Soon-Tek Oh

Soon-Tek Oh (Korean: 오순택 (Oh Seun-taek) – also spelled as Soon-Taek Oh; born 29 June 1943) is a Korean-American actor best known for the voice of Fa Zhou in Disney's Mulan and the direct-to-video sequel Mulan II. He has starred in many films, and also acted in television series, including MacGyver, M*A*S*H, Charlie's Angels, Airwolf, Magnum, P.I., Hawaii Five-O, Kung-Fu, Zorro, and Touched by an Angel.

Oh was wrongly said to have been born in Japan, due to his career playing Japanese characters. He was born in Mokpo, Korea, under Imperial Japanese rule. He emigrated with his family to America when he was a teenager. Oh attended high school at Gwangju, South Korea, and attended Yonsei University in Seoul, the University of Southern California, and later received an MFA from UCLA.^[1]

On Broadway, he appeared in the original cast of the Stephen Sondheim musical Pacific Overtures. He was one of the earliest members of East West Players, an Asian American theatre group founded in 1965. In 1995 he founded the Korean American theatre group, Society of Heritage Performers, which later evolved into the present Lodestone Theatre Ensemble.

Partial filmography

Films

• Yongary, Monster From The Deep (1967) as Chinese Agent (uncredited)
• One More Train to Rob (1971) as Yung
• The Man with the Golden Gun (1974; credited as Soon-Tiak Oh) as Lieutenant Hip
• Good Guys Wear Black (1978)
• The Final Countdown (1980) as Simura
• The Letter (1982)
• Bialy smok (1985)
• Missing in Action 2 (1985)
• Yuki Shimoda (1985)
• Steele Justice (1987)
• Death Wish 4 (1987)
• Soursweet (1989)
• Collision Course (1990)
• A Home of Our Own (1993)
• S.F.W. (1994)
• The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest (1996)
• Beverly Hills Ninja (1997)
• Mulan (1998) as Fa Zhou (voice)
• The President's Man (2000)
• The Visit (2002)
• SWAT (2003)
• Mulan II (2004) as Fa Zhou (voice)

Television (partial list)

• The Invaders (1967) as Houseboy
• Hawaii Five-O (two episodes; 1968/1979) as Robert Kwon / David Chung / Chaing / Various Characters
• M*A*S*H (1975–1982; five episodes, as five different characters) as Joon - Sung / Ralph / Dr. Syn Paik / Korean Soldier / Mr. Kwang
• Logan's Run (1976)
• Baa Baa Black Sheep (1977) as Lieutenant Miragochi / Col. Tokura
• Diff'rent Strokes (1980)
• Magnum, P.I. (1981)
• East of Eden (1981) as Lee
• Girls of the White Orchid (1983) as Hatanaka
• Marco Polo (1983) as Wang Zhu
• Airwolf (1984)
• MacGyver (1988) as Raymond Ling
• Highlander: The Series (1992)
• Babylon 5 (1994)
• Stargate SG-1 (1997)
• King of the Hill (2000)

Notes

External links

• Soon-Tek Oh at the Internet Movie Database
• Soon-Tek Oh at the NNDB