Keye Luke
Gender: Male
Born: 18th June 1904
Died: 12th January 1991
Nationality: United States of America, China
TV programs: Kung Fu, Battle of the Planets, Space Ghost and Dino Boy, Sidekicks, Anna and the King, The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan, Thundarr the Barbarian, Kentucky Jones
Movies: Gremlins, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Phantom Of Chinatown, Barricade, The Green Hornet, The Green Hornet Strikes Again, Mr. Moto's Gamble, Charlie Chan's Secret, Charlie Chan in Paris, The Gang's All Here, Secret Agent X-9, Battle of the Planets: 25th Anniversary Collection, Battle of the Planets, Lost City of the Jungle, First Yank into Tokyo, Alice, Charlie Chan on Broadway, Let's Go Collegiate, Charlie Chan at the Race Track, Nobody's Perfect, The Good Earth, Charlie Chan at the Opera, Charlie Chan in Shanghai, Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, The Chairman, Dead Heat, Phantoms of Death Triple Feature, Bowery Blitzkrieg, Charlie Chan at the Circus, A Fine Mess, The Adventures of Smilin' Jack, The Amsterdam Kill, Sleep, My Love, A Tragedy at Midnight, Spy Ship, Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case, Between Two Women, Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant, A Yank on the Burma Road, 3 Men in White, Dark Delusion, Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble, Sued for Libel
Keye Luke (Chinese: 陸錫麟, Cantonese: Luk Sek Lam, Pinyin: Lù Xīlín; June 18, 1904 – January 12, 1991) was a Chinese-born American actor. He was best known for playing Lee Chan, the "Number One Son" in the Charlie Chan films, the original Kato in the 1939-1941 Green Hornet film serials, and Master Po in the television series, Kung Fu. He was the first Chinese-American contract player signed with RKO, Universal, and MGM and was one of the most prominent Asian actors of American cinema in the mid-twentieth century.
Luke was born in Guangzhou, China to a father who owned an art shop, but grew up in Seattle. He was part of the Luke family, a relative of Wing Luke, namesake of Seattle's Wing Luke Asian Museum. He had four siblings who all migrated to California during the Depression. His younger brother Edwin Luke also became an actor in the Charlie Chan series. Luke became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1944—in a moment fictionally recreated in Lisa See's novel Shanghai Girls.
Before becoming an actor he was a local artist in Seattle and, later, Hollywood, working on several of the murals inside Grauman's Chinese Theater. He did some of the original artwork for the 1933
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