Victor Savage
Victor Savage is known for The Muthers (1968).
Victor Sawa
Victor Sawa is an actor, known for Chokeslam (2016).
Victor Schefé
Victor Schefé was born on August 4, 1968 in Rostock, German Democratic Republic. He is an actor and director, known for Spectre (2015), Bridge of Spies (2015) and Bewegte Männer (2003).
Victor Schertzinger
Pennsylvania-born Victor Schertzinger trained as a violinist and toured internationally, then became a symphonic conductor. His first film credit was for composing the orchestral accompaniment for Civilization (1915). He directed Charles Ray films, among others, during the silent era. He went back to composing when talkies came in, with many credits throughout the '30s, ending with The Fleet's In (1942), which appeared posthumously after his sudden death in 1941. This superb score included four hit songs, with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. He also directed films during this era, including the sumptuous British production of The Mikado (1939) in Technicolor, which stands the test of time to this day. He also had close directorial relationships with James Cagney, Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. He was unusually well-liked, and known for getting along with everyone.
Victor Sen Yung
Achieving both film and TV notice during his lengthy career, this diminutive Asian-American character was born Victor Cheung Young on October 18, 1915 in San Francisco to Chinese emigrants. When his mother died during the influenza epidemic of 1918-19, his father placed Victor and his sister in a children's shelter and returned to China, returning to the USA in the mid-1920s, having remarried. The two children were released back to his guardianship, and began learning Chinese. To contribute to the family income, young Sen Yew was employed as a houseboy at age 11 and managed to earn his way through college at the University of California at Berkeley with an interest in animal husbandry and receiving a degree in economics. Following a move to Hollywood for some post graduate work at UCLA and USC, Victor gained an entrance into films via extra work, where he was in such roles as a peasant boy in The Good Earth (1937), and a soldier in Mr. Moto Takes a Chance (1938), among others. During this early period he also worked as a salesman for a chemical firm. In one of Hollywood's more interesting tales of being "discovered", the story goes that Victor (as he would become known) was on the 20th Century-Fox studio lot at the time trying to pitch one of his company's flame retardant compounds to industry techies when one of them suggested he check out casting. The original actor who had played Charlie Chan, Warner Oland, died and the series was undergoing a major casting overhaul. In the end, Sidney Toler, received cast approval, chose the fledgling actor following a screen test to play his #2 son, Jimmy Chan, for the film Charlie Chan in Honolulu (1938). Victor went on to play the role for seventeen other "Charlie Chan" features. Needless, to say he quit the sales business for good. Victor enjoyed playing Jimmy, the earnest rookie detective who, to his chagrin, was always under the watchful eye of his famous father while trying to help solve murder cases. Outside the role, however, Victor (billed variously as Sen Yung, Victor Yung, and Victor Sen Yung at different times) found the atmosphere oppressive. Usually cast in nothing-special Asian stereotypes, sometimes villainous, in war-era films, parts in such movies as The Letter (1940) starring Bette Davis, Secret Agent of Japan (1942), Little Tokyo, U.S.A. (1942), Moontide (1942), Across the Pacific (1942), Manila Calling (1942), China (1943) and Night Plane from Chungking (1943), did little to advance his stature in Hollywood. His career was interrupted for U.S. Air Force duty as a Captain of Intelligence during WWII. His part in the Chan pictures was taken over by actor Benson Fong. Victor was able to pick up where he left off in Hollywood following the war and returned to his famous role as #2 son. The character's name, however, was eventually changed from "Jimmy" to "Tommy" after a third installment of Charlie Chan pictures were filmed with Roland Winters now the title sleuth after the death of Toler in 1947. While Victor's workload was fairly steady, again the roles themselves were meager and hardly inspiring. Most were in "B" level crime mysteries and war pictures and many were uncredited roles. Reduced often to playing middle-age servile roles (houseboys, laundrymen, valets, clerks, dock workers and waiters), some of his slightly more prominent roles include those in Woman on the Run (1950), Forbidden (1953), Target Hong Kong (1953), and Trader Tom of the China Seas (1954). His last film appearance was in The Man with Bogart's Face (1980). On TV, he appeared in two familiar recurring roles. On the John Forsythe series, Bachelor Father (1957), he showed up as "Peter Fong" on the final season of the sitcom. He played the cousin to houseboy Sammee Tong's regular character. Victor is better remembered, however, for the part of Hop Sing, the earnest, volatile cook to the Cartwright clan, provided sporadic comic relief on Bonanza (1959). He also appeared in the TV pilot and in several episodes of Kung Fu (1972), as well as popping up in dramatic episodes of Hawaiian Eye (1959), The F.B.I. (1965). and Hawaii Five-O (1968). Sitcoms gave a hint of his gentle, humorous side in Here's Lucy (1968), Get Smart (1965) and Mister Ed (1961). Married and divorced with one child, he sought work outside of acting by the mid-1970s. At one point he was giving cooking demonstrations in department stores. An accomplished chef who specialized in Cantonese-style cooking, in 1974, he published the 1974 Great Wok Cookbook and dedicated the book to his father, Sen Gam Yung. Victor Sen Yung was working on a second cookbook when he was suddenly found dead in November of 1980 under initially "mysterious circumstances" in his modest San Fernando Valley bungalow. Following an investigation it was determined that Victor was accidentally asphyxiated in his sleep after turning on a faulty kitchen stove for heat. He was survived by his son, Brent Kee Young, and two grandchildren.
