Acting credits
152
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Chow Yun-Fat
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
2.9
Moderate attention
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Movies: 105Series: 47Crew credits: 3
TMDB ID: 1619
IMDb ID: nm0000334
Known for: Acting
Born: May 18, 1955
Age: 70
Place of birth: Hong Kong, China
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1962 - 2025
Years active: 64
Average TMDB rating: 6.35
Wikidata: Q181425
Also known as
发哥 • 小马哥 • Fat Tsai • Yun-fat Chow • چو یون فا • Donald Chow • Aman Chow • Chow Yun-Fatt • Chow Yuen-Fat • Zhou Runfa
Other jobs
Songs (1)Story (1)Writer (1)
Biography
Chow Yun-Fat (Chinese: 周潤發, born 18 May 1955), previously known as Donald Chow, is a Hong Kong actor. He is perhaps best known for his collaborations with filmmaker John Woo in the five Hong Kong action heroic bloodshed films: A Better Tomorrow, A Better Tomorrow II, The Killer, Once a Thief and Hard Boiled, and in the West for his roles as Li Mu-bai in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Sao Feng in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. He mainly plays in drama films and has won three Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Actor and two Golden Horse Awards for Best Actor in Taiwan. Chow started his career in movies in 1976 with Goldig Films, the third largest film company at the time.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Chow Yun-Fat.
6.3
Detective Chinatown 1900
as Bai Xuanling
2025 Movie
5.5
One More Chance
as Water Ng
2023 Movie
6.0
The Monkey King: The Legend Begins
as Jade Emperor
2022 Movie
7.2
Project Gutenberg
as Painter
2018 Movie
6.6
Duckweed
as Self (archive footage)
2017 Movie
6.3
Cold War II
as Oswald S.C. Kan
2016 Movie
4.1
From Vegas to Macau III
as Ken Shek / Ko Chun
2016 Movie
5.8
Office
as Ho Chung Ping
2015 Movie
5.0
From Vegas to Macau II
as Ken / Ko Chun
2015 Movie
5.2
From Vegas to Macau
as Ken
2014 Movie
5.6
The Monkey King
as Jade Emperor
2014 Movie
6.4
The Last Tycoon
as Cheng Daqi
2012 Movie
5.7
The Assassins
as Chancellor Cao Cao
2012 Movie
4.6
Beginning of the Great Revival
as Yuan Shikai
2011 Movie
7.8
Let the Bullets Fly
as Huang Silang
2010 Movie
6.1
Shanghai
as Anthony Lan-Ting
2010 Movie
5.9
Confucius
as Confucius
2010 Movie
2.9
Dragonball Evolution
as Master Roshi
2009 Movie
6.7
The Children of Huang Shi
as Chen Hansheng
2008 Movie
5.4
The Postmodern Life of My Aunt
as Zhichang Pan / 潘知常
2007 Movie
The Making of Hard Boiled
2007 Movie
7.3
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
as Captain Sao Feng
2007 Movie
6.9
Curse of the Golden Flower
as Emperor Ping
2006 Movie
6.7
Waiting Alone
as Fa Ge (cameo)
2005 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Chow Yun-Fat.
The Do Show
40 eps
2023 Series
4.0
鲁豫有约一日行
1 eps
2016 Series
Voice
1 eps
2012 Series
9.0
Celebrity Talk Show
as 周润发 • 1 eps
1989 Series
8.5
The Yang's Saga
as Lui Dong-bun • 6 eps
1985 Series
The Battle Among the Clans
30 eps
1985 Series
7.0
Police Cadet
as 張竟成 Cheung Ging Sing • 40 eps
1984 Series
7.0
The Smiling Proud Wanderer
30 eps
1984 Series
Angels And Devils
20 eps
1983 Series
The Super Power
20 eps
1983 Series
The Radio Tycoon
30 eps
1983 Series
9.5
The Legend of Master So
as 苏灿 • 20 eps
1982 Series
The Maverick
20 eps
1982 Series
Good Old Times
as 欧阳汉 • 20 eps
1981 Series
Hero's Blood Road
20 eps
1981 Series
The Fate
20 eps
1981 Series
The Shell Game (II)
as 阿龙 • 20 eps
1981 Series
5.3
The Shell Game
20 eps
1980 Series
The Brothers
75 eps
1980 Series
9.0
The Bund
as 许文强 • 25 eps
1980 Series
9.0
The Good The Bad The Ugly
80 eps
1979 Series
Man From Hong Kong
as Ben • 11 eps
1979 Series
I Am Woman
13 eps
1979 Series
The Cheap Detective
12 eps
1979 Series