Lo Ming-yau

Lo Ming Yau
Born	1900 British Hong Kong
Died	1967 (aged 66–67) British Hong Kong
Alma mater	Peking University

In this Chinese name, the family name is Lo.

Lo Ming Yau (1900–1967) or Luo Mingyou was a Hong Kong entrepreneur and filmmaker, and a pioneer of Chinese cinema. His uncle Lo Wen-kan (羅文榦, Luo Wengan) was a major politician during the early Republican period.

Lo Ming Yau founded the Hwa Peh Film Company (華北電影公司) in Beijing in 1927. In 1930, Hwa Peh Film Company merged with Lai Man-Wai's China Sun Motion Picture Company and a few other companies in Shanghai to become United Photoplay Service, one of the biggest film studios in China.

Selected filmography

Key people of United Photoplay Service studio (L-R): Lai Man-Wai, Lo Ming Yau, Lim Cho Cho, Mei Lanfang, Ruan Lingyu, Sun Yu, and Jeffrey Y.C. Huang (黃漪磋).

• A Spray of Plum Blossoms (1931), producer
• The Peach Girl (1931), producer
• Little Toys (1933), producer
• The Goddess (1934), producer
• Queen of Sports (1934), producer
• National Customs (1935), co-director and scriptwriter

In popular culture

Paul Chang Chung portrays Lo Ming Yau in the 1991 film Center Stage.

References

• Fu, Poshek (2005). "Rewriting Lo Ming-yau: Between China and Hong Kong". The Hong Kong – Guangdong Film Connection. Hong Kong Film Archive.

External links

• Ming-Yau Lo at IMDb
• Lo Ming-Yau at the Hong Kong Movie Database