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Jack Soo

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Jack Soo (October 28, 1917 – January 11, 1979) was a Japanese American actor. [1]

82 relations: Actor, African Americans, American Broadcasting Company, Anthony Franciosa, Archive, Army of the Republic of Vietnam, Asian Americans, Barney Miller, Broadway theatre, Busting Loose (TV series), C. Y. Lee, Cabaret, California, Chinatown, Chinese people, Confidence trick, Danny Arnold, Esophageal cancer, Flower Drum Song, Flower Drum Song (film), For Once in My Life, Forbidden City (nightclub), Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills), Fred Ryan, Guys and Dolls, Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series), Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series, season 2), Internet Archive, Internment of Japanese Americans, Ironside (1967 TV series), Jack Benny, Japan, Japanese Americans, Jeff Adachi, Julia (TV series), Los Angeles, M*A*S*H (TV series), Master of ceremonies, Midwestern United States, Motown, Nightclub, Nightclub act, Oakland, California, PBS, Police Story (1973 TV series), Police Woman (TV series), Return from Witch Mountain, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, San Francisco, She Lives!, ..., Sitcom, Stevie Wonder, Talent agent, Television film, The Flower Drum Song, The Green Berets (film), The Jack Benny Program, The Jimmy Stewart Show, The Monk (1969 film), The Name of the Game (TV series), The New York Times, The Odd Couple (1970 TV series), The Oscar (film), The Wackiest Ship in the Army (TV series), The Washington Post, Thoroughly Modern Millie, To Market, to Market (M*A*S*H), Toast (honor), Topaz War Relocation Center, United Press International, United States, Universal Pictures, Utah, Valentine's Day (TV series), Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?, World War II, 1961 in film, 1963 in film, 1966 in film, 1967 in film, 1968 in film, 1978 in film. Expand index (32 more) »

Actor

An actor (often actress for women; see terminology) is a person who portrays a character in a performance.

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African Americans

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.

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American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Disney–ABC Television Group, a subsidiary of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.

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Anthony Franciosa

Anthony Franciosa (born Anthony George Papaleo, October 25, 1928 – January 19, 2006), usually billed as Tony Franciosa during the height of his career, was an American film, TV and stage actor.

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Archive

An archive is an accumulation of historical records or the physical place they are located.

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Army of the Republic of Vietnam

The Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), also known as the South Vietnamese army (SVA), were the ground forces of the South Vietnamese military from its inception in 1955 until the Fall of Saigon in 1975.

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Asian Americans

Asian Americans are Americans of Asian descent.

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Barney Miller

Barney Miller is an American sitcom set in a New York City Police Department police station on East 6th St in Greenwich Village.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.

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Busting Loose (TV series)

Busting Loose is an American sitcom starring Adam Arkin which centers on a young man in New York City who has moved out of his parents house to live on his own for the first time.

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C. Y. Lee

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Cabaret

Cabaret is a form of theatrical entertainment featuring music, song, dance, recitation, or drama.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Chinatown

A Chinatown is an ethnic enclave of Chinese or Han people located outside mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, or Taiwan, most often in an urban setting.

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Chinese people

Chinese people are the various individuals or ethnic groups associated with China, usually through ancestry, ethnicity, nationality, citizenship or other affiliation.

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Confidence trick

A confidence trick (synonyms include con, confidence game, confidence scheme, ripoff, scam and stratagem) is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their confidence, used in the classical sense of trust.

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Danny Arnold

Danny Arnold (January 23, 1925 – August 19, 1995) was an American producer, writer, comedian, actor and director known for producing Barney Miller, That Girl and Bewitched.

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Esophageal cancer

Esophageal cancer is cancer arising from the esophagus—the food pipe that runs between the throat and the stomach.

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Flower Drum Song

Flower Drum Song was the eighth musical by the team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II.

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Flower Drum Song (film)

Flower Drum Song is a 1961 film adaptation of the 1958 Broadway musical Flower Drum Song, written by the composer Richard Rodgers and the lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II.

