Soon-Tek Oh (born 29 June, 1943 in Japan) is a Korean American actor. He has starred in many films, and also acted in television shows, including M*A*S*H, Magnum, P. I. and Kung-Fu.
Oh was born in Japan, but raised in Korea. He emigrated with his family to America when he was a teenager. Oh attended the University of Southern California, and later received a MFA from UCLA.
He was one of the earliest members of East West Players, an Asian American theatre group founded in 1965. In 1995 he founded the Korean American theatre group, Society of Heritage Performers, which later evolved into the present Lodestone Theatre Ensemble.
Born in Japan but raised in Korea, actor Soon-Teck Oh (or Soon-Tek Oh or Soon-Taik Oh) is of Korean heritage. He came to the United States as a teenager in 1959, studied at UCLA and trained at the Neighborhood Playhouse. Long associated with the versatile Los Angeles' East-West Players theatre company, Oh has performed on stage everything from Ibsen to Shakespeare. He made his Broadway debut and received great notices for his work in Stephen Sondheim's musical "Pacific Overtures" in 1976. On TV and film, he has proven to be a reliable player, notably in film action (007's Man with the Golden Gun, The (1974) and Good Guys Wear Black (1978); existential drama (TV's "Kung Fu: The Legend Continues" (1993) revival series), epic mini-series ("Marco Polo" (1982) (mini), "East of Eden" (1981) (mini)) and most recently a pivotal role in the film Yellow (1998), marking the first film by and featuring Korean Americans.
