梁普智

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梁普智1939年生於英國諾咸頓，英國籍香港導演，係香港電影新浪潮代表人物之一。佢先後喺艾克斯特大學修讀哲學、倫敦電影學院進修電影，畢業後加入英國廣播公司任見習剪接師兩年，協助製作《廣角鏡》等節目。1967年佢來港加入剛開台嘅無綫電視任編導並培訓人才，1969年與攝影師何東尼合辦廣藝廣告製作公司，為國泰航空等拍攝嘅廣告屢獲美國獎項。1976年佢與蕭芳芳合導處女作《跳灰》，以實景同現場感開創香港警匪片新貌，成為該年票房亞軍，被視為新浪潮先聲。其後作品有《狐蝠》、《龍咁威》、《夜驚魂》、《英倫琵琶》、《等待黎明》、《生死線》等，1984年《等待黎明》令周潤發奪金馬獎及亞太影展最佳男主角；1986年佢為英國第四頻道執導《Ping Pong》，1991年拍英語片《上海1920》。

English

Leong Po-chih, born in Northampton, England in 1939, is a British Hong Kong director and one of the leading figures of the Hong Kong New Wave. He studied philosophy at Exeter and film at the London Film School, then spent two years as a trainee film editor at the BBC, working on programmes such as Panorama. He came to Hong Kong in 1967 to join the newly launched Television Broadcasts as a director and trainer, and in 1969 co-founded an advertising production house whose commercials for airlines and others won awards in the United States. His 1976 directorial debut, co-directed with Josephine Siao, used location shooting and documentary detail to reshape the Hong Kong crime film, finished second at the box office and is seen as a forerunner of the New Wave. Later films ranged from action and satire to horror and drama; his 1984 drama made Chow Yun-fat a star and won him the Golden Horse and Asia-Pacific best actor awards. He directed a British film for Channel 4 in 1986 and an English-language feature shot in Shanghai in 1991.