Choi Eun-hee
Born: 1926-11-20 in Gwangju, South Korea
Died: 2018-04-16
Known For: Acting
Biography
Choi Eun-hee (November 20, 1926 – April 16, 2018) was a South Korean actress, who was one of the country's most popular stars of the 1960s and 1970s. In 1978, Choi and her then ex-husband, movie director Shin Sang-ok, were abducted to North Korea, where they were forced to make films until they sought asylum at the US Embassy in Vienna in 1986. They returned to South Korea in 1999 after spending a decade in the United States.
Filmography
2024
- Cinema in the Land of Comrade Kim as Herself
2016
- The Lovers and the Despot as Self - Actress / Various Roles
2009
- The Country I Saw, Part 2 ... (Director)
- The Country I Saw, Part 3 ... (Director)
2002
- Keeping the Vision Alive as Herself
- I'll Be Seeing Her as Herself
1987
- The Country I Saw ... (Director)
1986
- A Traffic Controller on Crossroads ... (Producer)
1985
- Salt as Mother
- Love, Love, My Love as Chunhyang's mother
- The Tale of Shim Cheong as Shim Cheong's mother
1984
- An Emissary of No Return ... (Director)
- Runaway as Song Ryul's wife
1975
1973
- An Unmarried Teacher ... (Director)
1969
1967
1966
1965
1964
1963
- The Cloud Bridge of Gratitude as Ok-gyeong
- Love Affair
- A Reluctant Prince
- Rice
1962
- Tyrant Yeonsan as Queen Shin
- A Happy Day of Jinsa Maeng as Ipbun
- Revenge
- Heartlessness
- The Story of Sim Cheong
- Bound by Chastity Rule
1961
- Prince Yeonsan
- The Evergreen as Chae Yeong-shin
- Mother and a Guest as Mother
- Under the Sky in Seoul as Kim Hyeon-ok
- Seong Chun-hyang as Seong Chun-hyang
- Iljimae the Chivalrous Robber as Yeon-hwa
1960
- A Returned Man as Gyeong-hui
- The Moral of Youth
- To the Last Day as Hye-kyung
- Madam White Snake as Madam White Snake
- A Sad Pastorale as Han Do-sook
- Romance Papa as Eum-jeon
1959
- Dongsimcho as Lee Sook-hee
- A Sister's Garden as Jeong-hui
- Chun Hui as Chun-hui
- It's Not Her Sin as Young-sook
1958
- A College Woman's Confession as So-yeong
- The Flower in Hell as Sonia
- The Love Marriage as Suk-hee
- The Money as Ok-gyeong
- A Country Girl as Kim Ok-gyeong
1957
- The Shadowless Pagoda as Guseulagi
1949
- A Hometown in Heart as Widow