Raymond Wong Pak-ming

Raymond Wong Pak-ming
Background information
Chinese name 黃百鳴 (traditional)
Jyutping Wong4 Baak3 Ming4 (Cantonese)
Born (1946-04-08) 8 April 1946
Hong Kong
Occupation Actor, film director, producer, screenwriter, presenter
Children Edmond Wong (son)
Ancestry Heshan, Guangdong

Raymond Wong Pak-ming (sometimes transliterated as Raymond Wong Bak-ming) is a Hong Kong actor, film director, producer, screenwriter, and presenter. He is one of the most successful producers in Hong Kong cinema, having been one of the comedians to establish Cinema City Studios in 1980.

Career

Cinema City

In 1980, Wong formed the renowned Cinema City Co., Ltd. with Karl Maka and Dean Shek. The production company became an industry phenomenon, producing films such as A Better Tomorrow, Aces Go Places, Prison on Fire and All About Ah-Long.[1] Actors such as Chow Yun-fat, Leslie Cheung and Ti Lung along with filmmakers John Woo, Ringo Lam and Tsui Hark were some of the people who rose to fame under the Cinema City label. He played the actor in the comedy ghost series Happy Ghost (開心鬼).

In 1991, the trio broke up, with both Maka and Shek ending their interests in the film industry.

Mandarin films

Wong eventually formed Mandarin Films Distribution Co. Ltd. later that year, while continuing to establish himself as a successful film producer. Mandarin went on to produce films such as The Bride with White Hair, Dragon Tiger Gate, and Flash Point, with Wong often serving as an executive producer for the films produced. To this day, the company has produced over 100 films.

Filmography as actor

References

  1. ↑ http://www.haf.org.hk/haf/pdf/project05/project8.pdf
  2. ↑ "Raymond Wong". imdb.com. Retrieved 12 April 2010.
  3. ↑ "Raymond Wong". chinesemov.com. Retrieved 12 April 2010.
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