Frankie Chan
| Frankie Chan | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chinese name | 陳勳奇 (traditional) | ||||
| Chinese name | 陈勋奇 (simplified) | ||||
| Pinyin | Chén Xūnqí (Mandarin) | ||||
| Jyutping | can4 fan1 kei4 (Cantonese) | ||||
| Birth name | 陳永煜 | ||||
| Origin | Hong Kong | ||||
| Born |
30 November 1951 Hong Kong | ||||
| Occupation | actor, film director, film producer, composer | ||||
| Years active | 1970 - present | ||||
| Ancestry | Guangdong, China | ||||
|
Awards
| |||||
Frankie Chan Fan-kei (born 1951) is a Chinese martial arts actor, film director, producer, action director, and composer.
Chan is best known to Hong Kong action cinema fans as the main antagonist in Sammo Hung's The Prodigal Son where he faces Yuen Biao in the final reel. Chan has starred in a number of modern action films, most notably Burning Ambition, Outlaw Brothers and Carry On Pickpocket. He also directed and composed many films in the 1970s and 1980s, including The Young Master, Odd Couple and Armour of God II: Operation Condor. In 2011 Chan directed Legendary Amazons, a film about the female Generals of the Yang clan.
Filmography
- The Wrath of Silence (1994)
- Live and Die in Chicago (2000)
- I.Q. Dudettes (2000)
- La jiao jiao shi (2000)
- Legendary Amazons (2011)
- Lock Me Up, Tie Him Down (2014)
- Impetuous Love in Action (2014)
References
External links
- Frankie Chan at the Internet Movie Database
- Frankie Chan Fan-kei at the Hong Kong Movie Database
- (Chinese) Frankie Chan at the Chinese Movie Database
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 3/30/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.