George Wang
George Wang (actually Wang Chunjang , later Wang Jie , also Jue Wang ; born November 12, 1918 in Dandong , Liaoning Province , † March 27, 2015 in Taipei ) was a Chinese actor .
Life
Wang studied from 1935 at the Faculty of History of the Japanese University of Tōhoku . After the incident at the Marco Polo Bridge , he left the country due to the anti-Chinese mood and worked as an actor. From 1938 he made films in Chongqing and appeared in the theater at the same time. After the Second World War he went to Shanghai and later to Taiwan. There he ran a restaurant with his wife in addition to his acting activities. He also worked for films. In 1959 Wang flew to Italy to film, then between 1960 and 1975 he was seen in numerous genre products - war , adventure and agent films - of Italian production, where he embodied mostly opaque representatives of his ethnic group, but was also cast as Mexicans in some spaghetti westerns . Wang returned to his homeland in 1976, where he founded his own production company and occasionally appeared in the cinema. Three times (1984, 1996 and 1998) he was awarded the Taiwanese film award " Golden Horse ". In 2009 he received a special award for his life's work in Taipei . Wang also worked in the new millennium, now also for television.
Filmography (selection)
- 1960: Hell by the Yellow River (Apocalisse sul fiume giallo)
- 1965: Greetings from the CIA (A 008: operazione Sterminio)
- 1965: The tenth sacrifice (La decima vittima)
- 1966: El Cisco (El Cisco)
- 1966: Lanky Fellow - The Lonely Avenger (Per il gusto di uccidere)
- 1966: an almost perfect murderer (Delitto quasi perfetto)
- 1967: Pronto, Amigo (A colt in the hand of the devil) (Una colt in pugno al diavolo)
- 1967: The coffin remains closed today
- 1968: Tepepa (Tepepa)
- 1969: 36 hours in hell (36 ore all'inferno)
- 1970: Sartana - still warm and already sand on it (Buon funerale amigos… paga Sartana)
- 1970: Uccidi Django… uccidi per primo !!!
- 1971: Dolanies melody - melody of death (Desrto di fuoco)
- 1972: Una colt in mano al diavolo
- 1972: Django's bloody trail (La lunga cavalcata della vendetta)
- 1972: Il giustiziere di Dio
- 1972: A Hallelujah for two left brothers (Jesse & Lester due fratelli in un posto chiamato Trinità)
- 1973: The man with the bullet whip (Il mio nome è Shanghai Joe)
- 1973: Pay and Die (Sei bounty killers per una strage)
- 1973: Zorro junior (Il figlio di Zorro)
- 1973: Two great dogs in Hong Kong (Ming, ragazzi!)
- 1974: Two rascals in the yellow hell (... Questa volta ti faccio ricco!)
- 1975: The division idiot (Il sergente Rompiglioni diventa… caporale)
Web links
- George Wang in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Wang in the Hong Kong Movie Database
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://movie.douban.com/celebrity/1168014/
- ↑ Enrico Lancia, Fabio Melelli: Dictionnaire del cinema italiano. Attori stranieri del nostro cinema . Gremese 2006, p. 206
- ↑ http://www.taiwantoday.tw/ct.asp?xItem=81754&CtNode=436
- ↑ http://yeinjee.com/46th-golden-horse-awards/
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Wang, George |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wang Jie; Wang Chunjang |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chinese actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 12, 1918 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Dandong , Liaoning Province |
DATE OF DEATH | March 27, 2015 |
Place of death | Taipei |