文化藝術人物 / Cultural figure

胡蝶影

Wu Tip-ying

1911–2004

領域:藝術家

繁體中文

胡蝶影(Wu Tip-ying,1911年—2004年11月12日),原名胡佩環,又名胡德馨,廣東香山縣沙溪港頭村人,是長年活躍於美國的粵劇及歌劇演員,一生參演約十七齣電影。她父親出身書香世家,早年曾資助孫中山革命,母親為香山石岐人;胡蝶影幼年在鄉間讀書,十三四歲隨父母遷居廣州,在雙親支持下師從廖飛廉學戲。她的足迹遍及廣州、香港和美西華埠。1933年,她在美國三藩市與關德興合演《歌侶情潮》,該片是中國以外地區第一齣粵語有聲電影,在華埠放映時深受當地僑胞歡迎。1936年4月30日,她參加「新蝶魂男女劇團」,於上環高陞戲院與關德興、梁麗雲、伊秋水等合演《楊貴妃》《白骨美人》《桃花運》等劇,往來粵劇與歌劇之間。1939年5月30日,她與留學英國的律師關學林在昃臣道婚姻註冊處結婚,何東爵士到場觀禮。同年她自資成立胡蝶影影業公司,首作《南國姊妹花》由她一人分飾小蝶與周雲英兩角,並以息影作招徠。1952年9月,她乘泛美航空客機經東京飛往夏威夷檀香山,與國畫大師張大千同機,拍攝彩色粵語片《檀島佳人》(1953年4月5日在港首映),期間應當地華僑「歐多昔橋婦女會」邀請義演中國古劍舞及英語《天女散花》,籌得二萬多美元;1953年12月她再赴曼谷義演。1950年代她定居美國三藩市一帶,仍不時參與粵劇演出並為僑團籌款。2004年11月12日,她逝世。據當時報章記載,她早年在高陞戲院一晚可兼演《楊貴妃》與《白骨美人》等不同劇目,戲路橫跨正劇與神怪戲;其胞妹胡蝶麗亦為電影及話劇演員。

English

Wu Tip-ying (1911 – 12 November 2004), born Wu Pui-wan and also known as Wu Tak-hing, came from the village of Gangtou in Shaxi, Zhongshan county, Guangdong, and was a Cantonese opera and opera performer long based in the United States who appeared in about seventeen films. Her father came of a scholarly family and had helped fund Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary work, and her mother was from Shiqi in Zhongshan; she studied in her home village, moved to Guangzhou with her parents at thirteen or fourteen and, encouraged by them, trained in opera under Liao Feilian. Her career spanned Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Chinese communities in America. In 1933 she starred with Kwan Tak-hing in San Francisco in Torrent of Love, the first Cantonese-language sound film made outside China, which proved popular with local Chinese audiences. On 30 April 1936 she joined the Sun Dip-wan (New Butterfly Soul) touring opera troupe, appearing with Kwan Tak-hing, Leung Lai-wan and Yee Chau-sui at the Ko Shing Theatre in Sheung Wan in works including Yang Guifei, The White-Boned Beauty and Peach Blossom Luck, moving between Cantonese opera and opera. On 30 May 1939 she married the UK-educated lawyer Kwan Hok-lam at the register office on Jackson Road, with Sir Robert Ho Tung attending. That year she financed her own Wu Tip-ying Film Company, whose first release, Sisters of the Southland, cast her in two roles and was billed as her farewell to the screen. In September 1952 she flew by Pan Am via Tokyo to Honolulu — the painter Zhang Daqian was on the same flight — to shoot the colour Cantonese film Beauty of Honolulu, premiered in Hong Kong on 5 April 1953, and gave charity performances of a Chinese sword dance and an English-language song for the local Outdoor Circle women's association, raising more than US$20,000; further charity shows in Bangkok followed in December 1953. Settling in the San Francisco area in the 1950s, she continued to perform Cantonese opera and to raise funds for Chinese community bodies. She died on 12 November 2004.

人物小檔 Profile

職業Occupation

粵劇及電影演員、歌劇演員

年期Active period

1911–2004

代表作Notable works

《歌侶情潮》(1933)、《南國姊妹花》(1939)、《檀島佳人》(1952)

資料整理日期 / Compiled: 2026-09-12

主要成就 Key Achievements

1933

在三藩市與關德興合演《歌侶情潮》,該片為中國以外首齣粵語有聲電影

Starred with Kwan Tak-hing in San Francisco's Torrent of Love, the first Cantonese sound film made outside China

1936

參加「新蝶魂男女劇團」,於上環高陞戲院與關德興、梁麗雲等演出《楊貴妃》《白骨美人》

Joined the Sun Dip-wan troupe at the Ko Shing Theatre in Sheung Wan, performing Yang Guifei and The White-Boned Beauty with Kwan Tak-hing and Leung Lai-wan

1939

自資成立胡蝶影影業公司,首作《南國姊妹花》一人分飾小蝶與周雲英

Founded the Wu Tip-ying Film Company, whose first release, Sisters of the Southland, cast her in two roles

1952

赴夏威夷檀香山拍攝彩色粵語片《檀島佳人》,並義演籌得二萬多美元

Travelled to Honolulu to shoot the colour Cantonese film Beauty of Honolulu and raised more than US$20,000 in charity performances

影響與傳承 Impact & Legacy

繁體中文

胡蝶影長年往返美國與香港,是少數參與《歌侶情潮》這類中國以外最早粵語有聲片的演員,把粵劇與電影帶到美西與東南亞華僑社群;她自辦影業公司、跨海義演籌款的經歷,留下早年華僑演藝人跨國活動的紀錄。

English

A long-time traveller between the United States and Hong Kong, Wu took Cantonese opera and film to Chinese communities in America and Southeast Asia, appearing in some of the earliest Cantonese sound films made outside China; her own studio and trans-Pacific charity shows record the cross-border networks of early overseas Chinese performers.

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