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Chow Yun-Fat

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Chow Yun-Fat

Born May 18, 1955 · 71 years165 titles 113 movies · 52 TV
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Biography

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.

Also known as

发哥 · 小马哥 · Fat Tsai · Yun-fat Chow · چو یون فا · Donald Chow · Aman Chow · Chow Yun-Fatt · Chow Yuen-Fat · Zhou Runfa

Born

May 18, 1955

Hong Kong, China

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Roles across career

Titles counted once; a person can act and direct on the same film (roles merged).

165

Acting credits

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Directing

2

Writing

1

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Career timeline

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1962 1 title(s)

1968 1 title(s)

1974 3 title(s)

1975 1 title(s)

1976 14 title(s)

1977 5 title(s)

1978 7 title(s)

1979 5 title(s)

1980 7 title(s)

1981 7 title(s)

1982 5 title(s)

1983 9 title(s)

1984 6 title(s)

1985 4 title(s)

1986 11 title(s)

1987 11 title(s)

1988 9 title(s)

1989 8 title(s)

1990 2 title(s)

1991 2 title(s)

1992 3 title(s)

1994 2 title(s)

1995 1 title(s)

1998 1 title(s)

1999 2 title(s)

2000 2 title(s)

2002 2 title(s)

2003 1 title(s)

2005 1 title(s)

2006 1 title(s)

2007 5 title(s)

2008 1 title(s)

2009 1 title(s)

2010 3 title(s)

2011 1 title(s)

2012 3 title(s)

2014 2 title(s)

2015 2 title(s)

2016 3 title(s)

2017 1 title(s)

2018 1 title(s)

2022 1 title(s)

2023 2 title(s)

2025 1 title(s)

2026 1 title(s)

Undated 3 title(s)