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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
May 18, 1955
Place of Birth
Hong Kong, China
Also Known As
- 주윤발
- 发哥
- 小马哥
- Fat Tsai
- Châu Nhuận Phát
- Yun-fat Chow
- چو یون فا
- Donald Chow
- Aman Chow
- Chow Yun-Fatt
- Chow Yuen-Fat
- Zhou Runfa
- چو یون فات
Chow Yun-Fat
2.7 Popularity
Biography
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.
Known For
6.4
Bai Xuanling
Detective Chinatown 1900
2025
5.5
Water Ng
One More Chance
2023
7.1
Painter
Project Gutenberg
2018
6.5
Self (archive footage)
Duckweed
2017
4.0
鲁豫有约一日行
2016
6.2
Oswald S.C. Kan
Cold War II
2016
4.0
Ken Shek / Ko Chun
From Vegas to Macau III
2016
5.9
Ho Chung Ping
Office
2015
5.0
Ken / Ko Chun
From Vegas to Macau II
2015
5.0
Ken
From Vegas to Macau
2014
Credits
Detective Chinatown 1900
as Bai Xuanling
2025
6.4
One More Chance
as Water Ng
2023
5.5
Project Gutenberg
as Painter
2018
7.1
Duckweed
as Self (archive footage)
2017
6.5
鲁豫有约一日行
2016
4.0
Cold War II
as Oswald S.C. Kan
2016
6.2
From Vegas to Macau III
as Ken Shek / Ko Chun
2016
4.0
Office
as Ho Chung Ping
2015
5.9
From Vegas to Macau II
as Ken / Ko Chun
2015
5.0
From Vegas to Macau
as Ken
2014
5.0
The Monkey King
as Jade Emperor
2014
5.5
The Last Tycoon
as Cheng Daqi
2012
6.4
The Assassins
as Chancellor Cao Cao
2012
5.7
Voice
2012
0.0
Beginning of the Great Revival
as Yuan Shikai
2011
4.6
Let the Bullets Fly
as Huang Silang
2010
7.8
Shanghai
as Anthony Lan-Ting
2010
6.1
Confucius
as Confucius
2010
6.0
Dragonball Evolution
as Master Roshi
2009
2.9
The Children of Huang Shi
as Chen Hansheng
2008
6.7
The Postmodern Life of My Aunt
as Zhichang Pan / 潘知常
2007
5.5
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
as Captain Sao Feng
2007
7.3
Curse of the Golden Flower
as Emperor Ping
2006
6.9
Waiting Alone
as Fa Ge (cameo)
2005
6.9
Bulletproof Monk
as The Nameless Monk
2003
5.5
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
as (archive footage)
2002
4.9
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
as Li Mu Bai
2000
7.4
Anna and the King
as King Mongkut
1999
6.8
The Corruptor
as Nick Chen
1999
6.0
The Replacement Killers
as John Lee
1998
6.2
Peace Hotel
as Wong Ah Ping
1995
5.8
God of Gamblers' Return
as Ko Chun
1994
6.6
Treasure Hunt
as Jeffrey Chang Ching
1994
5.5
Full Contact
as Jeff / Gou Fei
1992
6.8
Hard Boiled
as Insp. 'Tequila' Yuen
1992
7.5
Now You See Love... Now You Don't
as Ng San Shui
1992
6.0
Prison on Fire II
as Chung Tin Ching
1991
6.8
Once a Thief
as Red Bean Puddin / Joe
1991
6.7
God of Gamblers II
as Ko Chun
1990
6.8
The Fun, the Luck & the Tycoon
as Lam Bo Sun / Mr. Stink
1990
5.8
God of Gamblers
as Ko Chun
1989
7.3
A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon
as Mark
1989
6.4
Triads: The Inside Story
as Lee Man Ho
1989
5.7
Wild Search
as Sgt. Lau Chun-Pong
1989
6.7
The Killer
as Jong
1989
7.6
All About Ah-Long
as Ah Long
1989
7.2
Celebrity Talk Show
as 周润发
1989
9.0
City War
as Dick Lee
1988
6.4
Goodbye My Friend
as Hung
1988
0.0
When Tat Fu Was Young
1988
6.0
The Greatest Lover
as Qian Jin / Nelson Chow
1988
4.6
The Diary of a Big Man
as Chow Ting Fat
1988
6.2
Fractured Follies
as Joe Leung
1988
5.3
Tiger on the Beat
as Sergeant Francis Li
1988
6.5
The Eighth Happiness
as Fang Chien Lang / Fong Kim Long
1988
5.8
The Romancing Star II
as Big Mouth Fat [cameo]
1988
4.3
A Better Tomorrow II
as Ken Lee
1987
7.0
Prison on Fire
as Chung Tin Ching
1987
7.0
Spiritual Love
as Pu Yung Tsai
1987
6.1
Flaming Brothers
as Tin
1987
6.2
An Autumn's Tale
as Samuel Pang
1987
7.3
The Romancing Star
as Wong Yat Fat
1987
5.6
Rich and Famous
as Lee Ah Chai
1987
6.3
Code of Honor
as Fai
1987
9.0
Scared Stiff
as Inspector Chow
1987
7.0
Tragic Hero
as Lee Ah Chai
1987
5.9
City on Fire
as Ko Chow
1987
7.0
The Seventh Curse
as Wesley
1986
6.7
My Will, I Will
as Detective
1986
0.0
A Hearty Response
as Ho Ting-Bon
1986
6.3
Love Unto Wastes
as Detective Lam Chun-Keung
1986
6.6
A Better Tomorrow
as Mark Lee
1986
7.4
The Lunatics
as Chung
1986
7.1
100 Ways to Murder Your Wife
as Soccer Fat
1986
5.1
The Missed Date
as Peter
1986
0.0
Dream Lovers
as Song Yu
1986
6.3
Witch from Nepal
as Joe
1986
5.3
Story of Rose
as Charles / Ga Ming
1986
6.0
Why Me?