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For Once in My Life

"For Once in My Life" is a swing song written by Ron Miller and Orlando Murden for Motown Records' Stein & Van Stock publishing company, and first recorded in 1966.

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Forbidden City (nightclub)

The Forbidden City was a Chinese nightclub and cabaret in business from the late 1930s to the late 1950s, on the second floor of 363 Sutter Street (the former space is now renumbered 369 Sutter Street and is now a franchise of Barbizon Modeling and Acting) in San Francisco between Chinatown and Union Square.

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Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park – Hollywood Hills is one of the six Forest Lawn cemeteries in Southern California.

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Fred Ryan

Frederick J. Ryan Jr. (born April 12, 1955) is the publisher and chief executive officer of The Washington Post.

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Guys and Dolls

Guys and Dolls is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows.

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Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series)

Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman.

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Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series, season 2)

The second season of Hawaii Five-O, an American television series, began September 24, 1969, and ended on March 11, 1970.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is a San Francisco–based nonprofit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge." It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and nearly three million public-domain books.

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Internment of Japanese Americans

The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in camps in the western interior of the country of between 110,000 and 120,000Various primary and secondary sources list counts between persons.

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Ironside (1967 TV series)

Ironside is an American television crime drama that aired on NBC over 8 seasons from 1967 to 1975.

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Jack Benny

Jack Benny (born February 14, 1894 – December 26, 1974) was an American comedian, vaudevillian, radio, television and film actor, and violinist.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Japanese Americans

are Americans who are fully or partially of Japanese descent, especially those who identify with that ancestry, along with their cultural characteristics.

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Jeff Adachi

Jeff Adachi (born 1959 in Sacramento, California) is the elected Public Defender of San Francisco, pension reform advocate, and a former candidate for Mayor of San Francisco.

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Julia (TV series)

Julia is an American sitcom.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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M*A*S*H (TV series)

M*A*S*H is an American television series that aired on CBS from 1972 to 1983.

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Master of ceremonies

A master of ceremonies, abbreviated M.C. or emcee, also called compère and announcer, is the official host of a ceremony, a staged event or similar performance.

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Midwestern United States

The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the American Midwest, Middle West, or simply the Midwest, is one of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau (also known as "Region 2").

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Motown

Motown is an American record company.

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Nightclub

A nightclub, music club or club, is an entertainment venue and bar that usually operates late into the night.

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Nightclub act

A nightclub act is a production, usually of nightclub music or comedy, designed for performance at a nightclub, a type of drinking establishment, by a nightclub performer such as a nightclub singer or nightclub dancer, whose performance may also be referred to as a nightclub act.

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Oakland, California

Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.

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Police Story (1973 TV series)

Police Story is an anthology television crime drama that aired on NBC from 1973 through 1978.

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Police Woman (TV series)

Police Woman is an American television Police procedural starring Angie Dickinson that ran on NBC for four seasons, from September 13, 1974, to March 29, 1978.

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Return from Witch Mountain

Return from Witch Mountain is a 1978 American science fiction-adventure film and a sequel to Escape to Witch Mountain (1975) and the second film in the ''Witch Mountain'' franchise.

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Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center

The Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center (also commonly referred to as UCLA Medical Center or "the Reagan") is a hospital located on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles in Westwood, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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She Lives!

She Lives! is a 1973 made-for-television movie about a young couple, Andy and Pam (played by Desi Arnaz, Jr. and Season Hubley).

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Sitcom

A sitcom, short for "situation comedy", is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who carry over from episode to episode.

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Stevie Wonder

Stevland Hardaway Morris (né Judkins; born May 13, 1950), known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist.

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Talent agent

A talent agent, or booking agent, is a person who finds jobs for actors, authors, film directors, musicians, models, professional athletes, writers, screenwriters, broadcast journalists, and other professionals in various entertainment or broadcast businesses.

