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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 ...
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.
Molly Kathleen Ringwald (born February 18, 1968) [1] is an American actress, writer, and translator. She began her career as a child actress on the sitcoms Diff'rent Strokes and The Facts of Life (both 1979–1980) before being nominated for a Golden Globe for her performance in the drama film Tempest (1982).
It was announced in 2022 that Selena Gomez was developing a half-hour sitcom titled Fifteen Candles, loosely based on Sixteen Candles, but following a group of Latina teens as quinceañera season ...
The film tells the story of five teenagers from different high school cliques who serve a Saturday detention overseen by their authoritarian vice principal. Hughes had written the script in 1982, and began casting for the film after the release of Sixteen Candles (1984).
Count Gwyneth Paltrow among the legions of Sixteen Candles fans to be shocked by the age of former actor Michael Schoeffling, who played high school heartthrob Jake Ryan in the 1984 film. On ...
In 2014, the 42-year-old joined the cast midseason as a co-anchor of the "Weekend Update" series, replacing Seth Meyers, who left to host "Late Night with Seth Meyers." He was a head writer on the ...
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 ...