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