Actor

Jimmy Wang Yu

Acting

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Acting credits

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Very extensive acting filmography.

TMDB popularity

1.5

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Movies: 92Series: 0Crew credits: 19

TMDB ID: 584527

IMDb ID: nm0911093

Known for: Acting

Born: March 28, 1944

Died: April 5, 2022

Age: 78

Place of birth: Wuxi, China

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1965 - 2019

Years active: 55

Average TMDB rating: 6.38

Wikidata: Q703153

Also known as

Yu Wang • Wang Zhengquan • Wong Yu-lung • Wang Yue • 王羽 • جیمی وانگ یو • Jimmy Wang Yu

Other jobs

Director (8)Producer (6)Writer (2)Executive Producer (1)Presenter (1)Second Unit Director (1)

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Biography

Wang Zhengquan, better known as Jimmy Wang Yu and Wong Yu-lung, (born March 8, 1944 - died April 5, 2022) was a Chinese actor, film director, producer and screenwriter. Wang rose to fame in 1967 with his starring role in The One-Armed Swordsman, a martial arts film produced by the Shaw Brothers Studio. The Chinese Boxer (1969), another film he acted in, is credited as the first Hong Kong action film that kickstarted the unarmed combat genre that took Asia by storm in the 1970s.