文化藝術人物 / Cultural figure

袁仰安

Yuan Yang-an

1905–1994

領域:藝術家

繁體中文

袁仰安(1905—1994年1月28日),浙江定海城關(今舟山市定海區)人,律師、出版人兼電影監製、導演,次女為毛妹芭蕾舞學校創辦人袁經綿(毛妹)。他在舟山中學畢業後隨家人移居上海,畢業於東吳大學法學院,1920年代末至1940年代在上海執業律師,開設自己的律師事務所,並曾任實業家劉鴻生的法律顧問。他同時辦教育與出版,出任華東基督教聯合中學校長,創辦上海良友圖書出版公司並任董事長,主導出版《良友畫刊》等刊物,並親自撰文評論電影製作與發行;他延請趙家璧出任總編輯,陸續出版茅盾、魯迅、葉聖陶等作家的作品。1947年他移居香港,接辦瀕臨倒閉的長城電影製片廠,改組為長城電影製片有限公司(即「新長城」),出任總經理兼製片導演,令公司起死回生,並吸納一批國語片演員;他亦創辦《長城畫報》推廣國語電影;南來的編導與演員在他手下集結,日後多成為香港國語片的重要班底。1953年,長城影片《孽海花》入選第七屆英國愛丁堡國際電影節;同年他執導的《絕代佳人》獲文化部頒發1949至1955年優秀影片榮譽獎。1957年他離開長城,另組新新影業公司,1958年完成由他執導、關山主演的《阿Q正傳》,該片令關山在瑞士洛迦諾國際電影節奪得最佳男主角,成為首位獲國際影帝的香港演員。他起用當時尚屬新人的關山擔綱男主角,關山憑此片成名,日後成為國語片的重要演員。1968年10月,他與長城女星陳思思一同離港赴台,其後淡出影壇;1994年逝世,享年八十九歲。

English

Yuan Yang-an (1905-1994), a native of Dinghai in Zhejiang, was a lawyer, publisher and film producer-director; his daughter Yuan Jingmian, known as Mao Mei, founded a ballet school. After secondary school in Zhoushan he moved with his family to Shanghai and graduated from Soochow University's law faculty, practising as a lawyer there from the late 1920s to the 1940s with his own firm and serving as legal adviser to the industrialist Liu Hongsheng. He was also active in education and publishing, heading a joint middle school and founding a Shanghai book and periodical company that issued the celebrated Liangyou pictorial. Moving to Hong Kong in 1947, he took over the failing Great Wall film studio and reorganised it as Great Wall Film Production, the New Great Wall, serving as general manager and producer-director and reviving the company; its film The Flower in the Sea was selected for the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 1953. He left in 1957 to found the Xinxin studio, and in 1958 completed The True Story of Ah Q, which he directed; its star Kwan Shan won best actor at the Locarno International Film Festival, the first Hong Kong actor to take an international best-actor prize. In October 1968 he left Hong Kong for Taiwan with the Great Wall star Chen Sisi; he died in 1994.

人物小檔 Profile

職業Occupation

電影監製、導演、企業家、律師

年期Active period

1905–1994

代表作Notable works

《孽海花》、《阿Q正傳》、長城電影製片有限公司

資料整理日期 / Compiled: 2026-09-12

主要成就 Key Achievements

1947

移居香港後接辦瀕臨倒閉嘅長城電影製片廠,改組為長城電影製片有限公司並任總經理兼製片導演。

Took over the failing Great Wall studio in Hong Kong and reorganised it as Great Wall Film Production, becoming its general manager and producer-director.

1953

長城出品、佢參與監製嘅《孽海花》入選英國愛丁堡國際電影節。

The Great Wall film The Flower in the Sea, which he helped produce, was selected for the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

1958

執導《阿Q正傳》,關山憑此片奪洛迦諾國際電影節最佳男主角。

Directed The True Story of Ah Q, whose star Kwan Shan won best actor at the Locarno International Film Festival.

影響與傳承 Impact & Legacy

繁體中文

袁仰安把上海嘅出版同法律經驗帶到香港,將南來影人組織成「新長城」,令國語片喺五十年代香港形成穩定生產;《阿Q正傳》助關山奪洛迦諾影帝,亦係香港演員首次喺國際影展封帝嘅起點。

English

Yuan brought Shanghai publishing and legal experience to Hong Kong and organised émigré filmmakers into the New Great Wall, giving Mandarin cinema in 1950s Hong Kong a stable production base; The True Story of Ah Q made Kwan Shan the first Hong Kong actor to win a best-actor prize at a major international festival.

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