Biography
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 (52)
Cold War 1994
as Oswald S.C. Kan
Detective Chinatown 1900
as Bai Xuanling
One More Chance
as Water Ng
Project Gutenberg
as Painter
Cold War II
as Oswald S.C. Kan
From Vegas to Macau III
as Ken Shek / Ko Chun
From Vegas to Macau II
as Ken / Ko Chun
From Vegas to Macau
as Ken
The Monkey King
as Jade Emperor
The Last Tycoon
as Cheng Daqi
The Assassins
as Chancellor Cao Cao
Beginning of the Great Revival
as Yuan Shikai
Let the Bullets Fly
as Huang Silang
Shanghai
as Anthony Lan-Ting
Dragonball Evolution
as Master Roshi
The Children of Huang Shi
as Chen Hansheng
Curse of the Golden Flower
as Emperor Ping
Bulletproof Monk
as The Nameless Monk
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
as Li Mu Bai
Anna and the King
as King Mongkut
The Corruptor
as Nick Chen
The Replacement Killers
as John Lee
Peace Hotel
as Wong Ah Ping
God of Gamblers' Return
as Ko Chun
Full Contact
as Jeff / Gou Fei
Hard Boiled
as Insp. 'Tequila' Yuen
Prison on Fire II
as Chung Tin Ching
Once a Thief
as Red Bean Puddin / Joe
God of Gamblers II
as Ko Chun
God of Gamblers
as Ko Chun
A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon
as Mark
Wild Search
as Sgt. Lau Chun-Pong
The Killer
as Jong
All About Ah-Long
as Ah Long
City War
as Dick Lee
The Greatest Lover
as Qian Jin / Nelson Chow
Tiger on the Beat
as Sergeant Francis Li
The Eighth Happiness
as Fang Chien Lang / Fong Kim Long
A Better Tomorrow II
as Ken Lee
Prison on Fire
as Chung Tin Ching
Spiritual Love
as Pu Yung Tsai
Flaming Brothers
as Tin
An Autumn's Tale
as Samuel Pang
Rich and Famous
as Lee Ah Chai
Scared Stiff
as Inspector Chow
Tragic Hero
as Lee Ah Chai
City on Fire
as Ko Chow
The Seventh Curse
as Wesley
A Hearty Response
as Ho Ting-Bon
Love Unto Wastes
as Detective Lam Chun-Keung
A Better Tomorrow
as Mark Lee
Hong Kong 1941
as Yip Kim-Fay