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Keye Luke
Name
Keye Luke
Birthdate
June 18, 1904
Birthplace
Guangzhou, China
Death date
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Character

Keye Luke played Kato in The Green Hornet and The Green Hornet Strikes Again! film serials in 1940 and 1941. Keye Luke had an uncredited appearance in The Preying Mantis, the tenth episode of the Green Hornet television series.

Biography[]

Luke was born in Guangzhou, China to a father who owned an art shop. However, his family moved while he was still young and he grew up in Seattle. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1944. Before becoming an actor, he was a local artist in Hollywood, and he worked on several of the murals inside Grauman's Chinese Theater. He did some of the original artwork for the 1933 King Kong press booklet. Luke also painted the casino's mural in the 1941 United Artists film The Shanghai Gesture.