Toyo Fujita Explained

Toyo Fujita
Birth Date:16 July 1893
Birth Place:Japan
Death Date:25 July 1959 (aged 66)
Death Place:Santa Clara, California, USA
Occupation:Actor

Toyo Fujita (16 July 1893 – 25 July 1959) was a Japanese actor who worked in Hollywood from the late 1910s through the mid-1930s.

Biography

Toyo earned a reputation as a talented actor on the stage in Japan, and later moved to the United States, where he appeared in theatrical productions in Los Angeles and San Francisco.[1] He later settled down in Los Angeles, where he owned and operated a theater in the city's Little Tokyo neighborhood. Apparently this is where he met Sessue Hayakawa, an actor he often worked with in Hollywood films.[2] He told reporters he was fond of reading about pirates.[3]

Selected filmography

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Rialto Flatbush Theatre. 21 Jan 1922. The Chat. en. 2019-11-09.
  2. Book: Lee, Esther Kim. A History of Asian American Theatre. 2006-10-12. Cambridge University Press. 9780521850513. en.
  3. Web site: Successes and Where They Succeeded. 10 Mar 1922. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. en. 2019-11-09.
  4. Web site: British Film Institute - Toyo Fujita Filmography . https://web.archive.org/web/20191109082953/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba9697fbe . dead . November 9, 2019 . . 9 November 2019.
  5. Book: Motion Picture News. 3790. toyo fujita.. 1919. Motion Picture News. en.
  6. Web site: The Tong Man (1919) UC Berkeley Library. www.lib.berkeley.edu. 2019-11-09.