About Keye Luke
Keye Luke was a Chinese-born American actor and visual artist. He was the first Chinese-American contract player signed by RKO, Universal Pictures, 20th Century-Fox and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild, and was one of the most prominent Asian actors of American cinema in the mid-20th century. 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Earle Liederman, Blessed Mother Goose by Frank Scully and an edition of Messer Marco Polo by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne (unpublished). His younger brother Edwin Luke also became an actor in the Charlie Chan series. Luke made his film debut for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in The Painted Veil (1934), and played his first major role, as Charlie Chan's eldest son, Lee Chan (called "Number One Son" by his father) in Charlie Chan in Paris (1935).
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