
Birthday:
07-01-1929
Deathday:
04-16-1970 (40 years)
Birthplace:
Shanghai, China
Biography
Born as Chen Shang-Ho in Shanghai, Chen was widely regarded as the "King of Comedy" in the Mandarin film circle. His screen debut was "Qiu Jin, the Revolutionary Heroine" and later became a household name with "Songs of the Peach Blossom River". Comedy and musical were Chen's specialities. His acclaimed works include "Les Belles", "Love Parade", "The Dancing Millionairies", "Hong Kong Nocturne" and "Hong Kong Rhapsody". It was a sensation when Chen and fellow actress Betty Loh Ti were married in 1962, yet the relationship only lasted for five years. Chen died of bowel cancer in New York, on april 17, 1970. He was 40.
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Four Sisters
Act like Ma Da Wei (David Ma)
event1967
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Mandarin-era Hong Kong film adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women.
Hong Kong, Manila, Singapore
Act like Peter Chen
event1965
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Shaw Brothers comedy.
Lady Balsam's Conquest
event1955
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Lady Balsam's Conquest. A sequel of General Chai and Lady Balsam.
Camille
event1955
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A Mandarin adaption of Camille directed by Chang Shan-Kun and Evan Yang.
Mambo Girl
Act like Danian / Wong Ta-Nien
event1957 star_border 5.8
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A young woman in search of a lost identity, her long lost mother who abandoned her soon after her birth.
Hong Kong Nocturne
Act like Chen Tze Ching
event1967 star_border 5.6
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A musical about 3 sisters, singers and dancers, and their dad, a magician performing in nightclubs until they make their own life.
Cinderella and her little Angels
Act like Lin Fu
event1959
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Lin Fu is a resolutely romantic tailor, who talks to his mannequins and is especially attached to one that looks like an orphanage employee, whose kids sometimes do some simple tailoring for Lin Fu's shop.
The Lark
Act like Liu Shi Tai
event1965 star_border 5.5
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A musical staring Carrie Ku Mei as a singer named Xiaoyun Shi, who comes to Hong Kong after a tour of other Asian countries, hoping to develop her career.
Till the End of Time
Act like Chang Cho-Ming
event1966
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Jenny Wu is a singer who charms the well-to-do Peter Chen, but his parents object to a union between their only son and a lowly cabaret singer. He ignores their advice and marries her anyway, and for a time, they find some manner of wedded bliss. But the years are not entirely kind. He works hard to make ends meet, but his health pays the price.
Les Belles
Act like Ma Ying
event1961 star_border 6.5
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Linda Lin Dai and Fanny Fan join the dancing troupe of Kao Pao-shu. Linda and Kao's son Peter Chen, manager of the troupe, have misunderstandings and dislike each other.
Love Parade
Act like Michael Shi
event1963
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The winning couple of Linda Lin Dai and Peter Chen Hu light up the screen in the delightful Shaw Brothers musical Love Parade. The manager of a dance company places a personal ad in the newspaper. He receives a response but has no idea the woman is his top dancer, with whom he has an antagonistic relationship.
Appointment with Death
event1959
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HK crime drama thriller film.
Spring Song
Act like Monkey
event1959
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Teenage idols Grace Chang and Jeanette Lin Cui played competitive university freshman fighting against each other for almost anything : fame, recognition and, of course, guys, who were played by Cathay heart-throbs Peter Chen Hou end Roy Chiao.
Black Tulip
event1956
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Black Tulip
Divorce, Hong Kong Style
Act like Mai Hsien-Hou
event1968
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A philandering business tycoon accuses his angelic wife of cheating. He learns the hard way he had it good and hopes to win his wife back.
The Brain-Stealers
Act like Xiao Jia-Wen
event1968
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A mad scientist wants to get his hands on a certain growth-accelerating serum developed by Hong Kong scientist Dr. Li Zong-Hua so that he can create an army of supermen and conquer the world.
The Pistol
Act like Little Zhang/Chang
event1961
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Long unemployed and stone-broke, Shen Jiaguang is dealt a further blow when his wife Lu Xiaoyin has fallen seriously ill and their son Xiaoguang has to quit school.
Calendar Girl
Act like Liu Bucheng
event1959
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Musician Sun Ping is estranged from his wife. Second daughter Yinzheng lives with Sun while eldest daughter Jinliu follows her mother. By coincidence, the sisters both enter the 'Calendar Girl' pageant but Jinliu deliberately lets her sister win the contest. Later, the sisters and Liu Bucheng perform in Sun's musical show. Though the show is a success, Yinzheng decides to quit in order to get married. Not wishing to disappoint their father, Jinliu devises a plan to make Yinzheng stay on, but the plan misfires. Yinzheng leaves angrily. She is at last brought back to the show due to Liu's mediation. The elders also reconcile as the sisters perform together on stage.
