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Heihachirō Ōkawa
Born · September 9, 1905
Died · May 27, 1971 (65 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Sōka, Saitama, Japan
Bio
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). (Wikkipedia)
One of Those Things
Kawasaki
0.0
1971
Destroy All Monsters
Engineer
6.9
1968
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
Astronomer (uncredited)
7.0
1964
Chûshingura
7.3
1962
Jūyaku kōho-sei nanbā 1
0.0
1962
Marines, Let's Go
Yoshida (Hotel Manager)
6.0
1961
The Big Wave
Yukio's Father
0.0
1961
The Wind Cannot Read
Lieutenant Nakamura
6.2
1958
The Mysterians
Person at Board Meeting
6.4
1957
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Captain Kanematsu
7.8
1957
Three Stripes in the Sun
Father Yoshida (as Henry Okawa)
7.0
1955
Floating Clouds
7.7
1955
Ghost Man
6.5
1954
The Eagle of the Pacific
(uncredited)
7.7
1953
Geisha Girl
0.0
1952
A Ripple in a Morning
0.0
1952
Lil's Return from Shanghai
Takada
7.0
1952
Dancing Girl
Kayama
6.3
1951
Tokyo File 212
4.5
1951
The Dawn of Freedom
Sub Corporal Ikema Ishihara
0.0
1944
Wings of Victory
6.3
1942
Bouquet of the South Seas
Harada, pilot
5.0
1942
The Man Who Waited
0.0
1942
Sky of Hope
Okada
0.0
1942
Mother of the Red Hands
0.0
1941
Shanghai Moon
0.0
1941
Wedding Day
0.0
1940
Keshô yuki
0.0
1940
Hikari to kage (Zenpen)
0.0
1940
Easy Alley
0.0
1939
Ichiyo Higuchi
0.0
1939
Numazu Officer School
0.0
1939
Blizzard Ronin
0.0
1939
Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
Matsuzaki
6.3
1938
Learn from Experience, Part Two
6.2
1937
Learn from Experience, Part One
6.0
1937
A Woman's Sorrows
6.7
1937
Morning's Tree-Lined Street
Ogawa
6.7
1936
The Road I Travel with You
Asaji Amanuma
6.3
1936
Brother and Sister
6.0
1936
The Girl in the Rumor
Shintaro
5.9
1935
Five Men in a Circus
Kokichi
5.4
1935
Wife! Be Like a Rose!
Seiji (Kimiko's boyfriend)
7.0
1935
Drifting
Sankichi
0.0
1935
Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
Aoyama
6.8
1935
Romantic and Crazy
Count
0.0
1934
Tipsy Life
0.0
1933