Heihachirō Ōkawa
Acting • Born 1905-09-09 – Died 1971-05-27
Biography
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)
Filmography
51 credits
Hikari to kage (Zenpen)
Movie • 1940
The Man Who Waited
Movie • 1942
Marines, Let's Go
Movie • 1961
Yoshida (Hotel Manager)
Jūyaku kōho-sei nanbā 1
Movie • 1962
Blizzard Ronin
Movie • 1939
Easy Alley
Movie • 1939
Keshô yuki
Movie • 1940
Tipsy Life
Movie • 1933
A Woman's Sorrows
Movie • 1937
Learn from Experience, Part One
Movie • 1937
Learn from Experience, Part Two
Movie • 1937
Ichiyo Higuchi
Movie • 1939
Tokyo File 212
Movie • 1951
Geisha Girl
Movie • 1952
Ghost Man
Movie • 1954
Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
Movie • 1935
Aoyama
Five Men in a Circus
Movie • 1935
Kokichi
Wife! Be Like a Rose!
Movie • 1935
Seiji (Kimiko's boyfriend)
The Girl in the Rumor
Movie • 1935
Shintaro
The Road I Travel with You
Movie • 1936
Asaji Amanuma
Morning's Tree-Lined Street
Movie • 1936
Ogawa
Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
Movie • 1938
Matsuzaki
Bouquet of the South Seas
Movie • 1942
Harada, pilot
Wings of Victory
Movie • 1942
The Dawn of Freedom
Movie • 1944
Sub Corporal Ikema Ishihara
Dancing Girl
Movie • 1951
Kayama
Lil's Return from Shanghai
Movie • 1952
Takada
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Movie • 1957
Captain Kanematsu
The Mysterians
Movie • 1957
Person at Board Meeting
The Wind Cannot Read
Movie • 1958
Lieutenant Nakamura
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
Movie • 1964
Astronomer
Destroy All Monsters
Movie • 1968
Engineer
One of Those Things
Movie • 1971
Kawasaki
Three Stripes in the Sun
Movie • 1955
Father Yoshida (as Henry Okawa)
Wedding Day
Movie • 1940
The Big Wave
Movie • 1961
Yukio's Father
A Ripple in a Morning
Movie • 1952
Brother and Sister
Movie • 1936
Drifting
Movie • 1935
Sankichi
Chûshingura
Movie • 1962
Shanghai Moon
Movie • 1941
Floating Clouds
Movie • 1955
The Eagle of the Pacific
Movie • 1953
(uncredited)
Mother of the Red Hands
Movie • 1941
Sky of Hope
Movie • 1942
Okada
Numazu Officer School
Movie • 1939
Romantic and Crazy
Movie • 1934
Count
All of Myself
Movie • 1954
Kadokura
Interpol Code 8
Movie • 1963
Quyen
A Sister's Promise
Movie • 1940
Hideo Nogami
土曜日の天使
Movie • 1954