Frankie Chan
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Frankie Chan | |||||||||||
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Born | 陳永煜 30 November 1951 | ||||||||||
Occupation(s) | actor, film director, film producer, composer | ||||||||||
Years active | 1970 - present | ||||||||||
Awards | Hong Kong Film Awards – Best Original Score 1996 Fallen Angels | ||||||||||
Chinese name | |||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 陳勳奇 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 陈勋奇 | ||||||||||
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Frankie Chan Fan-kei (born 1951) is a Hong Kong-born Chinese martial artist, actor, film director, producer, action director, and composer.
Chan is best known to Hong Kong action cinema fans as the main antagonist in Sammo Hung's The Prodigal Son, in which he faces Yuen Biao in the final reel. Chan has starred in a number of modern action films, most notably Burning Ambition, Outlaw Brothers and Carry On Pickpocket. He also directed and composed many films in the 1970s and 1980s, including The Young Master, Odd Couple and Armour of God II: Operation Condor. In 2011 Chan directed Legendary Amazons, a film about the female Generals of the Yang clan.
Filmography as director
- The Perfect Match (1982)
- Just for Fun (1983)
- Silent Romance (1984)
- Unforgettable Fantasy (1985)
- Goodbye My Love (1986)
- Sweet Surrender (1986)
- The Good, the Bad & the Beauty ( 鬼馬保鎌賊美人,1987)
- Criminal Hunter (1988)
- Angel of Return (1989)
- Outlaw Brothers (1990)
- Fun and Fury (1992)
- A Warrior's Tragedy (1993)
- A Warrior's Tragedy 2 (1993)
- The Wrath of Silence (1994)
- Oh! Yes Sir! (1994)
- Tragic Commitment (1995)
- How to Meet the Lucky Stars (1996)
- I.Q. Dudettes (2000)
- Live and Die in Chicago (2002)
- Legendary Amazons (2011)
- Impetuous Love in Action (2014)
- Super Model Fantasy (2019)
References
External links
- Frankie Chan at IMDb
- Frankie Chan Fan-kei at the Hong Kong Movie Database
- (in Chinese) Frankie Chan at the Chinese Movie Database
- Frankie Chan at chinesemov.com
- Frankie Chan at hkcinemagic.com
Categories:
- Articles sourced by IMDb from January 2010
- 1951 births
- Living people
- Hong Kong male film actors
- Hong Kong martial artists
- Hong Kong film score composers
- Hong Kong male composers
- Hong Kong composers
- 21st-century Hong Kong male actors
- Male film score composers
- Hong Kong actor stubs
- Hong Kong martial arts biography stubs