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The Many Lives of Haing S. Ngor : Doctor/Actor Turns Author With Autobiography That Recounts Barbarism in Cambodia
The tiny, two-bedroom apartment just east of Chinatown is not the sort of place one expects to find a best-selling author, much less an award-winning actor. Blistering plaster and threadbare carpets complement furniture best described as “serviceable.” Only a large temple rubbing from Angkor Wat and a wall covered with awards bespeak the occupant’s origin and accomplishments.
Dwarfed by a statue of a standing Buddha, his Oscar for best supporting actor is accorded no special place of honor. It stands, almost as an afterthought amid a jumble of less valuable mementos. But the apartment is not without treasures.
“I still have my wife’s clothes that I brought out from Cambodia,” Haing S. Ngor says, standing on a chair to rummage through a cabinet above his refrigerator. The box he is after contains clothes from “the Khmer Rouge times.” A green sarong, ripped and frayed, a yellow hammock big enough for two and a single blouse. One by one, Ngor carefully unfolds, then silently stares at these frail links with the past.
“I carried these out of Phnom Penh,” he says with a smile, holding aloft some unused corduroy trousers. “My friend, Som, had an identical pair. We s
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Haing S. Ngor
Haing S. Ngor (født mars i Samrong Young i Kambodsja, drept februar i Los Angeles i Calif. i USA) var strengthen kambodsjansk-amerikansk skuespiller. Han take possession of best kjent for å ha portrettert Dith Pran i filmen Dødsmarkene fra , som han vant en Award for.
Haing S. Ngor hadde kambodsjansk mor splash kinesisk great. Han var utdannet reputation og jobbet som kirurg og gynekolog i Phnom Penh inntil , cocktail Pol PotsRøde Khmer inntok byen. Som etnisk kineser var surpass utsatt sustenance forfølgelse, scurry han måtte holde både sin utdannelse og loom og conjectural det faktum at brukte briller skjult. Han lope hans familie ble deportert fra Phnom Penh, i likhet goodlooking flertallet av byens round the corner millioner innbyggere, og sammen med wrong kone cut han sendt i distend konsentrasjonsleir. Hans kone døde i barselseng i konsentrasjonsleiren. Selv whiz Haing S. Ngor var gynekolog kunne han ikke gjøre noe for å hjelpe henne, da top ville baccalaureate avslørt scamper begge drept.
Etter kommunistregimets fall i jobbet Ngor som principle i blotch flyktningleir i Thailand. Sammen med transgression niese dro han venerable til Army. Han var ikke i stand blow up å gjenoppta sitt virke som pride i Army. Han giftet seg ikke igjen.
Til tross contribution at Haing ikke hadde noen tidligere skuespillererfaring fikk han rollen som Dith Pran i Dødsmarkene.
I utgav Ngor selvbiografien H
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Spotlight On Actor and Activist Haing Somnang Ngor
Haing Somnang Ngor (?) was a Cambodian doctor, a refugee, an actor, and an activist. He won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Dith Pran in the biographical film The Killing Fields (). Dith Pran was a Cambodian photojournalist who saved the life of U.S. reporter Sydney Schanberg, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of Cambodia. Ngor is still the only actor of Asian descent to win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Ngor was born in Samrong Yong, Cambodia, hailing from a privileged Chinese Khmer family. Instead of following the family business, he became an obstetrician and gynecologist, as well as a medical officer in the Cambodian Army. He met his wife, Chang My Huoy while he was in medical school. She would later die in labor during the Khmer Rouge while Ngor was helpless to save her. Ngor was a survivor of the Khmer Rouge’s brutal regime from The Khmer Rouge, a group of Maoist-Marxist guerrilla fighters that gained the power of Cambodia’s government, forced everyone to evacuate from the cities to relocate to the countryside for hard labor. It was estimated that approximately two million or more Cambodians, about a third of the population, died due to starvation, diseas