Lo Kwan Lam

Biography

Lo Kwan Lam was born on July 23, 1952 in Hong Kong. He was born in Kowloon Walled City, the fifth child in a family of eleven siblings. He learned martial arts such as Hung Gar and Choi Lee Fut at age thirteen, influenced by Bruce Lee's films. He joined Chang Cheh's film company in 1974 as an accountant and messenger before dedicating himself to martial arts. In 1977, he was personally recruited by Run Run Shaw and introduced to director Chang Cheh, joining the first training batch for Shaolin Temple films. He received the Golden Globe Award for Top Ten Film and TV Stars in 1979 and was selected as one of Hong Kong's Top Ten Stars the same year. He began his television career in 1984 with the series "Twelve Gold Medals" and moved to TVB in 1989, where he worked for over twenty years.