Leonard Strong

Leonard Strong

Leonard Clarence Strong (born 12 August 1908, Salt Lake City, Utah - d. 23 January 1980, Glendale, California was a prolific American character actor specialising in playing Asian roles. Beginning with Little Tokyo, U.S.A in 1942, Strong played a gamut of roles as Japanese, Chinese, Koreans, Thais, etc. in films such as Dragon Seed (1944),Up in Arms (1944), Jack London (1943), Salute to the Marines (1943), Behind the Rising Sun (1943), Night Plane from Chungking (1943), Bombardier (1943),Underground Agent (1942), and Manila Calling (1942). He played the Thai interpreter in both Anna and the King of Siam and its musical remake The King and I. Strong also appeared in the movie Shane (1953) as homesteader Ernie Wright. Strong achieved some pop culture notoriety for his role on television as "The Claw" on Get Smart. He appeared in a season-five episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1960) "The Cure" written by horror writer Robert Bloch. Set deep in an Amazon jungle, Strong plays Luiz, a loyal native who speaks broken English and saves his employer, an oil explorer, from the attempted murder of his supposedly mentally ill and unfaithful wife. Something gets lost in the translation when his employer wants Strong to take her to a psychiatrist 200 miles down river, and he takes her instead to a native headshrinker. The denouement comes when Strong returns alone to the shock of his employer. He says, "I do what you tell me. I take her to my people. The best headshrinkers in the world". Then, pulling his employer's wife's now shrunken head out of a bag, he says, "Best job in the world." Another notable television role was his haunting and mostly silent portrayal of the title character in the original Twilight Zone episode, "The Hitch-Hiker", which is often listed as one of the ten best episodes of the series. With his thumb extended, seeking a ride, and asking "Going my way?", Strong is seen in one of the half-dozen, seconds-long scenes used at the start of every one of the 30 DVDs in the CBS DVD five-season collection, "The Twilight Zone, The Definitive Edition."

  • Title: Leonard Strong
  • Popularity: 2.282
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1908-08-12
  • Place of Birth: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
  • Homepage:
  • Also Known As: Leonard Clarence Strong
img

Leonard Strong Movies

  • 1953
    imgMovies

    Shane

    Shane

    7.4 1953 HD

    A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smouldering settler and rancher conflict forces him to act.

    img
  • 1950
    imgMovies

    Backfire

    Backfire

    5.8 1950 HD

    When he's discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey goes on a search for his army buddy Steve Connolly. A reformed crook, Connolly is on...

    img
  • 1953
    imgMovies

    Scared Stiff

    Scared Stiff

    6.4 1953 HD

    A nightclub singer and his partner escape mobsters by fleeing to Cuba with a beautiful heiress, who has inherited a haunted castle on an isolated...

    img
  • 1954
    imgMovies

    Hell's Half Acre

    Hell's Half Acre

    5.4 1954 HD

    A woman travels to Hawaii to find out if a man in prison there is actually her missing husband.

    img
  • 1955
    imgMovies

    Cult of the Cobra

    Cult of the Cobra

    6 1955 HD

    While stationed in Asia, six American G.I.'s witness the secret ritual of Lamians (worshipers of women who can change into serpents). When discovered...

    img
  • 1942
    imgMovies

    Underground Agent

    Underground Agent

    1 1942 HD

    In this espionage caper, a government spy must keep enemy agents from spying upon a defense plant. His work is made easier by his newest invention, a...

    img
  • 1950
    imgMovies

    Cargo to Capetown

    Cargo to Capetown

    5.9 1950 HD

    A sailor and his captain fight over a beautiful girl.

    img
  • 1955
    imgMovies

    Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

    Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

    5.9 1955 HD

    A widowed doctor of both Chinese and European descent falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China's Communist...

    img
  • 1947
    imgMovies

    Backlash

    Backlash

    4.9 1947 HD

    In a series of flashbacks, shows that attorney John Morland has given a lift to a hitchhiker who turns out to be a murderer. As a result, Morland...

    img
  • 1944
    imgMovies

    The Keys of the Kingdom

    The Keys of the Kingdom

    7 1944 HD

    A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a...

    img
  • 1945
    imgMovies

    Back to Bataan

    Back to Bataan

    6.1 1945 HD

    An Army colonel leads a guerrilla campaign against the Japanese in the Philippines.

    img
  • 1958
    imgMovies

    Jet Attack

    Jet Attack

    5.1 1958 HD

    A Soviet nurse helps a U.S. pilot, his buddies and a scientist escape from North Korea. American International Pictures originally distributed this...

    img
  • 1962
    imgMovies

    Escape from Zahrain

    Escape from Zahrain

    6.2 1962 HD

    Yul Brynner plays political leader Sharif who is sprung from a police van on his way to a firing squad by young loyalists led by Sal Mineo. Yul and...

    img
  • 1954
    imgMovies

    Prisoner of War

    Prisoner of War

    3.9 1954 HD

    American soldiers, captured by North Korean's, are periodically brainwashed into giving up their capitalist ways to join the communist movement.

    img
  • 1943
    imgMovies

    Bombardier

    Bombardier

    5.4 1943 HD

    A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude...

    img
  • 1945
    imgMovies

    First Yank into Tokyo

    First Yank into Tokyo

    5.4 1945 HD

    A U.S. pilot undergoes plastic surgery and drops into Japan to get a captive scientist's (Marc Cramer) atomic secrets.

