Jin Ke (荊軻 pinyin jin1 ke1) was a guest residing in the estates of Dan, crown prince of Yan[?] and renowned for his failed assassination of the Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang Di.
... wasp-tongued, supercillious sophisticate. His most famous role is that of the cranky professor forced to stay immobile because of a broken leg in 1942's The Man Who Came ...