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Chow Yun-Fat
Hong Kong, China
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 th…
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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
Movies and shows, newest first
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2026
Intermission
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2026
Cold War 1994
Movie Oswald S.C. Kan
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2025
Detective Chinatown 1900
Movie Bai Xuanling
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2023
The Do Show
TV show
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2023
One More Chance
Movie Water Ng
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2022
The Monkey King: The Legend Begins
Movie Jade Emperor
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2018
Project Gutenberg
Movie Painter
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2017
Duckweed
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2016
鲁豫有约一日行
TV show
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2016
Cold War II
Movie Oswald S.C. Kan
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2016
From Vegas to Macau III
Movie Ken Shek / Ko Chun
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2015
Office
Movie Ho Chung Ping
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2015
From Vegas to Macau II
Movie Ken / Ko Chun
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2014
From Vegas to Macau
Movie Ken
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2014
The Monkey King
Movie Jade Emperor
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2012
The Last Tycoon
Movie Cheng Daqi
More credits
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2012
The Assassins
Movie Chancellor Cao Cao
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2012
Voice
TV show
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2011
Beginning of the Great Revival
Movie Yuan Shikai
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2010
Let the Bullets Fly
Movie Huang Silang
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2010
Shanghai
Movie Anthony Lan-Ting
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2010
Confucius
Movie Confucius
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2009
Dragonball Evolution
Movie Roshi
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2008
The Children of Huang Shi
Movie Chen Hansheng
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2007
The Postmodern Life of My Aunt
Movie Zhichang Pan / 潘知常
- 2007
- 2007
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2007
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Movie Captain Sao Feng
- 2007
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2006
Curse of the Golden Flower
Movie Emperor Ping
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2005
Waiting Alone
Movie Fa Ge (cameo)
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2003
Bulletproof Monk
Movie The Nameless Monk
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2002
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
Movie (archive footage)
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2002
Chow Yun Fat Goes Hollywood
Movie Self
- 2000
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2000
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Movie Li Mu Bai
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1999
Anna and the King
Movie King Mongkut
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1999
The Corruptor
Movie Nick Chen
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1998
The Replacement Killers
Movie John Lee
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1995
Peace Hotel
Movie Wong Ah Ping
