陈述 (演员)

简介

Chen Shu was a Chinese film actor born in 1920 in Shanghai, originally named Chen Zhitong, with ancestral roots in Shangyu, Zhejiang Province. He began his career in 1935 as a trainee at the Commercial Press, then moved to the Shanghai Postal Administration in 1939. In 1942 he joined several drama troupes, and in 1948 became a contracted actor with film companies such as Wenhua Film and Datong Film Enterprise, appearing in works like The Story of a Movie Fan, Twin Phoenixes, and The Painted Carriage Song. After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, he worked as a broadcaster at Shanghai People’s Radio Station, and in 1951 co-covered a basketball match by the visiting Soviet team. He joined the Shanghai Film Studio in 1952, with his first film being Sever the Claws, and rose to fame in 1954 by playing the enemy intelligence chief in Reconnaissance Across the Yangtze, a role he reprised in the 1974 color remake as the only actor not recast. Over his career he appeared in nearly forty films, including The Railway Guerrillas, The Last Emperor, The Women in the Courtyard, Devils on the Doorstep, and Shanghai Dancer. He received the 1949–1955 Individual First Prize for Outstanding Film Creation from the Ministry of Chinese Culture for his role in Reconnaissance Across the Yangtze, and in 1995 was awarded the Special Honor Prize by the China Film Performance Art Society. Chen Shu passed away on October 17, 2006 at Ruijin Hospital in Shanghai after an illness.