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Subject: Archive: Haing S. Ngor, Feb. 25, 1996


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Date Posted: Thursday, February 25, 04:26:21pm
 Haing Somnang Ngor (March 22, 1940 – February 25, 1996) was a Cambodian American gynecologist, obstetrician, actor and author. He is best remembered for winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1985 for his debut performance in the film The Killing Fields (1984), in which he portrayed Cambodian journalist and refugee Dith Pran. He was murdered in a robbery outside his home in Los Angeles in 1996.

Ngor is the only actor of Asian descent to win an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He survived three terms in Cambodian prison camps, using his medical knowledge to keep himself alive by eating beetles, termites, and scorpions; he eventually crawled between Khmer Rouge and Vietnamese lines to safety in a Red Cross refugee camp.[3] His mother was Khmer and his father was of Chinese Teochew descent.

Ngor and Harold Russell are the only two non-professional actors to win an Academy Award in an acting category.

Ngor continued acting for the rest of his life, most notably in My Life (1993), portraying spiritual healer Mr. Ho opposite Michael Keaton and Nicole Kidman.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haing_S._Ngor
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