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Glen Chin

Actor/violinist

Born - 27 January 1948, San Francisco, California, USA
Died - 14 August 2018

Squat, heavyweight American actor of Chinese origin. His fierce, unmistakeable features kept him going in small character roles for years while he pursued his alternative career as a talented bass violinist. The many films in which he can be (often fleetingly) glimpsed include Jekyll and Hyde...Together Again (1982), Maxie (1985), Who's That Girl (1987), The Iron Triangle (1989), Defending Your Life (1991), Snapdragon (1993), Natural Born Killers (1994), Rumble in the Bronx (1995), Mr Nice Guy (1997), Knock Off (1998), East of A (2000), 50 First Dates (2004), The Drummer (2007), Sunny and the Elephant (2008), Hong Kong Rebels (2013) and Jasmine (2015), his last. He died from a heart attack.