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James Hong (吳漢章 born February 22, 1929, in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is a Chinese American actor. For his early education, he moved to Hong Kong, and returned to the United States at age 10. He took civil engineering at the University of Southern California, but later became interested in acting and trained with Jeff Corey.

He has appeared in a myriad of supporting character roles in films and television - with his Internet Movie Database filmography containing 300 credits as of October 2006. He is perhaps most-widely known as the immortal ghost sorcerer Lo Pan in John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China (1986) and the obtuse maître d' at the Chinese restaurant in the famous Seinfeld episode "The Chinese Restaurant".

He is also the voice of Daolon Wong, an evil wizard in the Jackie Chan Adventures TV series. He is also the voice of Chi Fu in Disney's Mulan, Mandarin in Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!, and Professor Chang in Teen Titans. He recently made a cameo apperance is the TV series Las Vegas as a 'cheating' holy Monk.

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