Hideyo Amamoto
Actor
- Gender: Male
- Birthday: 1926-01-02
- Day of Death: 2003-03-23 ( 77 years old )
- Place of Birth: Kitakyūshū, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
- Also Known As: Eisei Amamoto / 天本 英世
- IMDB:nm0023862
One of Japan’s most distinctive character actors, Eisei Amamoto is one of their cinema’s few personalities who is easily recognizable to Western movie buffs. Tall (six feet) and skeletal of build, bony-faced and wild-haired (when not ensconced in a vast silver wig), Amamoto’s persona inspired Woody Allen to dub him with an imitation Peter Lorre …
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