Jim Lau

Acting

Jim Lau

Born 1952-04-11 · San Francisco, California, USA

Jim Lau (born April 11, 1952) is an American actor and voice actor who played the role of a Chinese Cook on the FX original series Sons of Anarchy.

Acting credits

The Hangover Part III poster
6.2

This time, there's no wedding. No bachelor party. What could go wrong, right? But when the Wolfpack hits the road, all bets are off.

The Hangover Part III

2013

Big Trouble in Little China poster
7.2

Truck driver Jack Burton gets embroiled in a supernatural battle when his best friend Wang Chi's green-eyed fiancée is kidnapped by henchmen of the sorcerer Lo Pan, who must marry a girl with green eyes in order to return to the human realm.

Big Trouble in Little China

1986

No Escape poster
7.0

In their new overseas home, an American family soon finds themselves caught in the middle of a coup, and they frantically look for a safe escape in an environment where foreigners are being immediately executed.

No Escape

2015

Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 poster
6.8

In 1859, families discover the lure of the Old West as they settle in territories from Wyoming to Kansas. Meanwhile, a gruff cowboy finds himself on the run with a prostitute and a young boy after killing a fellow gunman.

Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1

2024

Flight of the Phoenix poster
6.0

When an oil rig in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia proves unproductive, an aircraft crew are sent to shut the operation down and fly them out. On the flight out over the desert on the way to Beijing, Capt. Frank Towns and co-pilot A.J. are unable to keep their cargo plane, a C-119 Flying Boxcar, in the air when a violent sandstorm strikes. Crash-landing in a remote uncharted part of the desert, the two pilots and their passengers -- a crew of oil workers and a drifter -- must work together to survive by rebuilding the aircraft. Soon, low supplies and a band of merciless smugglers add even greater urgency to their task.

Flight of the Phoenix

2004

The Pest poster
4.7

Fast-talking Latino con artist Pestario "Pest" Vargas is the target of Scottish mobsters to whom he owes a considerable debt. Willing to do anything to raise money and avoid severe injury or death, Vargas agrees to a very unusual job -- he will be transported to a remote island and hunted by Gustav Shank, a racist German executive. If he can survive a full day and night, Vargas gets $50,000 and will be set free. Is he wily enough to elude Shank?

The Pest

1997

The Third Wheel poster
5.3

The clumsy and shy Stanley is a nice fellow, beloved by his colleagues in the office. He has a crush on the gorgeous new-hire Diana, but he has difficulties to get close to her. When Stanley finally invites Diana for a date, he hits the homeless Phil with his Taurus, and his planned night turns upside down.

The Third Wheel

2002

Shelter poster
NR

World renowned 'starchitect' Alexander Pan finds his professional and personal authority challenged when he returns to his alma mater...where his daughter Elaine is using cardboard as a design material for her final project.

Shelter

Burning Palms poster
5.2

A subversive tale that interlaces five stories set in Los Angeles, where no taboo is left unexplored as each character careens toward a dark and often comic fate

Burning Palms

2010

Tequila Sunset poster
NR

Overworked and lonely, a devoted old woman caring for her ailing husband attempts to take a much needed break from reality.

Tequila Sunset

2022

Pocket Listing poster
6.5

A satirical thriller about L.A.'s real estate roller coaster. Double crosses, adultery, murder, mistaken identity, and revenge ensues when a mysterious power player and his sultry wife hire a disgraced Los Angeles property broker to discreetly market and sell their Malibu villa.

Pocket Listing

2016

Smooth Operator poster
NR

A college student fails an audition and loses a role to a more charismatic, athletic man, leading to a downward spiral of obsessively working out and bulking in the hopes of gaining masculinity.

Smooth Operator

2025

American Tragedy poster
5.8

Johnnie Cochran defends O.J. Simpson who is on trial for his wife's murder.

American Tragedy

2000

Grandma Dearest poster
5.9

Barbara wants nothing more than to be a grandmother. When her son, Ethan, meets Kendall, a divorced mother of two, Barbara quickly becomes an ever-present force in their lives. Unannounced visits escalate to murder, and Barbara will do anything to protect her relationship with her grandchildren. With her life in danger, Kendall must outsmart her mother-in-law to save her children and expose Barbara for who she really is… before it’s too late.

Grandma Dearest

2020

Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder poster
5.7

About the infamous murder of six year old child beauty pageant contestant JonBenét Ramsey and the hysterical media coverage that made the investigation even more difficult.

Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder

2000

When Billie Beat Bobby poster
5.6

The historic 1973 tennis match between middle-aged champion Bobby Riggs and young feminist Billie Jean King.

When Billie Beat Bobby

2001

Ping Pong Playa poster
5.9

Streetwise swaggering Christopher "C-Dub" Wang is a suburban guy who waxes political on all things Asian American and clings to pro basketball pipe dreams. But when misfortune strikes his family, C-dub must overcome living at home, working a dead-end job and his worldly older brother, to run his Mom's ping pong classes and defend the family's athletic dynasty.

Ping Pong Playa

2008

The Westing Game poster
8.0

A girl is angry about having to move to the city, but gets involved in a mystery when a rich neighbor is found dead. His will suggests that one of the people in her apartment house is his killer and doles out clues to find the culprit - as well as win $20 million.

The Westing Game

1997

Unsavory Elements poster
NR

Boys' night out to an Asian brothel becomes a bloody fight for survival.

Unsavory Elements

Wei Baba poster
10.0

A woman introduces her Chinese dad to her American Jewish boyfriend and manipulates their language barrier to keep everyone happy.

Wei Baba

2026

Neither Donkey Nor Horse poster
NR

Amidst the outbreak of the 1910 Manchurian Plague, a young Chinese doctor must defy prejudices of both the East and the West to champion his groundbreaking theory about the disease's deadly evolution.

Neither Donkey Nor Horse

2024

Sorry for the Inconvenience poster
5.5

In Los Angeles Chinatown, a lonely teenager tries to help her parents keep their seafood restaurant afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sorry for the Inconvenience

2021

After That poster
NR

A man named Xinhao wanders the uninhabited city of the future. After memorializing his past, he disappears.

After That

2026

Home Is Where The Sunsets poster
5.0

Alison’s life in L.A. turns upside down when her family comes to visit from Hong Kong for the very first time. Stuffed into her cramped apartment, Alison finds beauty and heartache in the smallest of moments.

Home Is Where The Sunsets

2016