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.

Filmography

37 films

Chow Yun-Fat

Biography

Filmography

Detective Chinatown 1900

Project Gutenberg

Cold War II

From Vegas to Macau III

From Vegas to Macau II

From Vegas to Macau

The Monkey King

The Last Tycoon

The Assassins

Let the Bullets Fly

Shanghai

Confucius

Dragonball Evolution

The Children of Huang Shi

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Curse of the Golden Flower

Bulletproof Monk

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Anna and the King

The Corruptor

The Replacement Killers

God of Gamblers' Return

Full Contact

Hard Boiled

Prison on Fire II

Once a Thief

God of Gamblers II

God of Gamblers

A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon

The Killer

All About Ah-Long

Tiger on the Beat

A Better Tomorrow II

Prison on Fire

City on Fire

The Seventh Curse

A Better Tomorrow