吳思遠

繁體中文

吳思遠1944年生於上海，籍貫廣東中山，1961年隨家人移居香港，係香港導演同監製，亦係香港電影導演會永遠榮譽會長同香港電影工作者總會會長。佢喺上海讀小學同中學，來港後畢業於新法書院，曾經當過中學教師；1965年佢喺大東紗廠做機器維修，1966年投考邵氏第六屆南國實驗劇團編導科，接受戲劇訓練，做過場記，1969年喺電影《劍膽》擔任副導演，1971年執導首部作品《瘋狂殺手》。1972年佢製作《蕩寇灘》，賣給當時香港第三大電影集團協利電影發行，1973年創辦思遠影業公司，其後監製《醉拳》等片，令成龍一炮而紅。佢多年來為香港電影工業出心出力，亦曾創立思遠籃球隊，並獲頒銅紫荊星章同委任為太平紳士。

English

Ng See-yuen, born in Shanghai in 1944 to a family from Zhongshan, Guangdong and brought to Hong Kong with his family in 1961, is a Hong Kong director and producer, honorary life president of the Hong Kong Film Directors' Guild and president of the Federation of Hong Kong Filmmakers. Educated in Shanghai and at New Method College in Hong Kong, he taught in a secondary school before working in a textile mill in 1965. In 1966 he entered Shaw Brothers' sixth Southern Drama Group course in directing and writing, worked as a continuity man and was assistant director on a 1969 film before directing his first feature in 1971. In 1972 he produced a film that he sold to Goldig Films, then Hong Kong's third-largest distribution group, and in 1973 founded Seasonal Film Corporation, later producing Drunken Master (1978), which made Jackie Chan a star. Long active in industry bodies, he also founded the Seasonal basketball team and has been awarded the Bronze Bauhinia Star and appointed a Justice of the Peace.