麥當雄

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麥當雄1949年生於英屬香港，係香港電影導演、編劇和監製，以擅於製作警匪片見稱。1970年代佢係麗的電視（亞洲電視前身）節目總監及其第一台（本港台前身）台長，多次為收視常處弱勢嘅麗的打敗無綫；1980年代起佢轉身成為電影監製，憑《省港旗兵》獲第21屆台灣電影金馬獎最佳導演，憑《跛豪》獲得第11屆香港電影金像獎最佳編劇，其弟為導演麥當傑。麥當雄1962年考入聖若瑟書院，在校時已認識晚一年入學嘅劉松仁；1969年預科畢業後，佢在九龍城中西英文書院中學部教授歷史科。1971年佢與劉松仁一同加入麗的電視第五屆藝員訓練班，短暫當過演員後轉入幕後任助理編導；1974年升為編導，負責製作單元劇，其中《八座八樓》、《夕陽紅》、《落霞孤鶩》等短劇係當時麗的收視最高嘅節目。1975年佢憑電視單元劇《十大奇案》其中兩集一舉成名，以紀實手法加插血腥恐怖場景，撼動對台無綫《歡樂今宵》嘅慣性收視，令佢與李兆熊、屠用雄並稱「麗的三雄」。1977年佢升任監製後再升製作經理；1978年8月佳視結業，而其導演的劇集《鱷魚淚》取得佳績，令佢升任麗的電視節目總監和第一台台長；1970年代末至1980年代初，佢與蕭若元一同主政麗的電視劇製作。

English

Johnny Mak, born in British Hong Kong in 1949, is a Hong Kong film director, producer and screenwriter known for crime films. In the 1970s he was programme director of RTV and head of its first channel, repeatedly beating the ratings-leading rival with dramas; from the 1980s he became a film producer, winning best director at the 21st Golden Horse Awards for Long Arm of the Law and best screenplay at the 11th Hong Kong Film Awards for To Be Number One. His younger brother is the director Mak Tong-kit. Mak entered a leading Jesuit college in 1962, where he met the actor Damian Lau, one year his junior; after finishing his pre-university year in 1969 he taught history at a secondary school in Kowloon City. In 1971 he and Damian Lau joined RTV's fifth actor training class; he moved behind the camera as an assistant director, became a director in 1974 and made anthology dramas that were among the station's top-rated programmes. In 1975 two episodes of a crime anthology made his name: his documentary style, laced with scenes of blood and horror, shook the habitual ratings lead of the rival station's flagship variety show and earned him, with two colleagues, the nickname of one of RTV's three heroes. Promoted to producer in 1977 and then production manager, he was made programme director of RTV in 1978 after a rival station closed and his drama series performed strongly; into the early 1980s he and Stephen Shiu ran the station's drama output.