Personal Info
Birthday
May 18, 1955
Place of Birth
Hong Kong, China
Known For
Acting
Chow Yun-Fat
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.
Acting Filmography (162)
6.6
Cold War 1994
Movie2026
6.3
Detective Chinatown 1900
Movie2025
No Backdrop
0.0
The Do Show
TV Series2023
5.5
One More Chance
Movie2023
6.0
The Monkey King: The Legend Begins
Movie2022
7.2
Project Gutenberg
Movie2018
6.5
Duckweed
Movie2017
4.0
鲁豫有约一日行
TV Series2016
6.3
Cold War II
Movie2016
4.1
From Vegas to Macau III
Movie2016
5.5
Office
Movie2015
5.0
From Vegas to Macau II
Movie2015
5.2
From Vegas to Macau
Movie2014
5.6
The Monkey King
Movie2014
6.4
The Last Tycoon
Movie2012
5.8
The Assassins
Movie2012
0.0
Voice
TV Series2012
4.7
Beginning of the Great Revival
Movie2011
7.8
Let the Bullets Fly
Movie2010
6.1
Shanghai
Movie2010
5.9
Confucius
Movie2010
2.9
Dragonball Evolution
Movie2009
6.6
The Children of Huang Shi
Movie2008
5.6
The Postmodern Life of My Aunt
Movie2007
No Backdrop
0.0
The Making of Hard Boiled
Movie2007
8.0
The Making of Stranglehold
Movie2007
7.3
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Movie2007
6.9
Curse of the Golden Flower
Movie2006
6.8
Waiting Alone
Movie2005
5.5
Bulletproof Monk
Movie2003
No Backdrop
5.1
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
Movie2002
No Backdrop
0.0
Chow Yun Fat Goes Hollywood
Movie2002
No Backdrop
0.0
The Making of 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'
Movie2000
7.4
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Movie2000
6.8
Anna and the King
Movie1999
6.1
The Corruptor
Movie1999
6.3
The Replacement Killers
Movie1998
5.9
Peace Hotel
Movie1995
6.6
God of Gamblers' Return
Movie1994
5.9
Treasure Hunt
Movie1994
6.8
Full Contact
Movie1992
7.5
Hard Boiled
Movie1992
6.3
Now You See Love... Now You Don't
Movie1992
6.8
Prison on Fire II
Movie1991
6.9
Once a Thief
Movie1991
6.9
God of Gamblers II
Movie1990
6.4
The Fun, the Luck & the Tycoon
Movie1990
7.2
God of Gamblers
Movie1989
6.4
A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon
Movie1989
6.1
Triads: The Inside Story
Movie1989
9.0
Everybody Loves Somebody
TV Series1989
6.8
Wild Search
Movie1989
7.6
The Killer
Movie1989
7.3
All About Ah-Long
Movie1989
9.5
Celebrity Talk Show
TV Series1989
6.8
City War
Movie1988
No Backdrop
7.0
Goodbye My Friend
Movie1988
No Backdrop
7.5
When Tat Fu Was Young
Movie1988
5.4
The Greatest Lover
Movie1988
6.6
Diary of a Big Man
Movie1988
6.0
Fractured Follies
Movie1988
6.5
Tiger on the Beat
Movie1988
6.4
The Eighth Happiness
Movie1988
5.0
The Romancing Star II
Movie1988
7.1
A Better Tomorrow II
Movie1987
7.0
Prison on Fire
Movie1987
6.4
Spiritual Love
Movie1987
6.4
Flaming Brothers
Movie1987
7.4
An Autumn's Tale
Movie1987
6.0
The Romancing Star
Movie1987
6.6
Rich and Famous
Movie1987
7.3
Code of Honor
Movie1987
7.3
Scared Stiff
Movie1987
6.1
Tragic Hero
Movie1987
6.9
City on Fire
Movie1987
6.7
The Seventh Curse
Movie1986
9.0
My Will, I Will
Movie1986
6.5
A Hearty Response
Movie1986
6.7
Love Unto Wastes
Movie1986
7.4
A Better Tomorrow
Movie1986
7.3
The Lunatics
Movie1986
5.5
100 Ways to Murder Your Wife
Movie1986
No Backdrop
7.0
The Missed Date
Movie1986
6.9
Dream Lovers
Movie1986
5.5
Witch from Nepal
Movie1986
6.8
Story of Rose
Movie1986
8.8
Why Me?
