2011Nominee
Best Performance
Dragon
Jimmy Wang Yu
Actor · Director · Producer · Writer
Wuxi, China
March 28, 1944
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.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1986Nominee
Best Performance
Millionaires' Express
1990Nominee
Best Performance
Island of Fire
Career Highlights
1985Highlight
Best Performance
Heart of Dragon
1967Highlight
Best Performance
The One-Armed Swordsman
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Dragon
Millionaires' Express
Island of Fire