呂奇

繁體中文

呂奇原名湯覺民，1939年生於廣東台山，出身法律世家，1949年來港，就讀威靈頓英文中學並以中五畢業。1959年佢考入中聯演員訓練班，翌年7月同胞妹李敏一齊加入邵氏兄弟粵語片組，首部主演作品係《九命奇冤》（1960）。1964年邵氏結束粵語片組之前，海洋影業開拍《公子多情》（1965）捧佢做主角，令佢成為「多情小生」，同陳寶珠合作嘅青春文藝片更係一代經典。佢先後演出近一百部電影，既做演員亦做編劇同導演，1969年首次執導《蔓莉蔓莉我愛你》；1974年為邵氏成立金禾（呂奇）製作組包拍電影，佢亦係香港首位拍攝「露毛」三級色情片嘅導演。1987年執導最後一部作品後退出演藝圈，同太太隱居台灣經營股票同物業，2024年4月在台北逝世，終年八十五歲。

English

Lui Kei, born Tong Kok-man in Taishan, Guangdong in 1939 into a legal family, came to Hong Kong in 1949 and finished Form 5 at Wellington College. He entered the Chung Luen acting class in 1959 and in July 1960 joined Shaw Brothers' Cantonese unit with his younger sister Lee Man, his first leading role coming in 1960. Before Shaw closed its Cantonese unit, Ocean Films starred him in The Playboy (1965), which made him a romantic lead, and his youth romances with Connie Chan Po-chu became classics of the era. He appeared in close to a hundred films as actor, writer and director, making his directing debut in 1969; in 1974 he set up his Kam Wo production unit to make films for Shaw Brothers, and he was the first Hong Kong director to shoot a category III film showing pubic hair. After a final film in 1987 he retired, living quietly in Taiwan on stocks and property rents. He died in Taipei in April 2024, aged 85.