Wong Chung

Acting

Wong Chung

Born — Died

1880-07-17 — 1963-07-25

Place of birth

San Francisco, California, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

29 titles

Wong Chung was born on July 17, 1880 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor, known for King of Chinatown (1939), The Lady from Shanghai (1947) and Shanghai Express (1932). He died on July 25, 1963 in Los Angeles, California.

Known for

Film credits

1940s · 4 titles

1930s · 23 titles

Shanghai Express poster
7.0

A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.

Shanghai Express

1932

Werewolf of London poster
6.0

A strange animal attack turns a botanist into a bloodthirsty monster.

Werewolf of London

1935

Frisco Kid poster
7.0

After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.

Frisco Kid

1935

Fog Over Frisco poster
6.4

Valkyr Bradford takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of her half-sister Arlene, a wealthy socialite involved in criminal activities.

Fog Over Frisco

1934

Klondike Annie poster
6.3

Singer Rose Carlton, otherwise known as 'The San Francisco Doll', accidentally kills her controlling boyfriend when he tries to prevent her from leaving. To evade the police, Rose sets sail for Nome with captain Bull Bracket. When the ship takes on another passenger, reformer Annie Alden, Carlton's life is changed forever, and she sets out to honor a deeply personal debt.

Klondike Annie

1936

Road to Paradise poster
6.4

Loretta Young plays dual roles in this 1930 crime drama about a young thief planning to steal jewels from a wealthy socialite.

Road to Paradise

1930

Barbary Coast poster
6.4

Mary Rutledge arrives from the east, finds her fiancé dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Luis Chamalis' Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling house in San Francisco in the 1850s. She falls in love with miner Jim Carmichael and takes his gold dust at the wheel. She goes after him, Chamalis goes after her with intent to harm Carmichael.

Barbary Coast

1935

King of Chinatown poster
5.6

A Chinese-American surgeon faces a moral dilemma after operating on the mob boss in charge of vice and protection rackets in her city's Chinatown.

King of Chinatown

1939

Daughter of the Dragon poster
5.3

At her Chinese father's bidding, a woman goes to murder an enemy and meets a Scotland Yard detective.

Daughter of the Dragon

1931

The Leathernecks Have Landed poster
7.0

Dishonorably discharged from the U.S. Marines after starting a barroom brawl that gets his leatherneck buddy "Tubby" Waters killed, hothead "Woody" Davis infiltrates a gang of Shanghai gunrunners to bring the culprit to justice.

The Leathernecks Have Landed

1936

The Cat's-Paw poster
6.3

Naive Ezekial Cobb, brought up by his missionary father in China returns to America to seek a wife. Corrupt politicians enlist him to run for mayor as a dummy candidate with no chance of winning. Their plan backfires as he wins and embarks upon a reform crusade.

The Cat's-Paw

1934

Daughter of Shanghai poster
5.4

A Chinese-American woman tries to expose an illegal alien smuggling ring.

Daughter of Shanghai

1937

Secrets of the French Police poster
6.6

When a flower girl is kidnapped by a deranged White Russian, to impersonate the missing Princess Anastasia Romanoff while under his hypnotic spell, the French police attempt to solve the case with forensic method and the aide of a gentleman thief.

Secrets of the French Police

1932

Double Harness poster
6.5

After tricking him into marriage, a woman tries to win the love of her philandering husband.

Double Harness

1933

The Bowery poster
5.4

"In the Gay Nineties New York had grown up into bustles and balloon Sleeves ... but The Bowery had grown younger, louder and more rowdy until it was known as the 'Livest Mile on the face of the globe' ... the cradle of men who were later to be famous.

The Bowery

1933

International House poster
5.7

Foreign investors converge on a luxury hotel in China to bid on a new kind of radioscope. But, this is a hotel where Burns and Allen are the in-house medical staff, a measles risk sends the whole building into quarantine, and a madcap millionaire crashes dinner in his autogyro. Hotel and radioscope become a stage for an all-star cast of comedians and musicians, from vaudeville to the new generation.

International House

1933

Tiger Shark poster
6.4

A Portuguese tuna fisherman catches his bride with his first mate.

Tiger Shark

1932

Roar of the Dragon poster
6.5

A boatload of Westerners is trapped in Manchuria as bandits led by Russian renegade Voronsky ravage the area. Seeking refuge in a fortified inn, the group is led by the boat's Captain Carson, who becomes involved with a woman who "belongs" to Voronsky. Carson must contend with the bandits outside and the conflicting personalities of those trapped inside the inn, as well as dealing with spies among the inn's personnel.

Roar of the Dragon

1932

The Miracle Man poster
5.9

A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader, John Madison, encounters a faith healer and uses him to scam the gullible public of funds for a supposed chapel. But when a real healing takes place, a change comes over the gang.

The Miracle Man

1932

Paramount on Parade poster
5.9

This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, credits 11 directors

Paramount on Parade

1930

Perils of Pauline poster
6.5

A famous scientist and his beautiful daughter travel to Indochina to find an ivory disc that has the formula for a deadly gas engraved on it. An evil doctor and his gang are also looking for it.

Perils of Pauline

1933

The Law of the Tong poster
7.5

A young girl working as a dance-hall hostess gets mixed up in a scheme that smuggles illegal Chinese aliens into the country.

The Law of the Tong

1931

A Holy Terror poster
6.4

Eastern millionaire's son Bard finds his father murdered and flies west to see rancher Drew who may know something about it. En route he crashes his plane into Jerry's bathroom; she falls in love with him which makes her suitor Steve jealous.

A Holy Terror

1931