Mitsugi "Miki" Morita (sometimes credited as Mike Morita) was a Japanese character actor who worked in Hollywood from the 1920s through around 1940.[1][2][3][4] He had worked as a stage actor before beginning his career onscreen.[5]
Miki Morita | |
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Born | Mitsugi Morita October 1, 1896 Ueda, Nagano Prefecture, Japan |
Died | December 3, 1985 Fresno, California, US |
Occupation | Actor |
Partial filmography
edit- Souls for Sables (1925)
- Broadway Lady (1925)
- Telling the World (1928)
- Shanghai Express (1932)
- War Correspondent (1932)
- They Call It Sin (1932)
- Renegades of the West (1932)
- Midnight Mary (1933)
- Nagana (1933)
- Christopher Strong (1933)
- The Captain Hates the Sea (1934)
- Behold My Wife! (1934)
- Death Flies East (1935)
- The Casino Murder Case (1935)
- Oil for the Lamps of China (1935)
- Grand Exit (1935)
- The Dark Hour (1936)
- The Walking Dead (1936)
- Spendthrift (1936)
- It Couldn't Have Happened – But It Did (1936)
- Isle of Fury (1936)
- North of Nome (1936)
- Women of Glamour (1937)
- Border Phantom (1937)
- Wild West Days (1937)
- It Happened in Hollywood (1937)
- She Asked for It (1937)
- The Awful Truth (1937)
- Bulldog Drummond's Revenge (1937)
- The House Across the Bay (1940)
- Turnabout (1940)
References
edit- ^ Mank, Gregory William (2010-06-21). Hollywood Cauldron: Thirteen Horror Films from the Genre's Golden Age. McFarland. ISBN 9780786462551.
- ^ Kinnard, Roy; Crnkovich, Tony (2015-07-11). The Films of Fay Wray. McFarland. ISBN 9781476604152.
- ^ Beck, Robert (2015-09-16). The Edward G. Robinson Encyclopedia. McFarland. ISBN 9781476606668.
- ^ Slide, Anthony (2012-09-05). Hollywood Unknowns: A History of Extras, Bit Players, and Stand-Ins. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9781617034749.
- ^ Robinson, Greg (2012-03-15). Pacific Citizens: Larry and Guyo Tajiri and Japanese American Journalism in the World War II Era. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252093838.