廖偉雄

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廖偉雄1957年出世，原名廖晚雄，係香港演員同節目主持。佢喺九龍仔木屋區同葵青石蔭邨長大，讀石蔭慈幼學校同天主教南華中學；中三時用暑期工賺到嘅錢買咗一部超八米厘相機，跟同學拍以功夫為題嘅短片參加市政局實驗電影比賽，自此喜歡埋電影幕後製作。1979年佢憑電視劇《網中人》嘅「阿燦」一角爆紅，呢個角色後來更成為香港人對新移民嘅俗稱。走紅之後佢同藍乃才、鄭則仕、李修賢、呂良偉等人合組「群雄」製作公司，1983年加入永佳電影公司做副導演，1984年首次執導《吉人天相》（1985年上映）。佢同胡大為主持嘅綜藝節目《笑聲救地球》深入民心，1990年代起轉而從商，曾去馬來西亞發展飲食業，近年以務農為業。

English

Liu Wai-hung, born Liu Man-hung in 1957, is a Hong Kong actor and television host. He grew up in a squatter area in Kowloon Tsai and in Shek Yam Estate, Kwai Chung, and in Form 3 used his summer-job pay to buy a Super 8 camera and shoot a kung-fu short for the Urban Council's experimental film competition, which began a lasting interest in production. He shot to fame in 1979 as 'Ah Chan' in the TVB series The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, a role whose nickname became a byword for mainland immigrants. With Lan Nai-tsai, Kent Cheng, Danny Lee and Ray Lui he formed the Qunxiong production company, joined Yong Jia Film as an assistant director in 1983 and directed his first feature in 1984. His variety show with David Wu, Laughter Saves the Earth, was a household name; from the 1990s he moved into business, ran food ventures in Malaysia and has farmed in recent years.