袁祥仁

繁體中文

袁祥仁（1947–2026），又名袁長仁，係香港導演、武術指導同武打演員，為武術指導袁小田之子、袁和平胞弟、袁信義胞兄。佢自幼與兄弟隨父親習武，早年做替身演員；1960年代末開始掛名助理武術指導，跟大師兄唐佳做過張徹《保鏢》、《報仇》、《遊俠兒》等片嘅武指，到1970年代中期在邵氏已小有名氣，並與楚原、何夢華合作《流星蝴蝶劍》、《香港奇案》等作。1970年代末至1980年代初台灣功夫片潮起，佢港台兩地走，其後與兄弟組成「袁家班」助大哥袁和平，參與和平電影公司絕大多數創作，由《勇者無懼》、《佛掌羅漢拳》、《奇門遁甲》到《霍元甲》（1982年）、《鬼馬天師》等，打響「袁家班」旗號。佢十分熱衷客串演出，《功夫》中賣《如來神掌》嘅老乞丐、《武狀元蘇乞兒》教睡夢羅漢拳嘅乞丐都為人熟悉，亦曾反串老太太，並任好萊塢電影《夜魔俠》嘅武術指導。2026年1月1日佢在香港伊利沙伯醫院病逝。

English

Yuen Cheung-yan (1947–2026), also known as Yuen Cheung-yan of the Yuen clan, was a Hong Kong director, martial arts choreographer and action actor — a son of choreographer Yuen Siu-tien, younger brother of Yuen Woo-ping and elder brother of Yuen Shun-yi. He trained in martial arts from childhood with his brothers under their father and began as a stunt double; from the late 1960s he was credited as an assistant action director, working on Chang Cheh pictures under senior brother Tong Kai, and by the mid-1970s he was a well-known choreographer at Shaw Brothers, collaborating with Chor Yuen and Ho Meng-hua on hits such as The Magic Blade and Hong Kong Criminal Case. When Taiwanese kung fu films boomed at the turn of the 1980s he worked on both sides of the strait, then joined his brothers in the Yuen Clan to support Yuen Woo-ping, contributing to most of the Peace Film Company's output and establishing the clan's reputation. A keen cameo performer, he is best remembered as the beggar who sells a legendary martial arts manual in Kung Fu Hustle and as the beggar teaching a dream-fist technique in King of Beggars, and he was the action director on the Hollywood film Daredevil. He died in a Hong Kong hospital on 1 January 2026.