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Chua Kah Joo
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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 S…
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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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1988
Soursweet
Movie Lo
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1987
Elphida
Movie Chinese Man
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1987
Scoop
Movie Lascar Steward
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1986
Absolute Beginners
Movie Dancer
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1985
EastEnders
TV show Chinese Man
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1984
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Movie Chen
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1983
High Road to China
Movie Wong's Aide
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1981
Tenko
TV show Jo
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1981
Only Fools and Horses
TV show Takeaway owner
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1977
The Professionals
TV show Choy
