Chow Yun-Fat
Acting
Born May 18, 1955 · Hong Kong, China
Chow Yun-Fat (Chinese: 周潤發, born 18 May 1955), previously known as Donald Chow, is a Hong Kong actor. He is perhaps best known for his collaborations with filmmaker John Woo in the five Hong Kong action heroic bloodshed films: A Better Tomorrow, A Better Tomorrow II, The Killer, Once a Thief and Hard Boiled, and in the West for his roles as Li Mu-bai in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Sao Feng in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. He mainly plays in drama films and has won three Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Actor and two Golden Horse Awards for Best Actor in Taiwan. Chow started his career in movies in 1976 with Goldig Films, the third largest film company at the time.
Films (107)
Detective Chinatown 1900
2025
One More Chance
2023
The Monkey King: The Legend Begins
2022
Project Gutenberg
2018
Duckweed
2017
Cold War II
2016
From Vegas to Macau III
2016
Office
2015
From Vegas to Macau II
2015
From Vegas to Macau
2014
The Monkey King
2014
The Last Tycoon
2012
The Assassins
2012
Beginning of the Great Revival
2011
Let the Bullets Fly
2010
Shanghai
2010
Confucius
2010
Dragonball Evolution
2009
The Children of Huang Shi
2008
The Postmodern Life of My Aunt
2007
The Making of Hard Boiled
2007
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
2007
Secrets Within: Inside Look at 'Curse of the Golden Flower'
2007
Curse of the Golden Flower
2006
Waiting Alone
2005
Bulletproof Monk
2003
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
2002
The Making of 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'
2000
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2000
Anna and the King
1999
The Corruptor
1999
The Replacement Killers
1998
Peace Hotel
1995
God of Gamblers' Return
1994
Treasure Hunt
1994
Full Contact
1992
Hard Boiled
1992
Now You See Love... Now You Don't
1992
Prison on Fire II
1991
Once a Thief
1991
God of Gamblers II
1990
The Fun, the Luck & the Tycoon
1990
God of Gamblers
1989
A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon
1989
Triads: The Inside Story
1989
Wild Search
1989
The Killer
1989
All About Ah-Long
1989
City War
1988
Goodbye My Friend
1988
When Tat Fu Was Young
1988
The Greatest Lover
1988
Diary of a Big Man
1988
Fractured Follies
1988
Tiger on the Beat
1988
The Eighth Happiness
1988
The Romancing Star II
1988
A Better Tomorrow II
1987
Prison on Fire
1987
Spiritual Love
1987
Flaming Brothers
1987
An Autumn's Tale
1987
The Romancing Star
1987
Rich and Famous
1987
Code of Honor
1987
Scared Stiff
1987
Tragic Hero
1987
City on Fire
1987
The Seventh Curse
1986
My Will, I Will
1986
A Hearty Response
1986
Love Unto Wastes
1986
A Better Tomorrow
1986
The Lunatics
1986
100 Ways to Murder Your Wife
1986
The Missed Date
1986
Dream Lovers
1986
Witch from Nepal
1986
Story of Rose
1986
Why Me?
1985
Women
1985
Hong Kong 1941
1984
The Occupant
1984
Love in a Fallen City
1984
Last Affair
1983
Bloody Money
1983
Katanyu Prakasit
1983
The Bund Part II
1983
The Bund
1983
The Postman Strikes Back
1982
The Head Hunter
1982
The Story of Woo Viet
1981
The Executor
1981
Soul Ash
1981
Modern Heroes
1980
Pursuit
1980
Joy to the World
1980
God Father
1980
Miss "O"
1978
Their Private Lives
1978
Hot Blood
1977
Bed for Day, Bed for Night
1977
The Hunter, the Butterfly and the Crocodile
1976
Seven Women: Liu Wing-Sheung
1976
Massage Girls
1976
Learned Bride Thrice Fools the Bridegroom
1976
The Reincarnation
1976