- Wildly popular Cantonese comedian and actor.
- Was the sixth of twenty children.
- Received an English language education in Hong Kong and worked as a law secretary until he began acting at age twenty-one.
- Was known as Oriental Charlie for his comedic similarities to comic Charles Chaplin. He played in many Asian films as a Chaplinesque tramp with a bowler hat, mustache and cane.
- Soon after he died, an all star Cantonese remake of Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window (1954) was made as a tribute to him with all the film's proceeds going to his family.
- Father of James Yi Lui
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