Jimmy Wang Yu
Born: 1944-03-28 in Wuxi, China
Died: 2022-04-05
Known For: Acting
Biography
Wang Zhengquan, better known as Jimmy Wang Yu and Wong Yu-lung, (born March 8, 1944 - died April 5, 2022) was a Chinese actor, film director, producer and screenwriter. Wang rose to fame in 1967 with his starring role in The One-Armed Swordsman, a martial arts film produced by the Shaw Brothers Studio. The Chinese Boxer (1969), another film he acted in, is credited as the first Hong Kong action film that kickstarted the unarmed combat genre that took Asia by storm in the 1970s.
Filmography
2019
- Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks as Self (archive footage)
2013
- Soul as Chuan's Father
2012
- The Guillotines as Gonge
2005
- A Century of Light and Shadow as Self
1997
- The Dragon Man as Shing Yao
- Eighteen Springs ... (Producer)
- Stand Behind the Yellow Line ... (Producer)
1994
- Cinema of Vengeance as Self (uncredited)
1992
- Requital as Wai's hired assassin
- Shogun and Little Kitchen as Mr Lin Chong Yun
1991
- The Beheaded 1000 as Executioner Ren De-Tie
- The Tantana ... (Producer)
1990
- Island of Fire as Kui / Lucas
1987
- The Thundering Ninja as David Wong (archive footage)
1986
- Millionaires' Express as Master Wong
1985
- Heart of Dragon ... (Presenter)
- Clash of the Professionals
1984
- Shanghai 13 as Black Hat
1983
- Fantasy Mission Force as Captain Don Wen
1978
- Big Leap Forward
- Boxer, Lover, Lawyer as Zhenghan
1977
- Revenge Of Kung Fu Mao as Mayor
- The Deadly Silver Spear
- Return of the Chinese Boxer as Sau Bai-Lung
- The Lantern Street
- Return of the Tiger ... (Producer)
- One Arm Chivalry Fights Against One Arm Chivalry
- The Criminal as Hung Ta Hao
1976
- The Private Eyes as Actor in Theatre Movie
- Killer Meteors as Killer Meteor Mei Sin Her
- Master of the Flying Guillotine as Liu Ti Lung / The One-Armed Boxer
- Tiger & Crane Fists as Ching Sing Chang
- A Queen's Ransom as Jimmy
- The One Armed Swordsmen as Fong Ping / One-armed Swordsman
- One Armed Swordsman Against Nine Killers as Liu Ching Wu/Liu Yi Su
1975
- The Man from Hong Kong as Fang
- The Double Double Cross as Black suit
- My Wacky, Wacky World as Fake villager
- The Great Hunter as Captain Wu
- A Cookbook of Birth Control
1974
- My Father, My Husband, My Son
- Four Real Friends as Hsiao Pao
1973
- The Two Cavaliers
- Queen of Fist as Ma Yung-Chen
- The Tattooed Dragon as Tattooed Dragon
- Fast Fists as Hong Ching-Pau/Red Lantern
- Seaman No. 7 as Wang Hai-Lung
- A Man Called Tiger as Chin Fu
- The Screaming Tiger as Ma Tai Yung
- Beach of the War Gods as Hsiao Feng
- Knight Errant as Lin Hao-Shan
- The Black Friday as Chen Ah Kwang
- The Iron Man
1972
- The Gallant as The Gallant
- One-Armed Boxer as Yu Tien-Lung
- Showdown
- Furious Slaughter as Ma Yung Shen
- Fury of King Boxer
- Boxers of Loyalty and Righteousness
- The Invincible
- The Rebel Boxer
- A Kiss to Remember as Jimmy
- The Lion's Heart
- Iron Fist Adventure
1971
- Rage of the Tiger as Tiger Wong
- The Professional Killer as Lu He-Gang
- The Sword
- Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman as Wang Kang
- Blood of the Dragon as Lung Ti / The White Dragon
- The Gallant Duo as Yi Chun
- The Invincible Sword as Ling Yu Fong
- The Brave and the Evil as Bai Sifeng
- The Magnificent Chivalry
1970
- The Chinese Boxer as Lei Ming
- My Son as Yang Kuo-Liang
1969
- Return of the One-Armed Swordsman as Fang Gang
1968
- Golden Swallow as Silver Roc Xiao Pang
- The Sword of Swords as Lin Jenshiau
1967
- The One-Armed Swordsman as Fang Kang
- The Assassin as Nie Zheng
- The Sword and the Lute as Gui Wu
- The Trail of the Broken Blade as Li Yue / Jiang Qi
- Asia-Pol as Yang Ming Xuan
- Auntie Lan as He You-Wen
1966
- Tiger Boy as Lei Hu (Tiger Boy)
- The Joy of Spring as Himself [cameo]
- The Magnificent Trio as Lu Fang
1965
- Temple of the Red Lotus as Gui Wu
- The Twin Swords as Gui Wu