1972Nominee
Best Performance
Fist of Fury
Wei Ping-Ao
Actor · Director · Writer
Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
November 29, 1929
Biography
Wei Ping-Ao (Chinese: 魏平澳, 29 November 1929 – 3 December 1989), also known as Paul Wei, was a Hong Kong-based Chinese actor who started his career in the Shaw Brothers Studio. He is best known for playing cunning interpreters in Bruce Lee's 1972 films Fist of Fury and Way of the Dragon, in which he dubbed his own voice, and also appeared in films such as Deaf Mute Heroine (1971), Hapkido (1972) and Fists of Bruce Lee (1978). He suffered from jaundice in his later years. He died on 3 December 1989 in Hong Kong.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1972Nominee
Best Performance
The Way of the Dragon
1982Nominee
Best Director
The Chinese Stuntman
Career Highlights
1982Highlight
Best Performance
Calamity of Snakes
1973Highlight
Best Performance
Bruce Lee: The Man and the Legend
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Fist of Fury
The Way of the Dragon
The Chinese Stuntman