繁體中文
竺清賢（Chuk Ching-yin，一九○○年至一九八一年），祖籍浙江寧波，早年就讀於上海交通大學，是戰前活躍於上海與香港的電影監製、導演，也是國產有聲電影錄音技術的研發者。一九二五年，他為上海晨鐘影片公司的默片《悔不當初》擔任攝影師，其後加入新人公司任攝影助手，公司結業後自行購入攝影機，替小型公司拍片。他創辦和合影片公司，製作《患難夫妻》（一九二八）。一九三○年代初，他成功研發出「清賢式錄音機」（又名「清賢通」），為當時三大國產聲片錄音器材之一，並應用於《春風楊柳》（一九三二）。此後他轉拍粵語神怪片《仕林祭塔》（一九三四）。一九三五年，他把自己創辦的南粵影片公司由上海遷至香港，並帶同多位幕後人員南下，先後推出《梁天來告御狀》、《沙三少》、《肖郎君》（均為一九三五），又擴充利園山的攝影場。其後他拍攝恐怖片《午夜殭屍》（一九三六）、社會奇情片《奇女子》（一九三八），並代其他公司拍《鬥氣姑爺》（一九三七，馬師曾主演）及《神秘之夜》（一九三七）等。抗戰前，南粵為香港三大製片公司之一，與大觀聲片、天一／南洋影片並列。竺清賢主要擔任監製，偶爾參與錄音，其個人執導作品僅《重見天日》（一九三七）。一九三七年，他曾聯同影圈代表北上請願，反對國民政府中央電檢委員會禁制粵語片。此外，他與新華影業合作在港攝製國語片《女少爺》（一九三八）；他又邀胡蝶參演《胭脂淚》（一九三八），拍成國粵兩版。一九四一年，他出讓南粵攝影場，原擬赴印尼爪哇另建片廠，其後留居當地，至一九八一年辭世。
English
Chuk Ching-yin (1900–1981), whose ancestral home was Ningbo, Zhejiang, and who studied at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, was a film producer and director active in Shanghai and Hong Kong before the war and a developer of sound-recording technology for Chinese cinema. In 1925 he was cinematographer on the silent film 《悔不當初》 for Shanghai's Chenzhong company; he later joined the Xinren company as a camera assistant, and after it closed he bought his own camera and shot films for small companies. He founded the Hehe company, producing 《患難夫妻》(1928). In the early 1930s he developed the 'Ching-yin' recorder (also called the 'Ching-yin-tung'), one of the three main domestic sound-film recording devices, used on 《春風楊柳》(1932). He then turned to Cantonese supernatural films with 《仕林祭塔》(1934). In 1935 he moved his Nam Yuet (Nanyue) company from Shanghai to Hong Kong, bringing many technicians south, and released 《梁天來告御狀》, 《沙三少》 and 《肖郎君》 (all 1935), expanding the Liyuan Hill studio. He followed with the horror film 《午夜殭屍》(1936) and the social drama 《奇女子》(1938), and made films for other companies such as 《鬥氣姑爺》(1937, starring Ma Si-tsang) and 《神秘之夜》(1937). Before the war Nam Yuet was one of Hong Kong's three major production companies, alongside Grandview and Tianyi/Nanyang. Chuk worked mainly as producer, occasionally on recording, and directed only one film himself, 《重見天日》(1937). In 1937 he joined film representatives petitioning the Nationalist government's central censorship board against a ban on Cantonese films. He also worked with Xinhua to shoot Mandarin films in Hong Kong such as 《女少爺》(1938), and invited Hu Die to star in 《胭脂淚》(1938), made in both Cantonese and Mandarin versions. In 1941 he sold the Nam Yuet studio, intending to build a new one in Java, but stayed on in the region and died there in 1981.
