Bruce Wong

Acting
1909-03-11

Known For & Full Filmography15 Titles

#1China Girl

Movie - 1942, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.4 / 10
RomanceDramaWar

Two-fisted newsreel photographer Johnny Williams is stationed in Burma and China in the early stage of WW II. Captured by the Japanese, he escapes from a concentration camp with the aid of beautiful, enigmatic 'China Girl' Miss Young. The two arduously make their way back to friendly lines so that Johnny can deliver the vital military information he's managed to glean from his captors.

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#2Appointment with Danger

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m as Chop Suey Proprietor

5.7 / 10
CrimeDramaThriller

Al Goddard, a detective who works for the United States Postal Inspection Service, is assigned to arrest two criminals who've allegedly murdered a U.S. postal detective.

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#3Wake Island

Movie - 1942, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.9 / 10
WarActionDrama

In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.

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#4Crash Dive

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m as First Waiter

6.4 / 10
WarRomanceDrama

A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new executive officer, Lt. Ward Stewart, has been transferred back into submarines after commanding his own PT boat. At the submarine base in New London, Connecticut, he asks his new captain, Lt. Cmdr. Dewey Connors, for a weekend leave to settle his affairs before taking up his new assignment. On a train bound for Washington D.C., Stewart accidentally encounters New London school teacher Jean Hewlett and her students. Despite her initial resistance to his efforts, he charms her and they fall in love.

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#5The Purple Heart

Movie - 1944, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.1 / 10
DramaWar

This is the story of the crew of a downed bomber, captured after a run over Tokyo, early in the war. Relates the hardships the men endure while in captivity, and their final humiliation: being tried and convicted as war criminals.

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#6Coast Guard

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m as Second Eskimo Driver (uncredited)

6.0 / 10
DramaRomance

Steady, dependable Coast Guard Lieutenant Raymond "Ray" Dower and reckless aviator Thomas "Speed" Bradshaw are the closest of friends. Ray saves the life of Captain Tobias Bliss, tramp steamer skipper, in a daring rescue at sea. Speed flies the injured man back to the base hospital, where the two officers later visit him. There Ray meets Nancy Bliss, Bliss' grand-daughter, and falls in love with her. Speed meets her at a dance and urges Ray to propose before some other guy does. Ray is assigned to flood rescue duty, and Speed and Nancy start going out together and discover they are in love.

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#7Behind the Rising Sun

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m as First Agent

6.1 / 10
WarDrama

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

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#8Bataan

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m as Japanese Soldier

6.4 / 10
ActionDramaWar

During Japan's invasion of the Philippines in 1942, Capt. Henry Lassiter, Sgt. Bill Dane and a diverse group of American soldiers are ordered to destroy and hold a strategic bridge in order to delay the Japanese forces and allow Gen. MacArthur time to secure Bataan. When the Japanese soldiers begin to rebuild the bridge and advance, the group struggles with not only hunger, sickness and gunfire, but also the knowledge that there is likely no relief on the way.

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#9China

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m as Aide To Captain Tao

6.9 / 10
WarDramaAdventure

Shortly before Pearl Harbor, American opportunist Jones and partner Johnny are in China to sell oil to the invading Japanese army. Cynical about the sufferings of the Chinese, Jones meets compassionate teacher Carolyn Grant while travelling cross-country to Shanghai. Sparks fly between these strong-willed characters, neither budging an inch. But when Jones witnesses a Japanese atrocity, his feelings toward his customers (and Carolyn) begin to change...

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#10Calcutta

Movie - 1946, 2h 15m as Chinese Radio Man at Ed's Place (uncredited)

6.4 / 10
CrimeDrama

Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. When their buddy Bill is murdered they investigate. Neale meets Bill's fiancée Virginia and becomes suspicious of a deeper plot while also falling for her charms.

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#11International Settlement

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m as Bellboy

6.0 / 10
Adventure

In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers falls in loves with a French singer (Del Rio).

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#12Around the World

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m as Elevator Boy

6.3 / 10
ComedyMusic

Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.

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#13Daughter of Shanghai

Movie - 1937, 2h 15m as Chinese Man (uncredited)

5.4 / 10
CrimeDrama

A Chinese-American woman tries to expose an illegal alien smuggling ring.

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#14The Mystery of Mr. Wong

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m as Asian Man

5.9 / 10
MysteryThrillerCrime

Detective James Lee Wong must find the "Eye of the Daughter of the Moon," a priceless but cursed sapphire stolen in China and smuggled to America. His search takes him into the heart of Chinatown and to the dreaded "House of Hate" to find the deadly gem before it can kill again.

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#15Devil's Playground

Movie - 1937, 2h 15m as Chinese Waiter

6.6 / 10
RomanceDrama

A remake of Frank Capra's Submarine (1928), Devil's Playground is a snappy Columbia "B plus" picture starring Richard Dix and Chester Morris. Submarine officers Dorgan (Dix) and Mason (Morris) battle on land for the affections of dance-hall girl Carmen (Dolores del Rio). She marries Dorgan but makes a play for Mason when her husband is on duty. The romantic rivalry is forgotten when Dorgan must rescue Mason and his crew from a sunken sub.

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