-=A LITTLE BIOGRAPHY=-
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REAL NAME: |
Chan Kong Sang / Sing Lung/ Cheng
Long |
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BORN in: |
Hong Kong. |
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FAMILY: |
Only son of a cooker and a cleaning
woman. |
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DATE OF BIRTH: |
April of 1954 |
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MARITAL STATUS: |
Divorced of a famous actress of
Taiwan who had married secretly in 1983 |
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TRAINING: |
Studied in Pekin Opera with the
"sifu" Yu Jim Yuen. There he met his
"brothers" Samo Hung and Yuen Biao. |
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FIRST GREAT ROLE: |
"Snake in the Eagle Shadow"
(1978) |
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FIRST FILM AS DIRECTOR |
"FearLess Hyena" (1979) |
After this short technical chip we
will happen to narrate some details of the life of Jackie.
As you coul read before, Jackie it is son only of a cook and of
a woman of the cleanliness,
those which were working in the American consulate in Hong Kong.
Tell you that the MASTER
was on the verge of be sold nothing else to born since the family
was not going through their
better economic moments. But when it fulfilled 7 years, entered
in the Pekin Opera, where
their pupils were hardly trained.
There it was 10 imprisoned years, making the hardest projects
and almost exploits physically,
by the hard exercises, since the school is not toward responsible
for the damages.
Were training from 5 of the tomorrow until the midnight. But
not all was a thorns road, there
he made good friendships, above all with future stars of the cinema:
Yuen Biao and Samo Hung.
These three were forming part of the call "The Seven Little
Fortunes" , a kind of Elite of the
school. Because of this these 3 dragons received an artistic
name, with and surname of the master.
Thus Jackie it received the name from Yuen Lau. During their
stay in the Pekin Opera hardly
received visits from his parents, that were installed in Canberra
when the american consul was
chosen ambassador of EEUU in Australia. It was in this time,
when Jackie jumped to the cinema
world, intervening in movies as Child actor ( "Big and Little
Wong Tin Bar" , " The Love Eternal". .).
Jackie finished his studies in the Pekin Opera
to 17 years, and since then already counting on
more than 25 interpretations. Also, to the little time of let
the Opera, this closed by order of the
govern not by their violently methods. But to say truth, Jackie
it does not keep any type of rancor to
his master, since thanks to that hardness can accomplish those
wonderful kung-fu scenes that
seem in his cool movies.
This
