page_title: Wo Fat
section_title: Name origin
hierarchical_section_title: Wo Fat / Name origin
caption_attribution_description: English: Wo Fat Building, 115 North Hotel St., Honolulu, Hawaii, in the heart of the Chinatown Historic District, which is on the National Register of Historic Places
context_page_description: Wo Fat is the name of a fictional villain in the CBS series Hawaii Five-O. On the show, Wo Fat is the nemesis of Steve McGarrett, the head of Hawaii's special task force, Five-O.
  The character appeared in eleven episodes of the original Hawaii Five-O including the TV-movie pilot and the final episode. Two of his appearances were in two-part episodes and three were two-hour specials later re-edited into two-parters for reruns. The character evolved from the beginning as a master spy for China, later into an extremist Chinese agent working with a hawkish Chinese general. The general opposed peace discussions with the United States in the early 1970s. By the end of the series, Wo Fat had become an international super-criminal out for his own interests. In the last episode, Wo Fat is finally arrested and jailed after 12 years as a wanted criminal. However, in the final shot, he smiles and craftily produces a file hidden in his shoe. It remains a perpetual cliffhanger.
  In the original show, Wo Fat was portrayed by Khigh Dhiegh who, despite looking sufficiently Asian for the role, was actually of mixed English, Egyptian, and Sudanese ancestry.
context_section_description: Leonard Freeman, the producer of the series, took the name for the character from the now-defunct Wo Fat restaurant in Honolulu's Chinatown. The Wo Fat Building is in the Chinatown Historic District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
caption: The Wo Fat Building in the Chinatown district of Honolulu.
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