Shan Mao
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Biography
Another friend of Jimmy Wang-Yu who started out as a scenery thug, before moving up to full-fledge villain. He has decent skills as a fighter, but as most who have seen him perform know his capable of so much more mayhem than he usually generates. He just doesn't come off as bad as we know he could be. He's usually more of a sneaky SOB, because there's (usually) someone else around, that can get the job done, when and if he can't (Green Jade Statuette). In most of his movies, he plays a sneaky, conniving patsy, but never the Boss, or he may be one of a few contracted killers who never kill their target.
It's not uncommon to see him hanging around good friend and fellow villain Lung Fei. They are like Fang Yeh and San Kuai, in that they've appeared in so many movies together, you'd think it was written in their contracts to do so. It's very rare to see him in a movie a the top villain, but he's a much better fighter than his another of his friends - Tien Yeh, in that he will fight. And, though, he can't hang with the heavy-hitters of the kung-fu world like - Wang Jang-Li or Wang Lung-Wei, he can add another body to the carnage.
It's not uncommon to see him hanging around good friend and fellow villain Lung Fei. They are like Fang Yeh and San Kuai, in that they've appeared in so many movies together, you'd think it was written in their contracts to do so. It's very rare to see him in a movie a the top villain, but he's a much better fighter than his another of his friends - Tien Yeh, in that he will fight. And, though, he can't hang with the heavy-hitters of the kung-fu world like - Wang Jang-Li or Wang Lung-Wei, he can add another body to the carnage.
In the mid 70's he got the chance to play a few "good guy" roles, best one being the teacher of the fiery-tempered Fu Sheng in Demon Fists Of Kung Fu. And while many may remember him as the turncoat monk in Shaw Bros' epic, The Shaolin Temple. He’s played in so many films, that fans should have no problem finding some of his best work. He was stabbed to death in (1977), as the genre was just entering another phase. We can only imagine the films he may have contributed to, had he live a decade longer.