Manu Tupou was born on January 5, 1935 in Lomaloma, Lau, Fiji as Manu Tupou Fatafehi. He was an actor and writer, known for Payback (1999), The Process (1998) and A Man Called Horse (1970). He died on June 5, 2004 in Los Angeles, California, USA.Landed his first acting role in the early 1960s. Manu was in New York City on his way to attend college at Oxford, England. During the layover, he read of an audition for the part of a Hawaiian prince in the movie Hawaii (1966), at which he auditioned for and got the part.