Chen Sing
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| Chen Sing | |
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| Chinese name | 陳星 (Traditional) |
| Chinese name | 陈星 (Simplified) |
| Pinyin | Chén Xīng (Mandarin) |
| Jyutping | can4 sing1 (Cantonese) |
| Born | 1936 (age 75–76) Thailand |
Chen Sing (also Shin Chan, Hsing Chen, Xing Chen, Chen Xing)[1] (born 1936, in Thailand) is a Thai-born actor whose film career centered around the Hong Kong movie industry.
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[edit] Biography
Sing moved to Hong Kong, possibly as early as the late 1950s, and began working in films. Chen's first screen appearance was as an uncredited extra for Around the World in Eighty Days, released in 1959.[1] By the 1970s he had graduated from bit parts to featured roles to starring, usually as the heavy, in both studio and independent films. In this period he supplemented his income by working as a physical fitness and martial arts instructor in the Hong Kong prison system.
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 moustache, 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 (1972) or Japanese subversives Yasuaki Kurata (Tiger vs. Dragon, 1972, or Rage of the Wind, 1973).
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, newly married, he moved with his Indonesian-Chinese wife and infant son, first to Indonesia, and soon thereafter to Vancouver, where he still lives in retirement.
[edit] Personal life
In 1996, Chen married Indonesian-Chinese Elizabeth (born 1966), who owned a nightclub. They have a son, George Chan (born 1 January 1994, in Hong Kong).
[edit] References
- ^ a b Chen Sing at the Internet Movie Database
