Chan Wai-Man
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Biography
An early favorite of mine since the The Chinese Mack, I just loved this guy's intensity and he's also a fine actor. Discovered when producers read about him defeating (13) knife-wielding attackers in a street fight, his brawls from his early days, made for good reading. Often suspected of having strong Triad ties, it was rumored that he was arrested for gun possession, but got off by having his wife claim, that the gun was hers.
Most will remember him from Kung Fu, The Invisible Fist (with Chen Sing), where it seemed, he really started to get noticed. He became a star on the heels of such films as - Chinese Hercules, The Chinese Godfather, and The Chinese Mack. During this early period, Kung Fu films (often) chose American "Phrase-word" from popular films, that were being shown in America, at the time.
He could be a believable Hero (The Chinese Godfather) or a cunning, cold, and calculating villain (Blooded Treasury Fight) who just doesn't let up. He's done great work with Shaw Bros' (Shaolin Handlock, Deadly Breaking Sword, Mercenaries From Hong Kong, and Super Ninjas), Golden Harvest (Broken Oath), and countless Independent Film companies (King Of Fists & Dollars, The Unforgiven Of Shaolin). His body of work speaks for itself, as he was one of the few actors, who had sustained a good work output, for about (3) decades.
Most will remember him from Kung Fu, The Invisible Fist (with Chen Sing), where it seemed, he really started to get noticed. He became a star on the heels of such films as - Chinese Hercules, The Chinese Godfather, and The Chinese Mack. During this early period, Kung Fu films (often) chose American "Phrase-word" from popular films, that were being shown in America, at the time.
He could be a believable Hero (The Chinese Godfather) or a cunning, cold, and calculating villain (Blooded Treasury Fight) who just doesn't let up. He's done great work with Shaw Bros' (Shaolin Handlock, Deadly Breaking Sword, Mercenaries From Hong Kong, and Super Ninjas), Golden Harvest (Broken Oath), and countless Independent Film companies (King Of Fists & Dollars, The Unforgiven Of Shaolin). His body of work speaks for itself, as he was one of the few actors, who had sustained a good work output, for about (3) decades.
He was a menacing fighter, whose early training helped to define an excellent career on the screen. Early on, he had studied Kung-fu and Thai-Boxing and was quite a performer in the ring (in real life). He gave as good as he got and was well-known for his fighting (in and out of the ring). He reminds me of Sonny Chiba, in that those fists are very fast and can come at you from every angle. He has one of the meanest hand-drills (fist punching in combinations of (3) or more) to grace the silver screen since his friend, Bruce Lee. He (along with a lot of Lee's friends) tried to help Lee's son Brandon, break into the movies in Hong Kong, before he tried making it in the United States.