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
- The Do Show
- One More Chance as Water Ng
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
- Cold War II as Oswald S.C. Kan
- From Vegas to Macau III as Ken Shek / Ko Chun
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)
2000
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon as Li Mu Bai
- The Making of 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' as Self
1999
- The Corruptor as Nick Chen
- Anna and the King as King Mongkut
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
- The Killer as Jong
- Celebrity Talk Show as 周润发
- God of Gamblers as Ko Chun
- 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
- The Greatest Lover as Qian Jin / Nelson Chow
- The Eighth Happiness as Fang Chien Lang / Fong Kim Long
- City War as Dick Lee
- Fractured Follies as Joe Leung
- Diary of a Big Man as Chow Ting Fat
- The Romancing Star II as Big Mouth Fat [cameo]
- Goodbye My Friend as Hung
- When Tat Fu Was Young
1987
- Prison on Fire as Chung Tin Ching
- A Better Tomorrow II as Ken Lee
- Flaming Brothers as Tin
- City on Fire as Ko Chow
- Tragic Hero as Lee Ah Chai
- Spiritual Love as Pu Yung Tsai
- An Autumn's Tale as Samuel Pang
- Scared Stiff as Inspector Chow
- Rich and Famous as Lee Ah Chai
- Code of Honor as Fai
- The Romancing Star as Wong Yat Fat
1986
- A Better Tomorrow as Mark Lee
- The Seventh Curse as Wesley
- A Hearty Response as Ho Ting-Bon
- Love Unto Wastes as Detective Lam Chun-Keung
- Witch from Nepal as Joe
- 100 Ways to Murder Your Wife as Soccer Fat
- My Will, I Will as Detective
- Story of Rose as Charles / Ga Ming
- Dream Lovers as Song Yu
- The Lunatics as Chung
- The Missed Date as Peter
1985
- The Battle Among the Clans
- The Yang's Saga as Lui Dong-bun
- Women as Derek Sun
- Why Me? as Mr. Chow
1984
- Police Cadet as 張竟成 Cheung Ging Sing
- The Smiling Proud Wanderer
- 笑傲江湖 (數碼修復版) as 令狐冲
- Hong Kong 1941 as Yip Kim-Fay
- Love in a Fallen City as Fan Liu-Yuan
- The Occupant as Insp Valentino Chow
1983
- The Radio Tycoon
- The Super Power
- Angels And Devils
- The Bund as Hui Man Keung
- Bloody Money as Bullet
- The Bund Part II as 许文强
- Last Affair as Kwong Ping
- Katanyu Prakasit
1982
- The Legend of Master So as 苏灿
- The Maverick
- The Postman Strikes Back as Fu Jun
- The Head Hunter as Yuen Lik / Nguen Dich
1981
- Hero's Blood Road
- Good Old Times as 欧阳汉
- The Fate
- The Shell Game (II) as 阿龙
- The Executor as Ng Tao
- The Story of Woo Viet as Woo Viet
- Soul Ash
1980
- The Bund as 许文强
- The Shell Game
- The Brothers
- Modern Heroes as Sgt Chu Hwa Tai
- God Father as Git
- Pursuit as Killer
- Joy to the World as Yam Chung-Lung
1979
1978
- Hong Kong Story II as 主持
- The Giants
- Vanity Fair
- Conflict
- Disco Fever
- Their Private Lives as Ko Ming Chung
- Miss "O" as Koon
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