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王天林（Wong Tin-lam，1928年10月23日—2010年11月16日），人稱「天林叔」，祖籍浙江紹興，喺上海出世，1935年移居香港，曾就讀培正中學。他嘅叔父王鵬翼係戰前南粵影片公司創辦人之一，1947年經叔父引介入電影圈，先後做過沖印、錄音、場記同助理導演。1950年，他以二十二歲之齡執導處女作粵語武俠片《峨嵋飛劍俠》（上下兩集），其後執導《桃花江》（1956）等歌舞片。1958年他喺泰國結識電懋製片部主任宋淇，應邀加盟國際電影懋業。1959年，他執導嘅喜劇《家有喜事》（由尤敏、雷震、丁皓主演）為他贏得第七屆亞洲影展最佳導演。他喺電懋期間作品類型廣泛，包括歌舞片《野玫瑰之戀》（1960）、南北系列喜劇《南北和》（1961）同家庭倫理片《小兒女》（1963），亦有執導黃梅調電影。1950年代他為粵語片壇執導大量武俠片，包括《火燒紅蓮寺》（1959）同《孔雀聽令》系列。1973年他加入無綫電視任編導，其後升任監製，先後監製《啼笑因緣》（1974）、《書劍恩仇錄》（1976）、《陸小鳳》（1976）、《小李飛刀》（1978）、《楚留香》同1983年版《射雕英雄傳》等劇集，並提攜杜琪峯、林嶺東等後輩。他係導演王晶嘅父親。2002年他獲香港電影金紫荊獎終身成就獎；2005年他客串杜琪峯執導嘅《黑社會》飾鄧伯，獲香港電影金像獎同金馬獎最佳男配角提名。2010年他演出最後一部電影《滅門》。
English
Wong Tin-lam (23 October 1928 - 16 November 2010), known as 'Tin-lam Suk', was born in Shanghai to a family from Shaoxing, Zhejiang, and moved to Hong Kong in 1935, where he attended Pui Ching Middle School. His uncle Wong Pang-yik was a co-founder of the pre-war Nanyue Film Company, and through him Wong entered film in 1947, working variously as a film printer, sound man, continuity clerk and assistant director. In 1950, aged twenty-two, he directed his debut, the two-part Cantonese martial-arts picture The Flying Sword Hero from Mount Emei, followed by musicals such as Peach Blossom River (1956). Meeting the MP & GI production chief Stephen Soong in Thailand in 1958, he joined Motion Picture & General Investment, and in 1959 his comedy The Greatest Civil Affair on Earth, starring Yu Min, Kelly Lai Chen and Ting Hao, won him Best Director at the 7th Asian Film Festival. At MP & GI his output ranged from the musical The Wild, Wild Rose (1960) to the North-South comedy series beginning with The Greatest Civil Affair on Earth (1961) and family melodramas such as The Tiny Tots (1963), as well as Huangmei opera films. Joining TVB as a director in 1973 and rising to producer, he made series including A Fatal Irony (1974), The Book and the Sword (1976), Lu Xiaofeng (1976), The Legend of the Flying Dagger (1978), Chu Liu Xiang and the 1983 The Legend of the Condor Heroes, mentoring younger directors including Johnnie To and Ringo Lam. He was the father of director Wong Jing. He received the Golden Bauhinia Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002, and his cameo as Uncle Teng in Johnnie To's Election (2005) brought Best Supporting Actor nominations at both the Hong Kong Film Awards and the Golden Horse Awards. In 2010 he appeared for the last time, in Bad Blood.
