Classic Film Club

TETSU KOMAI

Tetsu Komai

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  • (Tetsu Komai in The Letter, 1940)

Biography

BIO

Tetsu Komai was born in Kumamoto, Japan, in 1894.

He made his silent film debut for Paramount Pictures in 1926 at the age of 32.

Komai appeared in more than 60 feature films through 1964.

He died of congestive heart failure in Gardena, California, in 1970, at the age of 76.


Films

NOTED FILMS

Bulldog Drummond

Bulldog Drummond
  • Bulldog Drummond
  • 1929
  • A bored aristocrat puts an ad in the paper looking for adventure and gets his fill when a woman asks him to save her uncle from a band of extortionists holding him in a sham nursing home. Ronald Colman stars.

Now and Forever

Now and Forever
  • Now and Forever
  • 1934
  • A hustler reunites with his young daughter and tries to go straight.

    Henry Hathaway directs Gary Cooper, Carole Lombard and Shirley Temple.

China Seas

China Seas
  • China Seas
  • 1935
  • The captain of a passenger ship out of Hong Kong finds he has more than he bargained for with a stowaway girlfriend, a long-lost love, and the threat of pirates.

    Clark Gable, Jean Harlow and Wallace Beery star.

The Letter

The Letter
  • The Letter
  • 1940
  • Bette Davis stars as a plantation wife who murders her lover.

    Directed by William Wyler.

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