Sons of the Good Earth
Act like Yu Jui
event1965 star_border 5
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The year is 1937, just prior to the Japanese invasion of China. Painters Ju Rui and Lao San stumble upon He Hua, a woman sold into the sex industry at a local brothel.
Love & Obligation
event1955
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Yang Naifan's family has agreed to an arranged marriage. Yang Naifan is not happy with the arrangement and runs away to be with her true love, Li Zuyi. Disowned by her family, Yang Naifan must endure many hardships as she follows her heart.
Our Sister Hedy
Act like Sun Ruhao
event1957 star_border 6.5
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The Kong family has four daughters. Hilda, the eldest sister, assumes the role of a mother and often lets romance slip by. Third sister Hedy introduces her to Sun Ruhao, an engineer, but Sun is snatched by second sister Helen. The youngest girl Hazel drops out of school in pursuit of love. Hedy shows no interest in romance but is chased by a rich heir, He Yan. Meanwhile, Hilda runs away to meet her true love in a foreign land. As for Hedy, she is at last won over by He.
Stranger Than Fiction
event1963
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A Shaw Brothers comedy starring Peter Chen Ho and Grace Ting Ning.
When the Poles Meet
event1961
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A Shaw Brothers romantic comedy starring Peter Chen Ho and Patricia Lam Fung.
How to Marry a Millionaire
event1960
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A Shaw Brothers romantic comedy starring Margaret Tu Chuan and Peter Chen Ho.
Kiss for Sale
Act like Tien Hu
event1961
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A Shaw Brothers comedy starring Peter Chen Ho and Fanny Fan Lai.
All the Best
Act like Peter
event1961
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A Shaw Brothers comedy starring Peter Chen Ho and Ding Ling.
Rendezvous in the South Sea
event1960
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A Shaw Brothers drama starring Peter Chen Ho and Ding Ling. It was filmed on location in Malaysia.
Desire
Act like Peter Lu
event1959
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A Shaw Brothers drama starring Linda Lin Dai and Peter Chen Ho.
The Husband's Secret
event1961
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A romantic comedy by the Shaw Brothers studio. This is a sequel to Husband's Lover (1959).
Husband's Lover
Act like Mr Zhou
event1959
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A romantic comedy by the Shaw Brothers studio starring Peter Chen Ho, in his first starring role in a SB film, and Pat Ting Hung, in her film debut.
The Fair Sex
Act like Chao
event1961
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A Shaw Brothers comedy starring Peter Chen Ho, Pat Ting Hung, Ding Ling, Fanny Fan Lai and Margaret Tu Chuan.
Bride For Rent
Act like Li Wen-Qing
event1961
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A film by the Shaw Brothers studio starring Betty Loh Tih and Peter Chen Ho.
The Tryst
Act like Peng Shi-Da
event1962 star_border 3.5
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A Shaw Brothers comedy starring Peter Chen Ho and Pat Ting Hung.
Sing High, Sing Low
Act like Li Hao-Ran
event1967
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A Shaw Brothers Musical Comedy.
Hong Kong Rhapsody
Act like Chen Tzu-Hsin
event1968
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There's nothing like a good, opulent, gaudy musical to lift the spirits, but when it's a 1960's Hong Kong musical orchestrated by a Japanese director and composer, it breaks through the ranks as a classic of campy kitsch. A follow-up to the previous year's megahit Hong Kong Nocturne, with the same Japanese creative team, Hong Kong Rhapsody follows the fortunes of an unemployed magician whose love life is so knotty it would take Houdini to unravel!
The Mating Season
Act like Cao Zhong-nian
event1966
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The Weiss Advertising Co under manageress Lo Yu Chun (Pat Ting Hung) and the Jen An Advertising Co. managed by playboy Tsao Chung Nien (Peter Chen Ho) are business rivals. The former works hard but without much success. The latter, with most of his staff perusing racing form or yellow journals, gets far more business. The anticipated arrival of a business tycoon from Malaya starts another battle and Lo Yu Chun goes all out to win over the prospective customer.
Whose Baby Is in the Classroom?
