On Wai Lin

Biography

On Wai Lin was born in Hong Kong in 1957. He is a child actor from outside the province who was fluent in Cantonese and Mandarin. He entered the film industry in 1964 at the age of 7. In early 1967, he was invited by an American television network to travel to the United States and appear in several American TV series. He returned to Hong Kong in March 1967, and on Thursday, March 9, 1967 at 3:00 PM, he held a press meeting with Hong Kong media at the Jin Luan Dian restaurant. He is considered one of the prominent child actors active in Hong Kong cinema during the 1960s.