嚴俊 (演員)

简介

Yan Jun (1917–1980), also known as Yan Zongqi, was an early Chinese actor and director nicknamed "The Actor with a Thousand Faces." Of Mongolian descent and registered in Nanjing, he was born in Beijing. In his youth, he studied chemistry at Fudan University in Beijing, but the war forced him to drop out. He moved to Shanghai to participate in stage plays, and his first film appearance was in Shang Fu Feng Lui with Xinhua Film Company. After the victory in the War of Resistance, he joined Great Wall Film Company and appeared in films such as Dang Fu Xin. Yan Jun directed his first film, Wu Shan Meng, and later gained great fame with the film Cui Cui. In 1957, he married actress Li Lihua. In the 1970s, Yan Jun retired from acting due to heart disease and emigrated with his wife Li Lihua to the United States. On August 18, 1980, Yan Jun died of a heart attack in a hospital in New Jersey, USA, at the age of 63.