“If I die from now on, OK! This film will go on for a hundred years.”
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Haing S. Ngor
Haing Somnang Ngor was a Cambodian and American actor, physician, and activist. He made his acting debut in the biographical drama film The Killing Fields (1984) as journalist Dith Pran, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, becoming the first actor of Asian descent to win the award and one of the only two amateur actors to win an Academy Award, following Harold Russell.
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science · Cambodian-American actor and physician (1940–1996) · physician · gynecologist · film actor · television actor · writer · also Haing S. Ngor, Haing Somnang Ngor, Ngor
Born 22 March 1940 · Died 25 February 1996 · Q312364
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2023· 1 entry
entertainment.ie: The Killing Fields of Dr. Haing S. Ngor
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2021· 1 entry
Moviefone: The Killing Fields of Dr. Haing S. Ngor (2021) - Where to Watch
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2015· 1 entry
SFGate: Arthur Dong documents life of genocide survivor Haing S.Ngor
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2012· 1 entry
Published “Initial Validation of an Exercise “Vital Sign” in Electronic Medical Records” in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise — cited 331 times.
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1998· 1 entry
The same day Pol Pot's death was confirmed in Cambodia
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1996· 3 entries
Ngor was shot and killed outside his home in Chinatown, Los Angeles
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Died 1996-02-25.
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Ngor was murdered outside his home in Los Angeles
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1987· 1 entry
Ngor published his autobiography, Haing Ngor: A Cambodian Odyssey, in which he described his life under the Khmer Rouge
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1986· 1 entry
Ngor became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1986.
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1979· 1 entry
Ngor and his niece crawled to safety in a refugee camp, which was run by the Red Cross in Thailand, and he subsequently worked as a physician there
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1978· 1 entry
Because it was impossible to perform the surgery without risking the whole family's life
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1975· 1 entry
Marking the start of the Cambodian genocide
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1940· 2 entries
In Samrong Yong, a Cambodian village in the present-day Bati district of Takéo province
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Born 1940-03-22.
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