Henry O
Henry O | |||||||||||
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| Born | Jiang Xireng (蒋锡礽) July 27, 1927 | ||||||||||
| Nationality | Chinese, American | ||||||||||
| Occupation | Actor | ||||||||||
| Years active | 1987–2012 | ||||||||||
| Spouse | Ying Chen | ||||||||||
| Children | Jiang Ji-yong, Jiang Ji-yun and Ji-li Jiang | ||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 歐亨利 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 欧亨利 | ||||||||||
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| Website | henryo | ||||||||||
Henry O (simplified Chinese: 欧亨利; traditional Chinese: 歐亨利; pinyin: Ōu Hēnglì; born July 27, 1927) is a Chinese-American former actor. He is the father of Ji-li Jiang, the author of Red Scarf Girl.
O was born in Shanghai in 1927 and attended British and American missionary schools in China. He worked as a stage actor in China before switching to film work after moving to the United States.
During the Cultural Revolution he was falsely accused of counter-revolutionary crimes and was detained and forced to do hard labour by the Chinese government.