<Tr> <Th> Years active </Th> <Td> 1950 - 1990 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Spouse (s) </Th> <Td> May Dickerson (? -?) 2 children </Td> </Tr> <P> Khigh Alx Dhiegh (/ ˌkaɪˈdiː / KY - DEE or / ˌkaɪˈdeɪ / KY - DAY) (born Kenneth Dickerson on August 25, 1910 in Spring Lake, New Jersey, died October 25, 1991 in Mesa, Arizona) was an American television and motion picture actor of Anglo - Egyptian Sudanese ancestry, noted for portraying East Asian roles . He is perhaps best remembered for portraying villains, in particular his recurring TV guest role as Chinese agent Wo Fat on Hawaii Five - O (from the pilot in 1968 to the final episode in 1980), and brainwashing expert Dr. Yen Lo in 1962's The Manchurian Candidate . He also starred in the short - lived 1975 TV series Khan! as the title character . In 1988, he was featured as Four Finger Wu in James Clavell's Noble House television mini-series . He also guest starred in Ironside (episode: "Love My Enemy"), The Wild Wild West (episodes: "The Night of the Samurai" and "The Night of the Pelican"), and in the Jake and the Fatman episode "Wish You Were Here ." </P> <P> In 1965, Dhiegh recorded and released an album on Folkways Records, entitled St. John of the Cross: Volume II, a collection of poems of St. John . </P>

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