Zhang Bingqian

Biography

Zhang Bingqian is a Chinese film actress from Hong Kong who was a famous actress with the Great Wall Film Company in Hong Kong, later joining Shaw Brothers Film Company. Her representative works include the films "Hua Jie" (Flower Street), "Wang Laohu Qiang Qin" (Tiger Wang Snatches the Bride), "Da Fu Zhi Jia" (The Wealthy Family), and "Chun Xia Qiu Dong" (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter), as well as earlier films such as "Diamond Flower Thief" (1955), "Law of the Big Children" (1955), and "The Clever Ghost and the Lazy Cat" (1959). In 1965, she left the leftist film companies. She married actor Guan Shan (original name Guan Bowei) in 1960 and had a son and a daughter with him before divorcing. Her eldest daughter, Guan Zhilin (original name Guan Jiahui), later also became a star actress. Later accounts state that the divorce occurred in 1975, with Zhang Bingqian moving to the United States with her younger son Guan Shihua, although reports from 1977 still indicated good family relations between the two.