Haing Ngor, a Cambodian by birth and doctor by profession, launched his Hollywood film career in 1984 with his Academy Award-winning performance in The Killing Fields. He died in 1996.
Roger Warner is a journalist and author of Shooting at the Moon: The Story of America’s Clandestine War in Laos. He first met Ngor at a Cambodian refugee camp in 1980.
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