繁體中文
陶秦（Doe Ching），1915年出世，本名秦復基，浙江慈谿人，上海聖約翰大學中國文學系畢業。佢課餘時做翻譯，畢業後為戲院翻譯影片說明書，又曾把西片改編成話劇《香箋淚》。1941年日軍佔領上海租界，佢喺1942年加入製片家張善琨組織嘅中華聯合製片公司（中聯／華影）任編劇，寫咗《蝴蝶夫人》（1942）、《桃李爭春》（1943）、《莫忘今宵》（1945）等劇本。抗戰勝利後繼續任編劇，劇本包括上海攝製嘅歌舞片《鶯飛人間》（1946）同香港攝製嘅文藝片《未出嫁的媽媽》（1949）。
張善琨創辦長城公司，陶秦即加入，為創業作《蕩婦心》（1949）寫劇本。長城改組後佢留任編劇，並開始執導，拍咗《一家春》（1952）、《兒女經》（1953）同《枇杷巷》（1953）。1952年佢離開長城加入邵氏製片廠，執導尤敏、趙雷合演嘅《人鬼戀》（1954）。1956年轉入國際電影懋業（電懋）嘅前身國際公司，共執導十二部片，名作包括奪第五屆亞洲影展最佳影片獎嘅《四千金》（1957）、林黛同陳厚主演嘅瘋狂喜劇《提防小手》（1958），以及奪第六屆亞洲影展最佳音樂獎嘅《龍翔鳳舞》（1959）。
1958年佢簽約重返邵氏，地位尊崇，執導接近二十部片並屢獲獎項。佢以文藝片最為知名：林黛主演嘅《不了情》（1961）係香港愛情文藝悲劇代表作，主題曲傳唱不衰，獲第九屆亞洲影展五個獎項；林黛遺作《藍與黑》（1966）以抗戰為背景，獲第十三屆亞洲影展最佳影片獎。佢嘅歌舞片如《千嬌百媚》（1961）、《花團錦簇》（1963）、《萬花迎春》（1964）亦十分賣座，其中《千嬌百媚》為佢奪得第一屆台灣金馬獎最佳導演。後期名作有改編自瓊瑤同名小說嘅《船》（1967）。1969年，佢執導最後一部片《陰陽刀》，中途因病由好友岳楓代為完成，同年5月16日因胃癌逝世。佢畢生執導約五十部電影。
English
Tao Qin, whose real name was Qin Fuji, was born in 1915 in Cixi, Zhejiang, and graduated in Chinese literature from St John's University in Shanghai. He translated for cinemas in his spare time, later writing programme notes for picture houses and adapting a foreign film into the stage play Fragrant Letter of Tears. After Japanese forces occupied the Shanghai concessions in 1941, he joined the producer Zhang Shankun's United China Film Company (Zhonglian/Huaying) as a screenwriter in 1942, writing scripts including Madame Butterfly (1942), Peach and Plum in Spring (1943) and Don't Forget Tonight (1945). He continued writing after the war, for the Shanghai musical Orioles Flying in the World (1946) and the Hong Kong melodrama Unmarried Mother (1949). When Zhang Shankun founded Great Wall, Tao joined to script its first production, The Wanton Woman (1949). He stayed on after the studio's reorganisation and began directing, making Father Marries Again (1952), Aren't the Kids Lovely? (1953) and Night and Every Night (1953). He left Great Wall in 1952 for the Shaw studio, where he directed Beyond the Grave (1954), and from 1956 worked for the International company that became MP&GI (Cathay), making twelve films there, among them Our Sister Hedy (1957), which won Best Picture at the 5th Asian Film Festival. Re-signing with Shaw Brothers in 1958, he became a senior figure and directed nearly twenty films, winning awards repeatedly. Best known for melodrama, he made Love Without End (1961), a landmark Hong Kong romantic tragedy whose theme song endures, and The Blue and the Black (1966), which took Best Picture at the 13th Asian Film Festival. His musicals, including Les Belles (1961), which won him Best Director at the 1st Golden Horse Awards, were also popular. He began his last film, a wuxia picture, in 1969 but died of stomach cancer on 16 May that year before completing it, and it was finished by his friend Yueh Feng. He directed about fifty films in all.
