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Chan Sarun (brother) Haing Somnang Ngor ( Khmer: ហាំង សំណាង ង៉ោ; March 22, 1940 – February 25, 1996) was a Cambodian-born American actor. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Dith Pran in the biographical drama film The Killing Fields (1984). He was murdered in Los Angeles in 1996.
Casting of Haing S. Ngor. Haing S. Ngor, who plays Pran, was himself a survivor of the Khmer Rouge regime and the labour camps. Prior to the Khmer Rouge's 'Year Zero' he was a doctor based in Phnom Penh. In 1975, Ngor was one of millions who were moved from the city to forced labour camps in the countryside.
Heaven & Earth is a 1993 American biographical war drama film written and directed by Oliver Stone, and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Haing S. Ngor, Joan Chen, and Hiep Thi Le. It is the third and final film in Stone's Vietnam War trilogy, following Platoon (1986) and Born on the Fourth of July (1989). The film was based on the books When Heaven ...
He was portrayed in the film by first-time actor and fellow survivor Haing S. Ngor (1940–1996), who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance. He campaigned for recognition of the Cambodian genocide victims, especially as founder and president of the Dith Pran Holocaust Awareness Project.
Final Oscars Predictions: Supporting Actor – It's Been 39 Years Since Haing S. Ngor Became First Asian Winner, Will Ke Huy Quan Could the Second? Sign up for Variety’s Newsletter.
Only two Asians have won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar — Haing S. Ngor for “The Killing Fields” (1984) and Ke Huy Quan for “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (2022).
In 1982, Taylor's Vietnam past returned in the person of his Vietnamese interpreter, Ben Cai Lam, whose true story of imprisonment and escape rivaled that of Dr. Haing S. Ngor, protagonist of The Killing Fields. Taylor told the story of Ben Cai Lam in his first nonfiction book, Where the Orange Blooms (McGraw-Hill, 1989). The Kirkus Review ...
The late actor appeared in Oscar fare such as "The Killing Fields" and "A Room With a View," plus the crowd-pleasers "Warlock" and "Arachnophobia."