Kwan Tak- hing - Wikipedia. Kwan Tak- hing, MBE (2. June 1. 90. 5 . No- one else in cinema history has portrayed the same person as many times. In total he made over 1.
He was elected in 1. Chinese Artist Association of Hong Kong. He was awarded the MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in 1.
History. He was the second child in the family. His father died of a disease at a young age. To supplement his family's income, as a boy, Kwan worked as a cowherd. When he was 1. 2, he began work in construction.
At the age of 1. 3, he worked as a waiter in a restaurant in Singapore before joining a Cantonese opera troupe under Cheng Hsin- pei. His film debut was in The Singing Lovers (aka Romance of the Songsters), made in the US for the Grandview Studios and only the second Cantonese- language talkie ever made. Kwan's first martial arts film was Knight of the Whip (1. The film included Shih Kien as the villain and Li Lan, the very first winner of the Miss Hong Kong Pageant, and the first of many winners who would become famous actresses in Hong Kong). This partnership was a huge success and spawned many sequels, exploring many ideas and situations used in later action films.
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In 1. 95. 6, a total of 2. Wong Fei- hung films were released. First, Leong Wing- hang, who worked as action director on Wong Fei- hung films as well as other Kwan vehicles including The Five Heroes' Deadly Spears (1. Later he worked with Lau Cham, father of Lau Kar- leung and Lau Kar- wing. During this period, Kwan opened a martial arts school and a number of herbal centres, whose branded soup and an ointment for bruises were well known in Hong Kong. Other films followed in which Kwan played his most familiar role - Magnificent Butcher (1. Magnificent Kick (1.
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Dreadnaught (1. 98. TVB also aired a 1. Kwan as Wong Fei- hung in 1. By this time, he was in his 7. Kwan received an honorary MBE for his charitable work and contribution to the entertainment industry, in 1.
To the Chinese, Kwan embodied Confucian virtues and patriarchal authority, and he is thought to have modelled his speeches on those of Sun Yat- sen. His final film appearance was in the 1. It's a Wonderful Life!, at the age of 8. In Bey Logan's audio commentary for the film The Magnificent Butcher, he states that though there is a grave marker to Kwan Tak- hing in Kowloon territory, his ashes were taken to San Francisco to rest with those of his second wife, whom he met whilst travelling in the US, whilst raising money for the Chinese war effort. He died at the age of 9.
Action style. Throughout his life he made friends with famous martial arts exponents and cross trained extensively. Training in Wong Fei Hung's style of Hung Gar came from Leung Wing Hang and Lau Jam, both students of the famous Lam Sai Wing. His weapons speciality included the use of the bullwhip and the pole.
Kwan was also known for his skills in the lion dance and Chinese calligraphy. Although modern martial arts films often feature a lot of violence, at the end of The Magnificent Butcher, Kwan's Wong Fei- hung saves the main villain (played by Lee Hoi- san) from being killed by Butcher Wing (Sammo Hung). This reflected Wong Fei- hung's portrayal in the original films, wherein he would defeat the villain but then heal him. Kwan became so associated with the mature Wong Fei- hung that other filmmakers would only portray the character as a younger person, including Jackie Chan playing Wong as a young man in Drunken Master (1. Yuen Woo- ping depicting Wong as a child (played by actress Angie Tsang) in Iron Monkey (1. When Jet Li portrayed Wong in the Once Upon a Time in China series, many Chinese audiences felt he was too young.
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