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Anthony Chinn was a Guyanese actor. He played Chen in the film, Dr. No (film). He played a Control Room Technician in You Only Live Twice (film). He also played the Taiwanese Tycoon in A View to a Kill (film).

Chinne was born in Guyana of Chinese and Brazilian descent based in England who appeared in over 50 films and television series throughout a career which spanned more than four decades.

Chinn made his film début in the United Kingdom in 1957. He moved to London in 1961 and for the next several years appeared in British TV series such as The Avengers, Danger Man, The Protectors and Steptoe and Son, as well as two episodes of Gerry Anderson's UFO.

Chinn also had early uncredited roles in the James Bond films Dr. No (1962), Goldfinger (1964) and You Only Live Twice (1967), later playing a Taiwanese businessman in A View to a Kill (1985). Chinn played the Kitai in John Huston's The Kremlin Letter (1969), a Chinese assassin in The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) and a Chinese doorman in Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978). He appeared as Mohan in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and as Mactilburgh's technician in The Fifth Element (1997).

Chinn also worked in theatre and appeared in TV advertisements for brands such as McEwan's beer. He was hospitalised with a serious and life threatening brain bleed on 21 October 2000 and died from the haemorrhage the next day at a London hospital. The Guyanese actor was buried in North London and was survived by his 4 sons and 2 grandchildren.

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