Date of birth: 1939-05-19
Place of birth: Hong Kong, British Crown Colony [now China]
Known for: Acting
Also known as: 关家蒨, Nancy Kwan, Guan Nanshi, Nancy Kwan Ka-shen
Nancy Kwan is a Hong Kong-born Eurasian-American actress, who played a pivotal role in the acceptance of actors of Asian ancestry in major Hollywood film roles. Widely praised for her beauty, Kwan was considered a sex symbol in the 1960s.
1968-12-30
When Count Contini attempts to destroy the world's economy by masterminding the theft of $1 billion
1993-05-07
This film is a glimpse into the life, love and the unconquerable spirit of the legendary Bruce Lee.
1961-11-09
A young woman arrives in San Francisco's Chinatown, from Hong Kong, with the intention of marrying a
1983-07-07
A successful art dealer is sought out by law enforcement after terrorists take some scientists hosta
1960-11-10
A Hong Kong prostitute tries modeling and falls for the artist who's painting her.
1966-07-01
Lt. Robin Crusoe is a navy pilot who bails out of his plane after engine trouble. He reaches a deser
2020-01-25
In 1971, after being rejected by Hollywood, Bruce Lee returned to his parents’ homeland of Hong Kong
2006-08-17
Rachael, an aspiring pianist with a troubled past, disguises herself as a boy and searches for her f
2005-01-01
A pretty young songbird found murdered on Hollywood Boulevard. The crusty old Private Eye who was in
1970-04-23
When a black Civil War veteran becomes co-owner of the southern McMasters ranch, the incensed local
1978-06-01
A big-game hunter brings a killer leopard to his private island and turns it loose so he can hunt it
1964-11-08
An airline executive refuses to believe that pilot error, by his friend, caused a fatal crash and pe
2007-01-01
Documentary of Anna May Wong, a Chinese-American woman who endured many hardships and heartaches to
1989-01-06
A veteran cop (David Carradine) investigates the crimes of an anarchist street gang that causes chao
1976-10-01
A former government assassin flees a mind-control program in the Philippines, pursued by his ex-part
1964-06-03
A man left at the alter goes on his honeymoon trip anyway, taking his best man along instead.
2010-01-01
The definitive and true-life story of Nancy Kwan Ka-Shen, who as a young Eurasian girl from Hong Kon
1985-01-11
A Los Angeles taxi driver helps a distraught woman on the run from gangsters after they murder her h
1969-11-07
A runaway truck containing the corpse of a slain gang leader rolls into a California nightclub owned
1988-01-01
The keys to freedom for citizens of Hong Kong are U.S. passports, as their city quakes with the immi
1973-04-25
Dr. Tsu is a brilliant surgeon with her own exotic island off the coast of Manila. Using her sexy, a
1963-07-30
The headmaster of a stuffy British boys' school receives a surprise visit from the now-grown, and ve
1982-01-01
In a tale of drama and adventure, young journalist Andy Cameron (Robert Walker) has to get into Camb
1985-10-01
Evil spirits that emerge from cans of old movie film terrorize a neighborhood.
1962-11-01
An affable drifter on the lam for a murder he didn't commit hides out in a circus.
2009-03-15
The film tells actor Jack Soo's story through a montage of film and television clips, rare footage,
1968-01-12
This military service comedy chronicles the misadventures of the U.S.S. Bustard in Japan. The crew h
1965-12-05
Young office assistant Majorie will marry soon, however, she's plagued by doubts if her fiance is th
1995-08-28
The first video to combine international martial arts together with interviews and demonstrations by
2009-01-13
Mr. Yunioshi: An Asian Perspective provides some insightful commentary of how far we've come concern
1966-12-28
Nick tries to kill his wife to get her money, but when learning of this, she plans the same for him!
1967-01-20
Freelance photographer Cliff Wilder (Robert Stack) finds himself the target of various colorful vill
1985-03-15
Joe Blade is an unclaimed TV pilot film. An American, Blade works in Hong Kong, the home of his adop
1990-09-06
A taxi driver (Quaid) pounds Zen parables (if time money, is time the root of all evil?) into his pa
1990-01-01
A large black mole above an Asian woman's breast serves as a metaphor for cultural and racial differ
1974-11-14
Ben is a farm boy who comes into conflict with the Evil Spanish Governor and his two sons. To assist
2007-03-18
Hollywood Chinese is a captivating look at cinema history through the lens of the Chinese American e
2017-03-10
Rosie Ming, a young Canadian poet, is invited to perform at a Poetry Festival in Shiraz, Iran, but s
1975-05-01
An American cowboy in the Philippines gets mixed up in cockfighting.
1988-11-04
A highly-critical documentary about the history of Asian-American actresses in Hollywood. Features i
1995-01-01
Late stuntman Bernhard Pock wrote, directed, and starred in this gritty modern-day fairy tale about
2016-06-03
A young woman attempts to deal with the death of her boyfriend while continuously confronted by his
1990-02-11
Based on a real, in-flight incident in 1988, a passenger jet loses a portion of its fuselage in flig
1990-09-17
The physical and emotional trauma of three close-knit women trying to have children is explored.
1966-01-01
1971-10-14
1974-08-16
Spring Comes Not Again is a tragic story of romance and betrayal, set in contemporary Hong Kong. The
1975-04-24
The most expensive message action film ever to hit the screen. An international-geared vehicle showc
1979-01-01
1999-09-25
A film about a small sushi counter in the lobby of a hotel in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, for Japanes
1996-01-23
A man named Kaan Woo (James Lew) is escaping his dark past, having been involved with a cult of brow
1968-09-20
In this pilot film to the "Hawaii Five-0" television series, special law officer Steve McGarrett tra
1975-11-13
Max Foster (Carl Betz), an American newspaper reporter, is in Hong Kong to assist a defecting Russia
1973-01-01
Made for German TV documentary about the early craze of Hong Kong Martial Arts Cinema. While critica