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
- I'll Be Seeing Her as Herself
- Keeping the Vision Alive as Herself
1987
- The Country I Saw ... (Director)
1986
- A Traffic Controller on Crossroads ... (Producer)
1985
- Salt as Mother
- The Tale of Shim Cheong as Shim Cheong's mother
- Love, Love, My Love as Chunhyang's mother
1984
- Runaway as Song Ryul's wife
- An Emissary of No Return ... (Director)
1975
1973
- An Unmarried Teacher ... (Director)
1969
1967
1966
1965
1964
1963
- A Reluctant Prince
- Rice
- Love Affair
- The Cloud Bridge of Gratitude as Ok-gyeong
1962
- Bound by Chastity Rule
- The Story of Sim Cheong
- A Happy Day of Jinsa Maeng as Ipbun
- Tyrant Yeonsan as Queen Shin
- Heartlessness
- Revenge
1961
- Iljimae the Chivalrous Robber as Yeon-hwa
- Mother and a Guest as Mother
- The Evergreen as Chae Yeong-shin
- Seong Chun-hyang as Seong Chun-hyang
- Prince Yeonsan
- Under the Sky in Seoul as Kim Hyeon-ok
1960
- To the Last Day as Hye-kyung
- Romance Papa as Eum-jeon
- A Returned Man as Gyeong-hui
- A Sad Pastorale as Han Do-sook
- The Moral of Youth
- Madam White Snake as Madam White Snake
1959
- A Sister's Garden as Jeong-hui
- Dongsimcho as Lee Sook-hee
- It's Not Her Sin as Young-sook
- Chun Hui as Chun-hui
1958
- A Country Girl as Kim Ok-gyeong
- The Flower in Hell as Sonia
- The Money as Ok-gyeong
- A College Woman's Confession as So-yeong
- The Love Marriage as Suk-hee
1957
- The Shadowless Pagoda as Guseulagi
1949
- A Hometown in Heart as Widow