✎ About Soon-Tek Oh

Soon-Tek Oh was born on June 29, 1932 in Mokpo, Chollanam-do, South Korea, South Korea, is Actor, Soundtrack. Born in Mokpo, Korea (at the time under Imperial Japanese rule), actor Soon-Teck Oh (or Soon-Tek Oh or Soon-Taik Oh) came to the United States as a teenager in 1959, studied at UCLA and trained at the Neighborhood Playhouse. Long associated with the versatile Los Angeles' East-West Players theatre company, Oh has performed on stage everything from Ibsen to Shakespeare. He made his Broadway debut and received great notices for his work in Stephen Sondheim's musical "Pacific Overtures" in 1976. On TV and film, he has proven to be a reliable player, notably in film action (007's The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) and Good Guys Wear Black (1978); existential drama (TV's Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (1993) revival series), epic mini-series (Marco Polo (1982), East of Eden (1981)) and most recently a pivotal role in the film Yellow (1998), marking the first film by and featuring Korean Americans.
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💰Soon-Tek Oh Net worth: $1.3 Million

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Biography/Timeline

1965

On Broadway, he appeared in the original cast of the Stephen Sondheim musical Pacific Overtures. He was one of the earliest members of East West Players, an Asian American theatre group founded in 1965. In 1995 he founded the Korean American theatre group, Society of Heritage Performers, which later evolved into the present Lodestone Theatre Ensemble.

2005

Since 2005, he had been a chair professor at Seoul Institute of the Arts.

2018

He died in Los Angeles on 4 April 2018 at the age of 85.

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1932 births 2018 deaths American dramatists and playwrights of Korean descent American theatre directors of Korean descent University of Southern California alumni South Korean emigrants to the United States UCLA Film School alumni Zainichi Korean people People from South Jeolla Province American male actors of Korean descent