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- Birth nameHerbert Tsangtse Kwouk
- Height5′ 6″ (1.68 m)
- Burt Kwouk was a British actor, who was best known for his role as Cato in the Pink Panther films, and for playing Mr Ling in the third James Bond film, Goldfinger.
Kwouk was born in Warrington, but was brought up in Shanghai. He made his film debut in the 1957 film Windom's Way. In Goldfinger (1964) he played Mr. Ling, a Chinese expert in nuclear fission; in the non-Eon spoof Casino Royale (1967) he played a general and in You Only Live Twice (1967) Kwouk played the part of a Japanese operative of Blofeld.
He also made appearances in many television programmes, including a portrayal of Imperial Japanese Army Major Yamauchi in the British drama series Tenko and as Entwistle in Last of the Summer Wine.
Kwouk died on 24 May 2016, at the age of 85.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Pedro Borges - Burt, whose real name was Herbert was born in Manchester while his parents were on holiday doing a trip around Europe. They took him back to Shanghai when he was 11 months old then when 17 he went to America with the intention of getting an education and returning home. He was studying law when a revolution took place in China. His parents moved to Hong Kong when money from home dried up he started taking jobs to continue his law studies.He came to London in the 1950's not knowing what he was going to do but started getting work as a film extra playing Chinese and Japanese roles . His first real part was in 'The Inn of the Sixth Happiness' He didn't really want the role of Cato in the Pink Panther films as he didn't think the role was very noticeable or strong enough.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Tonyman 5
- SpouseCaroline Leigh(1961 - May 24, 2016) (his death, 1 child)
- Born in Britain but raised in Shanghai, he is best known as Cato in the Pink Panther movies.
- He was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2011 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to drama.
- He was dubbed in You Only Live Twice (1967).
- Member of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity
- Has acted in both the Doctor Who Franchise and Eon James Bond series.
- They can call me anything they like, as I long as I get paid and my name is spelt correctly.
- [When asked why he played stereotypical Asian characters] If I don't do it someone else will.
- It would appear at times that World War II in the Far East was fought for my benefit. So that I could have lots of acting jobs being in the Japanese Army, the Chinese Army, the Korean Army; all of them.
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