Movie1985
8.9
The Yang's Saga
TV Series1985
7.0
Women
Movie1985
7.0
The Battle Among the Clans
TV Series1985
6.3
Hong Kong 1941
Movie1984
7.0
Police Cadet
TV Series1984
6.3
The Occupant
Movie1984
6.4
Love in a Fallen City
Movie1984
7.5
The Smiling Proud Wanderer
TV Series1984
0.0
笑傲江湖 (數碼修復版)
TV Series1984
7.4
Last Affair
Movie1983
10.0
Angels And Devils
TV Series1983
0.0
The Super Power
TV Series1983
No Backdrop
7.0
Bloody Money
Movie1983
No Backdrop
0.0
Katanyu Prakasit
Movie1983
6.5
The Bund Part II
Movie1983
5.7
The Bund
Movie1983
0.0
The Radio Tycoon
TV Series1983
0.0
播音人 (數碼修復版)
TV Series1983
8.7
The Legend of Master So
TV Series1982
0.0
蘇乞兒 (數碼修復版)
TV Series1982
6.6
The Postman Strikes Back
Movie1982
No Backdrop
6.1
The Head Hunter
Movie1982
0.0
The Maverick
TV Series1982
0.0
Good Old Times
TV Series1981
0.0
Hero's Blood Road
TV Series1981
0.0
The Fate
TV Series1981
6.4
The Story of Woo Viet
Movie1981
0.0
The Shell Game (II)
TV Series1981
No Backdrop
7.0
The Executor
Movie1981
No Backdrop
0.0
Soul Ash
Movie1981
No Backdrop
8.0
Modern Heroes
Movie1980
5.3
The Shell Game
TV Series1980
No Backdrop
7.5
Pursuit
Movie1980
No Backdrop
6.5
Joy to the World
Movie1980
0.0
The Brothers
TV Series1980
8.9
The Bund
TV Series1980
No Backdrop
6.0
God Father
Movie1980
9.0
The Good The Bad The Ugly
TV Series1979
0.0
Man From Hong Kong
TV Series1979
0.0
I Am Woman
TV Series1979
0.0
The Cheap Detective
TV Series1979
0.0
The Landlord
TV Series1979
8.0
Conflict
TV Series1978
0.0
Disco Fever
TV Series1978
0.0
Hong Kong Story II
TV Series1978
10.0
The Giants
TV Series1978
No Backdrop
8.0
Miss "O"
Movie1978
No Backdrop
8.0
Their Private Lives
Movie1978
0.0
Vanity Fair
TV Series1978
No Backdrop
10.0
Hot Blood
Movie1977
0.0
Hero
TV Series1977
0.0
A House is Not a Home
TV Series1977
No Backdrop
0.0
13
TV Series1977
No Backdrop
9.0
Bed for Day, Bed for Night
Movie1977
0.0
C.I.D.(Series 2)
TV Series1976
0.0
畸人列傳
TV Series1976
No Backdrop
7.0
The Hunter, the Butterfly and the Crocodile
Movie1976
No Backdrop
0.0
Seven Women: Liu Wing-Sheung
Movie1976
0.0
七女性
TV Series1976
0.0
Hotel
TV Series1976
No Backdrop
8.5
Massage Girls
Movie1976
0.0
Teenager
TV Series1976
0.0
The First Love
TV Series1976
0.0
Mystery Beyond
TV Series1976
No Backdrop
9.0
Learned Bride Thrice Fools the Bridegroom
Movie1976
0.0
This Generation
TV Series1976
No Backdrop
9.0
The Reincarnation
Movie1976
0.0
The Killer
TV Series1976
6.0
Dream Of The Red Chamber
TV Series1975
0.0
Murder of Passion
TV Series1974
0.0
The God of Aqua
TV Series1974
0.0
Chinese Folklore
TV Series1974
No Backdrop
0.0
歷年TVB台慶經典回顧
TV Series1968
9.0
Golden Horse Awards
TV Series1962
No Backdrop
0.0
Cold War 1995
MovieN/A