From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Tetsu Komai 駒井哲 Komai Tetsu April 23 1894 August 10 1970 also known as Tetsuo Komai was a JapaneseAmerican actor known for his minor roles in Hollywood films Born in Kumamoto Kyushu Komai had small parts in over 50 films from the 1920s until the mid1960s In his early films Tetsu who was usually called on to play Chinese characters was often described with derogatory terms such as Chinaman He played the villain in many of his films He immigrated to the United States in December 1907 arriving at the Port of Seattle he lived in Seattle for several years after this initial immigration During the Second World War the actor his wife and their children were interned with groups of other JapaneseAmericans and Japanese resident aliens at the Gila River War Relocation Center in Arizona from August 27 1942 to November 3 1945 He died in Gardena California of congestive heart failure aged 76 Description above from the Wikipedia article Bette Davis licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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