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This song has appeared prominently in several 'entertainment' contexts, including at least two major Hollywood [motion picture] productions. It was an example of a typical Doo-wop song in the 1973 movie American Graffiti [4] and it had somewhat of a 'title role' in the 1984 movie Sixteen Candles.
Long Duk Dong is a fictional character who appears in Sixteen Candles, a 1984 American coming-of-age comedy film written and directed by John Hughes. Played by Japanese American actor Gedde Watanabe, the character is a Chinese foreign exchange student and a supporting character in the film set at a US suburban high school. The character has ...
Gary "Gedde" Watanabe (/ ˈ ɡ ɛ d i ˌ w ɑː t ə ˈ n ɑː b i /; [1] born June 26, 1955) is an American actor. [2] He is known for voicing the character of Ling in the animated film Mulan (1998) and its sequel Mulan II (2004), as well as playing Long Duk Dong in the film Sixteen Candles (1984) and Takahara "Kaz" Kazihiro in Gung Ho (1986), and Nurse Yosh Takata in the NBC medical drama ER ...
Molly Ringwald. Jade Tillman Belmes/Getty Images for Creative Coalition Forty years after its release, Sixteen Candles has an undeniable place in the pantheon of American comedies. The box-office ...
Sixteen Candles is a 1984 American coming-of-age teen comedy film starring Molly Ringwald, Michael Schoeffling, and Anthony Michael Hall. Written and directed by John Hughes in his directorial debut, it was the first in a string of films Hughes would direct, centering on teenage life. The film follows newly 16-year-old Samantha Baker (Ringwald ...
Kapelos' work in film includes appearances in three John Hughes films, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, and Weird Science, which all earned him notice in the 1980s as a character actor. [5] He also appeared in 1999's The Deep End of the Ocean, which received praise from both The New York Times [8] and Roger Ebert [9] from The Chicago Sun Times.
Carole Cook, veteran star known for performances in “Sixteen Candles” and “The Incredible Mr. Limpet,” has died. She was 98.
Molly Ringwald gave Selena Gomez‘s upcoming Sixteen Candles-inspired series her seal of approval. ‘Sixteen Candles’ Cast: Where Are They Now? Read article “I am so happy about that,” the ...