Jack Soo

Jack Soo was born on Oct 28, 1917 in USA. Jack Soo's big-screen debut came with Flower Drum Song directed by Henry Koster in 1961, strarring Sammy Fong. Jack Soo is known for The Jimmy Stewart Show directed by Christian Nyby, James Stewart stars as Prof. James K. Howard and Julie Adams as Martha Howard. The upcoming new movie Jack Soo plays is Return from Witch Mountain which will be released on Mar 10, 1978.

A genial, laid back, slumber-eyed character player especially adept at the relaxed wisecrack or dry comment, Japanese-American actor Jack Soo was born in Oakland, California, in 1917, his real name being Goro Suzuki. In the post-WWII years, he entertained as a stand-up performer in nightclubs and had made a reasonable dent on the Midwest circuit by the time he earned his big break playing the club MC/comedian in the Rodgers and Hammerstein hit Broadway musical "Flower Drum Song" in 1958. Three years later, Soo was upgraded to the Sammy Wong character in the film version and decided to settle in Hollywood. Over the next decade, despite a typical lack of roles for Asian-Americans, he managed to find a niche for his hip, deadpan demeanor on TV and a few other films including Mercredi soir, 9 heures (1963), the musical Millie (1967), and John Wayne's controversial pro-Vietnam War film Les bérets verts (1968). Soo is probably best remembered for his smart-aleck Detective Sgt. Nick Yemana on Barney Miller (1975), one of the more popular sitcoms of the 1970s alongside Hal Linden and Abe Vigoda. Sadly, he died of cancer during the show's fifth season in 1979 at the height of his popularity.