Biography
Burt Kwouk OBE, born Herbert Kwouk, was an English-born actor of Chinese descent, known for many television appearances and for his role as Cato in the Pink Panther films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Burt Kwouk, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Complete Filmography

Whatever Happened to Harry Hill?
2012
as Burt Kwouk
As Channel 4 celebrates its 30th birthday the Harry Hill gang look back at the series, work out where it all went wrong and see if they can put their ...
The Saint Steps In... To Television
2008
as Himself

Low Winter Sun
2006
as Mr. Gim Yeung
Frank Agnew is a police detective who kills for revenge and naively believes he's engineered the perfect crime.

Wake of Death
2004
as Tommy Li
Ben Archer, an ex-mob enforcer, seeks revenge against a ruthless Chinese kingpin responsible for his wife's brutal murder. When Archer joins forces wi...

Fat Slags
2004
as Dalai Lama
Leaving their hometown of Fulchester in the North of England, Sandra and Tracey head for the bright lights of London, shagging and boozing their way t...

Stratosphere Girl
2004
as Papa-San
Angela is a French art student living in Germany who loves to draw comics and creates elaborate tales drawn in a soft and romantic style. One night, A...

The Great Challenge
2004
as Wong
A multicultural band of acrobatic do-gooders take on gangsters of three great nations in this action-packed sequel to the French box-office smash Yama...

Gate to Heaven
2003
as Muki
With the help of airport technician Dak, Alexej breaks out of the holding area for refugees. Dak puts up the Russian, who yearns to become a pilot, in...

Beyond Borders
2003
as Colonel Gao
Sarah Jordan, an American living in London in 1984, is married to the son of a wealthy British industrialist. She encounters Nick Callahan, a renegade...
Best Ever Bond
2002
as Self / Spectre 3
Roger Moore presents the ten best sequences ever to have appeared in the James Bond series, and cast members recall their favourite moments.

The Curious Case of Inspector Clouseau
2002
as self
DA-DUN DA-DUN DA-DUN-DA-DUN-DA-DUN-DA-DUN-DA-DUUUUN Henry Mancini’s iconic score, Peter Sellers’ bumbling Inspector Clouseau, and those unforgettable...

Super Banzai Video Show
2002
Compilation film of the cult betting gameshow featuring a whole host of brilliant, baffling and downright bizarre betting challenges (including shoppi...

Kiss of the Dragon
2001
as Uncle Taï
Liu Jian, an elite Chinese police officer, comes to Paris to arrest a Chinese drug lord. When Jian is betrayed by a French officer and framed for murd...

Inside 'You Only Live Twice'
2000
as Self
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "You Only Live Twice"

Animated Epics: Moby Dick
2000
as Fedallah (voice)
Paint-on-glass animation of the classic novel.

Ken Adam: Designing Bond
2000
as Self
A look at the Oscar-winning production designer.

The Tale of the Dragon: The Story of Bruce Lee
1999
as Narrator
Documentary on Bruce Lee by Channel 4 (UK).

What's a Carry On?
1998
as Self - at Re-Union (uncredited)
Documentary commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 'Carry On' comedy film series. Archive clips and out-takes are mixed with interviews with the ca...

Harry Hill: "First Class Scamp"
1998
as Burt Kwouk
Self-styled supervarmint Harry Hill is back with another live video - what were the chances of that happening, eh? Harry offers his bizarre observatio...

From China with Love
1998
as Min Ju

The Wonderland Experience
1998
as Yo-yo
Shot on location in Goa, Southern India, it concerns a young man's search for his missing father, across beaches, through deserts, down rivers and thr...
Peggy Su!
1997
as Dad
Peggy wants to be married.......

She Good Fighter
1995
as Liang
Dennis Davids is a young, talented and idealistic lawyer in Antwerp, who takes every case at heart, even the pro-deo clients the court assigns for a m...

Bullet to Beijing
1995
as Kim Soo
When long-time British agent Harry Palmer loses his job because the Cold War is over, he's promptly approached by a Russian bossman, Alex. In St. Pete...

Son of the Pink Panther
1993
as Cato Fong
The illegitimate son of Inspector Clouseau is on the case of the kidnapped Princess Yasmin.