Victor Senegas
Victor Senegas is an actor, known for Slalom (2020) and Demain nous appartient (2017).
Victor Serfaty
Victor Serfaty was born in Madrid in 1966 and moved with his family to Toronto in 1967. He is the oldest child of Moses and Sara Serfaty and has 1 sister. He attended the Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto before going to York University for his post secondary studies. After graduating with a degree in Economics in 1988 he went into business. Victor has done various commercials and got into acting relatively late as he was involved in his business and raising his 4 children. Victor studied acting at the Walter Alza Acting Studio in Toronto and with with Dov Tiefenbach privately.
Victor Sho
Victor Sho is an actor, known for Raising Dion (2019), Orange Is the New Black (2013) and Girls (2012).
Victor Silayan
Victor Silayan is an actor, known for Maalaala mo kaya (1991), Wildflower (2017) and Ang probinsyano (2015).
Victor Slezak
A staple of American stage, screen, and television for over 30 years, Victor Slezak hails from Youngstown, Ohio. Victor's earliest influences in entertainment came through the screen of Jack and Sam's Warner Brothers Theater, where his mother was a box office girl. So, too, was the black and white TV set in his parents' living room an early influence. He cites seeing Montgomery Clift in _Freud_, James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause (1955), and George C. Scott in the old East Side/West Side (1963) series as performances that piqued his earliest interest. The Franciscan nuns at Saint Stanislaus Grade School taught in the Jesuit mode, placing heavy weight on the correct use of language and oratory skill. Theatre was used as a teaching tool. At an early age, Victor's acting in, directing, and writing plays stemming from the Bible became a normal part of his daily routine and education. His talent and efforts gained recognition when he was asked to join a select handful of students in reading the Book of Genesis aloud to their church congregation. Toward the end of high school, after being selected and appearing in leads in the school plays, Victor's guidance counselor pulled him out of class to announce good news: he'd been awarded a scholarship to study acting at Ohio State. Victor turned it down. The summer before, Victor had spent 10 weeks as an apprentice at the Lakewood Musical Playhouse. There was another force and first love begging for his attention. From an early age he spent his free time making drawings in pencil and ink. He couldn't see himself pursuing acting as a career after seeing those amazing performers drawing their 75 dollar a week paycheck and no job after the ten weeks. So, at the ripe old age of 17, he moved to New York City to become a visual artist. He was on the fast track to become an advertising art director when a friend who worked as a scenic designer from that summer of stock called from out of the blue and asked Victor if he'd like to paint scenery for the venerable Chautauqua Opera Company in western New York state. Victor arranged for a brief leave of absence from the advertising firm. A life in the theatre had called to him by a most circuitous route. Victor never went back to the ad firm. When his work at Chautauqua ended, he landed a job stage managing variety acts - a country/western band, a juggler, and a magician - at the Cedar Point Amusement Park in Sandusky, Ohio. In an era before Amazon or Barnes and Noble existed, he began to hunt for books on acting. Victor's first introduction to Uta Hagen was in his Speech and Drama class where he heard a recording of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf". His first professional jobs came from regional theatre, roles like Rodolfo in A View from the Bridge at the Berkshire Theatre Festival and several stints at Hartford Stage, including Eben in Desire Under the Elms playing opposite Frances Fisher; Whit in Of Mice and Men with fellow Youngstowner Ed O'Neill, and Algernon in The Importance of Being Ernest with Mary Louise Parker. Exceptional material and the chance to work with great artists kept Victor in New York when so many of his peers moved west to pursue Los Angeles. Stage jobs in the city soon beckoned. Victor's performance as Lachlen in The Hasty Heart at Mirror Repertory off-Broadway led to his being cast opposite Geraldine Page at the same venue in a Ibsen's Ghosts, directed by Austin Pendleton. Television jobs followed including a recurring role on ABC's "Guiding Light". Broadway beckoned in 1993. Victor played John Cleary in Frank Gilroy's Any Given Day (the precursor to The Subject was Roses) alongside Sada Thompson at the Longacre Theatre, following that playing Dr. Sugar in Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer at Circle in the Square with Elizabeth Ashley, JFK in Jackie: An American Life with Margaret Colin at the Belasco, Mr. Robinson in The Graduate with Kathleen Turner at the Plymouth Theatre, and John the Baptist in Salome with Al Pacino at the Barrymore Theatre. Film roles began to pop up as well: The Devil's Own (1997) directed by Alan J. Pakula with Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt; The Bridges of Madison County (1995) with Meryl Streep, directed by Clint Eastwood. After Uta Hagen's death in 2004, Victor received phone calls from HB Studios asking him to consider teaching. Harkening to a need to give back to the school and the craft that had nurtured him, he eventually agreed to work a class into his schedule "I went to teach my first class and found that the Studio had put me in the same room where I'd first met Uta." Today, Victor serves on the Board of the HB Playwrights Foundation, a position he's held since 2009 and makes time each year to be a part of their CORE program. He is also a member of the Actor's Studio and The Ensemble Studio Theater. He is known throughout the industry for the research he brings to playing roles of particular power and complexity (Enrico Brulard, the totalitarian chef on HBO's _Treme_; the Deputy Director of CIA in John Singleton's feature Abduction; Jamie Tyrone in Eugene O'Neill's Moon for the Misbegotten at the Pittsburgh Public Theatre; Mike Wallace in the Broadway-bound musical Superfly, directed by Bill T. Jones). Victor still approaches his roles with a painter's eye.