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Anthony Chinn

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Anthony Chinn
in The Protectors ep: See No Evil (1972)
Born1930 (1930)
Died22 October 2000(2000-10-22) (aged 69–70)
London, England
CitizenshipBritish
OccupationActor
Years active1957–2000
Children4

Anthony Chinn (1930 – 22 October 2000) was a Guyanese actor based in England who appeared in over 50 films and television series throughout a career which spanned more than four decades.[1][2]

Career and death

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Chinn was born in Georgetown, Guyana. He made his film début in the United Kingdom in 1957.[3] He moved to London in 1961[4] and for the next several years appeared in British TV series such as The Avengers, Danger Man, The Protectors and Steptoe and Son, as well as two episodes of UFO.[5]

Chinn also had early uncredited roles in the James Bond films Dr. No (1962), Goldfinger (1964) and You Only Live Twice (1967), later playing a Taiwanese businessman in A View to a Kill (1985).[3] Chinn played the Kitai in John Huston's The Kremlin Letter (1969), a Chinese assassin in The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) and a Chinese doorman in Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978).[5] He appeared as Mohan in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and as Mactilburgh's technician in The Fifth Element (1997).[3]

Chinn also worked in theatre and appeared in TV advertisements for brands such as McEwan's beer. He was hospitalised with a serious and life threatening brain bleed on 21 October 2000 and died from the haemorrhage the next day at a London hospital. The Guyanese actor was buried in North London and was survived by his four sons and two grandchildren.[6][2][4]

Chinn in an episode of The Optimist, 1984

Selected filmography

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References

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  1. ^ Anthony Chinn at asianstarz.com, retrieved 3 January 2009
  2. ^ a b Brennan, Sandra: Anthony Chinn, at AllRovi (via nytimes.com), retrieved 3 January 2009
  3. ^ a b c "Anthony Chinn". BFI. Archived from the original on 13 January 2018.
  4. ^ a b c "Frozen Looks for an Eskimo". Evening Times. Glasgow. 22 November 1983. p. 2.
  5. ^ a b "Anthony Chinn". www.aveleyman.com.
  6. ^ "Production of Rose Marie | Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
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