Leonard Strong

Leonard Strong

Acting 1908-08-12 Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Leonard Clarence Strong (born 12 August 1908, Salt Lake City, Utah - d. 23 January 1980, Glendale, California was a prolific American character actor specialising in playing Asian roles. Beginning with Little Tokyo, U.S.A in 1942, Strong played a gamut of roles as Japanese, Chinese, Koreans, Thais, etc. in films such as Dragon Seed (1944),Up in Arms (1944), Jack London (1943), Salute to the Marines (1943), Behind the Rising Sun (1943), Night Plane from Chungking (1943), Bombardier (1943),Underground Agent (1942), and Manila Calling (1942). He played the Thai interpreter in both Anna and the King of Siam and its musical remake The King and I. Strong also appeared in the movie Shane (1953) as homesteader Ernie Wright. Strong achieved some pop culture notoriety for his role on television as "The Claw" on Get Smart. He appeared in a season-five episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1960) "The Cure" written by horror writer Robert Bloch. Set deep in an Amazon jungle, Strong plays Luiz, a loyal native who speaks broken English and saves his employer, an oil explorer, from the attempted murder of his supposedly mentally ill and unfaithful wife. Something gets lost in the translation when his employer wants Strong to take her to a psychiatrist 200 miles down river, and he takes her instead to a native headshrinker. The denouement comes when Strong returns alone to the shock of his employer. He says, "I do what you tell me. I take her to my people. The best headshrinkers in the world". Then, pulling his employer's wife's now shrunken head out of a bag, he says, "Best job in the world." Another notable television role was his haunting and mostly silent portrayal of the title character in the original Twilight Zone episode, "The Hitch-Hiker", which is often listed as one of the ten best episodes of the series. With his thumb extended, seeking a ride, and asking "Going my way?", Strong is seen in one of the half-dozen, seconds-long scenes used at the start of every one of the 30 DVDs in the CBS DVD five-season collection, "The Twilight Zone, The Definitive Edition."

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1965 Lin Chan
1964 General Yokura
1962 Ambulance Driver
1960 General Kumari
1959 The Hitch-Hiker
1959 Conductor
1959 Ben Poe
1958 Maj. Wan
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1958 King Felix
1956 Professor Hugh Yan
1955 Daru
1955 Fortune Teller (uncredited)
1955 Manuel
1955
1955 Luiz
1954 Ippy
1954 Col. Kim Doo Yi
1954 Kutina
1954 Mahindra
1954 Zanaga Martinez
1954 Ti Ling
1954 Shalmar
1953 Ernie Wright
1953 Shorty
1953 Wali-Akhun
1952 Donald Clark
1950 Lee Quong (uncredited)
1950 Singh
1948 Ming Tang
1947 Willis, Caretaker
1947 Marcel Grandet
1946 Bandit Chieftain
1945 Gen. Homma
1945 Maj. Nogira
1945 Hijikata
1944 Mr. Chia
1943 Japanese Officer
1943 Tama's Father
1942 Count Akiri