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name: "Randall Duk Kim"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/randall-duk-kim"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "24 September 1943"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T15:03:55.877765+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."
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# Randall Duk Kim

Actor. Born 24 September 1943 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 24 September 1943, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
- **Also known as:** 金德文

## Biography

Randall Duk Kim (born 24 September 1943) is an American actor of stage, film and television. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, he studied at the University of Hawaii and began his career in theatre, becoming a co-founder and artistic director of the American Players Theatre in Wisconsin. He is known for his work in classical repertoire and as an interpreter of plays by Frank Chin; he won an Obie Award and received an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination.

In film, Kim is recognised for playing the Keymaker in *The Matrix Reloaded* (2003), Grandpa Gohan in *Dragonball Evolution* (2009), and providing the voice of Master Oogway in *Kung Fu Panda* (2008) and *Kung Fu Panda 3* (2016). Other credits include *Memoirs of a Geisha* (2005), *The Last Airbender* (2010), and the *John Wick* films (2014 and 2019). He has also appeared in television series such as *Fringe* (2008). He is married to actress and fellow American Players Theatre co-founder Anne Occhiogrosso.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Dragonball Evolution* (2009), Fi1m 34, as Gohan — [page](https://film.one/film/dragonball-evolution.md)

## Also known for

- *John Wick* (2014), Continental Doctor
- *Kung Fu Panda* (2008), Master Oogway (voice)
- *The Matrix Reloaded* (2003), Keymaker
- *John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum* (2019), Doctor
- *Kung Fu Panda 3* (2016), Oogway (voice)
- *The Last Airbender* (2010), Old Man in Temple — [page](https://film.one/film/the-last-airbender.md)
- *Memoirs of a Geisha* (2005), Dr. Crab
- *The Thin Red Line* (1998), Nisei Interpreter (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/the-thin-red-line.md)

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