Horses

Rosie Ming, a young Canadian poet, is invited to perform at a Poetry Festival in Shiraz, Iran, but s...

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Supercock
Supercock

An American cowboy in the Philippines gets mixed up in cockfighting....

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Slaying the Dragon
Slaying the Dragon

A highly-critical documentary about the history of Asian-American actresses in Hollywood. Features i...

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Rebellious
Rebellious

Late stuntman Bernhard Pock wrote, directed, and starred in this gritty modern-day fairy tale about ...

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Paint It Black
Paint It Black

A young woman attempts to deal with the death of her boyfriend while continuously confronted by his ...

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Miracle Landing
Miracle Landing

Based on a real, in-flight incident in 1988, a passenger jet loses a portion of its fuselage in flig...

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Babies
Babies

The physical and emotional trauma of three close-knit women trying to have children is explored....

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The Magic Stone
The Magic Stone

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Spring Comes Not Again
Spring Comes Not Again

Spring Comes Not Again is a tragic story of romance and betrayal, set in contemporary Hong Kong. The...

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Fortress in the Sun
Fortress in the Sun

The most expensive message action film ever to hit the screen. An international-geared vehicle showc...

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Mr. P's Dancing Sushi Bar
Mr. P's Dancing Sushi Bar

A film about a small sushi counter in the lobby of a hotel in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, for Japanes...

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Karioka etchos de America
Karioka etchos de America

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Streets of Hong Kong
Streets of Hong Kong

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For Life or Death
For Life or Death

A man named Kaan Woo (James Lew) is escaping his dark past, having been involved with a cult of brow...

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Cocoon
Cocoon

In this pilot film to the "Hawaii Five-0" television series, special law officer Steve McGarrett tra...

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That Lady from Peking
That Lady from Peking

Max Foster (Carl Betz), an American newspaper reporter, is in Hong Kong to assist a defecting Russia...

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Heiße Ware aus Hong Kong
Heiße Ware aus Hong Kong

Made for German TV documentary about the early craze of Hong Kong Martial Arts Cinema. While critica...

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Bruce Lee: A Life in Ten Pictures
Bruce Lee: A Life in Ten Pictures

Revealing the life of the acclaimed martial artist and actor through ten defining images. Bruce Lee'...

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