Biographie

In 1972, while returning to Los Angeles from San Francisco, he was among the passengers on a PSA airliner hijacked by two Bulgarians demanding ransom and passage to Siberia. Yung and another passenger were wounded. A third passenger and the two hijackers were killed when FBI agents stormed the plane on the ground in San Francisco.

He majored in animal husbandry at the College of Agriculture at the University of California, Berkeley, and has a memorial scholarship named after him, awarded each year by the Chinese Alumni Association.

Perhaps more familiar to TV audiences as Hop Sing, the ranch cook, in Bonanza (1959).

Was an accomplished Cantonese cook and penned the book "Great Wok Cookbook" in 1974.

Played the role of "Number Two Son" in 25 Charlie Chan films during the late 1930s and most of the 1940s; his comedic character was alternately named James, Jimmy, or Tommy Chan.