It was getting time...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Leong
Well thank goodness. I just watched Lethal Weapon for the first time and without checking out his page I would have never known him to be anything more than that Asian guy with a car battery and cables. He was good. He had a speaking part, which is impressive. I wonder what his appeal is to the geenral public and why he kept getting type casted as the evil Asian henchman. Is his castability due to his stunt work and ethnicity, or do you suppose there is an underlying desire to see Al Leong throughout the general public's collective unconscious? I'd go with the latter. All hail Al Leong!
It's awesome. My best friend and I always referred to him as "Evil Asian Henchman" although we did not know his name. Now I do!
That has to be the funniest, most comprehensive wikipedia page on a henchman actor I have ever seen.
Though I've never seen any other henchman actor pages, so my judgement's flawed on the matter.
Gotta love the section detailing his character, his line/lines [if any] and the way he dies. Awesome stuff!
Before I learned his name he was "That Asian bad guy flunkie with the hair who usually gets killed"; or "Oh yeah, that guy," when someone else described him.