何非光

简介

He Feiguang (original name He Dewang) was born on April 18, 1913, in Taichung, Taiwan. He left Taichung First High School and traveled to Tokyo to study, where he was deeply attracted to modern art. In 1930, he secretly crossed to Shanghai and worked as an extra in a film company, often playing roles such as lustful Westernized bourgeois and cruel Japanese soldiers. In 1933, he signed as an actor with Lianhua Film Company. He later returned to Tokyo to study sound film technology. In 1937, he returned to China and went to the Chongqing area to shoot anti-Japanese resistance films, signing with Northwest Film Company and later joining the China Film Studio. He served twice in the People's Liberation Army and went to the Korean Peninsula to help the Beijing Film Studio news department shoot war documentaries. Between 1954 and 1958, he worked as a guest director in a local theater troupe. In 1959, he was sentenced to two years of labor control on charges of counter-revolution. From 1967 to 1978, he was placed under house arrest. In 1979, he joined the Shanghai Historical and Cultural Archives. He passed away in Shanghai on September 6, 1997, and was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Taiwan Film Directors Association in 1997.