張之珏

简介

Cheung Chi Kok is a Chinese artist from Hong Kong, one of the most prominent film, television, radio and stage stars of the 1970s and early 1980s. Born in 1950 at Yan He Hospital, he grew up in the Peacock Estate in Hong Kong. He graduated from Hong Kong Baptist College in the Department of Communication in 1973 and won the Distinguished Alumni Award in 1986. He gained fame for his role as Emperor Guangxu in the 1974 TVB series "清宮殘夢", where he also sang the main theme and interludes. He joined RTV (now ATV) in 1975, then moved into directing and producing in the late 1970s. He directed works such as "半生緣", "吾家有女", and "再見狂牛". He was named one of Hong Kong's Ten Outstanding Young Persons in 1986 alongside Jackie Chan. In the late 1980s, he left television and devoted himself to social affairs. He directed the 1988 film "三對鴛鴦一張牀" starring Alan Tam and Rosamund Kwan. He served as Executive Director of the Hong Kong Council on Smoking and Health in the early 1990s, enforcing a strict no-smoking policy during filming. He emigrated to New Zealand in 2003 and settled in Auckland, where he worked at a local Chinese radio station and voiced programs for Discovery Channel. He returned to acting in 2007 in the TVNZ series "Ride with the Devil". He returned to Hong Kong in 2017 to direct the stage play "小城風光".