Chinese name 陳星 (traditional) Origin Hong Kong Children George Edward Chan Jyutping Can4 Sing1 (Cantonese) Spouse Elizabeth Chan (m. 1996) | Pinyin Role Actor Chinese name 陈星 (simplified) Name Chan Sing | |
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Movies Kung Fu: The Invisible, The Bloody Fists, Return of the Kung Fu Dragon, The New One‑Armed Swordsman, Bruce Lee: The Invincible Similar People Chang Cheh, Chen Kuan‑tai, Ng See‑yuen, Ni Kuang, Peng Tien | ||
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Chan Sing (born 29 December 1936) is a retired Hong Kong actor born in Bangkok.
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Biography
Chan Sing was born in 1936 in Bangkok, Thailand. At age four he moved back to Hainan, China with his parents. He had his education in Wenchang (Chee Wei Village), End of River village. He spent his high school years at Haikou First Middle School. Later, he became a teacher at 16 and teach at the Eleven primary school in Haiko, until he went to university (Wah Nam Agriculture University), Guangdong), after 1st year at university pursed by communist guards he escaped to Hong Kong in 1958, and began working in the movie industry in the late 60's.
His first appearance was with the Shaw Brothers Studio in Dead End in 1969. In 1972 he left Shaw Brothers. He got his first break in the movie The Bloody Fists in 1972. This hit movie led to more promising roles, usually as the villain, in both studio and independent films.
He was one of the pioneers of kung fu movies. Like the actors Pai Ying and Chan Hung Lit, Chen was considered "typecast-right" from the beginning of his acting career for villain roles. His exotic Southeast Asian features, his mustache, and his strength marked him as different from the smooth-faced, Eurasian-looking actors favored by the big Hong Kong studios. He was cast against type as an heroic undercover agent battling vicious crooks in Tough Guy (aka Kung Fu the Headcrusher) (1972) or Japanese subversives Yasuaki Kurata (Tiger vs. Dragon, 1972, or Rage of the Wind, 1973).
When Chen was not acting, he was a karate instructor for Gōjū-ryū & Goju Kai karate. He was also a Hong Kong prison policeman for the prison system and demonstrated for the Singapore police system with Tan.
By the early 1990s, with the end of Hong Kong's status as a British colony approaching, Chen opted to leave the Hong Kong film industry. In 1996, moved to Vancouver and Toronto, where he still lives in retirement.