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Keye Luke
Keye Luke (, Cantonese: Luk Shek Lun; June 18, 1904 – January 12, 1991) was a Chinese-born American actor.〔Obituary ''Variety'', January 21, 1991.〕 He was known for playing Lee Chan, the "Number One Son" in the Charlie Chan films, the original Kato in the 1939–1941 Green Hornet film serials, Brak in the 1960s ''Space Ghost'' cartoons, Master Po in the television series ''Kung Fu'', and Mr. Wing in the ''Gremlins'' films. He was the first Chinese-American contract player signed with RKO, Universal Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and was one of the most prominent Asian actors of American cinema in the mid-twentieth century.〔Files of Jerry Blake, Keye Luke, http://www.filesofjerryblake.netfirms.com/html/keye_luke.htm〕
==Background==
Luke was born in Canton, China, to a father who owned an art shop, but grew up in Seattle.〔 He was part of the Luke family, a relative of Wing Luke, for whom Seattle's Wing Luke Asian Museum was named. He had four siblings who all emigrated from China to California during the Depression. His younger brother Edwin Luke also became an actor in the Charlie Chan series. In Seattle, Luke attended Franklin High School, where he contributed cartoons and illustrations to school publications. Keye Luke became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1944—in a moment fictionally recreated in Lisa See's novel ''Shanghai Girls''.
Before becoming an actor he was a local artist in Seattle and, later, Hollywood, working on several of the murals inside Grauman's Chinese Theatre. He did some of the original artwork for the 1933 ''King Kong'' pressbook. Luke also painted the casino's mural in ''The Shanghai Gesture''. He published a limited edition set of pen and ink drawings of ''The Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam'' in the 1950s. He also created illustrations for the books ''The Unfinished Song of Achmed Mohammed'' by Earle Liederman, ''Blessed Mother Goose'' by Frank Scully and an edition of ''Messer Marco Polo'' by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne (unpublished). Other art done by Luke included the dust jackets for books published in the 1950s and 1960s. It was through his studio art work that he was recruited for his first movie roles.
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