Harry Endo

Who was Harry Endo?

Harry Endo was an American actor best known for his role playing Che Fong, a forensic scientist on the television series Hawaii Five-O.

Endo was born in Colorado, but spent most of his life living in Hawaii. He enlisted on the United States Army in 1941 and served as a radio operator with an infantry unit in Europe.

He had been working for Territorial Savings Bank in Hawaii and was being filmed in a commercial for his employer when he was approached about an acting role playing "Che Fong" as one of the original cast members in the television series Hawaii Five-O. The series starred Jack Lord and James MacArthur as detectives for a fictional Hawaii state police department and ran from 1968 until 1980, making it the longest running crime show on American television until it was surpassed by Law & Order in 2003. Actor Doug Mossman, who played the role of detective Frank Kamana on the show, described Endo's role in the program as portraying "the all-encompassing forensic genius, who was supposed to know everything about everything".

Fong appeared in 111 episodes of the crime drama from 1968 until 1977, and reprised his role in a 1997 hour-long made-for-television movie.