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洪金寶（Sammo Hung），1952年1月7日在香港出生，祖籍浙江寧波，祖父洪仲豪是早期電影導演。他童年時拜入京劇名師于占元門下，在中國戲劇學院學習京劇與北派功夫，是「七小福」的大師兄，與成龍、元彪、元華、元奎等一同受訓，練就一身翻騰撲跌的功夫。早於1961年，他即以童星身分演出《愛的教育》，藝名朱元龍；其後在1960年代加入邵氏，為胡金銓的《大醉俠》等片擔任龍虎武師及替身，也曾參與李小龍的《龍爭虎鬥》演出。1977年，他首次執導《三德和尚與舂米六》，將功夫與喜劇融合，開創動作喜劇路線；其後他陸續自導自演《贊先生與找錢華》（1978）、《雜家小子》（1979）及《敗家仔》（1981）等片，以靈活身手克服身形的限制，成為票房保證；1980年的《鬼打鬼》更掀起靈幻功夫片熱潮。1983年，他憑《提防小手》獲第2屆香港電影金像獎最佳男主角，同年以《敗家仔》奪最佳動作設計，並以《奇謀妙計五福星》開展賣座的「福星」系列，奠定群星賀歲片的模式。1985年他監製《殭屍先生》，掀起殭屍片熱潮。1989年他再憑《七小福》奪最佳男主角，片中他飾演自己的京劇師傅于占元。他另執導《富貴列車》（1986）、《飛龍猛將》（1988）等賣座片，1998年更遠赴美國主演電視劇《過江龍》，是少數在荷里活主流劇集擔正的香港動作演員；1980年代初他自組寶禾等公司，為嘉禾製作多部影片，並與成龍、元彪合演《A計劃》（1983）、《快餐車》（1984）及《夏日福星》（1985）等賣座動作喜劇。他後來憑《葉問》（2009）、《葉問2》（2011）及《殺破狼·貪狼》（2018）再奪最佳動作設計。2023年他獲亞洲電影大獎終身成就獎，2024年4月獲第42屆香港電影金像獎終身成就獎，同年參演《九龍城寨之圍城》。近年他仍活躍於幕前，並為《西遊·降魔篇》（2013）等片設計動作。他與現任妻子、前香港小姐高麗虹結婚多年，前妻所生的子女洪天明、洪天祥、洪天照等亦投身演藝圈。洪家班多年來訓練出大批武師與武術指導，包括林正英、元彪、元華、元奎、孟海及錢嘉樂等；他的動作設計講求實感與節奏，對香港動作電影影響深遠。他亦是香港動作片承先啟後的人物，從京劇武生、龍虎武師到導演與監製，見證並推動了港產動作片的黃金年代。2016年他自導自演《特工爺爺》，繼續以圓潤身形設計靈活動作；他對動作場面的要求嚴謹，常自創招式並親自示範，提攜後進不遺餘力。
English
Sammo Hung was born in Hong Kong on 7 January 1952, his family from Ningbo, Zhejiang; his grandfather Hung Chung-ho was an early film director. As a boy he trained in Peking opera and northern-style martial arts at Yu Jim-yuen's China Drama Academy, becoming the eldest of the 'Seven Little Fortunes' alongside Jackie Chan, Yuen Biao, Yuen Wah and Corey Yuen, and he appeared as a child actor under the name Chu Yuen-lung in Education for Love (1961). In the 1960s he joined Shaw Brothers and worked as a stuntman and double on films such as King Hu's Come Drink with Me, and he also appeared in Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon. He directed his first feature, The Iron-Fisted Monk, in 1977, blending kung fu with comedy, and his Encounters of the Spooky Kind (1980) ignited a craze for supernatural kung-fu comedy. In 1983 he won Best Actor at the 2nd Hong Kong Film Awards for Carry on Pickpocket and Best Action Choreography for The Prodigal Son, and his Winners and Sinners began the hit Lucky Stars series that set the all-star New Year formula. He produced Mr. Vampire in 1985, igniting a jiangshi film boom. He took Best Actor again in 1989 for Painted Faces, in which he played his own opera master Yu Jim-yuen, and he directed hits such as Millionaires' Express (1986) and Dragons Forever (1988). In 1998 he starred in the American television series Martial Law, one of the few Hong Kong action actors to headline a mainstream US show. Further Best Action Choreography wins came with Ip Man (2009), Ip Man 2 (2011) and Paradox (2018), and he choreographed Stephen Chow's Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons (2013). He received a lifetime achievement award from the Asian Film Awards in 2023 and the Hong Kong Film Awards' lifetime achievement honour in April 2024, and the same year appeared in Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In. He has long been married to the former Miss Hong Kong Joyce Godenzi, and his sons from an earlier marriage, Timmy Hung, Sammy Hung and Chin-Hung Hung, also work in entertainment. His Hung Ga Ban trained many stunt performers and action directors, and his choreography prizes realism and rhythm, leaving a deep mark on Hong Kong action cinema. In the early 1980s he set up his own production companies and, working with Jackie Chan and Yuen Biao, made hits such as Project A (1983), Wheels on Meals (1984) and My Lucky Stars (1985). His Hung Ga Ban trained many stunt performers and action directors, among them Lam Ching-ying, Yuen Wah, Corey Yuen and Chin Kar-lok.
