繁體中文
羅臻（LO Chen，1923年—2003年1月31日），原籍上海，本名李孟飛，香港編劇及導演，為邵氏兄弟（香港）有限公司六十年代初的主要導演之一。他畢業於上海中國新聞專科學校及上海外國語學院，年輕時酷愛詩歌，一度被譽為上海三大青年詩人之一，亦愛好戲劇，曾加入中國藝術劇團。1948年他移居香港，翌年加入大中華影片公司任場記及副導演，其後與馬徐維邦合作，與其合編首個劇本《鬼屋》（1949）並任副導演。此後他為多間公司編寫劇本。1956年，他憑卜萬蒼執導的《長巷》（1956）獲第三屆東南亞影展最佳編劇獎，成為首位在該影展奪得重要獎項的香港影人。同年他首次執導《鮮牡丹》（與白光合導），其後陸續為不同公司執導《呂四娘》（1958）與 The Lovesick Woman（1960）等。1960年，他獲邵氏兄弟羅致，出任編劇部主任兼導演，首作為 Flames of Passion（1960），自此奠定其邵氏主要導演的地位。至1976年，他為邵氏執導逾二十部電影，多數兼任編劇，名作包括《賣吻記》（1961）、《裸血》（Raw Passions，1969）、《愛心千萬萬》（It's All in the Family）及《蛇王子》（1976）等。1970年代初武俠片興起，他自覺非其所長，遂離開邵氏任自由導演，其間與吳思遠合導《瘋狂殺手》（1971）。1974年他重投邵氏並簽約兩年，拍攝主流作品，最後一部執導作品為 Behind the Storm（1982）。羅臻以擅拍文藝片見稱，作品着重人文氣息與細膩筆觸，對人物刻畫、情節鋪排與構圖均有獨到之處。他於2003年1月31日在美國三藩市逝世。
English
Lo Chen (1923 - 31 January 2003), a native of Shanghai whose original name was Li Mengfei, was a Hong Kong screenwriter and director and one of the four major directors of Shaw Brothers (Hong Kong) Ltd in the early 1960s. He graduated from the Shanghai Chinese School of Journalism and the foreign-languages faculty of the University of Shanghai, was devoted to poetry and was at one time reputed as one of the three leading young poets of Shanghai; he was also fond of drama and joined the China Art troupe. He moved to Hong Kong in 1948 and the following year joined the Great China Film Company as a continuity clerk and assistant director, later working with Ma Xu Weibang and co-writing his first screenplay, The Haunted House (1949), on which he was also assistant director. He went on to write for various companies. In 1956 he won Best Screenplay at the 3rd Southeast Asia Film Festival for The Long Lane, directed by Richard Poh, becoming the first Hong Kong filmmaker to win a major award at that festival. That year he directed his first film, Fresh Peony (co-directed with Bai Guang), and later directed works for other companies including The Story of Lu Siniang (1958) and The Lovesick Woman (1960). In 1960 he was recruited by Shaw Brothers as head of its script department and director; his first film for the company, Flames of Passion (1960), established him as one of its leading directors. By 1976 he had directed over twenty films for Shaws, writing the screenplays for most of them, among them Mai Wen Ji (1961), Raw Passions (1969), It's All in the Family and The Snake Prince (1976). In the early 1970s, as wuxia films grew popular, he left Shaws to freelance, feeling the genre was not his strong suit, and co-directed The Mad Killer (1971) with Ng See-yuen. Returning to Shaws in 1974 on a two-year contract, he shot mainstream works, his last film as director being Behind the Storm (1982). Lo excelled in wenyi (literary) films, with a humanistic sense and delicate style and a distinctive eye for characterisation, plotting and composition. He died in San Francisco on 31 January 2003.
