Chinese actor Gu Yue dead at 68
BEIJING -- Gu Yue, the actor who played the founder of communist China, Mao Zedong, 84 times in his 27-year film and television career, died of a heart attack in southern Guangdong province, the official Xinhua news agency reported Tuesday. Gu, 68, won the best actor award twice at China's prestigious Hundred Flowers film awards for playing Chairman Mao in The Founding Ceremony of China (1990) and The Story of Mao Zedong (1993). Gu joined the army in 1949, the year Mao established the People's Republic of China, and was appointed to play Mao for the first time in 1978, two years after the leader's death. Born Hu Shixue, Gu suffered miocardial infarction July 2 while attending the groundbreaking ceremony for a film and television production studio in Guangdong's Lingui County. He was rushed to the hospital, where he died at 11p.m.
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