Leon the Pig Farmer
1993
as Art Collector
An irreverent comedy is set in motion when Leon Geller, a sensitive Jewish boy from London, accidentally learns that his is the product of artificial ...

Shooting Elizabeth
1992
as Father Chu
Before a man can kill his nagging wife as planned, she disappears and he's charged with murder.

Carry On Columbus
1992
as Wang
Christopher Columbus believes he can find an alternative route to the far East and persuades the King and Queen of Spain to finance his expedition...

Air America
1990
as General Lu Soong
Air America was the CIA's private airline operating in Laos during the Vietnam War, running anything and everything from soldiers to foodstuffs for lo...

I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle
1990
as Fu King Owner
When a motorbike gang kills an occultist, the evil spirit he was summoning inhabits a damaged bike. The bike is then bought and restored, but reveals ...

Thin Air
1988
as Guang
Set in a commercial radio station in an enterprise zone called ‘Riverside’, Thin Air involved property development on a massive scale, the disruption ...

Empire of the Sun
1987
as Mr. Chen
Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured w...

Plenty
1985
as Mr. Aung
David Hare's account of a one-time French freedom fighter who gradually realizes that her post-war life is not meeting her expectations.

Mark of the Devil
1984
as Hai Lee
A desperate gambler in debt with a gangster robs a Chinese tattoo artist, getting stabbed and killing the man in the process. A black spot appears on ...

Curse of the Pink Panther
1983
as Cato Fong
Inspector Clouseau disappears, and the Surete wants the world's second best detective to look for him. However, Clouseau's enemy, Dreyfus, rigs the Su...

Trail of the Pink Panther
1982
as Cato Fong
The Pink Panther diamond is stolen once again from Lugash and the authorities call in Chief Inspector Clouseau from France. His plane disappears en-ro...

Doctor Who: Four to Doomsday
1982
as Lin Futu
The Doctor and his companions arrive on a spaceship headed for Earth, populated by natives of Earth from various different eras and commanded by the l...

The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
1980
as Fu Manchu's Servant
Fu Manchu's 168th birthday celebration is dampened when a hapless flunky spills Fu's age-regressing elixir vitae. Fu sends his lackeys to round up ing...

The London Connection
1979
as Man at Meeting
A missing formula, a defecting Eastern European scientist kidnapped, car chases, foot chases, air chases, the British secret service, and a couple of ...

Revenge of the Pink Panther
1978
as Cato Fong
Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau is dead. At least that is what the world—and Charles Dreyfus—believe when a dead body is discovered in Clouseau's car...

The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It
1977
as Chinese General
John Cleese is hilarious as the descendant of Sherlock Holmes in this modern detective drama of international power politics and intrigue. Unlike his ...

The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It
1977
as Chinese Delegate
John Cleese is hilarious as the descendant of Sherlock Holmes in this modern detective drama of international power politics and intrigue. Unlike his ...

The Last Remake of Beau Geste
1977
as Father Shapiro
Digby Geste joins his brother, Beau, in the Foreign Legion following the theft of a priceless family heirloom.

The Pink Panther Strikes Again
1976
as Cato
Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental institution and launches an elaborate plan to get rid...

Rollerball
1975
as Japanese Doctor
In a corporate-controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, and one of its powerful athletes is out to defy tho...

Girls Come First
1975
as Sashimi
Up and coming portrait artist Alan Street is employed by the owner of a Soho Swingers Club to paint the nude hostesses. Whilst Alan relishes his new j...

The Return of the Pink Panther
1975
as Cato Fong
The famous Pink Panther jewel has once again been stolen and Inspector Clouseau is called in to catch the thief. The Inspector is convinced that 'The ...

Madame Sin
1972
as Scarred Operator
A CIA agent is used as a pawn in an insane woman's plan to steal a Polaris submarine.
The Switch
1971
as Prisoner
South Vietnam. Working as the head of voluntary relief team Henry Martin objects to the use of torture on prisoners. Martin's principles are tested wh...

Deep End
1971
as Street Food Cart Manager
London, England. Mike, a fifteen-year-old boy, gets a job in a bathhouse, where he meets Susan, an attractive young woman who works there as an attend...

