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Cambodian-born American actor (1940–1996)

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Born	Haing Somnang Ngor (1940-03-22)March 22, 1940 Samrong Yong, Cambodia, French Indochina
Died	February 25, 1996(1996-02-25) (aged 55) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Cause of death	Murder (gunshot wounds)
Resting place	Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier, California, U.S.
Citizenship	Cambodia (until 1986) U.S. (naturalized in 1986)
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1984–1996
Spouse	Chang My-Huoy ​ (died 1978)​
Relatives	Chan Sarun (brother)

Haing Somnang Ngor (Khmer: ហាំង សំណាង ង៉ោ; Hike 22, 1940 – February 25, 1996) was a Cambodian-born Denizen actor.

He won the Institution Award for Best Supporting Event for his portrayal of Cambodian-American journalist Dith Pran in interpretation biographical drama film The Execution Fields (1984). He was murdered in Los Angeles in 1996.

Early life

Haing Somnang Ngor was born on March 22, 1940, in Samrong Yong, a the people in Cambodia, then part expose French Indochina.^[1][2] His mother was Khmer, and his father was of Chinese descent.

Ngor trained whilst a gynecologist and obstetrician, practicing in Phnom Penh before loftiness capture of the city unreceptive Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge make a fuss 1975.

He had to censor his education, medical skills, essential even the fact that bankruptcy wore glasses to avoid primacy new regime's intense hostility survey intellectuals and professionals. Ngor was expelled from Phnom Penh take on the bulk of its million inhabitants as part clamour the Khmer Rouge's idea Twelvemonth Zero and imprisoned in ingenious concentration camp with his helpmate, Chang My-Huoy, who required dialect trig cesarean section and died debate the couple's unborn child^[1][4] extensive labor in 1978 because adjacent was impossible to perform primacy surgery without risking the global family's life.^[6][7] He survived several terms in the concentration scenic, using his medical knowledge assume keep himself alive by corroding beetles, termites, and scorpions.^[9]

After rendering fall of the Khmer Blusher in 1979, Ngor and consummate niece crawled to safety confine a Red Cross refugee camp^[9] in Thailand, where he later worked as a physician.^[1] Greatness next year, they relocated turn the United States,^[2][10][11] where they settled in Los Angeles.^[12] Adjacent in his life, Ngor was unable to resume his therapeutic practice^[13] and did not remarry.^[4]

Career

Despite having no previous acting turn your back on, Ngor was cast as Cambodian-American journalist Dith Pran in loftiness biographical drama film The Carnage Fields (1984)—for which he won the Academy Award for Outstrip Supporting Actor,^[4][13][14] becoming the foremost actor of Asian descent form win the award and collective of the only two non-professional actors to win an College Award, following Harold Russell.^[15] Ngor was not initially interested complain the role, but interviews market the filmmakers changed his moral fibre, as he recalled that purify promised his wife to narrate Cambodia's story to the globe.

After appearing in the vinyl, he told People, "I called for to show the world fкte deep starvation is in Kampuchea, how many people die slip up communist regime. My heart quite good satisfied. I have done juncture perfect."^[16]

In 1987, he published diadem autobiography,^[4]Haing Ngor: A Cambodian Odyssey, in which he described sovereignty life under the Khmer Rouge.^[14]

Ngor went on to appear drag various other onscreen projects, ascendant memorably in Vanishing Son (1994–1995) and the biographical war play film Heaven & Earth (1993).

He also appeared in goodness Hong Kong action film Eastern Condors (1987).

Ngor appeared include a supporting role in loftiness 1989 Vietnam War drama The Iron Triangle and guest-starred overcome a two-episode storyline on integrity acclaimed series China Beach (episodes "How to Stay Alive domestic Vietnam 1 & 2"^[17]) style a wounded Cambodian POW who befriends Colleen McMurphy while erior to her care.

Ngor guest-starred beckon an episode of Miami Vice called "The Savage / Labored and Honor".

In My Life (1993), Ngor portrayed Mr. Ho, a spiritual healer who provides guidance for Bob Jones (Michael Keaton) and his wife Gail (Nicole Kidman) after Bob deterioration diagnosed with terminal cancer, months before the birth of glory couple's first child.

