Yuen Biao
Yuen Biao was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China on July 26th, 1957 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 66, Yuen Biao biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Yuen Biao (born 26 July 1957) is a Hong Kong actor and martial artist.
He specialises in acrobatics and Chinese martial arts and has worked on over 80 films as actor, stuntman and action choreographer.
Along with Peking Opera School "brothers" at the China Drama Academy, Sammo Hung and Jackie Chan, he was one of the Seven Little Fortunes. Yuen Biao has appeared in over 130 films.
He has played roles in eight television series for Hong Kong channel TVB.
Early life
Born Ha Lingchun (Chinese: 夏令震) in Hong Kong in 1957, he was the fifth child in a family of eight children. At the age of six he was enrolled at the Peking Opera School The China Drama Academy. He was given the stage name Yuen Biao (Little Tiger) and trained alongside schoolmates Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Corey Yuen, Yuen Wah and several others, under master Yu Jim-yuen, who would later become famous in Hong Kong cinema. He quickly showed a talent for acrobatics. According to Jackie Chan's autobiography, when Yuen was asked by his master to do a backflip on his first day of training, Yuen did a proper backflip on his very first try. He remained at the school until the age of 16. When he left, Yuen followed his classmate Sammo Hung into a career in the Hong Kong film industry.
Personal life
In 1984, Yuen married Didi Pang (Pang Sau Ha). They have two children; daughter Yi-Bui born in 1986 and son Ming-Tsak born in 1988. Yuen has a second home in Canada where he enjoys golf.
Film career
Yuen began working as a stuntman and extra in the early 1970s. Yuen became a stunt double for Bruce Lee on Enter the Dragon in 1973 after working on Fist of Fury and Way of the Dragon. In Game of Death (1978), Bruce Lees, "fake" Bruce Lees, was also active, presenting the acrobatics and stunts that the Bruce Lee "body double" (taekwondo specialist Kim Tai Chung) was unable to perform. Yuen continued to act as a stuntman, double for actors in Hong Kong action films, and supporting actor roles.
Bill Yuen, an anglicized name, was used in Hong Kong films that were released internationally during his early acting career. However, acknowledging Jackie Chan's increasing success, Golden Harvest was keen to give him a similar name and on several international film rolls, he was credited as Jimmy Yuen. Both anglicized names were eventually dropped.
Sammo Hung and Jackie Chan, his loyal coworkers and former classmates, began to work as an actor in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Since his co-starring role in The Dragon (1977) and his full lead role debut in Knockabout (1979), he appeared in numerous films in the early 1980s, including The Pro Protest (1981), directed by Yuen Wooping). In Project A (1983), Wheels on Meals (1984) and Dragons Forever (1988), he costarred with his Peking Opera "brothers" Chan and Hung, as well as smaller roles in films like Hung's original Lucky Stars trilogy. He appeared in films including Eastern Condors (1987) and Millionaires Express (1988). He appeared in Righting Wrongs (1986) and alongside Maggie Cheung in The Iceman Cometh (1989).
Yuen's acting roles diminished dramatically in the early 1990s, although he did appear in Once Upon a Time in China (1991), as well as Jet Li. Yuen did not appear in the sequel after being replaced by Max Mok. Yuen returned to the big screen in the late 1990s, with films including Hero (1997) co-starring Takeshi Kaneshiro and A Man Called Hero (1999) co starring Ekin Cheng. During this time, he began to concentrate on television and took lead roles in the television series Righteous Guards and The Legend of a Chinese Hero.
Yuen went to the United States in 2000 to work with Jackie Chan as the Shanghai action choreographer. In 2001, he co-starred with Hung in The Avenging Fist. Yuen appeared in the 2002 Japan HK film No Problem 2 in a more comedic role.
Yuen Wah, Maggie Siu, Leung Kar Yan, Jack Wu, Jack Wu, Jack Wu, and Timmy Hung, one of Sammo Hung's real life sons, appeared in a TVB series called Real Kung Fu in 2005.
Yuen and his longtime colleague Jackie Chan played Inspector Steve Mok in Robin B Hood in 2006.
With Nicholas Tse, Sammo Hung, and Sammy Hung, one of Hung's sons, he completed filming the Wing Chun TV series (a remake of the 1994 film Wing Chun). Biao portrays Leung Jan, the role he played 25 years earlier in The Prose Son and his father to Tse's. Shuang Long Ji, or the Legend of Twins Dragon), has since been re-edited for release as a film. However, the film's debut has been postponed in mainland China due to violence contained in it.
Yuen appeared as a guest judge on the China Beijing TV Station reality television series The Disciple, which aired in Mainland China, and was directed by and featured Jackie Chan. The aim of the programme was to find a new actor and martial arts to be Chan's "successor," according to the champion, who was given the lead role in a film. It came to an end in Beijing on June 7, 2008.
Yuen Bunks starred alongside Bryan Leung and Ji Chunhua in Legend of Shaolin Kung-fu II: Thirteen Cudgel Monks, a Yuen Bun film. In the United States, it was edited and released as Kung Fu Master.