Chow Yun-Fat
Born: 1955-05-18 in Hong Kong, China
Known For: Acting
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
2026
- Cold War 1994 as Oswald S.C. Kan
2025
- Detective Chinatown 1900 as Bai Xuanling
2023
- One More Chance as Water Ng
- The Do Show
2022
- The Monkey King: The Legend Begins as Jade Emperor
2018
- Project Gutenberg as Painter
2017
- Duckweed as Self (archive footage)
2016
- 鲁豫有约一日行
- From Vegas to Macau III as Ken Shek / Ko Chun
- Cold War II as Oswald S.C. Kan
2015
- From Vegas to Macau II as Ken / Ko Chun
- Office as Ho Chung Ping
2014
- The Monkey King as Jade Emperor
- From Vegas to Macau as Ken
2012
- Voice
- The Last Tycoon as Cheng Daqi
- The Assassins as Chancellor Cao Cao
2011
- Beginning of the Great Revival as Yuan Shikai
2010
- Let the Bullets Fly as Huang Silang
- Shanghai as Anthony Lan-Ting
- Confucius as Confucius
2009
- Dragonball Evolution as Master Roshi
2008
- The Children of Huang Shi as Chen Hansheng
2007
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End as Captain Sao Feng
- The Postmodern Life of My Aunt as Zhichang Pan / 潘知常
- The Making of Hard Boiled
- The Making of Stranglehold
- Secrets Within: Inside Look at 'Curse of the Golden Flower' as Self
2006
- Curse of the Golden Flower as Emperor Ping
2005
- Waiting Alone as Fa Ge (cameo)
2003
- Bulletproof Monk as The Nameless Monk
2002
- Ultimate Fights from the Movies as (archive footage)
- Chow Yun Fat Goes Hollywood as Self
2000
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon as Li Mu Bai
- The Making of 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' as Self
1999
- Anna and the King as King Mongkut
- The Corruptor as Nick Chen
1998
- The Replacement Killers as John Lee
1995
- Peace Hotel as Wong Ah Ping
1994
- God of Gamblers' Return as Ko Chun
- Treasure Hunt as Jeffrey Chang Ching
1992
- Hard Boiled as Insp. 'Tequila' Yuen
- Full Contact as Jeff / Gou Fei
- Now You See Love... Now You Don't as Ng San Shui
1991
- Once a Thief as Red Bean Puddin / Joe
- Prison on Fire II as Chung Tin Ching
1990
- God of Gamblers II as Ko Chun
- The Fun, the Luck & the Tycoon as Lam Bo Sun / Mr. Stink
1989
- Celebrity Talk Show as 周润发
- God of Gamblers as Ko Chun
- The Killer as Jong
- Everybody Loves Somebody as uncredited
- A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon as Mark
- All About Ah-Long as Ah Long
- Wild Search as Sgt. Lau Chun-Pong
- Triads: The Inside Story as Lee Man Ho
1988
- Tiger on the Beat as Sergeant Francis Li
- City War as Dick Lee
- The Greatest Lover as Qian Jin / Nelson Chow
- The Eighth Happiness as Fang Chien Lang / Fong Kim Long
- Diary of a Big Man as Chow Ting Fat
- The Romancing Star II as Big Mouth Fat [cameo]
- Fractured Follies as Joe Leung
- Goodbye My Friend as Hung
- When Tat Fu Was Young
1987
- A Better Tomorrow II as Ken Lee
- City on Fire as Ko Chow
- Prison on Fire as Chung Tin Ching
- Tragic Hero as Lee Ah Chai
- Spiritual Love as Pu Yung Tsai
- Code of Honor as Fai
- Flaming Brothers as Tin
- The Romancing Star as Wong Yat Fat
- Rich and Famous as Lee Ah Chai
- An Autumn's Tale as Samuel Pang
- Scared Stiff as Inspector Chow
1986
- A Better Tomorrow as Mark Lee
- The Seventh Curse as Wesley
- A Hearty Response as Ho Ting-Bon
- The Lunatics as Chung
- Love Unto Wastes as Detective Lam Chun-Keung
- Witch from Nepal as Joe
- 100 Ways to Murder Your Wife as Soccer Fat
- Story of Rose as Charles / Ga Ming
- Dream Lovers as Song Yu
- My Will, I Will as Detective
- The Missed Date as Peter
1985
- The Yang's Saga as Lui Dong-bun
- The Battle Among the Clans
- Why Me? as Mr. Chow
- Women as Derek Sun
1984
- Police Cadet as 張竟成 Cheung Ging Sing
- The Smiling Proud Wanderer
- Hong Kong 1941 as Yip Kim-Fay
- 笑傲江湖 (數碼修復版) as 令狐冲
- The Occupant as Insp Valentino Chow
- Love in a Fallen City as Fan Liu-Yuan
1983
- The Super Power
- The Radio Tycoon
- Angels And Devils
- 播音人 (數碼修復版) as 韦业昌
- The Bund as Hui Man Keung
- Bloody Money as Bullet
- Last Affair as Kwong Ping
- The Bund Part II as 许文强
- Katanyu Prakasit
1982
- The Legend of Master So as 苏灿
- The Maverick
- The Postman Strikes Back as Fu Jun
- 蘇乞兒 (數碼修復版) as 苏灿
- The Head Hunter as Yuen Lik / Nguen Dich
1981
- Hero's Blood Road
- The Shell Game (II) as 阿龙
- Good Old Times as 欧阳汉
- The Fate
- The Story of Woo Viet as Woo Viet
- The Executor as Ng Tao
- Soul Ash
1980
- The Shell Game
- The Bund as 许文强
- The Brothers
- Pursuit as Killer
- God Father as Git
- Modern Heroes as Sgt Chu Hwa Tai
- Joy to the World as Yam Chung-Lung
1979
1978
- Vanity Fair
- The Giants
- Conflict
- Hong Kong Story II as 主持
- Disco Fever
- Miss "O" as Koon
- Their Private Lives as Ko Ming Chung
1977
- A House is Not a Home as 何严明
- 13
- Hero
- Hot Blood as Ah Cheng
- Bed for Day, Bed for Night
1976
1975
- Dream Of The Red Chamber as 蒋玉涵
1968
1962
- Golden Horse Awards as Self