Zheng Junli
Zheng Junli ( Chinese 鄭君 里 , Pinyin Zhèng Jūnlǐ ; born December 6, 1911 in Shanghai , † April 23, 1969 ) was a Chinese actor and film director.
Zheng Junli was born into a Cantonese family in Shanghai. After completing his training at the Nanguo Art School, he started as a theater actor. From 1932 he was employed as an actor by the Lianhua Film Company . He starred in Sun Yu's Wild Rose (1932) Loving Blood of the Volcano (1932) and The Big Road (1934) and alongside Ruan Lingyu in Cai Chusheng's New Women (1934).
After the Sino-Japanese War , he mainly worked as a director. His most successful films were the 1947 co-director with Cai Chusheng The Waters of the Spring Current Flow East (Yi jiang chun shui xiang dong liu) with Bai Yang in the lead role and the anti- Kuomintang film Crows and Sparrows . After the Communists came to power in 1949, Zheng stayed in mainland China and shot until the 1950s, including biographies about Nie Er and Lin Zexu . The main role in both films was played by Zhao Dan .
Web links
- Zheng Junli in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- on Crows and Sparrows ( Memento from March 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- to The waters of the spring stream flow eastwards ( Memento from July 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zheng, Junli |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 鄭君 里 (Chinese); Zhèng Jūnlǐ |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chinese actor and film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 6, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Shanghai |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 23, 1969 |