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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,
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Haing S. Ngor
Haing S. Ngor (født mars i Samrong Young inom Kambodsja, drept februar i Los Angeles i California i USA) var en kambodsjansk-amerikansk skuespiller. denne er best kjent for å ha portrettert Dith Pran inom filmen Dødsmarkene fra , liksom han vant en Oscar for.
Haing S. Ngor hadde kambodsjansk mor og kinesisk far. han var utdannet lege og jobbet som kirurg og gynekolog inom Phnom Penh inntil , da Pol PotsRøde Khmer inntok byen. Som etnisk kineser var denne utsatt for forfølgelse, og han måtte holde både sin utdannelse og til og med detta faktum at brukte briller skjult. Han og hans familie ble deportert fra Phnom Penh, inom likhet med flertallet av byens to millioner innbyggere, og sammen med sin kone ble denne sendt i en konsentrasjonsleir. Hans kone døde i barselseng inom konsentrasjonsleiren. Selv om Haing S. Ngor var gynekolog kunne han ikke gjøre noe for å hjelpe henne, da han ville blitt avslørt og begge drept.
Etter kommunistregimets fall i jobbet Ngor som lege i enstaka flyktninglei
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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 bio 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 Maoi