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Actor/director/producer Jackie Chan's unique blend of impressive martial arts and
screwball physical comedy has helped make him an international film star.
Synopsis
Hong Kong's cheeky, lovable and best known film star, Jackie Chan endured
many years of long, hard work and multiple injuries to establish international
success via his early beginnings in Hong Kong's manic martial arts cinema
industry.
Jackie Chan was born Chan Kong-sang on April 7, 1954, in Hong Kong, China.
He began studying martial arts, drama, acrobatics, and singing at age seven.
Once considered a likely successor of Bruce Lee in Hong Kong cinema, Chan
instead developed his own style of martial arts blended with screwball physical
comedy. He became a huge star throughout Asia and went on to have hits in
the U.S. as well.
Chan's own film career was off and running and he swiftly appeared in many
low-budget martial arts films that were churned out at a rapid fire pace by Hong
Kong studios eager to satisfy the early 1970s boom in martial-arts cinema.
Chan is truly one of the international film industry's true maverick actor / director
/ stuntman / producer combinations - he has done it the hard way, and always
his way to achieve his dreams and goals to be an international cinematic star.
Early Life
Actor, director, producer. Born April 7, 1954, in Hong Kong, China. When his
parents moved to Australia to find new jobs, the seven-year-old Chan was left
behind to study at the Chinese Opera Research Institute, a Hong Kong
boarding school. For the next 10 years, Chan studied martial arts, drama,
acrobatics, and singing, and was subjected to stringent discipline, including
corporal punishment for poor performance. He appeared in his first film, the
Cantonese feature Big and Little Wong Tin Bar (1962), when he was only eight,
and went on to appear in a number of musical films.
Upon his graduation in 1971, Chan found work as an acrobat and a movie
stuntman, most notably in Fist of Fury (1972), starring Hong Kong's resident
big-screen superstar, Bruce Lee. For that film, he reportedly completed the
highest fall in the history of the Chinese film industry, earning the respectful
notice of the formidable Lee, among others.
Big Break
After Lee's tragic, unexpected death in 1973, Chan was singled out as a likely
successor of his mantle as the king of Hong Kong cinema. To that end, he
starred in a string of kung fu movies with Lo Wei, a producer and director who
had worked with Lee. Most were unsuccessful, and the collaboration ended in
the late 1970s. By that time, Chan had decided that he wanted to break out of
the Lee mold and create his own image. Blending his martial arts abilities with
an impressive nervehe insisted on performing all of his own stuntsand a
sense of screwball physical comedy reminiscent of one of his idols, Buster
Keaton, Chan found his own formula for cinematic gold.
A year after the release of his first bona fide hit, Snake in the Eagles
Shadow(1978), Chan took the Hong Kong film world by storm with his first socalled "kung fu comedy" the now-classic Drunken Master (1978). Subsequent
hits such as The Fearless Hyena (1979), Half a Loaf of Kung Fu (1980),
and The Young Master (1980) confirmed Chan's star status; the latter film
marked his first with Golden Harvest, Lee's old production company and the
leading film studio in Hong Kong. Before long, Chan had become the highestpaid actor in Hong Kong and a huge international star throughout Asia. He
exerted total control over most of his films, often taking charge of duties ranging
from producing to directing to performing the theme songs.
In the early 1980s, Chan tried his luck in Hollywood, with little success. He
starred in the Golden Harvest-produced The Big Brawl (1980), which flopped;
he also had a small supporting role opposite Burt Reynolds in the disappointing
ensemble comedy Cannonball Run (1982) and its equally mediocre 1984
sequel.
Movie Empire
Back in Hong Kong, Chan's star only rose throughout the 1980s, as he
produced
impressive
action-comedies
such
as Project
A (1983), Police
Story(1985), and Armor of God (1986), and the hit period film Mr. Canton and
Lady Rose (1989), a clever remake of Frank Capra's 1961 film A Pocketful of
Miracles. By that time, however, Chan was far more than a movie starhe was
a one-man film industry. In 1986, he formed his own production company,
Golden Way. He also founded a modeling/casting agency, Jackie's Angels, in
order to recruit talent for his films. During the filming of Police Story, so many
stuntmen were injured that none would agree to work with Chan again; in
response, he founded the Jackie Chan Stuntmen Association, whose members
he trained personally and paid their medical bills. For his part, Chan claims to
have broken every bone in his body at least once while performing stunts. In
1986, during the filming of Armor of God, he fractured his skull after falling over
40 feet while attempting to jump from the top of a building and land on a tree
branch below.
In the early 1990s, Chan broadened his range even more, turning in a rare
dramatic performance in the melodramatic Crime Story (1993). He also made
several sequels to his hits Police Story and Drunken Master. As one of the
biggest international box office stars, his popularity in America was limited to the
savviest filmgoers. Chan's profile began a meteoric rise in the mid-1990s,
however, when a series of events combined to bring him to the attention of a
wider American audience.
Hollywood Star
In 1995, Chan created his own comic book character, the central figure inJackie
Chan's Spartan X, a series that hit newsstands in both Asia and the U.S. That
same year, newly anointed directing sensation Quentin Tarantino, fresh off the
success of Pulp Fiction (1994), presented Chan with a Lifetime Achievement
Award at the MTV Movie Awards (the admiring Tarantino reportedly threatened
to boycott the ceremony if Chan did not receive the award). In 1996, New Line
Cinema and Golden Harvest jointly releasedRumble in the Bronx, Chan's fifth
English-language (dubbed) release but his first hit in America. The film grossed
$10 million in its first weekend of release, shooting to No. 1 at the box office; its
success prompted the American debut of two previous Chan films, Crime
Story and Drunken Master II.
After two less successful efforts, Jackie Chan's First Strike (1997) and Mr. Nice
Guy (1998), Chan had another big box-office hit with Rush Hour (also 1998), an
American-produced action-comedy. In Rush Hour, Chan employed his Englishlanguage skills as a Chinese police officer on an exchange program in the U.S.
who is partnered with a streetwise Los Angeles cop, played by the rising
comedian Chris Tucker. In 2000, Chan starred inShanghai Noon, another
crossover comedy-action film set in the Old West and co-starring Owen Wilson
and Lucy Liu.
The following summer, Chan reteamed with Tucker for the smash hit
sequelRush Hour 2, for which the action star earned a hefty $15 million plus a
percentage of the record-breaking box-office haul. In 2002, Chan co-starred
with Jennifer Love Hewitt in The Tuxedo, an action comedy about a taxi driver
who receives special powers when he puts on his boss's tux. That same year,
he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was honored with the
Taurus Award for best action movie star at the World Stunt Awards. Other recent
films include Shanghai Knights, New Police Story and The Myth.
