Fan Mei-Sheng
Born: 1942-09-13 in Shandong Province, China
Known For: Acting
Biography
Fan Mei-sheng (樊梅生; born 13 September 1942) also known as Fan Mui Sang, is a prolific Hong Kong Cantonese actor. Fan Mei-sheng started acting in movies from 1964; his first movie was The Story of Sue San. He made his name in Shaw Brothers Studio productions, including the role of 'Black Whirlwind' in All Men Are Brothers. Through the 1970s and 1980s, he was often cast as the villain in many Hong Kong martial arts films and thrillers. In 1979, Fan replaced Simon Yuen (who died during filming) in The Magnificent Butcher. That, as well as his role as an explosives man in The Postman Fights Back, became one of his best known performances. He also acted in the Michael Cimino film, Year of the Dragon; and in total has acted in one hundred films. In addition, he has directed one film, Amsterdam Connection in 1978, and produced another, Dark Side of Chinatown in 1989.
Filmography
2018
- Attrition as Sifu
1991
- Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky as Assistant Warden
1989
- Dark Side of China Town as Cheung
1987
- Project A - Part II as Black Bear
- Rich and Famous as Fan Tit Tau
1986
- Millionaires' Express as Mountain Bandit
1985
- Year of the Dragon as White Powder Ma
1982
1981
- Dreadnaught as Marshal Pao
- Hitman in the Hand of Buddha as Beggar Fan (Feng)
- The Eagle's Killer as Chin Pai To
1980
- The Young Master as Bull
- The Buddhist Fist
1979
- The Magnificent Butcher as Beggar King
- The 36 Deadly Styles as Yu Ti's father
- The Great General
- Blooded Treasury Fight
- Flying Sword Lee
1978
1977
- The Sentimental Swordsman as Chuan Jia
- The Jade Tiger as Zhao Zhong
- The Brave Archer as Odd Immortal Leung Sin-Yung
- Death Duel as Mute
- Pursuit of Vengeance as Yi Da-Jing
- The Criminals, Part 3: Arson as Ah Hsin
- To Kill a Jaguar as Cheung Sam
- Fangs of the Cobra as Xu Xiang's boss
1976
- The Magic Blade as Painting Wu
- The Dragon Missile as Miu Fei
- Killer Clans as Ma Fang-chung
- King Gambler as Sha Wu Lin
1975
- All Men Are Brothers as Black Whirlwind / Li Kui
- The Gambling Syndicate as Jin Gang
- Temperament of Life
1974
- Kidnap as Chao Hai Chuan
- Five Tough Guys as Wei Jin-Bao
- Hong Kong 73 as Big Beard
1973
- The Bamboo House of Dolls as Japanese Officer
- Blood Brothers as Mountain Bandit Leader Yin
- The Pirate as Hua Er Dao
- The Delinquent as Big Sean
- The Kiss of Death as Wong Tai
1972
- The 14 Amazons as General Chiao Ting Kuai
- The Water Margin as Black Whirlwind, Li
- Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan as Wu Hua-Tian
- The Young Avenger as Hunchback Liu Tuo
- The Casino
- Young People
- Pursuit as Monk Lu Zhi Shen
1971
- Duel for Gold as Chiu Fu
- The Swift Knight as Constable Ji Fu
- The Jade Faced Assassin as Yu Chi Zhou Guang
1970
- The Twelve Gold Medallions as Bangling Trio Member
- The Iron Buddha as Master Luo
- The Golden Knight as Guan Xiyang
- Valley of the Fangs as Instructor Ma
- Heads for Sale as Wan Sanju
1969
- Temptress of a Thousand Faces as Incompetent Police Sergeant
- Dragon Swamp as Ding Hu (beggar)
1968
- That Fiery Girl as 2nd Chief of Hulu Valley
- The Jade Raksha as Yan Long Er
- The Rainbow
- Black Butterfly as Little Poue
- The Magnificent Swordsman as villain who kills a woman
- The Angel Strikes Again as Bomb Gang's thug
- The Silver Fox as Ching Ching's Helper
1967
- The One-Armed Swordsman as Guo Sheng / Brother Hua
- That Man in Chang-An as Cao Wu's waiter
- Rape of the Sword as Lo's Man
- Angel with the Iron Fists as Agent 403 at nightclub
- The King with My Face as Wan Chao
- The Trail of the Broken Blade as Hu Zi
- Operation Lipstick as Chu Lung gangster
- The Goddess of Mercy as Dancing Soldier
- Lady Jade Locket as Secretary Tong's servant capturing Wei
1966
- The Golden Buddha
- The Monkey Goes West as 3rd Prince of West Dragon King
- The Knight of Knights as Zhaoqing snr monk
1965
- Sons of the Good Earth as Shi Tou
- The Lark
- Squadron 77 as Chinese Patriot
1964
- The Amorous Lotus Pan as Neighbor at wake
- The Story of Sue San as Master Fan
- The Shepherd Girl as Village youth at campfire
- Between Tears and Smiles as Opera Customer