Chow Yun-Fat
Born 1955
Known for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Dragonball Evolution, Bulletproof Monk.
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.
Movie Credits
Project Gutenberg (2018)
From Vegas to Macau III (2016)
From Vegas to Macau II (2015)
From Vegas to Macau (2014)
The Assassins (2012)
Confucius (2010)
Curse of the Golden Flower (2006)
Bulletproof Monk (2003)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
The Replacement Killers (1998)
Peace Hotel (1995)
God of Gamblers' Return (1994)
Treasure Hunt (1994)
Full Contact (1992)
Hard Boiled (1992)
Now You See Love... Now You Don't (1992)
Once a Thief (1991)
Prison on Fire II (1991)
The Fun, the Luck & the Tycoon (1990)
A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon (1989)
All About Ah-Long (1989)
God of Gamblers (1989)
The Killer (1989)
Triads: The Inside Story (1989)
Wild Search (1989)
Fractured Follies (1988)
Goodbye My Friend (1988)
The Diary of a Big Man (1988)
The Greatest Lover (1988)
Tiger on the Beat (1988)
An Autumn's Tale (1987)
City on Fire (1987)
Flaming Brothers (1987)
Rich and Famous (1987)
Spiritual Love (1987)
The Romancing Star (1987)
Tragic Hero (1987)
A Hearty Response (1986)
Witch from Nepal (1986)
Hong Kong 1941 (1984)
The Bund (1983)
The Story of Woo Viet (1981)
The Monkey King: The Legend Begins (2022)
Office (2015)
Beginning of the Great Revival (2011)
Let the Bullets Fly (2010)
Dragonball Evolution (2009)
The Postmodern Life of My Aunt (2007)
Anna and the King (1999)
The Corruptor (1999)
The Eighth Happiness (1988)
Prison on Fire (1987)
A Better Tomorrow (1986)
Love in a Fallen City (1984)
The Postman Strikes Back (1982)
Detective Chinatown 1900 (2025)
Cold War II (2016)
Shanghai (2010)
The Children of Huang Shi (2008)
Why Me? (1985)
The Monkey King (2014)
A Better Tomorrow II (1987)
Love Unto Wastes (1986)
The Lunatics (1986)
The Seventh Curse (1986)
Cold War 1994 (2026)
Waiting Alone (2005)
God of Gamblers II (1990)
Duckweed (2017)
