Editing Keye Luke (section)

==Early life==
Luke's father, Lee Luke, was born in San Francisco in 1880, and traveled to China several times where he married Keye's mother, Down Cook. Lee Luke established an art/import shop in Seattle Chinatown. 

Luke was born in Canton ([[Guangzhou]]), China, then in the [[Qing dynasty]]. 
Luke was raised in [[Seattle, Washington|Seattle]].<ref name=Blake/> He had four siblings who all moved from Seattle to California during the [[Great Depression]]. His younger brother [[Edwin Luke]] also became an actor in the [[Charlie Chan]] series. The Luke family included Washington assistant attorney-general [[Wing Luke]].{{cn|date=February 2025}}

In Seattle, Luke attended [[Franklin High School (Seattle)|Franklin High School]], where he contributed cartoons and illustrations to school publications.<ref name="auto">{{cite book| title=Keye Luke papers, circa 1918-1987| url=http://catalog.oscars.org/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=104565| publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences| access-date=9 June 2015}}</ref> He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1944.