Wu Pang

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Pang.

Wu Pang (Chinese: 胡鵬) (1909 - 2000) was a Hong Kong Chinese director, producer, production manager, actor, movie planner, writer and the co-creator of the Yong Yao Film Company. Born in 1909 in Shanghai, he decided to move to Hong Kong when he was 27 years old. He and producer Zhenjiang Yongyao started making films in 1938. At the age of 30, Wu Pang began making films of folk hero Wong Fei Hung which starred 1970s actor and martial artist Kwan Tak-hing, also known as Kwan Te-hsing by film producer Raymond Chow Man Wai. Over the course of his life, Wu Pang directed one hundred ninety-four movies. Wu Pang died in 2000 in the Hong Kong Health Centre at the age of 91.

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