Victor Sen Young (born Victor Cheung Young or Sen Yew Cheung; October 18, 1915 – body discovered November 9, 1980) was an American character actor, best known for playing Jimmy Chan in the Charlie Chan films and Hop Sing in the Western series Bonanza. He was born in San Francisco, California to Gum ... Yung Sen and his first wife, both immigrants from China. His mother died during the flu epidemic of 1919. His father placed Victor and his younger sister, Rosemary, in a children's shelter, and returned to his homeland to seek another wife. He returned in 1922 with his new wife, Lovi Shee, forming a household with his two children. Sen Yung made his first significant acting debut in the 1938 film Charlie Chan in Honolulu, as the Chinese detective's "number two son", Jimmy Chan. Sen Yung played Jimmy Chan in 11 Charlie Chan films between 1938 and 1942. Moonlighting from the popular Chan series, Sen Yung won critical acclaim playing the nuanced role of Ong Chi Seng, a young attorney assisting Howard Joyce, in defending Leslie Crosbie, in The Letter. Like other Chinese-American actors, he was cast in Japanese parts during World War II, like his role as the treacherous Japanese-American Joe Totsuiko in the 1942 Humphrey Bogart film Across the Pacific. During World War II he joined the U.S. Army Air Forces just as his erstwhile co-star Sidney Toler was set to revive the dormant Charlie Chan series at Monogram Pictures. Sen Yung's military obligations forced him to decline rejoining the series immediately, but Monogram gave him a standing invitation to work there after his tour of duty. Sen Yung's military service included work in training films at the First Motion Picture Unit and a role in the Army Air Forces' play and film Winged Victory. In 1946 Sen Yung resumed his Hollywood career at Monogram, now billed as Victor Sen Young, and reunited with Sidney Toler. Toler's health was failing; Monogram was conserving Toler's waning energy, limiting his scenes and giving him long rest periods during filming. To relieve the burden on Toler, Monogram entrusted much of the action to Victor Sen Young; he and either Mantan Moreland or Willie Best shared much of the footage in Toler's final three films, Dangerous Money, Shadows Over Chinatown, and The Trap. The addition of Moreland as Chan's black chauffeur, Birmingham Brown, reflected the fact that by this time the Chan pictures had a significant following among black Americans, who liked a film series that for once did not feature a white hero. Moreland's popularity in the Chan pictures was so great that he was booked for a nationwide vaudeville tour. Following Toler's death in 1947, Victor Sen Young appeared in five of the remaining six Charlie Chan features. His character "Jimmy" was renamed "Tommy". Victor Sen Young continued to work in motion pictures and television in roles ranging from featured players (affable or earnest Asian characters) to bit roles (clerks, houseboys, waiters, etc.). Arguably even more than for his work in the Charlie Chan films, Victor Sen Yung is remembered as "Hop Sing," the irascible cook and general factotum on the iconic television series Bonanza, appearing in 107 episodes between 1959 and 1973. Sen Yung was also an accomplished and talented chef. He frequently appeared on cooking programs and authored The Great Wok Cookbook in 1974.
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| Organization | Category | Movie |
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Bonanza
as Hop Sing
Episodes: 86
First Aired: Sep 12, 1959
Bonanza
as Hop Sing (uncredited)
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Sep 12, 1959
Here's Lucy
as Headwaiter
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 23, 1968
The F.B.I.
as Mayor Eto
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 19, 1965
Hawaii Five-O
as Dr. Leo Kuh
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 20, 1968
Perry Mason
as Mickey Fong
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 21, 1957
Night Gallery
as Joseph the Butler
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Dec 16, 1970
The Wild Wild West
as Baron Kyosai
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 17, 1965
Thriller
as Bartender
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 13, 1960
Yancy Derringer
as Hon Lee
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 02, 1958
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
as Magan
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jul 01, 1957
Adventures of Superman
as Harry Wong
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 19, 1952
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Dr. Wing Chin-Ni
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 19, 1960
Isis
as Mr. Chen
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 06, 1975
The Jack Benny Program
as Chinese cafeteria employee
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 28, 1950
Get Smart
as Abe Fu Yung
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 18, 1965
Hong Kong
as Yang
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Mar 01, 1960
Here's Lucy
as Murphy
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 23, 1968
Perry Mason
as Sheng
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 21, 1957
How the West Was Won
as Hospital Attendant
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Feb 06, 1977
Kung Fu
as Master Ling (uncredited)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 14, 1972
Kung Fu
as Chu
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 14, 1972
The F.B.I.
as Joseph Sakanishi
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 19, 1965
Broken Arrow
as Ling Tang
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 25, 1956
Barbary Coast
as Soong
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 08, 1975
Kung Fu
as Chuen (archive footage) (uncredited)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 14, 1972
87th Precinct
as Charlie, 1st Tattoo Parlor Owner
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 25, 1961
The Lone Wolf
as Jack Wong
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Apr 09, 1954
Hawaiian Eye
as Sam
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 07, 1959
China Smith
Episodes: 4
First Aired: Jan 01, 1952
Kung Fu
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Oct 14, 1972
Terry and the Pirates
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Nov 25, 1952
Mister Ed
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 05, 1961
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 25, 1964
Hawaiian Eye
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 07, 1959
Mickey
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 16, 1964
Get Smart
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 18, 1965
The Paul Lynde Show
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 13, 1972
Navy Log
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 20, 1955
The Rifleman
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 30, 1958
Dr. Fu Manchu
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 03, 1956
Captain Midnight
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 04, 1954
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Dec 11, 1961
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