王元龍

繁體中文

1902年出世嘅王元龍，原名王秉鈺，係中國電影演員兼導演，有「銀壇霸王」嘅外號。1920年代佢開展電影事業；1939年主演《楚霸王》做項羽一角，形象深入民心。1954年香港電影人籌辦「中國電影學校」培訓後輩，1955年獲教育司署核准，由王元龍出任創校校長，副校長係屠光啟同陶秦。1957年佢主演《四千金》，1958年憑該片獲亞洲影展嘅最佳男演員特別金禾獎。1959年佢喺台北病逝，遺作《茶山情歌》未拍完嘅部分由替身以背影入鏡。

English

Born in 1902 as Wang Ping-yu, Wang Yuan-lung was a Chinese film actor and director nicknamed the 'Tyrant of the Silver Screen'. He began his career in the 1920s and became indelibly identified with the title role of Xiang Yu in The Hegemon-King of Chu (1939). In 1955, after Hong Kong filmmakers' plans to found a Chinese film school were approved by the Education Department, he became its founding principal with Tu Kuang-chi and Tao Qin as vice-principals. He starred in Four Daughters (1957) and won a special Asian Film Festival award for best actor in 1958. He died in Taipei in 1959, his last film completed with a double's back shots.