Chow Yun-Fat
- Acting
- May 18, 1955 · Hong Kong, China
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.
Known for
Filmography
- Intermission · Self
- Cold War 1994 · Oswald S.C. Kan
- Detective Chinatown 1900 · Bai Xuanling
- The Do Show
- One More Chance · Water Ng
- The Monkey King: The Legend Begins · Jade Emperor
- Project Gutenberg · Painter
- Duckweed · Self
- 鲁豫有约一日行
- Cold War II · Oswald S.C. Kan
- From Vegas to Macau III · Ken Shek / Ko Chun
- Office · Ho Chung Ping
- From Vegas to Macau II · Ken / Ko Chun
- From Vegas to Macau · Ken
- The Monkey King · Jade Emperor
- The Last Tycoon · Cheng Daqi
- The Assassins · Chancellor Cao Cao
- Voice
- Beginning of the Great Revival · Yuan Shikai
- Let the Bullets Fly · Huang Silang
- Shanghai · Anthony Lan-Ting
- Confucius · Confucius
- Dragonball Evolution · Roshi
- The Children of Huang Shi · Chen Hansheng
- The Postmodern Life of My Aunt · Zhichang Pan / 潘知常
- The Making of Stranglehold
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End · Captain Sao Feng
- Secrets Within: Inside Look at 'Curse of the Golden Flower' · Self
- Curse of the Golden Flower · Emperor Ping
- Waiting Alone · Fa Ge
- Bulletproof Monk · The Nameless Monk
- Ultimate Fights from the Movies · (archive footage)
- Chow Yun Fat Goes Hollywood · Self
- The Test of Time: The Genesis of Hard Boiled
- The Making of 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' · Self
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · Li Mu Bai
- Anna and the King · King Mongkut
- The Corruptor · Nick Chen
- The Replacement Killers · John Lee
- Peace Hotel · Wong Ah Ping, Writer
- God of Gamblers' Return · Ko Chun
- Treasure Hunt · Jeffrey Chang Ching
- Full Contact · Jeff / Gou Fei
- Hard Boiled · Insp. 'Tequila' Yuen
- Now You See Love... Now You Don't · Ng San Shui
- Prison on Fire II · Chung Tin Ching
- Once a Thief · Red Bean Puddin / Joe
- Pioneers of Television Gala · Self
- God of Gamblers II · Ko Chun
- The Fun, the Luck & the Tycoon · Lam Bo Sun / Mr. Stink
- God of Gamblers · Ko Chun
- A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon · Mark
- Triads: The Inside Story · Lee Man Ho
- Everybody Loves Somebody · uncredited
- Wild Search · Sgt. Lau Chun-Pong
- The Killer · Jong
- All About Ah-Long · Ah Long, Story
- Celebrity Talk Show · 周润发
- City War · Dick Lee
- Goodbye My Friend · Hung
- When Tat Fu Was Young
- The Greatest Lover · Qian Jin / Nelson Chow
- Diary of a Big Man · Chow Ting Fat, Songs
- Fractured Follies · Joe Leung
- Tiger on the Beat · Sergeant Francis Li
- The Eighth Happiness · Fang Chien Lang / Fong Kim Long
- The Romancing Star II · Big Mouth Fat [cameo]
- A Better Tomorrow II · Ken Lee
- Prison on Fire · Chung Tin Ching
- Spiritual Love · Pu Yung Tsai
- Flaming Brothers · Tin
- An Autumn's Tale · Samuel Pang
- The Romancing Star · Wong Yat Fat
- Rich and Famous · Lee Ah Chai
- Code of Honor · Fai
- Scared Stiff · Inspector Chow
- Tragic Hero · Lee Ah Chai
- City on Fire · Ko Chow
- The Seventh Curse · Wesley
- My Will, I Will · Detective