Mitsugi "Miki" Morita (sometimes credited as Mike Morita) was a Japanese
character actor
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who worked in Hollywood from the 1920s through around 1940. He had worked as a stage actor before beginning his career onscreen.
Partial filmography
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Souls for Sables'' (1925)
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Broadway Lady'' (1925)
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Telling the World'' (1928)
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Shanghai Express'' (1932)
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War Correspondent
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They Call It Sin
''They Call It Sin'' is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Thornton Freeland and starring Loretta Young as a farmer's daughter who follows a traveling salesman to New York City, only to discover he already is engaged.
Plot
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'' (1932)
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Renegades of the West'' (1932)
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Nagana'' (1933)
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Girl Missing'' (1933)
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Christopher Strong
''Christopher Strong'' (also known as ''The Great Desire'' and ''The White Moth'') is a 1933 American pre-Code romantic drama film produced by RKO and directed by Dorothy Arzner. It is a tale of illicit love among the English aristocracy and ...
'' (1933)
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Midnight Mary'' (1933)
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Bombshell'' (1933)
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The Captain Hates the Sea'' (1934)
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Behold My Wife!'' (1934)
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Death Flies East'' (1935)
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The Casino Murder Case'' (1935)
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Oil for the Lamps of China'' (1935)
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Grand Exit'' (1935)
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Front Page Woman'' (1935)
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The Dark Hour'' (1936)
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The Walking Dead'' (1936)
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Spendthrift
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'' (1936)
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It Couldn't Have Happened – But It Did'' (1936)
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Isle of Fury'' (1936)
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North of Nome'' (1936)
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Women of Glamour'' (1937)
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Border Phantom'' (1937)
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Wild West Days'' (1937)
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It Happened in Hollywood'' (1937)
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She Asked for It'' (1937)
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The Awful Truth
''The Awful Truth'' is a 1937 American screwball comedy film directed by Leo McCarey, and starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant. Based on the 1922 play ''The Awful Truth'' by Arthur Richman, the film recounts a distrustful rich couple who begin ...
'' (1937)
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Bulldog Drummond's Revenge'' (1937)
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The House Across the Bay'' (1940)
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Turnabout'' (1940)
References
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1896 births
1985 deaths
Japanese male film actors
Japanese male silent film actors
20th-century Japanese male actors
Japanese emigrants to the United States
American male film actors
American male silent film actors
20th-century American male actors
Actors from Nagano Prefecturebr>
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