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* Creator/MichaelChan Wai-man - He used to be a gangster involved in the triads, reportedly as an enforcer of the 14K Triad in Tsim Sha Tsui before the handover of Hong Kong in 1997, but he ends up becoming an actor instead.


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* ''Film/HolyFlameOfTheMartial World''


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* ''Film/ThatManInChangAn''
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* ''Film/SwordswomenThree''
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* Creator/LoLieh - One of Shaw Brothers' most prolific actors, having been in over 200 of their movies, Lo Lieh unfortunately remains a B-lister due to being OvershadowedByAwesomene alongside the likes of Wang-yu and Yueh Hua. Most of his fans considered his roles as villains, such as ''The 36th Chamber of Shaolin'', to be his best works.

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* Creator/LoLieh - One of Shaw Brothers' most prolific actors, having been in over 200 of their movies, Lo Lieh unfortunately remains a B-lister due to being OvershadowedByAwesomene OvershadowedByAwesome alongside the likes of Wang-yu and Yueh Hua. Most of his fans considered his roles as villains, such as ''The 36th Chamber of Shaolin'', to be his best works.
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* Creator/DerekYee - The half-brother of David Chiang, who hit the ground running with his role in ''Death Duel'' at age 20, earning him a Best Actor Award and over 20 films with Shaw Brothers. Although nowadays he is more popular as an actor instead of a director.

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* Creator/DerekYee - The half-brother of David Chiang, who hit the ground running with his role in ''Death Duel'' at age 20, earning him a Best Actor Award and over 20 films with Shaw Brothers. Although nowadays he is more popular as an actor a director instead of a director.
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* Creator/DerekYee - The half-brother of David Chiang, who hit the ground running with his role in ''Death Duel at age 20, earning him a Best Actor Award and over 20 films with Shaw Brothers. Although nowadays he is more popular as an actor instead of a director.

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* Creator/DerekYee - The half-brother of David Chiang, who hit the ground running with his role in ''Death Duel Duel'' at age 20, earning him a Best Actor Award and over 20 films with Shaw Brothers. Although nowadays he is more popular as an actor instead of a director.

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* Creator/LoLiehCreator/LoLieh - One of Shaw Brothers' most prolific actors, having been in over 200 of their movies, Lo Lieh unfortunately remains a B-lister due to being OvershadowedByAwesomene alongside the likes of Wang-yu and Yueh Hua. Most of his fans considered his roles as villains, such as ''The 36th Chamber of Shaolin'', to be his best works.



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* Creator/ChenKuanTaiCreator/ChenKuanTai - After hanging out in the background for years as an extra, Chen Kuan-tai finally gets a starring role in ''The Boxer From Shantung'', before making it big as a PoorMansSubstitute for Ti Lung.



* Creator/PhilipKwok - You either know him as one of the ''Five Deadly Venoms'' (the Lizard, to be precise), or as Mad Dog from ''Film/HardBoiled''. An actor turned stunt choreographer who made his fame with Shaw Brothers.



* Creator/AlexanderFuSheng - If there was a Creator/BruceLee before ''Bruce Lee'', it's Alexander Fu. Acting for Shaw Brothers since a teen, in multiple martial arts and action films, Fu sadly passed away at age 28 in a car accident, with 23 films in his resume.




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* Creator/DerekYee - The half-brother of David Chiang, who hit the ground running with his role in ''Death Duel at age 20, earning him a Best Actor Award and over 20 films with Shaw Brothers. Although nowadays he is more popular as an actor instead of a director.
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* Creator/ChengPeiPei - the penultimate quintessential ActionGirl of martial arts cinema, Cheng had her breakthrough role in ''Come Drink With Me'' at age 18 before becoming the studios' top pick of the 1970s.

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* Creator/ChengPeiPei - the penultimate quintessential ActionGirl of martial arts cinema, Cheng had her breakthrough role in ''Come Drink With Me'' at age 18 before becoming the studios' top pick of the 1970s.
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* ''Film/TheMagicBlade''

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* ''Film/TheSecretOfTheDirk''
* ''Film/TheSentimentalSwordsman'' - all 3 movies


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* ''Film/TheSilverFox''
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* ''Film/TheSnakePrince''


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* ''Film/SwordsmanAtLarge''
* ''Film/SwordsmanAndEnchantress''


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* ''Film/TwinkleTwinkleLittleStar'' - the borderline ridiculous ''Franchise/StarWars'' parody released by Shaw Brothers


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* ''Film/VengeanceOfASnowGirl''
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* ''Film/ManOfIron'' ''Film/ManOfIron1972'' (NOT to be confused with a [[Film/ManOfIron Polish film with the same name]])


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* ''Film/VengeanceIsAGoldenBlade''


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* ''Film/FlagOfIron''


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* ''Film/TheIronBodyguard''


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* Creator/ChengPeiPei
Creator/ChengPeiPei - the penultimate quintessential ActionGirl of martial arts cinema, Cheng had her breakthrough role in ''Come Drink With Me'' at age 18 before becoming the studios' top pick of the 1970s.
* Creator/YuehHua
Creator/YuehHua - Early in the studios' Golden Years, to develop a love story in a martial arts epic, Yueh Hua would be often cast alongside Cheng Pei-pei, Lily Li, Li Ching, Chin Ping and various lethal ladies of Shaw Brothers. There are rumours back then that Yueh Hua and Cheng Pei-pei are in a romantic relationship due to their various collaborations, but those rumours have since been debunked.
* Creator/GordonLiuCreator/GordonLiu - need someone to play a Shaolin monk? Gordon Liu's your man.



