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Haing S. Ngor
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Haing S. Ngor's Biography

Dr. Haing S. Ngor (Traditional Chinese: 吳漢, March 22, 1940 – February 25, 1996) was a Cambodian American physician, actor and author who is best known for winning the 1985 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the movie The Killing Fields, in which he portrayed journalist and refugee Dith Pran in 1970s Cambodia, under the rule of the Khmer Rouge. His mother was Cambodian and his father was Chinese. Ngor and Harold Russell are the only two non professional actors to win academy awards in an acting category.

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  • NBC 41 Kansas City (KSHB): Celebrity Birthdays, March 22nd
    News Source: Androscoggin News | 8 months ago
    Celebrity Birthdays, Past & Present, March 22nd (b. followed by date means celebrity is now deceased) Sir Anthony van Dyck , Flemish artist who became the court portrait painter in England, b.1599 Leonard Marx a.k.a...Nicholas Monsarrat , English
  • Heath Ledger's ultimate joke on the Oscars?
    News Source: Los Angeles Times | 9 months ago
    If Heath Ledger wins for his role as the Joker in " The Dark Knight ," he will be just the latest example of a serious Oscar phenomenon — a lead performance taking a supporting-acting award. Last year Javier Bardem won the supporting-actor trophy
  • Winning posthumous acting Oscar not easy
    News Source: Belleville News-Democrat | 10 months ago
    The last time an actor won an Academy Award after his death it took no less than a manic, tour-de-force performance that included exhorting Americans to throw open their windows and scream, "I'm as mad as hell and I am not going to take this anymore."
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  • Best Week Ever » Blog Archive » 20 Movies That You ...
    Blog Source: www.bestweekever.tv | 9 months ago
    Homer Simpson is now the recipient of Don Ameche’s Oscar, as per the Simpson’s seventh season. (It used to be Haing S. Ngor, but…yeah, that’s not funny anymore.) “U-571″ is the only film to feature both a Bon Jovi decapitation and a ...
  • Actors Who Received an Oscar for Their Film Debut
    Blog Source: www.edubook.com | 9 months ago
    It was in The Killing Fields that Haing S. Ngor would find himself an Oscar wining in 1984 for Best Supporting Actor. There have been a slew of actresses that have burst on to the scene as supporting actress and grabbing an Oscar. ...
  • Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal: 1000-to-1 shot at Oscar ...
    Blog Source: thaifilmjournal.blogspot.com | 9 months ago
    According to Bisean, the others so far are Dr. Haing S. Ngor, the late Cambodian actor who won for his supporting role in 1984's The Killing Fields, and French-Vietnamese director Anh Hung Tran, whose The Scent of the Green Papaya was ...
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