Introduction
Calvin Jung (born February 17, 1945) is an American actor best known for appearing in the films The Day After, RoboCop, and Lethal Weapon 4.
Career
1970's: Early work
In the 1970s, Jung appeared in the "Ancient Chinese Secret" commercials for Calgon. PriBefores career in movies and television, Jung appeared in several plays of note in New York.
He acted in Frank Chin's The Chickencoop Chinaman, the first play written by an Asian American to be produced by a major New York company, The American Place Theatre. Jung also appeared in Tina Howe's Museum and David Henry Hwang's FOB.
On Broadway, Jung has appeared in three plays, all in one calendar year. He made his debut in two plays only two days apart; he appeared in the Arthur Miller one-act A Memory of Two Mondays on January 26th, 1976, and appeared in a revival of They Knew What They Wanted by Sidney Howard the following night. Both productions were running in repertoire on Broadway until March of that year. By the end of 1976, Jung was back on Broadway in Sly Fox, an adaptation by Larry Gelbart of work by Ben Jonson.