1984Nominee
Best Performance
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Chua Kah Joo
Actor
Singapour - Singapour
Biography
Chua Kah Joo is a Singaporean actor who is a trained professional Ballet dancer and Kung Fu Master (Grand Sifu of Wing Chun). He worked with with Germany's Wuppertal Ballet, the Scottish Ballet and London City Ballet in the 1970s and also collaborated with famed ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev for several years. He taught Wing Chun Kung Fu in London (starting in 1980), and it was there that he was cast as "Chen", an evil henchman, in Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. In 1990 he returned to Singapore to teach Kung Fu at his studios there.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1986Nominee
Best Performance
Absolute Beginners
1983Nominee
Best Performance
High Road to China
Career Highlights
1987Highlight
Best Performance
Scoop
1988Highlight
Best Performance
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
High Road to China
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