Biography
Tetsu Komai, also credited as Tetsuo Komai, was a Japanese-born American actor. He appeared in minor roles in more than fifty Hollywood films from the mid-1920s to the mid-1960s, frequently cast as Chinese or other Asian characters and often as villains.
His credits include Island of Lost Souls (1932) as M'ling, China Seas (1935), History Is Made at Night (1937), The Letter (1940) as Head Boy, Tokyo Joe (1949), and The Night Walker (1964) as the Gardener. He also appeared in episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1959).
Komai was born in Kumamoto, Japan, and died in Gardena, California, in 1970. During the Second World War he and his family were interned at the Gila River War Relocation Center in Arizona.
