Anthony Chinn

Anthony Chinn
Anthony Chinn
	in The Protectors ep: See No Evil (1972)
Born	1930; Georgetown, Guyana
Died	22 October 2000 (aged 69–70); London, England
Citizenship	British
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1957–2000
Children	4

Anthony Chinn (1930 – 22 October 2000) was a Guyanese actor based in England who appeared in over 50 films and television series throughout a career which spanned more than four decades.^[1]^[2]

Career and death

Chinn was born in Georgetown, Guyana. He made his film début in the United Kingdom in 1957.^[3] He moved to London in 1961^[4] and for the next several years appeared in British TV series such as The Avengers, Danger Man, The Protectors and Steptoe and Son, as well as two episodes of UFO.^[5]

Chinn also had early uncredited roles in the James Bond films Dr. No (1962), Goldfinger (1964) and You Only Live Twice (1967), later playing a Taiwanese businessman in A View to a Kill (1985).^[3] Chinn played the Kitai in John Huston's The Kremlin Letter (1969), a Chinese assassin in The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) and a Chinese doorman in Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978).^[5] He appeared as Mohan in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and as Mactilburgh's technician in The Fifth Element (1997).^[3]

Chinn also worked in theatre and appeared in TV advertisements for brands such as McEwan's beer. He was hospitalised with a serious and life threatening brain bleed on 21 October 2000 and died from the haemorrhage the next day at a London hospital. The Guyanese actor was buried in North London and was survived by his four sons and two grandchildren.^[6]^[2]^[4]

Selected filmography

Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst (1957) - Chinese People's Liberation Army Officer
The Abominable Snowman (1957) - Majordomo
The Camp on Blood Island (1958) - Japanese Sentry (uncredited)
Next to No Time (1958)
The Savage Innocents (1960) - Kiddok
The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961) - Japanese Sniper (uncredited)
Satan Never Sleeps (1962) - Ho San's Driver (uncredited)
Dr. No (1962) - Chen, Descontamination Technician (uncredited)
Tarzan's Three Challenges (1963) - Tor
Goldfinger (1964) - Servant at Stud Farm (uncredited)
A Countess from Hong Kong (1967) - Hawaiian
You Only Live Twice (1967) - SPECTRE Guard (uncredited)
Pretty Polly (1967) - Japanese Proprietor
The Chairman (1969) - Chinese Officer
Doppelgänger (1969) - Mongolian Rescue Crew Member (uncredited)
The Gamblers (1970) - Nono
The Kremlin Letter (1970) - Kitai
Craze (1974) - Customer (uncredited)
Rollerball (1975) - Reporter (uncredited)
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) - Chinese Assassin
Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978) - Chinese Doorman
Mihail, câine de circ (1979)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) - Mohan
High Road to China (1983)^[4] - General Wong
The Optimist (1984) - Chinese spy
A View to a Kill (1985) - Taiwanese Tycoon
The Fifth Element (1997) - Mactilburgh's Technician

References

^ Anthony Chinn at asianstarz.com, retrieved 3 January 2009
^ ^a ^b Brennan, Sandra: Anthony Chinn, at AllRovi (via nytimes.com), retrieved 3 January 2009
^ ^a ^b ^c "Anthony Chinn". BFI. Archived from the original on 13 January 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Frozen Looks for an Eskimo". Evening Times. Glasgow. 22 November 1983. p. 2.
^ ^a ^b "Anthony Chinn". www.aveleyman.com.
^ "Production of Rose Marie | Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.