Lo Wei
Lo Wei | |||||||
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 Lo Wei | |||||||
| Born | (1918-12-12)12 December 1918 [1] Jiangsu Province, China | ||||||
| Died | 20 January 1996(1996-01-20) (aged 77) British Hong Kong | ||||||
| Occupation | Film director, screenwriter, actor | ||||||
| Years active | 1929-1993 | ||||||
| Awards | Golden Horse Awards – Lifetime Achievement Award 1997 | ||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 羅維 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 罗維 | ||||||
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Lo Wei (sometimes spelled Lo Wai,[2] 12 December 1918 – 20 January 1996) was a Hong Kong film director and film actor best known for launching the martial arts film careers of both Bruce Lee, in The Big Boss[3] and Fist of Fury,[4] and Jackie Chan, in New Fist of Fury.[3]
Contents
1 Career
2 Personal life
3 Filmography
4 References
5 External links
Career
After Lee's death it was Lo who gave Jackie Chan his first shot at the big time as part of the wave of Bruceploitation. Lo is said to have been linked with Chinese organized crime, the Triads.[5][6]
Lo ran the production company "Lo Wei Motion Picture Company", which operated until 1977-78 due to heavy cost-cutting measures as a result of Jackie Chan signing a deal with Golden Harvest.
Personal life
On 20 January 1996, Lo died of heart failure in Hong Kong.
Filmography
Brothers Five (1970)
The Big Boss (1971)
Vengeance of a Snow Girl (1971)
Fist of Fury (1972)
The Black Tavern (1972)
A Man Called Tiger (1973)
Kung Fu Girl (1973)
Yellow Faced Tiger (1974)
Naughty, Naughty (1974)
Shaolin Wooden Men (1976)
New Fist of Fury (1976)
The Killer Meteors (1976)
Snake & Crane Arts of Shaolin (1977)
To Kill with Intrigue (1977)
Spiritual Kung Fu (1978)
Dragon Fist (1979)
Fearless Hyena Part II (1983)
References
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^ Avenue of Stars Archived 2013-10-05 at the Wayback Machine
^ ab "Lo Wei". The New York Times.
^ Weiler, A. H. "The Chinese Connection (1972) The Screen: A Chinese 'Fist of Fury':Stark Tale of Revenge Opens at Pagoda Shanghai Is Setting for Kung-Fu Combats". The New York Times.
^ AllMovie
^ Chan, Jackie, and Jeff Yang. I Am Jackie Chan. New York: Ballantine, 1998. Print.
External links
Lo Wei on IMDb
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