
Wong Chung
Acting
Biography
Wong Chung was born on July 17, 1880 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor, known for King of Chinatown (1939), The Lady from Shanghai (1947) and Shanghai Express (1932). He died on July 25, 1963 in Los Angeles, California.
Known For

A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.
Shanghai Express

A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
The Lady from Shanghai

A strange animal attack turns a botanist into a bloodthirsty monster.
Werewolf of London

After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.
Frisco Kid

Mary Rutledge arrives from the east, finds her fiancé dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Luis Chamalis' Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling house in San Francisco in the 1850s. She falls in love with miner Jim Carmichael and takes his gold dust at the wheel. She goes after him, Chamalis goes after her with intent to harm Carmichael.
Barbary Coast

An American missionary is gradually seduced by a courtly warlord holding her in Shanghai.
The Bitter Tea of General Yen

A Chinese-American woman tries to expose an illegal alien smuggling ring.
Daughter of Shanghai

Eastern millionaire's son Bard finds his father murdered and flies west to see rancher Drew who may know something about it. En route he crashes his plane into Jerry's bathroom; she falls in love with him which makes her suitor Steve jealous.
A Holy Terror

"In the Gay Nineties New York had grown up into bustles and balloon Sleeves ... but The Bowery had grown younger, louder and more rowdy until it was known as the 'Livest Mile on the face of the globe' ... the cradle of men who were later to be famous.
The Bowery

Dishonorably discharged from the U.S. Marines after starting a barroom brawl that gets his leatherneck buddy "Tubby" Waters killed, hothead "Woody" Davis infiltrates a gang of Shanghai gunrunners to bring the culprit to justice.
The Leathernecks Have Landed

Singer Rose Carlton, otherwise known as 'The San Francisco Doll', accidentally kills her controlling boyfriend when he tries to prevent her from leaving. To evade the police, Rose sets sail for Nome with captain Bull Bracket. When the ship takes on another passenger, reformer Annie Alden, Carlton's life is changed forever, and she sets out to honor a deeply personal debt.
Klondike Annie

Foreign investors converge on a luxury hotel in China to bid on a new kind of radioscope. But, this is a hotel where Burns and Allen are the in-house medical staff, a measles risk sends the whole building into quarantine, and a madcap millionaire crashes dinner in his autogyro. Hotel and radioscope become a stage for an all-star cast of comedians and musicians, from vaudeville to the new generation.
International House

Through flashbacks going as far back as the end of WW1, the story of a Nazi war criminal is exposed during his trial.
None Shall Escape

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.
Across the Pacific

Val takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of her half-sister Arlene, a wealthy socialite who is involved in criminal activities.
Fog Over Frisco

A Chinese-American surgeon faces a moral dilemma after operating on the mob boss in charge of vice and protection rackets in her city's Chinatown.
King of Chinatown

At her Chinese father's bidding, a woman goes to murder an enemy and meets a Scotland Yard detective.
Daughter of the Dragon

A Portuguese tuna fisherman catches his bride with his first mate.
Tiger Shark

A Chinese doctor vows revenge against the allied troops who killed his wife and child during the Boxer Rebellion.
The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu

A young girl working as a dance-hall hostess gets mixed up in a scheme that smuggles illegal Chinese aliens into the country.