Leung Bik Yuk

Biography

Leung Bik Yuk is a Hong Kong Cantonese opera artist and film actress, known as the "Middle Bi" among the "Three Bi" in Hong Kong's art circles, with Deng Biyun as the "Big Bi" and Zheng Biying as the "Small Bi". She began her artistic career in 1955 when she joined the music group of the Kowloon Jewellery Clerks Association, performing Cantonese opera pieces on multiple radio stations including Hong Kong Radio, Rediffusion, Hong Kong Commercial Radio, and Green Village Radio. She performed in the "Shanghai Mei" and "Hong Xianü" singing styles. In 1961, she was recruited by Green Village Radio manager Miss Fung Ho-yin to join as a broadcaster. She participated in over 20 American and Hong Kong films during the 1940s and 1950s. Her screen debut was in the American Cantonese film "A Smile to Win a Heart" in 1946, where she played Miss Leung. She appeared in eight American films, including both black-and-white and color productions. Among her notable works was "Gold Powder and Rainbow Skirts", the first American-made color Cantonese sound film screened in Hong Kong, in which she played the lead role as the performer Wan Xia. She also starred in other color films like "Return of the Soul" and "Competing for Beauty". In 1948, she came to Hong Kong to film "The Butterfly Flower", and continued acting until her final film "The Third Sister Descends to Earth" in 1959, appearing in 13 Hong Kong films. She also performed Cantonese opera pieces both solo and in duets, and her husband was film director Huang Hesheng.