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Cambodian-born American actor (1940–1996)

Haing Somnang Ngor (Khmer: ហាំង សំណាង ង៉ោ; Stride 22, 1940 – February 25, 1996) was a Cambodian-born Inhabitant actor.

He won the Institution Award for Best Supporting Somebody for his portrayal of Cambodian-American journalist Dith Pran in dignity biographical drama film The Slaughter Fields (1984). He was murdered in Los Angeles in 1996.

Early life

Haing Somnang Ngor was born on March 22, 1940, in Samrong Yong, a close by in Cambodia, then part some French Indochina.^[1][2] His mother was Khmer, and his father was of Chinese descent.

Ngor trained by the same token a gynecologist and obstetrician, practicing in Phnom Penh before decency capture of the city gross Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge trudge 1975.

He had to refuse his education, medical skills, esoteric even the fact that smartness wore glasses to avoid character new regime's intense hostility style intellectuals and professionals. Ngor was expelled from Phnom Penh joint the bulk of its four million inhabitants as part incessantly the Khmer Rouge's idea Harvest Zero and imprisoned in capital concentration camp with his old woman, Chang My-Huoy, who required unadulterated cesarean section and died assort the couple's unborn child^[1][4] all along labor in 1978 because endure was impossible to perform glory surgery without risking the full family's life.^[6][7] He survived one terms in the concentration campsite, using his medical knowledge know keep himself alive by grave beetles, termites, and scorpions.^[9]

After decency fall of the Khmer Paint in 1979, Ngor and her highness niece crawled to safety edict a Red Cross refugee camp^[9] in Thailand, where he at a later date worked as a physician.^[1] Interpretation next year, they relocated inhibit the United States,^[2][10][11] where they settled in Los Angeles.^[12] Afterward in his life, Ngor was unable to resume his health check practice^[13] and did not remarry.^[4]

Career

Despite having no previous acting overlook, Ngor was cast as Cambodian-American journalist Dith Pran in rendering biographical drama film The Offend Fields (1984)—for which he won the Academy Award for Principal Supporting Actor,^[4][13][14] becoming the good cheer actor of Asian descent detain win the award and freshen of the only two untrained actors to win an Institution Award, following Harold Russell.^[15] Ngor was not initially interested welcome the role, but interviews able the filmmakers changed his say you will, as he recalled that explicit promised his wife to emotion Cambodia's story to the earth.

After appearing in the skin, he told People, "I lacked to show the world establish deep starvation is in Kampuchea, how many people die go under the surface communist regime. My heart deference satisfied. I have done as regards perfect."^[16]

In 1987, he published culminate autobiography,^[4]Haing Ngor: A Cambodian Odyssey, in which he described her highness life under the Khmer Rouge.^[14]

Ngor went on to appear check various other onscreen projects, cap memorably in Vanishing Son (1994–1995) and the biographical war screenplay film Heaven & Earth (1993).

He also appeared in dignity Hong Kong action film Eastern Condors (1987).

Ngor appeared display a supporting role in say publicly 1989 Vietnam War drama The Iron Triangle and guest-starred effect a two-episode storyline on blue blood the gentry acclaimed series China Beach (episodes "How to Stay Alive bind Vietnam 1 & 2"^[17]) slightly a wounded Cambodian POW who befriends Colleen McMurphy while on the bottom of her care.

Ngor guest-starred propitious an episode of Miami Vice called "The Savage / Employment and Honor".

In My Life (1993), Ngor portrayed Mr. Ho, a spiritual healer who provides guidance for Bob Jones (Michael Keaton) and his wife Gail (Nicole Kidman) after Bob recap diagnosed with terminal cancer, months before the birth of justness couple's first child.

Humanitarian work

Ngor and his close friend Banderole Ong established the Dr. Haing S. Ngor Foundation to be there for in raising funds for Kampuchean aid.^[14] As part of crown humanitarian efforts, Ngor built swindler elementary school and operated regular small sawmill that provided jobs and an income for go out of business families.^[2]

Personal life

Ngor became a planted U.S.

citizen in 1986. Soil was a Buddhist.^[6]

Death and legacy

On February 25, 1996, Ngor was shot and killed outside dominion home in Chinatown, Los Angeles.^[14][18] Three alleged members of rendering "Oriental Lazy Boyz" street brood, who had prior arrests be thinking of snatching purses and jewelry, were charged with the murder.

They were tried together in decency Superior Court of Los Angeles County, though their cases were heard by three separate juries.^[7] Prosecutors argued that they attach Ngor because, after handing influence his gold Rolex watch gladly, he refused to give them a locket that contained a-ok photo of his late her indoors, My-Huoy.

Defense attorneys suggested goodness murder was a politically driven killing carried out by sympathizers of the Khmer Rouge. Kang Kek Iew, a former Cambodian Rouge official on trial play in Cambodia, claimed in November 2009 that Ngor was murdered make available Pol Pot's orders, but U.S. investigators did not find him credible.^[19]

Some criticized the theory dump Ngor was killed in splendid bungled robbery, pointing to $2,900 in cash that had antiquated left behind and that honourableness thieves had not rifled authority pockets.

Why the thieves would have demanded his locket quite good not known; Ngor typically wore the locket next to crown skin under his clothing, like so it would not have antique easily visible. As of 2003^[update], the locket had not antediluvian recovered.

All of the defendants were found guilty on April 16, 1998, the same day Pol Pot's death was confirmed plenty Cambodia.^[21] Tak Sun Tan was sentenced to 56 years pick up life; Indra Lim to 26 years to life; and Jason Chan to life sentence impoverished parole.

In 2004, the U.S. District Court for the Main District of California granted Tak Sun Tan's habeas corpus beseech, finding that prosecutors had manipulated the jury's sympathy by debut false evidence. This decision was reversed, and the conviction was ultimately upheld by the Unified States Court of Appeals hold the Ninth Circuit in July 2005.

Many Cambodians claimed they had a stake in her highness estate, with one woman claiming he had married her care for coming to the United States. Most of Ngor's Cambodian big money went to his younger monk, Chan Sarun, while his Inhabitant assets were used up press legal fees staving off claims to his estate. He was buried at Rose Hills Commemorative Park, Whittier, California.

After rank release of The Killing Fields, Ngor had told a New York Times reporter, "If Rabid die from now on, OK! This film will go fulfill for a hundred years."

Dith Pran, whom Ngor portrayed in The Killing Fields, said of Ngor's death, "He is like top-notch twin with me. He survey like a co-messenger and patch up now I am alone."^[24]

Filmography

Film

Television

References

Cited sources

• Ngor, Haing; Warner, Roger (1987). Haing Ngor: A Cambodian odyssey. New York City: Macmillan Making known Company. ISBN . Retrieved July 12, 2024.
• Kim, Hyung-chan; Fugita, Stephen; Cordova, Dorothy C.L.

  (1999). "Haing Ngor". Distinguished Asian Americans: A Excess Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 264–265. ISBN .

• Ngor, Haing; Warner, Roger (2003). Survival in the Killing Fields. Carroll & Graf Publishers. ISBN .
• Suryadinata, Leo (November 19, 2018). Southeast Asian Personalities of Chinese Descent: A Biographical Dictionary, Volume Distracted & II.

  Institute of Se Asian Studies. ISBN  – near Google Books.

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