    img
  • 1954
    imgMovies

    The Naked Jungle

    The Naked Jungle

    6.4 1954 HD

    The Leiningen South American cocoa plantation is threatened by a 2-mile-wide, 20-mile-long column of army ants.

    img
  • 1948
    imgMovies

    Sword of the Avenger

    Sword of the Avenger

    8 1948 HD

    Roberto Balagtas is falsely arrested for treason and sent to prison where he is tortured. He escapes with other prisoners, but only Batagtas survives...

    img
  • 1954
    imgMovies

    Bengal Brigade

    Bengal Brigade

    5.3 1954 HD

    Year 1856, British India. Capt. Jeffrey Claybourne is severely punished after disobeying an order. Feeling unworthy of his fiancée Vivian...

    img
  • 1945
    imgMovies

    Blood on the Sun

    Blood on the Sun

    5.8 1945 HD

    Nick Condon, an American journalist in 20s Tokyo, publishes the Japanese master plan for world domination. Reaction from the understandably upset...

    img
  • 1953
    imgMovies

    Destination Gobi

    Destination Gobi

    5.7 1953 HD

    A group of US Navy weathermen taking measurements in the Gobi desert in World War II are forced to seek the help of Mongol nomads to regain their...

    img
  • 1952
    imgMovies

    The Atomic City

    The Atomic City

    5.2 1952 HD

    Spies hold the son of a nuclear physicist (Gene Barry) hostage in exchange for the Los Alamos bomb formula.

    img
  • 1947
    imgMovies

    Jewels of Brandenburg

    Jewels of Brandenburg

    5 1947 HD

    A former secret agent is sent to retrieve a priceless collection of stolen jewels from a Lisbon nightclub owner who worked both sides during World...

    img
  • 1943
    imgMovies

    Behind the Rising Sun

    Behind the Rising Sun

    5.7 1943 HD

    A Japanese publisher urges his American-educated son to side with the Axis.

    img
  • 1946
    imgMovies

    Dangerous Millions

    Dangerous Millions

    4.8 1946 HD

    Eight strangers meet in Shanghai to stake claims to the fortune of a late shipping magnate, then must evade a murderer in their midst.

    img
  • 1958
    imgS6 E20

    77 Sunset Strip

    77 Sunset Strip

    6.7 1958 HD

    Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office...

    img
  • 1960
    imgS1 E8

    The Islanders

    The Islanders

    8 1960 HD

    The Islanders is an American adventure television series which aired on ABC from 1960 to 1961, starring William Reynolds, James Philbrook, and Diane...

    img
  • 1965
    imgS5 E26

    Get Smart

    Get Smart

    7.919 1965 HD

    Get Smart is an American comedy television series that satirizes the secret agent genre. Created by Mel Brooks with Buck Henry, the show stars Don...

    img
  • 1959
    imgS5 E36

    The Twilight Zone

    The Twilight Zone

    8.4 1959 HD

    A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a...

    img
  • 1955
    imgS7 E39

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    7.7 1955 HD

    A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

    img
  • 1958
    imgS3 E38

    Peter Gunn

    Peter Gunn

    6.5 1958 HD

    Peter Gunn is an American private eye television series. Filmed in a film noir atmosphere and featuring Henry Mancini music that could tell you the...

    img
  • 1959
    imgS3 E36

    One Step Beyond

    One Step Beyond

    5.6 1959 HD

    Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond is an American anthology series created by Merwin Gerard. The original series ran for three seasons on ABC from...

    img
  • 1959
    imgS1 E37

    The Alaskans

    The Alaskans

    5.5 1959 HD

    The Alaskans is a 1959-1960 ABC/Warner Brothers western television series set during the late 1890s in the port of Skagway, Alaska. The show features...

    img
  • 1955
    imgS3 E30

    Navy Log

    Navy Log

    4.5 1955 HD

    Navy Log is an American drama anthology series that initially aired for one season on CBS. It relates the greatest survival war stories in the...

    img
  • 1952
    imgS1 E1

    Terry and the Pirates

    Terry and the Pirates

    3 1952 HD

    Terry and the Pirates is a short-lived American adventure series based on Milton Caniff's popular comic strip, was telecast from June 26, 1953 to...

    img
  • 1956
    imgS1 E13

    Dr. Fu Manchu

    Dr. Fu Manchu

    5 1956 HD

    The Adventures of Dr. Fu Manchu is a syndicated American television series that aired in 1956. The show was produced by Hollywood Television Service,...

    img
  • 1952
    imgS1 E32

    Dangerous Assignment

    Dangerous Assignment

    3.5 1952 HD

    A U.S. government agent travels the world on undercover missions in this 1950s series. Star Brian Donlevy originated the role on radio in the '40s.

    img
  • 1955
    imgS7 E39

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    7.7 1955 HD

    A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

    img
  • 1954
    imgS34 E26

    The Wonderful World of Disney

    The Wonderful World of Disney

    7.6 1954 HD

    Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series...

    img
  • 1954
    imgS1 E39

    The Lone Wolf

    The Lone Wolf

    7 1954 HD

    img
  • 1954
    imgS1 E39

    The Lone Wolf

    The Lone Wolf

    7 1954 HD

    img