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Sessue Hayakawa

1886 - 1973

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Kintarō Hayakawa (Japanese: 早川 金太郎, Hepburn: Hayakawa Kintarō; June 10, 1886 – November 23, 1973), known professionally as Sessue Hayakawa (早川 雪洲, Hayakawa Sesshū), was a Japanese actor and a matinée idol. He was a popular star 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sessue Hayakawa is the 1,210th most popular actor (down from 1,013th in 2019), the 514th most popular biography from Japan (down from 391st in 2019) and the 14th most popular Japanese Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Sessue Hayakawa ranks 1,210 out of 13,578. Before him are Adrienne Lecouvreur, Marisa Berenson, Anthony Daniels, Sarah Rose Karr, Luke Perry, and Marcia Cross. After him are Owen Wilson, Miou-Miou, Woody Strode, Hema Malini, Craig T. Nelson, and Bridget Fonda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Sessue Hayakawa ranks 67. Before him are Karl Korsch, Giovanni Battista Caproni, Raoul Hausmann, Tsuguharu Foujita, Raymond A. Spruance, and Werner Kempf. After him are Georg Stumme, Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg, Nobutake Kondō, Walter H. Schottky, Joe Masseria, and Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.. Among people deceased in 1973, Sessue Hayakawa ranks 76. Before him are Paul van Zeeland, Károly Kerényi, Asger Jorn, Jacques Lipchitz, Edward Steichen, and Alan Watts. After him are Monika Ertl, Bruno Maderna, Shirali Muslimov, Marc Allégret, Robert Smithson, and J. Carrol Naish.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Sessue Hayakawa ranks 514 out of 6,245. Before him are Takeo Fukuda (1905), Taizo Kawamoto (1914), Kiichi Miyazawa (1919), Emperor Jomei (593), Mamoru Oshii (1951), and Kantarō Suzuki (1868). After him are Minoru Genda (1904), Kawakami Gensai (1834), Emperor Go-Ichijō (1008), Morihiro Hosokawa (1938), Ueda Akinari (1734), and Shigeru Takahashi (null).

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Among ACTORS In Japan

Among actors born in Japan, Sessue Hayakawa ranks 14. Before him are Ken Takakura (1931), Takashi Shimura (1905), Victoria Principal (1950), Setsuko Hara (1920), Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (1950), and Tatsuya Nakadai (1932). After him are Masako Nozawa (1936), Machiko Kyō (1924), Momoko Kōchi (1932), Hibari Misora (1937), Akiko Wakabayashi (1941), and Shintaro Katsu (1931).

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