Kintaro Hayakawa, known professionally as Sessue Hayakawa, was a Japanese actor and a matinée idol. He was one of the biggest stars in Hollywood during the silent film era of the 1910s and early 1920s. Hayakawa was the first actor of Asian descent to achieve stardom as a leading man in the United States and Europe. His "broodingly handsome" good looks and typecasting as a sexually dominant villain made him a heartthrob among American women during a time of racial discrimination, and he became one of the first male sex symbols of Hollywood.
Sessue Hayakawa
Active - 1914 - 2007 |
Birth - Jun 10, 1886 |
Death - Nov 23, 1973 |
Genres - Drama, Silent Film, Action-Adventure, Crime, Romance
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Subgenres - Silent Film, Silent Feature, Western Film, Biographical Film, Comedy Drama
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