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.
Filmography
The Giants
1978 · 10.0
Angels And Devils
1983 · 10.0
Hot Blood
1977 · 10.0
Celebrity Talk Show
1989 · 9.5
Voice
2012 · 9.0
The Good The Bad The Ugly
1979 · 9.0
Everybody Loves Somebody
1989 · 9.0
The Reincarnation
1976 · 9.0
My Will, I Will
1986 · 9.0
Bed for Day, Bed for Night
1977 · 9.0
Learned Bride Thrice Fools the Bridegroom
1976 · 9.0
The Bund
1980 · 8.9
The Yang's Saga
1985 · 8.9
Why Me?
1985 · 8.8
The Legend of Master So
1982 · 8.7
Massage Girls
1976 · 8.5
Conflict
1978 · 8.0
Modern Heroes
1980 · 8.0
Miss "O"
1978 · 8.0
Their Private Lives
1978 · 8.0
The Making of Stranglehold
2007 · 8.0
Let the Bullets Fly
2010 · 7.8
The Killer
1989 · 7.6
Hard Boiled
1992 · 7.5
The Smiling Proud Wanderer
1984 · 7.5
When Tat Fu Was Young
1988 · 7.5
Pursuit
1980 · 7.5
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2000 · 7.4
All About Ah-Long
1989 · 7.4
An Autumn's Tale
1987 · 7.4
Last Affair
1983 · 7.4
A Better Tomorrow
1986 · 7.4
Code of Honor
1987 · 7.3
Scared Stiff
1987 · 7.3
The Lunatics
1986 · 7.3
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
2007 · 7.3
God of Gamblers
1989 · 7.2
Project Gutenberg
2018 · 7.1
A Better Tomorrow II
1987 · 7.1
Prison on Fire
1987 · 7.0
Police Cadet
1984 · 7.0
The Battle Among the Clans
1985 · 7.0
The Hunter, the Butterfly and the Crocodile
1976 · 7.0
Women
1985 · 7.0
The Missed Date
1986 · 7.0
Bloody Money
1983 · 7.0
The Executor
1981 · 7.0
Goodbye My Friend
1988 · 7.0
Curse of the Golden Flower
2006 · 7.0
City on Fire
1987 · 6.9
Prison on Fire II
1991 · 6.9
Dream Lovers
1986 · 6.9
Once a Thief
1991 · 6.9
God of Gamblers II
1990 · 6.9
The Seventh Curse
1986 · 6.9
Full Contact
1992 · 6.8
City War
1988 · 6.8
Story of Rose
1986 · 6.8
Wild Search
1989 · 6.8
Waiting Alone
2005 · 6.8
Anna and the King
1999 · 6.8
Love Unto Wastes
1986 · 6.7
The Children of Huang Shi
2008 · 6.7
Diary of a Big Man
1988 · 6.7
God of Gamblers' Return
1994 · 6.6
Rich and Famous
1987 · 6.6
The Postman Strikes Back
1982 · 6.6
Cold War 1994
2026 · 6.5
Tiger on the Beat
1988 · 6.5
The Story of Woo Viet
1981 · 6.5
A Hearty Response
1986 · 6.5
Joy to the World
1980 · 6.5
The Bund Part II
1983 · 6.5
A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon
1989 · 6.4
The Last Tycoon
2012 · 6.4
Flaming Brothers
1987 · 6.4
Spiritual Love
1987 · 6.4
The Fun, the Luck & the Tycoon
1990 · 6.4
Love in a Fallen City
1984 · 6.4
The Eighth Happiness
1988 · 6.3
Hong Kong 1941
1984 · 6.3
Triads: The Inside Story
1989 · 6.3
The Replacement Killers
1998 · 6.3
Detective Chinatown 1900
2025 · 6.2
Cold War II
2016 · 6.2
The Occupant
1984 · 6.2
Now You See Love... Now You Don't
1992 · 6.2
The Corruptor
1999 · 6.1
Shanghai
2010 · 6.1
Tragic Hero
1987 · 6.1
The Head Hunter
1982 · 6.1
Dream Of The Red Chamber
1975 · 6.0
The Romancing Star
1987 · 6.0
The Monkey King: The Legend Begins
2022 · 6.0
Fractured Follies
1988 · 6.0
God Father
1980 · 6.0
Confucius
2010 · 5.9
Treasure Hunt
1994 · 5.9
Peace Hotel
1995 · 5.9
The Assassins
2012 · 5.8
The Bund
1983 · 5.7
The Monkey King
2014 · 5.6
Office
2015 · 5.6
The Postmodern Life of My Aunt
2007 · 5.6
Bulletproof Monk
2003 · 5.5
One More Chance
2023 · 5.5
Witch from Nepal
1986 · 5.5
100 Ways to Murder Your Wife
1986 · 5.5
The Greatest Lover
1988 · 5.4
The Shell Game
1980 · 5.3
From Vegas to Macau
2014 · 5.2
From Vegas to Macau II
2015 · 5.1
The Romancing Star II
1988 · 5.0
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
2002 · 5.0
Beginning of the Great Revival
2011 · 4.7
From Vegas to Macau III
2016 · 4.1
鲁豫有约一日行
2016 · 4.0
Dragonball Evolution
2009 · 2.9
Chinese Folklore
1974 · 0.0
A House is Not a Home
1977 · 0.0
Hotel
1976 · 0.0
Look Back at TVB Anniversary Awards Over the Years
1968 · 0.0
Vanity Fair
1978 · 0.0
The Brothers
1980 · 0.0
The Radio Tycoon
1983 · 0.0
The Fate
1981 · 0.0
The Super Power
1983 · 0.0
Mystery Beyond
1976 · 0.0
笑傲江湖 (數碼修復版)
1984 · 0.0
Teenager
1976 · 0.0
The Shell Game (II)
1981 · 0.0
The Maverick
1982 · 0.0
播音人 (數碼修復版)
1983 · 0.0
The Cheap Detective
1979 · 0.0
Hero's Blood Road
1981 · 0.0
The Killer
1976 · 0.0
Good Old Times
1981 · 0.0
The Do Show
2023 · 0.0
This Generation
1976 · 0.0
The First Love
1976 · 0.0
蘇乞兒 (數碼修復版)
1982 · 0.0
I Am Woman
1979 · 0.0
Hong Kong Story II
1978 · 0.0
The God of Aqua
1974 · 0.0
Murder of Passion
1974 · 0.0
The Landlord
1979 · 0.0
Man From Hong Kong
1979 · 0.0
13
1977 · 0.0
C.I.D.(Series 2)
1976 · 0.0
Disco Fever
1978 · 0.0
Hero
1977 · 0.0
七女性
1976 · 0.0
The Test of Time: The Genesis of Hard Boiled
2002 · 0.0
畸人列傳
1976 · 0.0
Soul Ash
1981 · 0.0
Cold War 1995
— · 0.0
Cold War III
— · 0.0
Katanyu Prakasit
1983 · 0.0
Seven Women: Liu Wing-Sheung
1976 · 0.0
The Golden Sting
— · 0.0