As per our current Database, James Wing Woo has been died on 27 August, 2014 at Los Angeles, California, USA.
When James Wing Woo die, James Wing Woo was 92 years old.
| Popular As | James Wing Woo |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Age | 92 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Libra |
| Born | September 26, 1922 (Oleum, California, USA) |
| Birthday | September 26 |
| Town/City | Oleum, California, USA |
| Nationality | USA |
James Wing Woo’s zodiac sign is Libra. According to astrologers, People born under the sign of Libra are peaceful, fair, and they hate being alone. Partnership is very important for them, as their mirror and someone giving them the ability to be the mirror themselves. These individuals are fascinated by balance and symmetry, they are in a constant chase for justice and equality, realizing through life that the only thing that should be truly important to themselves in their own inner core of personality. This is someone ready to do nearly anything to avoid conflict, keeping the peace whenever possible
James Wing Woo was born in the Year of the Dog. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dog are loyal, faithful, honest, distrustful, often guilty of telling white lies, temperamental, prone to mood swings, dogmatic, and sensitive. Dogs excel in business but have trouble finding mates. Compatible with Tiger or Horse.
James Wing Woo was born September 26, 1922, on the property of a Standard Oil refinery in Oleum California, north of Oakland. His father had a restaurant there and lived nearby with his wife and children.
The Woo family would grow to a number of eight boys (James was the second).Before it did, however, the Woos moved to China. It was 1928, and James was six. But his father had gotten involved in tong wars in the Bay Area, and, as James recalls, had "a price on his head.
" In 1938, James and a brother settled in San Francisco. The 16 year-old James attended school and found work as a waiter. He also found use for his martial arts education.In 1961, the Academy of Karate Kung fu opened in a large storefront at 5440 Hollywood Boulevard.
In the 1970's, with Bruce Lee and other martial artists taking kung fu fighting to the big screen, James and his most accomplished students began drawing attention from Hollywood producers and directors.
James got his first role in Sam Peckinpah's The Killer Elite in 1975, after he'd almost tossed the director out of his studio.James wound up playing "Tao Yi," but notes that he never actually performed martial arts in any of the 15 roles he has had, from Killer Elite to Lethal Weapon 4 (in 1998) to a recent episode of the TV mystery series, Monk.
He has portrayed a priest, a criminal clan leader, an elder martial arts master, and "a dead Chinese man."
