---
name: "Frank Kumagai"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/frank-kumagai"
fi1m_id: "frank-kumagai"
imdb_id: "nm0474726"
tmdb_id: 151586
roles: []
born: "27 June 1919"
died: "31 December 1979"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 81
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-25T05:24:35.708988+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Frank Kumagai

## Identity

Frank Kumagai

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/frank-kumagai
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** frank-kumagai
- **IMDb ID:** nm0474726
- **TMDB ID:** 151586
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0474726/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/151586

Actor. Born 27 June 1919 in San Bernardino, California, USA. Died 31 December 1979.

## Details

- **Born:** 27 June 1919, San Bernardino, California, USA
- **Died:** 31 December 1979
- **Also known as:** フランク熊谷
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0474726/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/151586

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Pickup on South Street*](https://film.one/film/pickup-on-south-street.md) (84)

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## Biography

Frank Kumagai was an American actor. He appeared in numerous films and television series from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s, frequently in small or uncredited roles portraying Japanese characters.

His credits include *Tokyo Joe* (1949), *Halls of Montezuma* (1951), *Pickup on South Street* (1953) as Lum (uncredited), *Angel Face* (1953), *Hell and High Water* (1954), *Get Smart* (1965) as Ishamoto, and *Walk Don't Run* (1966). He was born on 27 June 1919 in San Bernardino, California, and died on 31 December 1979 in Los Angeles.

*Sources: imdb.com, allmovie.com, watch.plex.tv.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Angel Face* (1953), Fi1m 78, as Ito - Tremayne Butler (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/angel-face.md)
- *Pickup on South Street* (1953), Fi1m 84, as Lum (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/pickup-on-south-street.md)

## Complete filmography (13)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Get Smart* (1965), series, as Ishamoto
- *The Grave Tells All* (1960), Actor
- *Shabondama oyaji* (1956), Actor
- *Brooba* (1955), as Father Daisuke
- *Itsuki no komori uta* (1954), Actor
- *Hell and High Water* (1954), Actor
- *Shinzōyaburi no oka* (1954), Actor
- *Pickup on South Street* (1953), as Lum (uncredited) — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/pickup-on-south-street.md)
- *Destination Gobi* (1953), Actor
- *Angel Face* (1953), as Ito - Tremayne Butler (uncredited) — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/angel-face.md)
- *Crosswinds* (1951), as Bumidai
- *Halls of Montezuma* (1951), as Romeo (uncredited)
- *Tokyo Joe* (1949), as Truck Driver (uncredited)

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