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Cato
Cato typically refers to either Cato the Elder or Cato the Younger, both of the Porcii Catones family of Rome.
It may also refer to:
People
Ancient Romans
- Porcii Catones, a plebeian family at Ancient Rome
- Cato the Elder (Cato Maior) or "the Censor" (Marcus Porcius Cato 234–149 BC), Roman statesman
- Marcus Porcius Cato Licinianus, son of Cato the Elder by his first wife Licinia, jurist
- Marcus Porcius Cato, son of Cato Licinianus, consul 118 BC, died in Africa in the same year -->
- Gaius Porcius Cato, son of Cato Licinianus, consul 114 BC
- Marcus Porcius Cato Salonianus, son of Cato the Elder by his second wife Salonia, (born 154 BC, when his father had completed his eightieth year)
- Marcus Porcius Cato Licinianus, son of Cato the Elder by his first wife Licinia, jurist
- Dionysius Cato, 3rd or 4th century AD author of Distichs of Cato
Others
Pseudonym
- Cato, the pseudonym used in the 1720s by the authors of Cato's Letters, i.e. John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon
- Cato the anti-Federalist, pseudonym for an American author of the Anti-Federalist Papers in the late 1780s, probably the politician George
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Burt Kwouk (1930-2016): Panther’s modest master of mayhem
Burt Kwouk as Cato in the Pink Panther
"Sometimes they only spoke through third parties. There was a lot of pressure on Peter. He was carrying the picture. He felt the success or failure of it was down to him.
It was mayhem half the time
Burt Kwouk
"Unfortunately he was surrounded by sycophants who told him everything he did was great.
"Not everything he did was great. So he mistrusted praise... and he couldn’t tolerate criticism! He was permanently insecure.
“But Peter made me, put me on the map. He kept finding ways for Cato to get bigger laughs, those kung-fu sequences went on and on. We improvised a lot of it.”
They may have made it up as they went along but the effect is superb, choreographed anarchy, the bonkers ballet effect heightened by the slow-motion, as Cato and Clouseau hurl each other through doors and windows in a shower of broken glass; they drop through ceilings and collide with paint pots and wedding cakes.
In one sequence, Cato is hiding under the blankets when Clouseau hopes to ge
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Burt Kwouk
Burt Kwouk OBE was an English actor of Chinese descent, known for many television appearances and for his role as Cato in the Pink Panther films.
Ha played Lin Futu in the 1982 Doctor Who story Four to Doomsday.
Kwouk was born in Manchester, England, but was brought up in Shanghai until he was about 17 years old. He graduated from Bowdoin College in the USA in 1953. One of Kwouk's earliest film roles was inThe Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958) where he played the leader of a prison revolt who later aids the main character in heroically leading orphans to safety.
He has appeared in numerous films and television programmes. He may be most famous for playing Cato (Fong), Inspector Clouseau's man-servant. The running gag was that Cato was ordered to attack Clouseau when he least expected it to keep him alert, usually resulting in Clouseau's flat being wrecked. Amid the chaos, the phone would ring and Cato would answer it with "Hello: Inspector Clouseau's residence," be
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