邵逸夫

繁體中文

邵逸夫爵士（1907–2014），名仁楞，字逸夫，以字行，人稱「六叔」，浙江寧波鎮海人，係香港電影及電視製作人、娛樂業大亨同慈善家。邵氏世代以商為業，佢1920年代遠赴新加坡，協助三哥仁枚經營電影發行業務；1957年移居香港後，成立邵氏兄弟（香港）有限公司，先後拍攝逾千部華語電影，構建起龐大嘅中文電影王國。佢亦係電視廣播有限公司（TVB）創辦人之一，無綫電視多年來主導香港電視行業，佔據本地收視領先地位。1977年邵逸夫獲英女王伊利沙伯二世冊封為下級勳位爵士。佢生前一直致力慈善事業，歷年捐助社會公益，尤其着重教育與科技；捐贈嘅教育資金遍布中國大陸，多家高等院校同中小學均有以佢命名嘅「逸夫樓」。晚年佢撥出資金成立有「東方諾貝爾獎」之稱嘅邵逸夫獎，表彰在數學、醫學及天文學有傑出貢獻嘅人物。2014年1月7日上午，邵逸夫在生前居住嘅清水灣大廈寓所安詳辭世，享年106歲。

English

Sir Run Run Shaw (1907–2014), born Shaw Ren-leng and known as Six Uncle, was a film and television producer, entertainment magnate and philanthropist from Zhenhai in Zhejiang. His family had long been in business, and in the 1920s he travelled to Singapore to help his elder brother Runme manage film distribution. Moving to Hong Kong in 1957, he founded Shaw Brothers (Hong Kong) Ltd, which went on to produce more than a thousand Chinese-language films and grew into the largest Chinese movie empire of its day. He was also a co-founder of Television Broadcasts Limited, whose dominance shaped Hong Kong television and made it the long-standing ratings leader. In 1977 he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. Shaw devoted himself to philanthropy, supporting social welfare and especially education and science: his donations funded schools and universities across mainland China, where many buildings bear his name. In his later years he endowed the Shaw Prize, often called the Nobel of the East, honouring achievements in mathematics, medicine and astronomy. He died peacefully at home in his Clear Water Bay apartment on 7 January 2014, aged 106.