繁體中文
鮑方（1922年11月13日—2006年9月22日），原名鮑繼煥，祖籍安徽歙縣，生於江西南昌，香港電影演員與導演。他1941年考入廣西大學法律系，1942年入廣西省立藝術館任演員，師從戲劇大師歐陽予倩，抗戰期間演出《大雷雨》《裙帶風》等宣傳抗日的話劇，並認識同為演員的妻子劉甦。1947年大學畢業後，他翌年移居香港，先後在永華、泰山、藝文等影業公司演出國語片，主演的第一齣電影就是永華影業的創業作《國魂》（1948）。1954年，他加盟鳳凰影業公司，成為鳳凰與長城的主要演員，先後演出逾一百部電影，主演《故園春夢》（1964）、《百鳥朝凰》等片，戲路涵蓋文藝與古裝，其中《一年之計》（1955）獲文化部優秀影片榮譽獎；1959年起他主要從事編導工作，師從名導演朱石麟，執導電影三十多部、編劇十多部。1973年，他自編自導自演《屈原》，塑造憂國憂民的詩人形象，該片因時代原因延至1977年才公映，在全國放映時極為轟動，成為他的代表作。他也活躍於舞台，1957年協力創辦綜藝話劇團，演出《雷雨》《日出》《家》等名劇。1980年他獲邀參演無綫長劇《京華春夢》，1982年正式加入無綫電視，多演父親、長輩及武林高人。1999年他拍攝鄉土劇《茶是故鄉濃》期間在廣西外景時中風，昏迷三個月後退休；同年他獲香港電影金紫荊獎終身成就獎。2005年他入選中國電影百年百位優秀演員。2006年9月22日，他在香港灣仔律敦治醫院因肺功能衰退病逝，享年八十三歲。他的次女鮑起靜是香港演員，兒子鮑德熹憑《臥虎藏龍》奪奧斯卡最佳攝影，女婿方平是導演。
English
Bow Fong (13 November 1922 – 22 September 2006), born Bao Jihuan, was a Hong Kong actor and director with ancestral roots in Shexian, Anhui, born in Nanchang, Jiangxi. He entered the law faculty of Guangxi University in 1941, joined the Guangxi Provincial Arts Centre as an actor in 1942 under the drama master Ouyang Yuqian, and during the war performed anti-Japanese plays such as The Thunderstorm, meeting his wife, the actress Liu Su. After graduating in 1947, he moved to Hong Kong the following year and appeared in Mandarin films for the Yonghua, Taishan and Yiwen companies; his first leading role was in Yonghua's debut production The Soul of the Nation (1948). In 1954 he joined the Feng Huang Film Company, becoming a leading actor for Feng Huang and Great Wall and appearing in more than a hundred films, among them Dreams of the Ancient Garden (1964) and A Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix, working across literary and period roles; The Plan for a Year (1955) won an honorary award from the Ministry of Culture. From 1959 he concentrated on directing and writing, studying under the director Zhu Shilin, and directed more than thirty films and wrote over ten screenplays. In 1973 he wrote, directed and starred in Qu Yuan, portraying the loyal poet; delayed for political reasons, the film was released only in 1977 and caused a sensation across the mainland, becoming his signature work. He was also active in the theatre, helping found the Zongyi drama troupe in 1957, which staged classics such as Thunderstorm, Sunrise and Family. In 1980 he was invited to appear in the TVB drama Yesterday's Glitter and formally joined TVB in 1982, usually playing fathers, elders and martial-arts masters. While filming the rural drama Plain Love on location in Guangxi in 1999 he suffered a stroke, and he retired after three months in a coma; that year he received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Golden Bauhinia Awards. In 2005 he was named one of the 100 Outstanding Actors of Chinese Cinema. He died in Hong Kong on 22 September 2006, aged 83. His daughter Paw Hee-ching is an actress, his son Peter Pau won an Academy Award for cinematography with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and his son-in-law Henry Fong is a director.
