Heihachirō Ōkawa
Actor
Born September 9, 1905 in Soka, 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).
Filmography
One of Those Things
Kawasaki
Destroy All Monsters
Engineer
King Kong Escapes
Frankenstein Conquers the World
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
Astronomer
Interpol Code 8
Quyen
Chûshingura
Jūyaku kōho-sei nanbā 1
Marines, Let's Go
Yoshida (Hotel Manager)
The Big Wave
Yukio's Father
The Wind Cannot Read
Lieutenant Nakamura
The Mysterians
Person at Board Meeting
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Captain Kanematsu
Three Stripes in the Sun
Father Yoshida (as Henry Okawa)
Floating Clouds
Ghost Man
Husband Comes Home Every Suturday
All of Myself
Kadokura
The Eagle of the Pacific
(uncredited)
Geisha Girl
A Ripple in a Morning
Lil's Return from Shanghai
Takada
Dancing Girl
Kayama
Tokyo File 212
The Dawn of Freedom
Sub Corporal Ikema Ishihara
Wings of Victory
Bouquet of the South Seas
Harada, pilot
The Man Who Waited
Sky of Hope
Okada
Mother of the Red Hands
Shanghai Moon
The Sisters' Agreement
Hideo Nogami
Wedding Day
Keshô yuki
Hikari to kage (Zenpen)
Easy Alley
Numazu Officer School
Blizzard Ronin
Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
Matsuzaki
Learn from Experience, Part Two
Learn from Experience, Part One
A Woman's Sorrows
Morning's Tree-Lined Street
Ogawa
The Responsibility of Kissing
The Road I Travel with You
Asaji Amanuma
Brother and Sister
The Girl in the Rumor
Shintaro
Five Men in a Circus
Kokichi
Wife! Be Like a Rose!
Seiji (Kimiko's boyfriend)
Drifting
Sankichi
Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
Aoyama
Romantic and Crazy
Count
Tipsy Life