Tetsu Komai

Tetsu Komai (1894–1970) was a Japanese actor, known for his minor roles in Hollywood films. He was born in Kumamoto, Japan and died in Gardena, California of congestive heart failure. Tetsu had small parts in over 50 films from the 1920s until the mid-1960s. In his early films, Tetsu was often described with derogatory terms such as Chinaman,^[1] although he was Japanese. He played the villain in many of his films.^[2]

Selected filmography

• Shanghai Bound (1927)
• Streets of Shanghai (1927)
• The Woman from Moscow (1928)
• Detectives (1928)
• Bulldog Drummond (1929)
• East of Borneo (1931)
• Island of Lost Souls (1932)
• She Wanted a Millionaire (1932)
• The Secrets of Wu Sin (1932)
• Four Frightened People (1934)
• Now and Forever (1934)
• Oil for the Lamps of China (1935)
• The Princess Comes Across (1936)
• Isle of Fury (1936)
• China Passage (1937)
• The Real Glory (1939)
• The Letter (1940)
• Adventures of Captain Marvel (1941)
• They Met in Bombay (1941) (uncredited)
• Green Dolphin Street (1947) (uncredited)
• Task Force (1949) (uncredited)
• Tokyo Joe (1949) (uncredited)
• Japanese War Bride (1952)
• Tank Battalion (1958)
• The Night Walker (1964)

References

1. Time (August 22, 1932)
2. Sunday Arts & Leisure Section, The New York Times (December 1, 1940) p. X-4

External links

• Tetsu Komai at the Internet Movie Database