Shi Hui (actor)
Shi Hui ( Chinese 石 挥 , Pinyin Shí Hūi ; actually Shi Yutao ; * 1915 in Tianjin , † December 1957 near Shanghai ) was a Chinese actor and director .
Life
Shi Hui dropped out of school to help support his family by doing odd jobs. After studying acting, he came to Shanghai in 1940 and turned to modern theater. He was a member of the Kugan jutuan theater company .
Shi made his film debut in 1947. He worked for the Wenhua film company until 1951, then from 1953 to 1957 at the Shanghai Film Studio. From 1948 Shi Hui occasionally took over the directing of the films in which he appeared. His movie characters are diverse. He played a ruthless innkeeper in Yedian (1947) by Huang Zuolin , a steadfast underground fighter in Fushi (1950) and an imperial general in Song Jingshi (1955), directed by Zheng Junli and Sun Yu , but Shi Hui preferred humane and humorous roles as in his own film Guan lianzhang (1951).
His best known work is Wozhe yi beii (1950), in which he is an actor and director. The film about the fortunes of the “little man” takes place from the end of the Qing Dynasty to the founding of the People's Republic.
In 1956 Shi Hui joined the reform-oriented artist group Wu hua she , which was founded as part of the Hundred Flower Movement . During the "fight against right-wing tendencies" that began the following year, Shu Hui was so severely publicly criticized that he committed suicide as a result of this humiliation. He was not rehabilitated until 1979.
Web links
- Shi Hui in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shi, Hui |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Shi, Yutao (real name); c = 石 挥 (Chinese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chinese actor and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tianjin |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 1957 |
| Place of death | near Shanghai |