譚道良

简介

Dorian Tan is a Hong Kong actor and martial artist, born on December 22, 1947 in Busan, South Korea to Chinese expatriate parents. He began his professional career in Korea at age twenty, working as a police officer and later becoming a bodyguard for the Korean president, and was also a three-year consecutive champion of Korean Taekwondo fighting competitions. Tan was renowned for his "seven consecutive kicks" technique and held a seventh-degree black belt in Taekwondo. In the 1970s, he pioneered the "gecko climbing" technique, which allowed him to scale walls rapidly and leap down to attack opponents, astonishing audiences and revolutionizing martial arts films that had been dominated by Hung Gar kung fu in Hong Kong. When he starred as a lead in films, Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung were still in supporting roles. He achieved great fame and was so prolific that he once set a record of staying on set for 27 days without sleeping. In 2003, Stephen Chow wanted Tan to play the main antagonist in "Kung Fu Hustle," but he declined due to a training injury and was replaced by Leung Siu-lung. Tan retired from acting in 1988 and moved to Los Angeles, United States, where he taught martial arts and worked in the medical equipment business.