Actor · Acting

Chow Yun-Fat

Born 1955-05-18

📍 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 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 155

as Oswald S.C. Kan

Detective Chinatown 1900

as Bai Xuanling

One More Chance

The Monkey King: The Legend Begins

as Jade Emperor

Project Gutenberg

as Self (archive footage)

鲁豫有约一日行

as Oswald S.C. Kan

From Vegas to Macau III

as Ken Shek / Ko Chun

as Ho Chung Ping

From Vegas to Macau II

as Ken / Ko Chun

From Vegas to Macau

The Monkey King

as Jade Emperor

The Last Tycoon

as Chancellor Cao Cao

Beginning of the Great Revival

Let the Bullets Fly

as Huang Silang

as Anthony Lan-Ting

Dragonball Evolution

as Master Roshi

The Children of Huang Shi

as Chen Hansheng

The Postmodern Life of My Aunt

as Zhichang Pan / 潘知常

The Making of Hard Boiled

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

as Captain Sao Feng

Curse of the Golden Flower

as Emperor Ping

as Fa Ge (cameo)

Bulletproof Monk

as The Nameless Monk

Ultimate Fights from the Movies

as (archive footage)

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Anna and the King

as King Mongkut

The Replacement Killers

as Wong Ah Ping

God of Gamblers' Return

as Jeffrey Chang Ching

as Jeff / Gou Fei

as Insp. 'Tequila' Yuen

Now You See Love... Now You Don't

Prison on Fire II

as Chung Tin Ching

as Red Bean Puddin / Joe

God of Gamblers II

The Fun, the Luck & the Tycoon

as Lam Bo Sun / Mr. Stink

God of Gamblers

A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon

Triads: The Inside Story

as Sgt. Lau Chun-Pong

All About Ah-Long

Celebrity Talk Show

Goodbye My Friend

When Tat Fu Was Young

The Greatest Lover

as Qian Jin / Nelson Chow

Diary of a Big Man

as Chow Ting Fat

Fractured Follies

Tiger on the Beat

as Sergeant Francis Li

The Eighth Happiness

as Fang Chien Lang / Fong Kim Long

The Romancing Star II

as Big Mouth Fat [cameo]

A Better Tomorrow II

as Chung Tin Ching

as Pu Yung Tsai

Flaming Brothers

An Autumn's Tale

The Romancing Star

as Wong Yat Fat

Rich and Famous

as Inspector Chow

The Seventh Curse

My Will, I Will

A Hearty Response

Love Unto Wastes

as Detective Lam Chun-Keung

A Better Tomorrow

100 Ways to Murder Your Wife

The Missed Date

Witch from Nepal

as Charles / Ga Ming

The Yang's Saga

as Lui Dong-bun

The Battle Among the Clans

as 張竟成 Cheung Ging Sing

as Insp Valentino Chow

Love in a Fallen City

as Fan Liu-Yuan

The Smiling Proud Wanderer

笑傲江湖 (數碼修復版)

Angels And Devils

The Super Power

Katanyu Prakasit

The Bund Part II

as Hui Man Keung

The Radio Tycoon

The Legend of Master So

The Postman Strikes Back

The Head Hunter

as Yuen Lik / Nguen Dich

Hero's Blood Road

The Story of Woo Viet

The Shell Game (II)

as Sgt Chu Hwa Tai

Joy to the World

as Yam Chung-Lung

The Good The Bad The Ugly

Man From Hong Kong

The Cheap Detective

Hong Kong Story II

Their Private Lives

as Ko Ming Chung

A House is Not a Home

Bed for Day, Bed for Night

C.I.D.(Series 2)

The Hunter, the Butterfly and the Crocodile

Seven Women: Liu Wing-Sheung

Learned Bride Thrice Fools the Bridegroom

This Generation

The Reincarnation

Dream Of The Red Chamber

Murder of Passion

The God of Aqua

Chinese Folklore

歷年TVB台慶經典回顧

Golden Horse Awards