劉克宣

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劉克宣（1911–1983），人稱「宣叔」，字貴寧，係香港影視男演員及粵劇老倌。佢喺廣西鬱林容縣出生，曾受大學教育，係廣州八和會館「粵劇演員養成所」第一屆畢業生，與羅品超、黃鶴聲及張活游同班，尤其擅唱「馬師曾腔」，並於1930至40年代在馬師曾、譚蘭卿領導嘅「太平劇團」同薛覺先領導嘅「覺先聲劇團」擔任第二武生，畢業後為落鄉班（即紅船班）丑生。1945年第二次世界大戰結束後粵劇界發展不理想，佢於是來港加入邵氏電影公司，至1960年代初恢復自由身，繼續接拍粵語片，先後主演《天道人心》、《梁冷艷》、《孤星血淚》、《洛神》、《兒心碎母心》、《六月雪》等五百多部電影，多扮演反派而演技出眾。佢亦有從事導演工作，執導《六渡何仙姑》、《淒涼金葉菊》、《花落斷腸橋》等片，1970年因粵語片末落加上年事已高息影；1978年見電視界興起懷舊熱潮而復出，加盟麗的電視參演《新變色龍》並改演正派，1980年轉入無綫電視，參演《執到寶》、《四季情》、《無雙譜》等劇。1983年佢拍攝《天降財神》時因心臟病入院，最終於1月24日在廣華醫院病逝。

English

Lau Hak-suen (1911–1983), known as Uncle Suen, was a Hong Kong film and television actor and Cantonese opera veteran. Born in Rong County, Guangxi, he received a university education and was a first-generation graduate of the Cantonese opera actors' school run by Guangzhou's Bahe Association, a classmate of Law Pin-chiu and Cheung Wood-yau. He was especially admired for his rendition of Ma Si-tsang's singing style and in the 1930s and 1940s played second martial roles in the troupes of Ma Si-tsang, Tam Lan-hing and Sit Kok-sin, and afterwards the clown role in touring red-boat companies. As Cantonese opera struggled after the Second World War he came to Hong Kong and joined Shaw Brothers, going freelance in the early 1960s to keep making Cantonese films; he appeared in more than five hundred pictures, mostly as a villain, and also directed several. He retired in 1970 as the Cantonese film industry declined, returned in 1978 with the television nostalgia boom at RTV — switching to heroic roles — and joined Television Broadcasts in 1980. He died in hospital on 24 January 1983.