Burt Kwouk ("The thinking man's
David Yipp" -
Harry Hill) has performed a wide variety of roles on
television,
radio and
film, which interestingly seem to have shifted depending on the public mood towards the
Chinese in the
West, as is to be expected for one of very few prominent British Chinese film actors. During the
1960s he played a number of
Communist Chinese dignitaries and generals in supporting roles (speaking almost no
pronouns for the entire decade), in addition to his most famous role as the
kung-fu expert
Cato (above).
In more recent years he has played a more down-to-Earth middle-aged father in a BBC TV drama (Peggy Su), himself in Harry Hill's Fruit Corner ("I will catch me that chicken!") and Harry Hill (the original TV series -"Hey Harry, I liked this show better when it was on the radio!"), and voiced one of the 'Japanese' announcers in Channel Four's Banzai!. ("What you waiting for? Bet! Bet! Bet!") He also appears briefly in Jet Li's Kiss Of The Dragon, and anything on British television to do with Peter Sellers or Bruce Lee.