袁仰安

繁體中文

袁仰安（1905–1994），浙江定海人，娛樂業企業家、律師同導演，次女係毛妹芭蕾舞學校創辦人袁經綿（毛妹）。佢畢業於舟山中學後隨家人移居上海，於東吳大學法學院畢業，1920年代末至1940年代活躍於上海法律界，開設自己嘅律師事務所，並曾任實業家劉鴻生嘅法律顧問；佢亦辦教育同出版，出任華東聯合中學校長，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。1947年佢移居香港接盤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（新長城）並任總經理兼製片導演，令公司起死回生。1957年佢離開新長城，創辦新新影業，親力親為監製同導演不少影片。1968年10月佢與長城女星陳思思一同離港赴台，1994年逝世。

English

Yuan Yang-an (1905–1994), a native of Dinghai in Zhejiang, was an entertainment entrepreneur, lawyer and director; his daughter became the founder of a well-known ballet school in Hong Kong. After school in Zhoushan he moved with his family to Shanghai and graduated from Soochow University's law school, practising as a prominent 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 Christian middle school and founding a Shanghai book and magazine publisher that issued the celebrated Liangyou pictorial. Moving to Hong Kong in 1947, he took over the then failing Great Wall film studio, reorganised it as Great Wall Film Production, and as general manager and producer-director turned it around. He left in 1957 to found a new studio, producing and directing many films himself. In October 1968 he left Hong Kong for Taiwan with the Great Wall star Chen Sisi. He died in 1994.