The Chairman
1969
as Chang Shou
An American scientist is sent to Red China to steal the formula for a newly developed agricultural enzyme. What he is not told by his bosses is that a...

Koroshi
1968
as Tanaka
Secret agent John Drake (aka Danger Man) goes to Japan to infiltrate a secret society that specializes in murder. - This film was originally conceive...

The Shoes of the Fisherman
1968
as Peng
Ukrainian bishop Kiril Lakota, a political prisoner in a Soviet gulag for twenty years, is unexpectedly released and sent to the Vatican, where, upon ...

Nobody Runs Forever
1968
as Pham Chimh
Detective Scobie Malone accepts a mission to fly to London to arrest Sir James Quentin, a high-level commissioner wanted down under for murder. But wh...

You Only Live Twice
1967
as Spectre 3
A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers to the brink of war. James Bond investigates the c...

Casino Royale
1967
as Chinese General (uncredited)
Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be...

The Brides of Fu Manchu
1966
as Feng
This time Fu Manchu and his army of henchmen are kidnaping the daughters of prominent scientists and taking them to his remote island headquarters. In...

The Sandwich Man
1966
as Ice Cream Man
A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.
The Devil's Eggshell
1966
as Wu Hsien Ching
The discovery of mysterious egg-shaped objects at the sites of a series of disasters lead people to believe that we are being attacked by alien beings...

Our Man in Marrakesh
1966
as Export manager
One of six travelers who catch the bus from Casablanca airport to Marrakesh is carrying $2 million to pay a local operator to fix United Nations votes...

Lost Command
1966
as Viet Officer
After being freed from a Vietnamese war prison, French Lt. Col. Pierre Raspeguy is sent to help quell resistance forces in Algeria. With the help of t...
Sucker Bait
1965
as Novee
An expedition sets out to discover what has happened to a lost colony on a distant planet. Amongst the scientists is a teenager raised to be a kind of...

Curse of the Fly
1965
as Tai
The son of the inventor of a matter-transporter, which turned him into a monster when he tried to transport himself along with a tiny housefly, contin...

Goldfinger
1964
as Mr. Ling
Special agent 007 comes face to face with one of the most notorious villains of all time, and now he must outwit and outgun the powerful tycoon to pre...

A Shot in the Dark
1964
as Kato
Inspector Jacques Clouseau, smitten with the accused maid Maria Gambrelli, unwittingly turns a straightforward murder investigation into a comedic ser...

55 Days at Peking
1963
as Old Man (voice)
Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebe...

The Cool Mikado
1963
as Art teacher (uncredited)
In this musical, the Gilbert and Sullivan classic is updated and set in post-war Japan. This time, the trouble begins when a soldier, the son of a Yan...

The War Lover
1962
as Air Crewman
Buzz Rickson is a dare-devil World War II bomber pilot with a death wish. Failing at everything not involving flying, Rickson lives for the most dange...

Satan Never Sleeps
1962
as Ah Wang
A priest arrives at a mission-post in China accompanied by a young native girl who has joined him along the way. His job is to relieve the existing pr...

The Terror of the Tongs
1961
as Mr. Ming
In 1910, Hong Kong, under the rule of the British Empire, is a prosperous and bustling city, but, hidden in the shadows of its many narrow streets, th...

Visa to Canton
1960
as Jimmy
A former World War II pilot, now the owner of a travel agency in Hong Kong, gets involved in espionage trying to help a Chinese woman locate her son.

Expresso Bongo
1959
as Soho Youth
A seedy London promoter turns a naive, working-class teenager into a pop singing sensation.

Upstairs and Downstairs
1959
as Chinese Restaurant Proprietor (uncredited)
On marrying the boss's daughter, Richard takes his father-in-law's advice to hire a live-in domestic. He soon finds good help is hard to come by. Run-...

Yesterday's Enemy
1959
as Japanese Soldier
Set during the Burma Campaign of World War 2, this is the story of courage and endurance of the soldiers struggling at close quarters against the enem...

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
1958
as Li
All her life, Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was the place where she belonged. Not qualified to be sent there as a missionary, Gladys wor...