Goro Kino (sometimes credited as Gordo Keeno) was a Japanese actor who worked in Hollywood during the silent era. Like many of his Japanese contemporaries, in Hollywood, he was often cast as a villain.[1]
Goro Kino | |
|---|---|
 Pictured in Little Red Decides (1918) | |
| Born | June 2, 1877 |
| Died | February 4, 1922 (aged 44) |
| Occupation | Film actor |
| Spouse | Miso Kino |
Biography
editAccording to contemporaneous reports, Kino had already established a career for himself in Japan on the stage before moving to San Francisco to work in a stock company and eventually to Los Angeles to work in film.[1]
He was a founding member of the Japanese Photo Players' Association alongside performers like Sessue Hayakawa and Misao Seki.[2] One of his biggest film roles was as Duck Sing in 1918's Little Red Decides.
He said of his "evil" look in The Lure of Jade that even he was afraid to look in the mirror, and that he scared the cameramen on set; however, he was regarded as one of the nicest people in the business in real life.[3][4]
Off-set, his hobbies included cultivating roses.[5] He was married to Miso Kino, who also reportedly worked as an actress in Hollywood; she survived him when he died in 1922, but may have drowned a year later while crossing the Pacific.[6]
Selected filmography
edit- Yellow Men and Gold (1922)
- Five Days to Live (1922)
- Narikin (1921)
- Lotus Blossom (1921)
- The Lure of Jade (1921)
- Sanji Goto (1921)
- At the End of the World (1921)
- Where Lights Are Low (1921)
- A Tale of Two Worlds (1921)
- The First Born (1921)[7]
- The Purple Cipher (1920)
- A Tokyo Siren (1920)
- The Midnight Patrol (1918)
- The Bravest Way (1918)
- Little Red Decides (1918)[8]
- The Haunted Pajamas (1917)
- The Flower of Doom (1917)
- The Honorable Friend (1916)
- The Fox Woman (1915)[9]
References
edit- ^ a b "Movie Idols of the Orient Repeat Triumphs Here". The News-Democrat. 25 Sep 1921. Retrieved 2019-11-09.
- ^ "The City and Environs". The Los Angeles Times. 17 Oct 1917. Retrieved 2019-11-09.
- ^ "Filmograms". Evening Star. 4 Dec 1921. Retrieved 2019-11-09.
- ^ "The Screen". The Santa Cruz Evening News. 29 Dec 1921. Retrieved 2019-11-09.
- ^ "The Day's Good Stories". The Evening World. 27 Jan 1922. Retrieved 2019-11-09.
- ^ "Will Hunt Quake Victims". The Los Angeles Times. 9 Nov 1923. Retrieved 2019-11-09.
- ^ "Real Chinatown Romance Revealed in 'The First Born'". The Daily News. 31 Jan 1921. Retrieved 2019-11-09.
- ^ Motography. 1918.
- ^ "John Luther's First Film Drama". The Baltimore Sun. 11 Jul 1915. Retrieved 2019-11-09.