吳耀漢

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吳耀漢1939年出世，祖籍廣東惠陽，係香港演員兼商人，被譽為「元祖冷面笑匠」，兒子吳嘉龍亦係藝人，佢2023年4月逝世。佢係二房幼子，喺十六名兄弟姊妹中排行第八，父親吳海霖係九龍巴士同九龍殯儀館嘅創辦人之一；佢喺尖沙咀山林道家族自建嘅五層高大宅長大，讀聖士提反書院附屬小學並留校寄宿，後來升讀聖士提反書院。1955年十五歲嗰年佢負笈英國伊頓公學，大學讀牙醫系兩年就輟學，轉到戲劇學院攻讀戲劇課程；1967年經經理人介紹加入英國廣播公司，主演四部電視喜劇片，其間靠買賣中國古董、喺酒樓洗碗同做聖誕兼職郵差幫補生計。1970年返港發展，八十年代憑「福星」系列電影同洪金寶、馮淬帆、秦祥林、岑建勳合稱「五福星」，成為港產喜劇代表人物。

English

Richard Ng Yiu-hon (1939–2023), whose family came from Huiyang in Guangdong, was a Hong Kong actor and businessman remembered as the 'original deadpan comedian'; his son Carl Ng is also an actor. The youngest son of the second wife and the eighth of sixteen siblings, he grew up in the family's five-storey house on Shan Lam Road in Tsim Sha Tsui and boarded at St Stephen's College's preparatory and secondary schools. In 1955, aged fifteen, he went to Eton in England, dropped out of dental school after two years and switched to drama at a London academy, joining the BBC in 1967 to star in four television comedies while trading in Chinese antiques and working as a dishwasher and a Christmas postman. He returned to Hong Kong in 1970, and in the 1980s became a leading figure of local comedy as one of the 'Lucky Stars' alongside Sammo Hung, Stanley Fung, Charlie Chin and John Sham.