施威

简介

Shi Wei, originally named Chiu Shu Tai, was a Hong Kong film actor and producer active from the late 1930s to the mid-1960s. He served as the director of the "Ta Koon" film studio. Among his notable acting works were the Cantonese national defense film "Xiao Guangdong," released on June 8, 1940, which became the highest-grossing Cantonese film of that year, and the Cantonese national defense film "Xiao Laohu," released on May 2, 1941. He helped discover and promote new stars such as Zhang Ying, Mei Qi, and Feng Feng, as well as directors Luo Zhixiong and Luo Junxiong. On September 28, 1965, at the age of 50, he was found by police in a hotel room in Kowloon in possession of 0.3 centimeters of heroin and was fined 500 Hong Kong dollars and placed on 18 months' good behavior on October 14, 1965. He later left Hong Kong to return to the United States, working at the "Unison" cinema in San Francisco. He died on June 29, 1987, at the Chinese Hospital in San Francisco at the age of 75, and was buried in San Francisco without a funeral held in Hong Kong.