李元科

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李元科1953年生，係香港導演及電視劇集監製，先後服務麗的電視、無綫電視同亞洲電視，現時多轉往大陸拍攝影視作品，同時係中國電視藝術家協會理事、中國作家協會會員。佢早年喺九龍西洋菜街附近成長，1973至1975年因貪玩入職香港輔助警察隊當輔警（編號A4755）。1970年代末佢加入電視業界，在麗的電視任助理編導，1979年升任編導，1983年升任監製；服務麗的期間曾與潘源良共事。1983至1984年佢同時出外為邵氏兄弟拍攝電影，1984年1月隨李兆熊回歸亞洲電視；早於1982年佢已應劉志榮邀請執導個人首部電影《女人檔案》。1990年2月佢接到亞視解僱信，同年7月加入澳門廣播電視，1992年約滿轉投無綫電視。無論在亞視或無綫，佢監製嘅劇集都以動作劇居多，但《女人檔案》同1999年嘅《車站》都係文藝片；2000年起佢回中國內地拍攝電視劇。

English

Lee Yuen-for, born in 1953, is a Hong Kong director and television drama producer who has worked for RTV, Television Broadcasts and Asia Television, and now makes most of his productions on the mainland; he is also a council member of the China Television Artists Association. He grew up near Sai Yeung Choi Street in Kowloon and, out of curiosity, served as an auxiliary policeman from 1973 to 1975. He entered television in the late 1970s as an assistant director at RTV, was promoted to director in 1979 and to producer in 1983, working for a time with lyricist and director Poon Yuen-leung. Between 1983 and 1984 he also shot films for Shaw Brothers and returned to Asia Television with producer Lee Siu-hung in January 1984; as early as 1982 he had directed his first feature at the invitation of actor Lau Chi-wing. After receiving notice from ATV in February 1990 he joined Macau Television that July and moved to Television Broadcasts in 1992. His series are mostly action dramas, though his two features are both quiet, literary films, and since 2000 he has shot dramas on the mainland.