By: Alix Cohen February 19, 2025. When playwright Philip W. Chung noticed an Asian man in the cast of Charlie Chaplin's 1917 short, The Adventurer, he was sufficiently intrigued to do some digging. The "actor" (minor uncredited roles in three films) was Japanese immigrant Toraichi Kono.
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:15AM on February 20, 2025