Randall Duk Kim
Randall Duk Kim | |
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Born | September 24, 1943 |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1968–present |
Korean name | |
Hangul | 김덕문 |
Hanja | 金德文 |
Revised Romanization | Gim Deokmun |
McCune–Reischauer | Kim Tŏk-mun |
Website | |
http://www.randalldukkim.com |
Randall Duk Kim (born September 24, 1943) is a Korean-American stage, television and film actor.
Career
Kim was also the artistic director and mainstay lead actor at the American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Wisconsin, which he founded with Anne Occhiogrosso and Charles Bright.[1][2][3][4][5] Since he was eighteen, Kim has portrayed a wide variety of roles on the stage, but is perhaps best known for his role as the Keymaker in the film The Matrix Reloaded. He was one of the first Asian-American actors to play a leading role in an American production of a Shakespeare play when he played the title role in The New York Public Theater's 1974 production of Pericles, Prince of Tyre.[6] He has spent most of his career in theatre. He also played the title role in Hamlet at the Guthrie Theatre in 1978-79.[7]
He played Kralaholme in the 1996 revival of The King and I on Broadway, later succeeding to the leading role. He voiced Master Oogway in Kung Fu Panda. In 2008 he played Dashiell Kim in an episode of the television series Fringe created by J.J. Abrams. He also played Grandpa Gohan in the 2009 live action adaptation of Dragonball Evolution and a tattoo master in Ninja Assassin.
Filmography
Films
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1970 | The Hawaiians | Asia at 19 | Uncredited |
1970 | Tora! Tora! Tora! | Tadao - Japanese Messenger Boy | Unconfirmed Uncredited |
1974 | Nourish the Beast | Actor | Credited as Randy Kim Television film |
1995 | Prisoners in Time | Nagase Takashi | Television film |
1998 | The Replacement Killers | Alan Chan | |
1998 | The Thin Red Line | Nisei Interpreter | Uncredited |
1999 | Anna and the King | General Alak | |
2001 | The Lost Empire | Shu | |
2003 | MTV Movie Awards Reloaded | Keymaker | Short television film |
2003 | The Matrix Reloaded | Keymaker | |
2005 | Memoirs of a Geisha | Dr. Crab | |
2006 | Falling for Grace | Mr. Hung | |
2007 | Tailor Made | Wong | Short film |
2007 | Year of the Fish | Auntie Yaga/Old Man/Foreman | |
2008 | Kung Fu Panda | Oogway | |
2008 | Secrets of the Furious Five | Oogway | |
2009 | Dragonball Evolution | Grandpa Gohan | |
2009 | Ninja Assassin | Tattoo Master | |
2010 | The Last Airbender | Old Man in Temple | |
2011 | Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Masters | Oogway |
TV series
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1968–1969 | Hawaii Five-O | Eddie/John Lo/Oscar | Credited as Randall Kim By the Numbers (#1.9) Deathwatch (#1.11) King Kamehameha Blues (#2.8) |
2001 | 100 Centre Street | Pham Van Trong | Hostage (#1.5) |
2006 | Thief | Uncle Lau | Pilot (#1.1) Flight (#1.5) In the Wind (#1.6) |
2008 | Cashmere Mafia | John Mason | The Deciders (#1.4) |
2008 | New Amsterdam | Donald Chen | Legacy (#1.6) |
2008 | Fringe | Dashiell Kim | The Equation (#1.8) |
2011 | Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness | Oogway | Ghost of Oogway (#1.14) |
Video games
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2003 | Enter the Matrix | Keymaker | Voice |
2005 | Red Ninja: End of Honor | Shingen | Voice |
2007 | Stranglehold | James Wong | Voice |
References
- ↑ Starpulse: biography
- ↑ filmbug biography
- ↑ Yahoo movie biography
- ↑ amctv short bio
- ↑ american players theatre history
- ↑ Pericles, Prince of Tyre at the Internet off-Broadway Database
- ↑ George, David (Spring 1979), "Shakespeare in Minneapolis", Shakespeare Quarterly (Folger Shakespeare Library) 30 (2): 219, doi:10.2307/2869313, JSTOR 2869313
External links
- Randall Duk Kim at the Internet Movie Database
- Randall Duk Kim at the Internet Broadway Database
- Randall Duk Kim at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
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