Tetsu Komai

Tetsu Komai (1894 – 1970) was a minor Hollywood actor born in Kumamoto, Japan who died in Gardena, California of congestive heart failure. Tetsu had small parts in over 50 films from the 1920s until the mid 1960s. In his early films, Tetsu was often described with derogatory terms such as "Chinaman" [TIME Magazine, August 1932 - http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,769660-1,00.html] , although he had Japanese ancestry. He often played the role of villains in many of the films he acted in. [The New York Times, December 1, 1940, Sunday - Section: Arts & Leisure, Page X4]

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