as Mr. Chow
1985
8.0
The Yang's Saga
as Lui Dong-bun
1985
7.8
Women
as Derek Sun
1985
6.7
The Battle Among the Clans
1985
0.0
Hong Kong 1941
as Yip Kim-Fay
1984
5.9
Police Cadet
as 張竟成 Cheung Ging Sing
1984
0.0
The Occupant
as Insp Valentino Chow
1984
6.1
Love in a Fallen City
as Fan Liu-Yuan
1984
6.0
The Smiling Proud Wanderer
1984
0.0
Last Affair
as Kwong Ping
1983
6.7
Angels And Devils
1983
0.0
The Super Power
1983
0.0
Bloody Money
as Bullet
1983
4.0
Katanyu Prakasit
1983
0.0
The Bund Part II
as 许文强
1983
5.3
The Bund
as Hui Man Keung
1983
5.7
The Radio Tycoon
1983
0.0
The Legend of Master So
as 苏灿
1982
9.0
The Postman Strikes Back
as Fu Jun
1982
6.5
The Head Hunter
as Yuen Lik / Nguen Dich
1982
5.2
The Maverick
1982
0.0
Good Old Times
as 欧阳汉
1981
0.0
Hero's Blood Road
1981
0.0
The Fate
1981
0.0
The Story of Woo Viet
as Woo Viet
1981
6.2
The Shell Game (II)
as 阿龙
1981
0.0
The Executor
as Ng Tao
1981
6.5
Soul Ash
1981
0.0
Modern Heroes
as Sgt Chu Hwa Tai
1980
7.0
The Shell Game
1980
4.0
Pursuit
as Killer
1980
6.0
Joy to the World
as Yam Chung-Lung
1980
6.0
The Brothers
1980
0.0
The Bund
as 许文强
1980
9.0
God Father
as Git
1980
5.0
The Good The Bad The Ugly
1979
9.0
Man From Hong Kong
as Ben
1979
0.0
I Am Woman
1979
0.0
The Cheap Detective
1979
0.0
The Landlord
1979
0.0
Conflict
1978
0.0
Disco Fever
1978
0.0
Hong Kong Story II
as 主持
1978
0.0
The Giants
1978
0.0
Miss "O"
as Koon
1978
0.0
Their Private Lives
as Ko Ming Chung
1978
0.0
Vanity Fair
1978
0.0
Hot Blood
as Ah Cheng
1977
0.0
Hero
1977
0.0
A House is Not a Home
as 何严明
1977
0.0
13
1977
0.0
Bed for Day, Bed for Night
1977
0.0
C.I.D.(Series 2)
1976
0.0
畸人列傳
1976
0.0
The Hunter, the Butterfly and the Crocodile
1976
5.0
Seven Women: Liu Wing-Sheung
1976
0.0
Hotel
1976
0.0
Massage Girls
as Ah Gin
1976
0.0
Teenager
1976
0.0
The First Love
1976
0.0
Mystery Beyond
1976
0.0
Learned Bride Thrice Fools the Bridegroom
1976
0.0
This Generation
1976
0.0
The Reincarnation
1976
0.0
The Killer
1976
0.0
Dream Of The Red Chamber
as 蒋玉涵
1975
6.0
Murder of Passion
1974
0.0
The God of Aqua
1974
0.0
Chinese Folklore
1974
0.0
Golden Horse Awards
as Self
1962
0.0
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Cold War III
as Oswald S.C. Kan
N/A
0.0