Wong Chung

Biography

Wong Chung was a Hong Kong actor and director, born in Shanghai in 1947 under the original name Jiang Peijun. He grew up in Shanghai before moving to Hong Kong, where he lived in Kowloon Walled City as a neighbor of Jiang Dawei. After losing his father at a young age, he and his siblings joined their grandfather's acrobatic troupe, performing in the circus as teenagers. He later entered the entertainment industry as a martial arts stuntman. He studied at Hong Kong Datong Secondary School until 1964, then joined the film industry at age seventeen and became part of Shaw Brothers Studio in 1968. He began starring as a lead actor in "Angry Youth" in 1972 and achieved fame with "The Police" in 1973, which received support from the Royal Hong Kong Police. In 1979, he co-founded a film production company with several artists and directed his first film "Golden Finger" the same year. He served as production director at Wuzhou Century Films between 1982 and 1983. He retired from cinema in the 2000s, moved to the United States, then returned to Hong Kong to work as a taxi driver under an alias. He made a guest appearance in Johnnie To's film "Election" in 2005. Wong Chung passed away in April 2021 from colon cancer at the age of 73.