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When you were doing MASH, did you ever consider using Khigh Dhiegh?
He was the guy who was playing Wo Fat, the Red Chinese master spy on Hawaii Five-0, roughly contemporaneously with your show. He'd become well-known years before as Dr. Yen Lo, the jovial brainwasher in The Manchurian Candidate (the Sinatra version - you know, the good one). Khigh Dhiegh even had a (very) short-lived detective series of his own, Khan!, during this same time frame.
The reason I'm bringing this up: After his passing in the '80s (I think - correction welcomed if needed), it turned out that 'Khigh Dhiegh' was in fact Kenneth Dickerson, from New Jersey, of Anglo-Egyptian-Sudanese descent - all of which he didn't publicize during his lifetime, while maintaining an Asiatic facade for his whole career.
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ReplyDeleteWhen you were doing MASH, did you ever consider using Khigh Dhiegh?
He was the guy who was playing Wo Fat, the Red Chinese master spy on Hawaii Five-0, roughly contemporaneously with your show.
He'd become well-known years before as Dr. Yen Lo, the jovial brainwasher in The Manchurian Candidate (the Sinatra version - you know, the good one).
Khigh Dhiegh even had a (very) short-lived detective series of his own, Khan!, during this same time frame.
The reason I'm bringing this up:
After his passing in the '80s (I think - correction welcomed if needed), it turned out that 'Khigh Dhiegh' was in fact Kenneth Dickerson, from New Jersey, of Anglo-Egyptian-Sudanese descent - all of which he didn't publicize during his lifetime, while maintaining an Asiatic facade for his whole career.
Just askin', is all ...