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Chow Yun-Fat
Born 1955-05-18Hong Kong, China
Chow Yun-Fat (Chinese: 周潤發, born 18 May 1955), previously known as Donald Chow, is a Hong Kong actor. He is perhaps best known for his collaborations with filmmaker John Woo in the five Hong Kong action heroic bloodshed films: A Better Tomorrow, A Better Tomorrow II, The Killer, Once a Thief and Hard Boiled, and in the West for his roles as Li Mu-bai in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Sao Feng in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. He mainly plays in drama films and has won three Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Actor and two Golden Horse Awards for Best Actor in Taiwan. Chow started his career in movies in 1976 with Goldig Films, the third largest film company at the time.
Screen work
Movies & roles
IntermissionSelf (archive footage)Cold War 1994Oswald S.C. KanDetective Chinatown 1900Bai XuanlingOne More ChanceWater NgThe Monkey King: The Legend BeginsJade EmperorProject GutenbergPainterDuckweedSelf (archive footage)Cold War IIOswald S.C. KanFrom Vegas to Macau IIIKen Shek / Ko ChunOfficeHo Chung PingFrom Vegas to Macau IIKen / Ko ChunFrom Vegas to MacauKenThe Monkey KingJade EmperorThe Last TycoonCheng DaqiThe AssassinsChancellor Cao CaoBeginning of the Great RevivalYuan ShikaiLet the Bullets FlyHuang SilangShanghaiAnthony Lan-TingConfuciusConfuciusDragonball EvolutionMaster RoshiThe Children of Huang ShiChen HanshengThe Postmodern Life of My AuntZhichang Pan / 潘知常The Making of Hard BoiledRoleThe Making of StrangleholdRole