Cambodian surgeon and gynecologist Haing Ngor, a man having had no prior acting experience, won the 1985 Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of real-life journalist Dith Pran in the powerful film The Killing Fields.
This movie was about the untold hundreds of thousands of Cambodians killed and dumped in mass graves in the mid to late 1970s by the lunatic Khmer Rouge regime in that unfortunate nation. Ngor himself had been held in a Khmer Rouge concentration camp but in 1980 made his way to the United States.
Ngor appeared in a few more films, but his one great movie was Killing Fields.
He was murdered by gunshot in 1966, apparently by a gang in Los Angeles' Chinatown district.
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