張堅庭

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張堅庭1956年生，係香港電影導演、編劇、監製、演員，也曾擔任電台及電視節目主持人，曾分別憑《胡越的故事》及《表錯七日情》獲得1982年第1屆香港電影金像獎及1984年第3屆香港電影金像獎最佳編劇，目前定居英國。佢於1956年在廣東廣州市出生，3歲時隨出身師範學院嘅母親來港生活，父親則因要照顧失明祖母而留在廣州居住，「張堅庭」一名由母親所取，寓意「堅固家庭」；來港後佢定居九龍尖沙咀。張堅庭曾就讀花地瑪英文學校（小學）、博允英文中學及威靈頓英文中學（1973年中五，尖沙咀校），畢業於香港浸會學院中國語言文學系；畢業前獲同學李再唐介紹，到香港電台任職兼職撰稿員，由編劇做起，並獲香港電台電視部導演敬海林賞識，由播音員轉為助導。1978年佢創作了第一個劇本《獅子山下：麻雀仔》，1979年推出《執法者之紙盒藏屍》；其後於香港中文大學進修電影文憑校外課程，再遠赴美國The New School for Social Research深造電影，研究希治閣電影。1981年起佢參與電影編劇工作，1983年自編自導《表錯七日情》；參與製作之電影逾80部，以喜劇居多，其後自導自演《表姐，你好嘢！》系列，以港人北上嘅文化碰撞寫出回歸前後嘅微妙心態。

English

Alfred Cheung, born in 1956, is a Hong Kong film director, screenwriter, producer and actor who has also hosted radio and television programmes; he won best screenplay at the 1st Hong Kong Film Awards in 1982 and the 3rd in 1984, and now lives in Britain. Born in Guangzhou, he came to Hong Kong at three with his schoolteacher mother, while his father stayed behind to care for a blind grandmother; his name, chosen by his mother, means a sturdy family. Settling in Tsim Sha Tsui, he attended primary and secondary schools there, finishing Form Five in 1973, and graduated in Chinese language and literature from Hong Kong Baptist College. Before graduating a classmate introduced him to Radio Television Hong Kong as a part-time scriptwriter, and there a drama department director spotted him and moved him from announcer to assistant director. He wrote his first script in 1978 and another a year later, then took a film diploma course at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and went to the New School for Social Research in the United States to study the films of Hitchcock. He began writing for films in 1981, wrote and directed his own hit comedy in 1983, and has worked on more than eighty films, mostly comedies — later writing, directing and starring in a series about a mainland policewoman in Hong Kong that caught the cultural collisions around 1997 with wit and acuity.