Randall Duk Kim

Randall Duk Kim
Born (1943-09-24) September 24, 1943
Occupation Actor
Years active 1968–present
Website http://www.randalldukkim.com
Korean name
Hangul 김덕문
Hanja 金德文
Revised Romanization Gim Deokmun
McCune–Reischauer Kim Tŏk-mun

Randall Duk Kim (born September 24, 1943) is a Korean-American stage, television and film actor.

Career

Kim was also the artistic director and mainstay lead actor at the American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Wisconsin, which he founded with Anne Occhiogrosso and Charles Bright.[1][2][3][4][5] Since he was eighteen, Kim has portrayed a wide variety of roles on the stage, but is perhaps best known for his role as the Keymaker in the film The Matrix Reloaded. He was one of the first Asian-American actors to play a leading role in an American production of a Shakespeare play when he played the title role in The New York Public Theater's 1974 production of Pericles, Prince of Tyre.[6] He has spent most of his career in theatre. He also played the title role in Hamlet at the Guthrie Theatre in 1978-79.[7]

He played Kralaholme in the 1996 revival of The King and I on Broadway, later succeeding to the leading role. He voiced Master Oogway in Kung Fu Panda. In 2008 he played Dashiell Kim in an episode of the television series Fringe, created by J.J. Abrams. He also played Grandpa Gohan in the 2009 live action adaptation of Dragonball Evolution and a tattoo master in Ninja Assassin.

Filmography

Films

Films
Year Title Role Notes
1970 The Hawaiians Asia at 19 Uncredited
1970 Tora! Tora! Tora! Tadao - Japanese Messenger Boy Unconfirmed; uncredited
1974 Nourish the Beast Actor Credited as Randy Kim; television film
1995 Prisoners in Time Nagase Takashi Television film
1998 The Replacement Killers Alan Chan
1998 The Thin Red Line Nisei Interpreter Uncredited
1999 Anna and the King General Alak
2001 The Lost Empire Shu
2003 MTV Movie Awards Reloaded Keymaker Short television film
2003 The Matrix Reloaded Keymaker
2005 Memoirs of a Geisha Dr. Crab
2006 Falling for Grace Mr. Hung
2007 Tailor Made Wong Short film
2007 Year of the Fish Auntie Yaga/Old Man/Foreman
2008 Kung Fu Panda Oogway
2008 Secrets of the Furious Five Oogway
2009 Dragonball Evolution Grandpa Gohan
2009 Ninja Assassin Tattoo Master
2010 The Last Airbender Old Man in Temple
2011 Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Masters Oogway
2014 John Wick Continental Doctor
2016 Kung Fu Panda 3 Oogway

TV series

TV series
Year Title Role Notes
1968, 1969 Hawaii Five-O Eddie/John Lo/Oscar Credited as Randall Kim; "By the Numbers" (#1.9), "Deathwatch" (#1.11), "King Kamehameha Blues" (#2.8)
2001 100 Centre Street Pham Van Trong "Hostage" (#1.5)
2006 Thief Uncle Lau Pilot (#1.1), "Flight" (#1.5), "In the Wind" (#1.6)
2008 Cashmere Mafia John Mason "The Deciders" (#1.4)
2008 New Amsterdam Donald Chen "Legacy" (#1.6)
2008 Fringe Dashiell Kim "The Equation" (#1.8)
2011 Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness Oogway "Ghost of Oogway" (#1.14)

Video games

Video games
Year Title Voice role
2003 Enter the Matrix Keymaker
2005 Red Ninja: End of Honor Shingen
2007 Stranglehold James Wong

References

  1. ↑ Starpulse: biography
  2. ↑ filmbug biography
  3. ↑ Yahoo movie biography
  4. ↑ amctv short bio
  5. ↑ american players theatre history
  6. ↑ Pericles, Prince of Tyre at the Internet off-Broadway Database
  7. ↑ George, David (Spring 1979), "Shakespeare in Minneapolis", Shakespeare Quarterly, Folger Shakespeare Library, 30 (2): 219, doi:10.2307/2869313, JSTOR 2869313


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