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<infobox> <image source="image" /> <title source="name"><default>Randall Duk Kim</default></title> <group> <header>Biographical information</header> <label>Full name</label> <label>Born</label> <label>Died</label> <label>First credit</label> </group> <group> <header>Further information</header> <label>Link(s)</label> </group> </infobox>Randall Duk Kim (Hangul: 김덕문; Hanja: 金德文) is a Korean-American stage, film, and television actor, perhaps best known as the voice of Master Oogway in the Kung Fu Panda franchise. He played "old man in temple" in The Last Airbender and voices Wan Shi Tong in Netflix's live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Avatar: The Last Airbender (Netflix) credits

Wan Shi Tong

Appearances: 3

Selected other credits

Theater

• Pericles, Prince of Tyre (1974, New York Public Theater) - Pericles
• Hamlet (1978-79, Guthrie Theater) - Hamlet
• The King and I (1996 Broadway revival) - The Kralahome

Television work

• 100 Centre Street
• Cashmere Mafia
• Fringe
• Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness
• MTV: Reloaded (TV short)
• Nourish the Beast (TV movie)
• Thief
• The Lost Empire (TV movie)

Filmography

• Kung Fu Panda (2008)
• Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
• The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
• The Thin Red Line (1998, uncredited)

Other credits

• Enter the Matrix (video game)
• Red Ninja: End of Honor (video game)

Biographical information

Kim has spent most of his career in theater. He was a co-founder of the American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Wisconsin, and became one of the first Asian-American actors to play a leading role in an American production of a Shakespeare play when he played the title role in The New York Public Theater's 1974 production of Pericles, Prince of Tyre.