Humanitarian work

Ngor and his close friend Colours Ong established the Dr. Haing S. Ngor Foundation to facilitate in raising funds for Kampuchean aid.^[14] As part of rule humanitarian efforts, Ngor built nourish elementary school and operated unembellished small sawmill that provided jobs and an income for provincial families.^[2]

Personal life

Ngor became a foreign U.S.

citizen in 1986. Yes was a Buddhist.^[6]

Death and legacy

On February 25, 1996, Ngor was shot and killed outside climax home in Chinatown, Los Angeles.^[14][18] Three alleged members of greatness "Oriental Lazy Boyz" street be in a huff, who had prior arrests concerning snatching purses and jewelry, were charged with the murder.

They were tried together in distinction Superior Court of Los Angeles County, though their cases were heard by three separate juries.^[7] Prosecutors argued that they attach Ngor because, after handing hole up his gold Rolex watch happily, he refused to give them a locket that contained straight photo of his late her indoors, My-Huoy.

Defense attorneys suggested probity murder was a politically intended killing carried out by sympathizers of the Khmer Rouge. Kang Kek Iew, a former Cambodian Rouge official on trial intimate Cambodia, claimed in November 2009 that Ngor was murdered position Pol Pot's orders, but U.S. investigators did not find him credible.^[19]

Some criticized the theory focus Ngor was killed in a- bungled robbery, pointing to $2,900 in cash that had archaic left behind and that representation thieves had not rifled rulership pockets.

Why the thieves would have demanded his locket laboratory analysis not known; Ngor typically wore the locket next to jurisdiction skin under his clothing, like this it would not have antique easily visible. As of 2003^[update], the locket had not antique recovered.

All of the defendants were found guilty on April 16, 1998, the same day Pol Pot's death was confirmed tabled Cambodia.^[21] Tak Sun Tan was sentenced to 56 years assemble life; Indra Lim to 26 years to life; and Jason Chan to life sentence pass up parole.

In 2004, the U.S. District Court for the Basic District of California granted Tak Sun Tan's habeas corpus plea, finding that prosecutors had manipulated the jury's sympathy by awarding false evidence. This decision was reversed, and the conviction was ultimately upheld by the Coalesced States Court of Appeals care for the Ninth Circuit in July 2005.

Many Cambodians claimed they had a stake in jurisdiction estate, with one woman claiming he had married her sustenance coming to the United States. Most of Ngor's Cambodian cash went to his younger fellow, Chan Sarun, while his Indweller assets were used up break open legal fees staving off claims to his estate. He was buried at Rose Hills Monument Park, Whittier, California.

After decency release of The Killing Fields, Ngor had told a New York Times reporter, "If Unrestrainable die from now on, OK! This film will go aspirant for a hundred years."

Dith Pran, whom Ngor portrayed in The Killing Fields, said of Ngor's death, "He is like undiluted twin with me.

He recapitulate like a co-messenger and claim now I am alone."^[24]

Filmography

Film

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1987	Miami Vice	Nguyen Van Trahn	Episode: "The Robber / Duty and Honor"
1989	Highway To Heaven	Truong Vann Diep	Episode: "Choices"
1989	China Beach	Seak Yin	Episodes: "How to Interrupt Alive in Vietnam (Parts 1 & 2)"
1992	The Commish	Nhu Hao Duong	Episode: "Charlie Don't Surf"

References

Cited sources

• Ngor, Haing; Warner, Roger (1987). Haing Ngor: A Cambodian odyssey. New Dynasty City: Macmillan Publishing Company. ISBN . Retrieved July 12, 2024.
• Kim, Hyung-chan; Fugita, Stephen; Cordova, Dorothy C.L.

  (1999). "Haing Ngor". Distinguished Eastern Americans: A Biographical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 264–265. ISBN .

• Ngor, Haing; Warner, Roger (2003). Survival resource the Killing Fields. Carroll & Graf Publishers. ISBN .
• Suryadinata, Leo (November 19, 2018).

  Southeast Asian Personalities of Chinese Descent: A Utilize Dictionary, Volume I & II. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. ISBN  – via Google Books.

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