Chang Cheh
Born: 1924-01-17 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Died: 2002-06-22
Known For: Directing
Biography
Chang Cheh (Chinese: 張徹, January 17, 1924 – June 22, 2002) was Shaw Brothers Studio's best known and most prolific film director, with such films as The Five Venoms, The Brave Archer (based on the works of Jin Yong), The One-Armed Swordsman, and other classics of wuxia and kung fu film.
Filmography
2001
- Iron Fist Pillage ... (Archival Footage Coordinator)
1998
1993
- Ninja in Ancient China ... (Director)
1991
- Journey to the West ... (Director)
1990
- Slaughter in Xian ... (Writer)
- Hidden Hero ... (Director)
1988
- Cross the River ... (Director)
1986
- Great Shanghai 1937 ... (Director)
1985
- The Dancing Warrior ... (Director)
1984
- Shanghai 13 ... (Director)
- Death Ring ... (Director)
- The Nine Demons ... (Director)
1983
- The Weird Man ... (Director)
- Attack of the Joyful Goddess ... (Director)
1982
- Five Element Ninjas ... (Director)
- House of Traps ... (Director)
- Brave Archer and His Mate ... (Director)
- Ode to Gallantry ... (Director)
1981
- Masked Avengers ... (Director)
- The Sword Stained with Royal Blood ... (Director)
- The Brave Archer 3 ... (Director)
1980
- The Flag of Iron ... (Director)
- Legend of the Fox ... (Director)
- Heaven and Hell ... (Director)
- Two Champions of Shaolin ... (Director)
- The Rebel Intruders ... (Director)
1979
- Kid with the Golden Arm ... (Director)
- Shaolin Rescuers ... (Director)
- Ten Tigers of Kwangtung ... (Director)
- The Magnificent Ruffians ... (Director)
- The Daredevils ... (Director)
1978
- Crippled Avengers ... (Director)
- Invincible Shaolin ... (Writer)
- The Five Venoms ... (Director)
- Life Gamble ... (Director)
- Showdown at the Cotton Mill ... (Writer)
- The Brave Archer 2 ... (Director)
1977
- The Naval Commandos ... (Director)
- Chinatown Kid ... (Director)
- Magnificent Wanderers ... (Director)
- The Brave Archer ... (Director)
1976
- Shaolin Temple ... (Writer)
- Boxer Rebellion ... (Director)
- The New Shaolin Boxers ... (Writer)
- 7-Man Army ... (Director)
- The Shaolin Avengers ... (Director)
1975
- The Fantastic Magic Baby ... (Director)
- Disciples of Shaolin ... (Director)
- All Men Are Brothers ... (Writer)
- The Young Rebel ... (Presenter)
- The Four Assassins ... (Director)
- The Bloody Escape ... (Director)
1974
- Five Shaolin Masters ... (Director)
- Heroes Two ... (Director)
- Men from the Monastery ... (Director)
- Na Cha the Great ... (Director)
- Friends ... (Director)
- A Mad World of Fools ... (Producer)
- Young Lovers on Flying Wheels ... (Presenter)
- Shaolin Martial Arts ... (Director)
- Three Styles of Hung School's Kung Fu ... (Director)
- The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires ... (Director)
- The Savage Five ... (Director)
1973
- Blood Brothers ... (Director)
- The Pirate ... (Director)
- Iron Bodyguard ... (Director)
- Police Force ... (Director)
- The Delinquent ... (Director)
- The Generation Gap ... (Director)
1972
- The Water Margin ... (Director)
- The Delightful Forest ... (Director)
- Man of Iron ... (Director)
- Young People ... (Director)
- Trilogy of Swordsmanship ... (Director)
- The Angry Guest as Boss Yamaguchi (uncredited)
- The Boxer from Shantung ... (Writer)
- Four Riders ... (Director)
1971
- The New One-Armed Swordsman ... (Director)
- The Deadly Duo ... (Director)
- The Anonymous Heroes ... (Director)
- King Eagle ... (Director)
- Duel of Fists ... (Director)
- The Duel ... (Director)
1970
- Vengeance! ... (Director)
- The Heroic Ones ... (Writer)
- The Wandering Swordsman ... (Director)
- The Singing Killer ... (Director)
1969
- Dead End ... (Director)
- Return of the One-Armed Swordsman ... (Writer)
- Have Sword, Will Travel ... (Director)
- The Flying Dagger ... (Director)
- The Invincible Fist ... (Director)
- The Singing Thief ... (Director)
1968
- Golden Swallow ... (Director)
1967
- The One-Armed Swordsman ... (Director)
- The Trail of the Broken Blade ... (Director)
- The Assassin ... (Writer)
1966
- Tiger Boy ... (Writer)
- The Knight of Knights ... (Writer)
- The Magnificent Trio ... (Writer)
- The Perfumed Arrow ... (Writer)
1965
- Call of the Sea ... (Screenplay)
- Inside the Forbidden City ... (Writer)
- The Mermaid ... (Writer)
- Crocodile River ... (Writer)
- The Butterfly Chalice ... (Writer)
1964
- The Amorous Lotus Pan ... (Screenplay)
- The Female Prince ... (Writer)
- The Warlord and the Actress ... (Writer)
1962
- It's Always Spring ... (Screenplay)
- Her Pearly Tears ... (Script)
1960
- Black Butterfly ... (Screenplay)
- The Tender Trap of Espionage ... (Screenplay)
1958
- Wild Fire ... (Director)
1950
- The Alishan Uprising ... (Writer)