Chow Yun-Fat
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.
Also Known As
Movie Appearances
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
as Li Mu Bai
2000
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
as Captain Sao Feng
2007
Anna and the King
as King Mongkut
1999
Curse of the Golden Flower
as Emperor Ping
2006
The Killer
as Jong
1989
The Replacement Killers
as John Lee
1998
Hard Boiled
as Insp. 'Tequila' Yuen
1992
A Better Tomorrow
as Mark Lee
1986
Bulletproof Monk
as The Nameless Monk
2003
The Corruptor
as Nick Chen
1999
Full Contact
as Jeff / Gou Fei
1992
Confucius
as Confucius
2010
The Children of Huang Shi
as Chen Hansheng
2008
A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon
as Mark
1989
City on Fire
as Ko Chow
1987
Dragonball Evolution
as Master Roshi
2009
Shanghai
as Anthony Lan-Ting
2010
God of Gamblers
as Ko Chun
1989
Treasure Hunt
as Jeffrey Chang Ching
1994
An Autumn's Tale
as Samuel Pang
1987
