Tai Hau-Ho / Big Mouth Ho (Ho Lau Wan)

Biography

Tai Hau-Ho (Ho Lau Wan), also known as Big Mouth Ho, was originally named Ho Lau Wan, with ancestral roots in Shunde County, Guangdong Province. She was a female comic actress (nanchou) in all-female Cantonese opera troupes and a Hong Kong film actress. Her elder brother, Ho Siu-Hung, was also a Cantonese opera and film actor. During the Pacific War, she participated in a fundraising event for the Chinese air force to purchase fighter planes to resist the invading Japanese army. Her film career spanned from her earliest film "Cry by the Thorn Flowers" (1934), in which she played the hero's stepmother, to her final film "Return My Mountains and Rivers, Return My Wife" (1963), in which she played the eighth aunt, appearing in approximately 188 films. She specialized in portraying stubborn mothers-in-law, shrewish women, and country folk as minor characters.