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简介

Ching Miao was a Chinese actor born in 1911 in Jinan, Shandong Province, who died in 1989. He developed an interest in drama in childhood because his relatives owned a cinema in his hometown. After graduating high school in 1930, he formed a drama troupe in Shandong. In 1933 he enrolled at Xinhua Art College in Shanghai and joined Tianyi Film Company, the predecessor of Shaw Brothers. During the Sino-Japanese War, he founded a resistance troupe in Jinan and performed patriotic plays in Xuzhou and Shaanxi. After the war he moved to Chongqing and worked at China Film Studio. Following the war's end he returned to Shanghai and participated in numerous films. In 1949 he went to Taiwan and served as head of the Taiwan Social Theater Troupe. In 1963 he joined Shaw Brothers in Hong Kong and acted in nearly 100 films. He won the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor twice, for "Xin Ti Xiao Yin Yuan" in 1964 and "Feng Huo Wan Li Qing" in 1967. He was known with three other actors as one of the "Four Taiwanese Gangsters" in Hong Kong entertainment. He was also skilled in paper-cut art. He retired in the mid-1980s and passed away in Taiwan in 1989.