Act like Chen Zi Feng
event1970 star_border 5
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This movie stars Peter Chen Ho as a male teacher in an all girls school. The girls are teens and, since they live there, are kind of tickled to see a male teacher. They don't particularly lust after him, but they kind of crush on him. The title of the film refers to a baby that Chen minded as a favor in a doctor's office, only to find the mother left him with Chen. Chen has to take care of the baby and, inevitably, has to bring him to school and hide him, as he lives there also.
The Millionaire Chase
Act like Peter
event1969
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Shaw Brothers musical about three Showgirls chasing millionaires.
Blue Skies
Act like Li Yan Nan
event1967
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Hsiao Yun's rise to fame all results from a lucky break, as she's forced to substitute for another singer at the last second. The girl makes the most of her fortuitous opportunity, creating a huge splash in her debut as an entertainer, a fact which forever changes her life! However, this newfound meteoric rise to fame begins to take a toll on her personal life. For one thing, it starts to complicate her burgeoning romance with her pianist lover. And secondly, she soon finds herself the receiver of some sexual overtures from the producer of her show. What will poor Hsiao Yun do? And will blue skies be smiling at her by story's end?
The Dancing Millionairess
Act like Chen Hun-Mai
event1964 star_border 6
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Chen Hou is a chauffeur who gets caught in a mistaken identity scandal linking him to businesswoman Lok Dai. Chen was supposed to audition for a job as her chauffeur, but a proposed musical show is far more attractive to the aspiring dancer. When a rumor gets out that the two are involved in an affair, she's angry and confronts him, but his charms overwhelm her, and it's revealed that she too desires to dance. Soon she's bankrolling the affair, the sets are being built, and the singing and dancing begin!
Dear Murderer
Act like Tu Chang
event1969
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Tu Chang (Peter Chen Ho)’s boss Yeh Kuang Lung (Liu Kei) thinks highly of him and is prepared to give him his daughter’s hand in marriage. Lan Fen (Pat Ting Hung), a company typist, is Tu’s sweetheart. She gets pregnant by him and threatens to tell the manager unless he’s prepared to do the right thing. Tu however is bent on marrying Jenny. When words fail to win Lan over, Tu murders her and hides her body in the wall of an abandoned villa. Tu weds Jenny but after his honeymoon finds that a lawyer named Huang Hsiung (Wang Hsieh) is investigating Lan Fen’s disappearance on behalf of her family.
Corpse-Drivers of Xiangxi
Act like Chen Ta Nien
event1957
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Hong Kong horror.
The Joy of Spring
Act like Teacher Yang
event1966
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Hong Kong musical directed by Lo Chen.
The Battle of Love
Act like Tao Wen-ping
event1957
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Yeh Wei-fang, a rich young lady, flirts with her suitors and hopes it would make Shi Rongsheng, the cousin she loves, angry. But Rongsheng doesn’t pay attention to that, and lectures her for lacking self-respect. Tao Wen-ping, Rongsheng's friend, gets to know Wei-fang. He invites her to go to the resort house borrowed from Rongsheng, but is fooled by her. Wen-ping gets to know Fang's sister, Wei-ling, by chance. Sharing common interests, Wei-ling grows a secret love for him. Wei-fang's home has a JP’s son as a guest. Rongsheng invites Wen-ping to join. Wei-fang knows that Wei-ling likes Wen-ping, but she shows intimacy towards him. Another guest, the antiquary Prof Ho Chi-hua, arrives, he is infatuated with Wei-fang. Wei-fang shows zeal for both, who in the end quarrel and fight. Wei-fang finally declares her love for Rongsheng under the pressure from Wen-ping and Chi-hua, who had a fight over her. Rongsheng's evasiveness proves weak for Wei-fang's quest for his love.
Bitter Sweet
Act like Luo Zhong-Heng
event1963
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A widow of four gave up two of her children to be raised by an uncle in Singapore. Many years later, just when the widow, now a house maid, is feeling contented by good news of her long gone son and daughter, she accidentally runs into his own son, now a lawyer, and ends up being looked down upon by him. It was a story about how traditional Chinese family and its value was impacted by the change of time. The movie depicted Macau in 1945 to Hong Kong in the mid-60s, moving from poverty after WWII to opulence. The human relationships became complicated and fragile. Many elements uniquely "Hong Kong", such as upper class Chinese, western religions, English speaking and a mixed-culture society are used to contrast the traditional, kind, enduring and forgiving love of a mother.
Blood Will Tell
event1955
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Legendary thief Hai Tang Hong (Wang Yin) is about to retire when he accidentally kills his wife's lover
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