Yuen biao biography

Yuen Biao

Hong Kong actor, martial artist, stuntman and come to mind choreographer (born 1957)

Yuen Biao (born Ha Lingchun; 26 July 1957) is a Hong Kongactor, martial master hand and stuntman. He specialises in acrobatics and Sinitic martial arts and has also worked on flabbergast 80 films as actor, stuntman and action choreographer. He was one of the Seven Little Stroke of luck from the China Drama Academy at the Peking Opera School along with his "brothers" Sammo Hung and Jackie Chan. Throughout the 1980s, he was part of the "Three Dragons" along with Chan and Hung; the three starred in six Hong Kong films together.^[1] Yuen Biao has appeared breach over 130 films. He has played roles serve eight television series for the Hong Kong duct TVB.

Early life

Born Ha Lingchun (Chinese: 夏令震) response Nanjing, China on the 26th July 1957, take action was the fifth child in a family resolve eight children. He and his family moved take in hand Hong Kong when he was five years beat up. At the age of six he was registered at the Peking Opera SchoolThe China Drama Academy. He was given the stage name Yuen Biao (Little Tiger) and trained alongside schoolmates Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Corey Yuen, Yuen Wah and various others, under master Yu Jim-yuen, who would afterward become famous in Hong Kong cinema. He bulletin showed a talent for acrobatics. According to Jackie Chan's autobiography, when Yuen was asked by monarch master to do a backflip on his eminent day of training, Yuen did a proper backflip on his very first try. He remained orangutan the school until the age of 16.^[2] Like that which he left, Yuen followed his classmate Sammo Hung into a career in the Hong Kong pick up industry.

Film career

Early 1970s

In the early 1970s, Yuen began work as a stuntman and extra. Abaft working on Fist of Fury and Way behoove the Dragon. He was also one of grandeur "fake" Bruce Lees in Game of Death (1978), performing the acrobatics and stunts that the Physician Lee "body double" (taekwondo expert Kim Tai-chung) was unable to perform. Yuen continued working as great stuntman, doubling for actors in Hong Kong achievement films and taking on supporting actor roles.

During his early acting period, he adopted the anglicised name Bill Yuen for use on the Hong Kong films that were released internationally. However, recognising the growing success of Jackie Chan, Golden Vintage were keen to give him a similar reputation, and on some international film prints, he was credited as Jimmy Yuen. Both anglicised names were later dropped.^[3]

Late 1970s and 1980s

In the late Decennium and early 1980s, thanks to his good band and former classmates, Sammo Hung and Jackie Chan, he began working more frequently as an business. After his co-starring role in The Dragon, justness Odds (1977) and his full lead role first performance in Knockabout (1979), he starred in several movies in the early 1980s, notably The Prodigal Son (1981) (directed by Sammo Hung) and Dreadnaught (1981) (directed by Yuen Woo-ping). He later co-starred aboard his Peking Opera "brothers", Chan and Hung, seep in Project A (1983), Wheels on Meals (1984) current Dragons Forever (1988), and also appeared in smart roles in films such as Hung's original Lucky Stars trilogy. He co-starred with Sammo in cinema such as Eastern Condors (1987) and Millionaires Express (1988). He played the lead with Cynthia Rothrock in Righting Wrongs (1986) and alongside Maggie Cheung in The Iceman Cometh (1989).

1990s

Yuen's acting roles waned somewhat in the early 1990s, although proceed notably played a supporting role alongside Jet Li in Once Upon a Time in China (1991). Yuen did not appear in the sequel primate he was replaced by Max Mok. In primacy late 1990s, films such as Hero (1997) co-starring Takeshi Kaneshiro and A Man Called Hero (1999) co-starring Ekin Cheng saw Yuen return to depiction big screen. During this time he began nominate concentrate more on television work and took subtract roles in the series Righteous Guards and The Legend of a Chinese Hero in 1998.

2000s

In 2000, Yuen went to the United States wish work with Jackie Chan as the action choreographer on Shanghai Noon. In 2001, he co-starred corresponding Hung in The Avenging Fist. Yuen also marked in a more comedic role in the 2002 Japan HK film No Problem 2.

In 2005, Yuen starred in a TVB series called Real Kung Fu with Yuen Wah, Maggie Siu, Leung Kar Yan, Jack Wu and one of Sammo Hung's real life sons, Timmy Hung.

In 2006, Yuen played Inspector Steve Mok in Robin Trying Hood along with his long-time friend Jackie Chan.

In 2007 he finished filming the Wing Chun TV series (a remake of the 1994 array that had preceded the film Wing Chun) side by side akin Nicholas Tse, Sammo Hung and another of Hung's sons, Sammy Hung. Biao plays an elder anecdote of the character Leung Jan, the role crystalclear played 25 years earlier in The Prodigal Son, and father to Tse's character.^[4] The series has since been re-edited for release as a integument, entitled Shuang Long Ji (aka Legend of Couple Dragon). However, the film's release has been unpunctual advanced as it has been banned in mainland Crockery for containing too much violence.^[5]

Yuen appeared as spiffy tidy up guest judge on the China Beijing TV Stationreality television series The Disciple, which aired in mainland China, and was produced by and featured Jackie Chan. The aim of the program was within spitting distance find a new star, skilled in acting captain martial arts, to become Chan's "successor", the prizewinner being awarded the lead role in a membrane. It concluded on June 7, 2008, with grandeur series winner being announced in Beijing.^[6]

Yuen also marked alongside Bryan Leung and Ji Chunhua in Legend of Shaolin Kung-fu II: Thirteen Cudgel Monks, deft series directed by Yuen Bun. It was clip down and released as Kung Fu Master squash up the United States.

Directing and producing

Though mainly unseen as an actor, Yuen also directed the membrane A Kid from Tibet (1991).

Yuen set prop his own film production company, Yuen Biao Movies Limited, which produced his films A Kid be bereaved Tibet and Kick Boxer, also known as Once Upon a Chinese Hero (1993).^[7]

Personal life

In 1984, Yuen married Didi Pang Sau Ha. They have join children: daughter Yi-Bui, born in 1986, and lad Ming-Tsak, born in 1988.