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Frankie Chan

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Frankie Chan
Born
Chan Wing-yuk

(1951-11-30) 30 November 1951 (age 72)
Occupation(s)actor, film director, film producer, composer
Years active1970 - present
Awards
Hong Kong Film AwardsBest Original Score
1996 Fallen Angels

Chinese name
Traditional Chinese陳勳奇
Simplified Chinese陈勋奇
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinChén Xūnqí
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpingcan4 fan1 kei4

Franklin Chan Fan-kei (born 1951) is a Hong Kong-born Chinese martial artist, actor, film director, producer, action director, and composer.

Chan is best known to Hong Kong action cinema fans as the main antagonist in Sammo Hung's The Prodigal Son, in which he faces Yuen Biao in the final reel. Chan has starred in a number of modern action films, most notably Burning Ambition, Outlaw Brothers and Carry On Pickpocket. He also directed and composed scores for many films in the 1970s and 1980s, including The Young Master, Odd Couple and Armour of God II: Operation Condor. In 2011 Chan directed Legendary Amazons, a film about the female Generals of the Yang clan.

Frankie Chan's other music credits include Chungking Express (1994) and Fallen Angels (1995).[1]

Filmography as director

References

  1. ^ Nochimson, Martha P. (Fall 2005). "Beautiful Resistance: The Early Films of Wong Kar-wai". Cineaste. Retrieved 4 November 2024 – via ProQuest.