Andrew Hughes (actor)

Andrew Hughes (born 1908) was a Turkish-born actor and business executive best known for acting in several Japanese films.[1] His most notable roles include that of Adolf Hitler in the 1965 Japanese comedy Crazy Adventure.[2]

Hughes has also appeared in films such as The Last Voyage, Flight from Ashiya, King Kong Escapes, Destroy All Monsters, Japan Sinks, ESPY, and Sayonara Jupiter.

Career

Being virtually exclusively active in the Japanese film industry, Hughes was often cast in the roles of various Westerners, often portraying a an international reporter, politician or foreign military officer.Not much is known about Hughes's early, pre-acting years, but it is known that he was born in Ottoman Turkey where he originally worked as a career businessman with some small-time acting experience as an extra. Actor Robert Dunham asserted that most fellow Western actors in Japan were in fact of Turkish origin as many Turks had fled to Japan after the Turkish revolution by ways of China in order to avoid being drafted to the army. Hughes was ultimately based in Tokyo as an import-export businessman and eventually started making numerous appearances in Japanese films in a career that spanned from the late 1950s to the mid-1980s. As most Westerners appearing in Japanese films at the time spoke little or no Japanese, Hughes was dubbed by Japanese-speaking actors in most of his films.[3][4][5]

References

  1. ↑ de Gruyter, Walter (2004). Japanese Biographical Index. Germany: Die Deutsche Bibliothek. ISBN 3-598-34026-5.
  2. ↑ http://www.tohokingdom.com/movies/crazy_adventure.htm
  3. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0400447/bio
  4. ↑ http://exploderbutton.com/exploder/andrew-hughes-a-life-in-japanese-pictures/
  5. ↑ Ryfle, Steve (1999). Japan's Favorite Mon-star: The Unauthorized Biography of "The Big G". Canada: ECW Press. ISBN 978-1550223484.