繁體中文
吳回（1913年12月3日－1996年3月1日），原名吳耀民，廣東新會人，在廣州出生，是香港粵語片的導演、編劇及演員。他生於商人之家，家中兄弟皆愛好戲劇，曾先後就讀於廣東電影學院及廣東戲劇研究所附設的戲劇學校話劇系，與李晨風、盧敦是同窗，並一同組織劇團演出話劇。1939年他來港後加入大觀聲片有限公司當演員，首部參演電影為《人海淚痕》（1940）。1941年他開始當導演，首部作品為《今宵重見月團圓》。香港淪陷後，他與妻子葉萍及女兒逃難至廣州灣，其後與張瑛、黃曼梨、梅綺、盧敦等合組劇團，於廣州灣淪陷前轉往南洋，流徙於越南、新加坡、馬來亞等地，以演話劇為生。
復員回港後，他首部執導作品為《淚灑相思地》（1947）。五十年代初，他有感於粵語片質素日益下降，與一班影人發起「粵語片清潔運動」，並加入新聯影業公司，編導創業作《敗家仔》（1952）。1952年他參與成立中聯電影企業有限公司，並擔任創業作《家》（1953）的編導；該片改編自巴金同名小說，動員大批粵語片紅星演出，成為文藝片經典。他亦執導過曹禺名劇改編的《雷雨》、《原野》等。他曾與白燕、張活游合組山聯影業公司，出品楚原的《可憐天下父母心》（1960），又成立特藝影業公司及永聯影業公司。近四十年的編導生涯中，他有作品二百多部，是罕見的多產導演，代表作包括《年晚錢》（1950）、《家》（1953）、《大雷雨》（1954）、《寶蓮燈》（共三集，1956至58）、《十兄弟》（1959）等，最後執導的一部是《懵仔傻妹妙偵探》（1979）。七十年代他投身電視圈，曾任策劃、編導與藝員，八十年代中退休，與妻子在中山頤養天年。1994年他獲香港電影導演會頒贈終身成就獎，最後演出的電影是《九品芝麻官》（1994）。1996年3月1日，他在中山病逝，終年八十二歲。
English
Ng Wui (3 December 1913 – 1 March 1996), born Ng Yiu-man, was a Hong Kong Cantonese-film director, screenwriter and actor. A native of Xinhui in Guangdong who was born in Guangzhou into a merchant family whose brothers all loved the theatre, he studied drama at the Guangdong Film School and at the drama school attached to the Guangdong Theatre Institute, where his classmates included Lee Sun-fung and Lo Duen, with whom he also formed a theatre troupe. He came to Hong Kong in 1939 and joined the Grandview Film Company as an actor, his first appearance being Poor Souls (1940). In 1941 he turned to directing, his debut being Tonight the Moon Is Full. After Hong Kong fell he fled with his wife and daughter to Guangzhouwan, and later formed a troupe with Cheung Ying, Wong Man-lei, Mui Yee and Lo Duen, moving before Guangzhouwan's fall to Vietnam, Singapore and Malaya, where they earned a living by performing spoken drama.
Back in Hong Kong, his first post-war film as director was Tears on the Pillow of Longing (1947). In the early 1950s, alarmed at the declining quality of Cantonese cinema, he and a group of filmmakers launched the 'Cantonese Film Clean-up Movement'. He joined Sun Luen Film Company and wrote and directed its first production, The Prodigal Son (1952), and in 1952 helped found Union Film Enterprise, for whose inaugural production he wrote and directed Family (1953), adapted from Ba Jin's novel and featuring a large cast of Cantonese stars; it became a landmark literary melodrama. He also directed Thunderstorm and The Wilderness from Cao Yu's plays. He formed Hill Union Film with Pak Yin and Cheung Wood-yau to produce Chor Yuen's The Great Devotion (1960), and set up the Tek Ngai and Wing Luen companies. Over a near-forty-year career he made more than two hundred films, a rare output. Turning to television in the 1970s, he worked as planner, director and actor before retiring in the mid-1980s, and in 1994 he received a lifetime achievement award from the Hong Kong Film Directors' Guild. He died in Zhongshan on 1 March 1996, aged 82.
