Lo lieh biography
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Lo Lieh filmography
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Filmography for the Indo-Chinese Hong Kongfilm actor and martial artistLo Lieh:
- Wan hua ying chun (1964) - Extra in nightclub (uncredited)
- Hu die bei (1965) - General Shih
- Temple of the Red Lotus (1965) - Tu Chuang
- The Twin Swords (1965) - Tu Chuang
- Tiger Boy (1966) - Chin Peng
- The Magnificent Trio (1966) - Yen Tzu-ching
- The Sword and the Lute (1967) - Tu Ying
- The Thundering Sword (1967) - Cheng Kun-yuen
- Ru xia (1967) - Han General (Guest star)
- Trapeze Girl (1967) - Liu Yao-wu
- King Cat (1967) - Hua Chung
- One-Armed Swordsman (1967) - Master Wan / The Fox
- Golden Swallow (1968) - Iron Whip Han Tao
- The Singing Thief (1969) - Wang Guo Ji
- Twelve Deadly Coins (1969) - Chiao Mao
- Dragon Swamp (1969) - Yu Jiang
- The Flying Dagger (1969) - Yang Ching
- The Invincible Fist (1969) - Tieh Wu-ching
- Brothers Five (1970) - Kao Hsia - 5th brother
- Valley of the Fangs (1970)
- Swo
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Born in Indonesia in 1939 as Wang Lap Tat, people know him better as Lo Lieh. He spent his early life in Indonesia before his parents sent him to study to China and attend acting school in Hong Kong.
He began his martial arts training in 1962 and joined the Shaw Brothers in the same year. From there he went on to become one of the most famous actors in Hong Kong kung fu movies in years 1960’s to 1980’s.
He played big roles in many monark fu movies together with many famous actors and actresses such as Cheng Pei Pei, Jimmy Wang Yu, Maggie Cheung, Lee van Cleef, Jackie Chan, Gordon Liu, Chow Yun Fat and many others.
In 1973 he began to direct and also star in Devil and Angel. In the same year 1973, his Five Fingers of Death a.k.a. King Boxer (in which he played with Bolo Yeung among others), became the first Hong Kong movie to man a splash at the American kartong office. It was the first monark fu movie to have an international release. This was the first successful martial ar
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Lo Lieh – Martial Arts Actor
Martial Arts Actor Lo Lieh
Lo lieh was a Hong Kong actor in martial-arts films. His real name is Wang Lap Tat. He was hired by the Shaw Brothers Studio in 1962, and went on to become one of the most famous actors in kung fu films in the late 1960s and 1970s. He died of a heart attack in November 2002.
5 Fingers of Death
Although Lo Lieh began primarily playing the villain, which in truth his face is much more suited for, Lo was a devout Buddhist renown for a gentle off-screen demeanour. During the 70’s and into the early 80’s he was in a host of classic films Chinese Boxer, Bamboo House of Dolls, Black Magic, The Magic Blade, Executioners from Shaolin, Eighteen Jade Arhats, Kung Fu from Beyond the Grave and Black Magic with Buddha.
Lo Lieh seems to have appeared in about three out every five movies made in Hong Kong between 1970 and 1980. Directors Liu Chia Liang and Chang Cheh at the Shaw Brothers studio cast Lo in many