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Television film

A television film (also known as a TV movie, TV film, television movie, telefilm, telemovie, made-for-television movie, made-for-television film, direct-to-TV movie, direct-to-TV film, movie of the week, feature-length drama, single drama and original movie) is a feature-length motion picture that is produced for, and originally distributed by or to, a television network, in contrast to theatrical films, which are made explicitly for initial showing in movie theaters.

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The Flower Drum Song

The Flower Drum Song is a novel by Chinese-American author C. Y. Lee, first published in 1957.

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The Green Berets (film)

The Green Berets is a 1968 American war film set in Vietnam featuring John Wayne, Jim Hutton, David Janssen, Aldo Ray, Patrick Wayne, and Jack Soo, based on the 1965 book by Robin Moore.

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The Jack Benny Program

The Jack Benny Program, starring Jack Benny, is a radio-TV comedy series that ran for more than three decades and is generally regarded as a high-water mark in 20th-century American comedy.

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The Jimmy Stewart Show

The Jimmy Stewart Show is an American sitcom starring Jimmy Stewart.

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The Monk (1969 film)

The Monk is a 1969 American made-for-television crime thriller film starring George Maharis, Janet Leigh, Jack Albertson and Carl Betz.

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The Name of the Game (TV series)

The Name of the Game is an American television series starring Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and Robert Stack, airing from 1968 to 1971 on NBC, totaling 76 episodes of 90 minutes each.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Odd Couple (1970 TV series)

The Odd Couple, formally titled onscreen Neil Simon's The Odd Couple, is an American television situation comedy broadcast from September 24, 1970, to March 7, 1975, on ABC.

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The Oscar (film)

The Oscar is a 1966 American drama film written by Harlan Ellison, Clarence Greene, Russell Rouse, and Richard Sale, directed by Rouse and starring Stephen Boyd, singer Tony Bennett (in his film debut), comedian Milton Berle (in a dramatic role), Elke Sommer, Ernest Borgnine, Jill St. John, Eleanor Parker, Joseph Cotten, Edie Adams, Peter Lawford, Broderick Crawford, Ed Begley, Walter Brennan, and Jack Soo.

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The Wackiest Ship in the Army (TV series)

The Wackiest Ship in the Army is an American comedy-adventure series that aired for one season on NBC between September 19, 1965, and April 17, 1966.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

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Thoroughly Modern Millie

Thoroughly Modern Millie is a 1967 American musical-romantic comedy film directed by George Roy Hill and starring Julie Andrews.

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To Market, to Market (M*A*S*H)

"To Market, to Market" is the second episode of M*A*S*H.

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Toast (honor)

A toast is a ritual in which a drink is taken as an expression of honor or goodwill.

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Topaz War Relocation Center

The Topaz War Relocation Center, also known as the Central Utah Relocation Center (Topaz) and (briefly) the Abraham Relocation Center, was a camp which housed Nikkei – Americans of Japanese descent and immigrants who had come to the United States from Japan.

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United Press International

United Press International (UPI) is an international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th century.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Universal Pictures

Universal Pictures (also known as Universal Studios) is an American film studio owned by Comcast through the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group division of its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal.

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Utah

Utah is a state in the western United States.

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Valentine's Day (TV series)

Valentine's Day is a 1964 sitcom that appeared on ABC's schedule.

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Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?

Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? is a 1963 comedy film starring Dean Martin, Elizabeth Montgomery, and Carol Burnett, and directed by Daniel Mann.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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1961 in film

The year 1961 in film involved some significant events, with West Side Story winning 10 Academy Awards.

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1963 in film

The year 1963 in film involved some significant events, including the big-budget epic Cleopatra, Alfred Hitchcock's horror ''The Birds'', and two films with all-star casts, How the West Was Won and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

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1966 in film

The year 1966 in film involved some significant events.

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1967 in film

The year 1967 in film involved some significant events.

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1968 in film

The year 1968 in film involved some significant events.

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1978 in film

The year 1978 in film involved some significant events.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Soo

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