黃元申

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黃元申1947年生於上海一個書香門第，次年隨父母遷居香港。佢年輕時家境清貧，12歲在灣仔鵝頸橋橋底遇高人拜師學武，練就一身武功，尤其擅長跳躍，能原地跳高達6英尺。佢早年在九龍彩虹邨生活，曾到調景嶺當寄宿生，先後就讀鳴遠小學、港澳信義會慕德中學、維新英文書院同利瑪竇書院；中學畢業後做過侍應同售貨員，因弟弟替他報名而投考演員，1971年考入藝員訓練班。1972年佢試鏡功夫片《餓虎狂龍》表現出色，自此片約不斷，因性情隨和凡事說「OK」而得綽號「OK仔」。1976年佢正式加入無綫電視，在《CID》演李輝豪、《陸小鳳》演西門吹雪；1979年《貼錯門神》演招積仔，於《絕代雙驕》演活小魚兒一角令佢聲名大噪，該劇第一集更獲紐約國際電影電視節金牌獎。1981年佢跳槽麗的電視，同年主演嘅《大俠霍元甲》係第一部以霍元甲為主角嘅電視作品，亦係香港史上首部引進內地嘅電視連續劇。

English

Tony Wong Yuen-sun was born in Shanghai in 1947 into a scholarly family and moved to Hong Kong the following year. Raised in poverty, at twelve he met a martial arts master under a bridge in Wan Chai and trained hard, becoming especially good at jumping — he could leap six feet from standing. He grew up in Choi Hung Estate and boarded in Tiu Keng Leng, attending several schools there and in Kowloon; after secondary school he worked as a waiter and a salesman, and entered an acting course in 1971 after his younger brother signed him up. A strong audition for a 1972 kung fu film brought a stream of offers, and his habit of answering everything with OK earned him the nickname OK Boy. He joined Television Broadcasts in 1976 and rose to stardom in 1979 playing the roguish hero of a hit martial arts serial whose first episode won a gold medal at the New York International Film and TV Festival. He switched to RTV in 1981, the year he starred in the first television series about the martial artist Huo Yuanjia, which also became the first Hong Kong drama serial shown in mainland China.