Chow Yun-Fat
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.
Acting (103 movies)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2000
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
2007
Anna and the King
1999
Curse of the Golden Flower
2006
The Killer
1989
The Replacement Killers
1998
Hard Boiled
1992
A Better Tomorrow
1986
Bulletproof Monk
2003
The Corruptor
1999
Full Contact
1992
Confucius
2010
The Children of Huang Shi
2008
A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon
1989
City on Fire
1987
Dragonball Evolution
2009
Shanghai
2010
God of Gamblers
1989
Treasure Hunt
1994
An Autumn's Tale
1987
The Occupant
1984
City War
1988
Once a Thief
1991
Tiger on the Beat
1988
A Better Tomorrow II
1987
Peace Hotel
1995
Let the Bullets Fly
2010
God of Gamblers' Return
1994
Fractured Follies
1988
Beginning of the Great Revival
2011
Prison on Fire
1987
The Lunatics
1986
Waiting Alone
2005
Prison on Fire II
1991
The Eighth Happiness
1988
All About Ah-Long
1989
Tragic Hero
1987
The Postman Strikes Back
1982
Hong Kong 1941
1984
The Postmodern Life of My Aunt
2007
The Romancing Star II
1988
Bloody Money
1983
The Head Hunter
1982
Love Unto Wastes
1986
Triads: The Inside Story
1989
The Last Tycoon
2012
100 Ways to Murder Your Wife
1986
The Diary of a Big Man
1988
The Romancing Star
1987
The Monkey King
2014
The Assassins
2012
Wild Search
1989
A Hearty Response
1986
The Fun, the Luck & the Tycoon
1990
Love in a Fallen City
1984
Code of Honor
1987
Dream Lovers
1986
Last Affair
1983
Witch from Nepal
1986
From Vegas to Macau
2014
Seven Women: Liu Wing-Sheung
1976
Rich and Famous
1987
Story of Rose
1986
The Story of Woo Viet
1981
Women
1985
Spiritual Love
1987
The Seventh Curse
1986
Scared Stiff
1987
God Father
1980
From Vegas to Macau II
2015
Learned Bride Thrice Fools the Bridegroom
1976
Office
2015
Katanyu Prakasit
1983
Now You See Love... Now You Don't
1992
My Will, I Will
1986
From Vegas to Macau III
2016
Why Me?
1985
The Executor
1981
The Reincarnation
1976
Cold War II
2016
Duckweed
2017
Soul Ash
1981
Hot Blood
1977
Bed for Day, Bed for Night
1977
Miss "O"
1978
Their Private Lives
1978
Modern Heroes
1980
Pursuit
1980
Joy to the World
1980
The Missed Date
1986
The Greatest Lover
1988
Goodbye My Friend
1988
The Hunter, the Butterfly and the Crocodile
1976
Massage Girls
1976
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
2002
The Bund
1983
Flaming Brothers
1987
Project Gutenberg
2018
When Tat Fu Was Young
1988
One More Chance
2023
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Peace Hotel | 1995 | Writer |