Sammo Hung Kam-Bo

Acting · Born 1952-01-07 in Hong Kong, China

Biography

Sammo Hung Kam-Bo (Chinese: 洪金寶, born Hung Kam-Bo, 7 January 1952) is a Hong Kong actor, martial artist, producer and director, known for his work in many kung fu films and Hong Kong action cinema. He has been a fight choreographer for, amongst others, Jackie Chan, King Hu, and John Woo. Hung is one of the pivotal figures who spearheaded the Hong Kong New Wave movement of the 1980s, helped reinvent the martial arts genre and started the vampire-like Jiang Shi genre. He is widely credited with assisting many of his compatriots, giving them their starts in the Hong Kong film industry, by casting them in the films he produced, or giving them roles in the production crew. In East Asia, it is common for people to address their elders or influential people with familial nouns as a sign of…

Filmography

• Project A as Cheuk Yat Fei
• Dragons Forever as Wong Fei-Hung
• Enter the Dragon as Shaolin Fighter (uncredited)
• SPL: Kill Zone as Wong Po
• Ip Man 2 as Hung Chun-Nam
• Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In as Mr. Big
• A Touch of Zen as Commander Xu's Bodyguard (uncredited)
• Around the World in 80 Days as Wong Fei Hung
• My Lucky Stars as Kidstuff / Fastbuck
• Mr. Nice Guy as Cyclist

TV

• Martial Law as Sammo Law
• Early Edition as Sammo Law
• A Legend of Shaolin Temple
• The Shaolin Warriors as Big Feet Monk
• Wing Chun as Wong Wah Bo
• Too Young to Die as Self (archive footage)
• L.A. Doctors as Sammo Hung