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Yuen Wah, born September 2, 1950, is a Hong Kong
action film director, chereographer, actor and stuntman who has
starred in more than 60 movies since his first, Fist of Fury, in
1972. A member of the Chinese martial arts school from which Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao, and Corey Yuen received their training, they all trained under Master Yuen in Hong Kong (see Seven Little Fortunes). Yuen Wah took his stage surname as a tribute to his teacher. He is the second oldest student under the master after Sammo Hung. Known for his extreme agility and acrobatic skills, he started his movie career by becoming a stunt double in the Bruce Lee movies Fist of Fury and Enter the Dragon. He also made his debut as an actor in Fist of Fury, as a Japanese who asks Bruce Lee's character to crawl like a dog and is soundly beaten for it. One of his most memorable movie that he acted during this period in is Dragon Forever. Yuen Wah's versatility, his lean, wiry frame and later, distinctive moustache would get him cast in a number of villanious roles, sometimes with a comedic twist. He began to receive a number of roles in Shaw Brothers Studio. Later on he branched on to comedies, all with great success. In the 1990s he lessened his movie output and instead began focusing on TV roles, in TVB, starting in 1996 as a Taoist priest. His goofy and endearingly scroogy image earned him popularity in the Hong Kong TV circle and and he is now perhaps better known there for his TV roles then for his previous film characters. In 2005, Yuen Wah was cast in Stephen Chow's comedy film Kung Fu Hustle. His fellow colleagues during the Hong Kong Film Awards took the opportunity to award him with the Hong Kong Best Supporting Actor that same year. |
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