Fung Ging-man (), (22 January 1912 – 9 November 1997) sometimes credited as Ging-man Fung and Fung King-Man, was a
Cantonese
Cantonese is the traditional prestige variety of Yue Chinese, a Sinitic language belonging to the Sino-Tibetan language family. It originated in the city of Guangzhou (formerly known as Canton) and its surrounding Pearl River Delta. While th ...
Hong Kong
Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...
actor, script supervisor, production manager and director. He acted in over 300 films,
and he also played as himself in ''
Bruce Lee, the Man and the Legend'', which starred
Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee (born Lee Jun-fan; November 27, 1940 – July 20, 1973) was an American-born Hong Kong martial artist, actor, filmmaker, and philosopher. He was the founder of Jeet Kune Do, a hybrid martial arts philosophy which was formed from ...
.
History
Fung was born in the city of
Shanghai
Shanghai, Shanghainese: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China. The city is located on the Chinese shoreline on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the ...
in 1912, eventually moving to
Nanjing
Nanjing or Nanking is the capital of Jiangsu, a province in East China. The city, which is located in the southwestern corner of the province, has 11 districts, an administrative area of , and a population of 9,423,400.
Situated in the Yang ...
as a child. At the age of twenty, he moved to Hong Kong, and began acting in films such as ''
The Mad Woman'' in 1937, produced by
Nanyang Film Company. In 1954, Fung started became a production manager, and he produced 21 films. He also planned a movie in 1954 called ''
The Lover with a Heart of Steel''. He performed as Half Lotus in ''
Bolo'' (1979), the directorial debut of
Bolo Yeung. His final movie role before his death was ''
The Fun, the Luck & the Tycoon'' in 1990.
Death
On 9 November 1997, Fung has died at the age of 85.
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1912 births
1997 deaths
20th-century Hong Kong male actors
Hong Kong film producers
Hong Kong male film actors
Cantonese people
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