Wood Moy (10 June 1918 – 8 November 2017) was an American film and theater actor from

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. He developed an interest in acting while attending St. John's University, Shanghai. He was an early member of the

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in San Francisco. He is best known for a lead role in ''

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'', the debut film by

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. In 1972, Mr. Moy was the first to join the Asian American Theatre Training Program led by

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at the American Conservatory Theater. In 1983, Moy wrote the play "Lo Foo and the Missing Ming Artifact" for the Asian American Theater Company. In "Lo Foo," Moy plays detective

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, lured out of retirement to pursue a stolen artifact. In 1994, Moy was cast in the Berkeley and Los Angeles theatrical adaptations of Maxine Hong Kingston's novel, ''

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'', as ''Ah Goong.'' Moy also appeared in ''The Wash'' at Eureka Theatre and ''Pay the Chinaman'' at the Zephyr Theatre. He died in November 2017 at the age of 99.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Moy, Wood 1918 births 2017 deaths 20th-century American male actors Male actors from New York City