Gedde Watanabe

Gedde Watanabe is an American actor and comedian best known for his breakout role as the foreign exchange student Long Duk Dong in the 1984 teen classic Sixteen Candles.

Career Signature0 — 100

How Gedde Watanabe’s filmography reads.

Five of Perfery’s 75 vibes, averaged across every film they acted in.

1crowd-pleaser

58 /100

2joyful exuberance

50 /100

3warm hug

42 /100

4bittersweet

41 /100

5kinetic urgency

41 /100

Tuned by the Perfery ranker. Aggregated equal-weight across every acted-in film.

Tonal kin

Alanna Ubach24 filmsGabrielle Union40 filmsRandall Park36 filmsJosh Gad28 filmsSteve Carell43 filmsRob Riggle41 filmsMatthew Broderick42 filmsPatrick Dempsey29 films

Filmography

21 films acted in

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Ultraman: Rising

2024

Kung Fu Panda 4

2024

The Last Word

2017

47 Ronin

2013

Parental Guidance

2012

Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword

2009

Two for the Money

2005

Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama

2005

Alfie

2004

Mulan II

2004

Slackers

2002

Guinevere

1999

Mulan

1998

Booty Call

1997

Boys on the Side

1995

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

1990

UHF

1989

Gung Ho

1986

Vamp

1986

Volunteers

1985

Sixteen Candles

1984