Wu Pang
Wu Pang was a Hong Kong Chinese director, producer, production manager, actor, movie planner, writer and the co-creator of the Yong Yao Film Company.Life and work
Born in 1909 in Shanghai, he decided to move to Hong Kong when he was 27 years old. He and producer Zhenjiang Yongyao started making films in 1938. At the age of 30, Wu Pang began making films of folk hero Wong Fei Hung which starred actor and martial artist Kwan Tak-hing, also known as Kwan Te-hsing by film producer Raymond Chow Man Wai. Over the course of his life, Wu Pang directed nearly 200 movies and received the Lifetime Achievement Awards by the Hong Kong Film Critics' Association in 1999. He also published a book, Wong Fei Hung and I, about his extensive work on the subject.
Wu Pang died in 2000 in the Hong Kong Health Centre at the age of 91.
