黃卓漢

繁體中文

黃卓漢（1920–2004），生於廣東潮州，係電影工作者同製片家，職業生涯期間在香港同台灣兩地發展電影事業，發掘香港演員羅蘭同林翠，將武俠片類型引進台灣，並獲第30屆金馬獎終身成就獎。佢畢業於廣東國民大學法律系，其後到越南海防市擔任海防華僑中學國文教師；中國抗日戰爭爆發後到廣西任中央圖書雜誌審查委員會委員，之後轉到重慶任國防部總政治部中校秘書，戰爭勝利後到南京《益世報》擔任副總編輯兼採訪主任。1949年佢來港創立報館失敗，轉而擔任戲院經理，次年發掘粵語片導演秦劍，拍《慈母淚》等12部粵語片，同時兼任中華戲院經理。1952年佢成立自由影業，發行首部影片《名女人別傳》，其後拍秦劍作品《女兒心》捧紅主角林翠；1957年《龍女》為香港第一部35毫米膠片彩色電影。佢之後到台灣拍《甘蔗姑娘》，為台灣首部35毫米膠片彩色電影，但投資過大令自由影業虧損倒閉；回港成立嶺光製片公司續拍粵語片，1960年代發掘當時仍係學生嘅盧燕英（即羅蘭）。

English

Huang Zhuohan (1920–2004), born in Chaozhou, Guangdong, was a film producer and distributor who built his career across Hong Kong and Taiwan, discovered the actresses Law Lan and Lin Cui, introduced the martial arts genre to Taiwan and received a lifetime achievement award at the 30th Golden Horse Awards. A law graduate of Guangdong National University, he taught Chinese at an overseas Chinese school in Haiphong, Vietnam, then worked for a wartime publications review board in Guangxi, served as a lieutenant colonel secretary in Chongqing's defence ministry and became deputy editor-in-chief of a Nanjing newspaper. In 1949 he came to Hong Kong, where an attempt to found a newspaper failed and he became a cinema manager; the following year he discovered the Cantonese film director Chun Kim and made a dozen Cantonese pictures while managing a cinema. He founded Freedom Pictures in 1952, and his 1957 film became Hong Kong's first 35mm colour feature. A later Taiwan production, also a 35mm colour first for the island, overran its budget and bankrupted the company; back in Hong Kong he set up another production house and in the 1960s discovered the then schoolgirl Law Lan.