* Creator/TiLung - see above.
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* Creator/TiLung - see above.
The best friend of David Chiang, both Lung and Chiang will collaborate for years until Chiang decide to part way later on. Becoming the solo star of Shaw Brothers, Lung will star in classics like ''The Avenging Eagle'' and ''The Sentimental Swordsman'' films, supporting the studios until well into its twilight years.
* Creator/DannyLee
Creator/DannyLee - He wanted to be a cop. He ended up an [[Film/TheSuperInframan Inframan]] and becoming one of the studio's main picks for modern-day crime dramas.



* ''Film/BoxerFromShantung''

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* ''Film/TheIronBuddha''
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* ''Film/TempleOfTheRedLotus'' trilogy - followed by ''The Twin Swords'' and ''The Sword And The Lute''
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* ''Film/HongKongGodfather''
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* ''Creator/JimmyWangYu'' - the ''first'' megastar developed by Shaw Brothers and their penultimate icon in the 1970s, Jimmy would spearhead one project after another until he eventually jumped ship to Golden Harvest, culminating in Run-run Shaw blacklisting Jimmy from finding work at Shaw Brothers and choosing to develop Ti Lung and David Chiang as a backup.
* ''Creator/ChengPeiPei'' - despite Cheng's reputation as "The Queen of Swords", her career as a wuxia queen in Shaw Brothers turns out to be [[BrieferThanTheyThink shorter than most people would imagine'', with only 15 (out of 70+) of her movies made under Shaw Brothers to be under the ''wuxia'' genre.
* ''Creator/YuehHua''
* ''Creator/GordonLiu''
* ''Creator/LoLieh''
* ''Creator/ChangYi'' - Jimmy's real-life best friend who co-starred with him in several of his movies. He stayed in the studios for maybe a decade after Jimmy's departure before he leaves as well, although unlike Jimmy, Chang maintains a more stable, mutual understanding without any residual hostilities.
* ''Creator/ChenKuanTai''
* ''Creator/DavidChiang'' - One of two mega-stars groomed to be Jimmy's replacement, Chiang would find a life-long best friend with Ti Lung, where they will co-star in more than 50 films during their days in Shaw Brothers.
* ''Creator/TiLung'' - see above.
* ''Creator/DannyLee''

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* ''Creator/JimmyWangYu'' Creator/JimmyWangYu - the ''first'' megastar developed by Shaw Brothers and their penultimate icon in the 1970s, Jimmy would spearhead one project after another until he eventually jumped ship to Golden Harvest, culminating in Run-run Shaw blacklisting Jimmy from finding work at Shaw Brothers and choosing to develop Ti Lung and David Chiang as a backup.
* ''Creator/ChengPeiPei'' - despite Cheng's reputation as "The Queen of Swords", her career as a wuxia queen in Shaw Brothers turns out to be [[BrieferThanTheyThink shorter than most people would imagine'', with only 15 (out of 70+) of her movies made under Shaw Brothers to be under the ''wuxia'' genre.
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* ''Creator/YuehHua''
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* ''Creator/GordonLiu''
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* ''Creator/LoLieh''
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* ''Creator/ChangYi'' Creator/ChangYi - Jimmy's real-life best friend who co-starred with him in several of his movies. He stayed in the studios for maybe a decade after Jimmy's departure before he leaves as well, although unlike Jimmy, Chang maintains a more stable, mutual understanding without any residual hostilities.
* ''Creator/ChenKuanTai''
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* ''Creator/DavidChiang'' Creator/DavidChiang - One of two mega-stars groomed to be Jimmy's replacement, Chiang would find a life-long best friend with Ti Lung, where they will co-star in more than 50 films during their days in Shaw Brothers.
* ''Creator/TiLung'' Creator/TiLung - see above.
* ''Creator/DannyLee''
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'''Shaw Brothers''' (HK) Ltd. (Chinese: 邵氏兄弟(香港)公司) is Hong Kong's largest film production company that operates since 1925 to 2011. Based in Clearwater Bay in downtown Hong Kong, it was founded by the brothers, Shaw Run-jie, Shaw Run-mei, and Shaw Run-de, with the youngest of the brothers, Shaw Run-run, being appointed executive producer and in charge of cinematic productions.

The studio is known for their massive, large-scale {{Wuxia}} martial arts films that dominates Hong Kong cinema in the 1960s and 70s, and making "Shaw Brothers" a name synonymous with kung fu. At it's peak of operations, at any given time, the studios have 5,000 extras available, allowing multiple films of varying genres to be made all at once.

Having produced over 1,000 films throughout it's live-span, and launched the careers of numerous martial arts icons from Gordon Liu to Ti Lung, Shaw Brothers would last until the late 90s, with it's remake of ''Boxer from Shantung'' titled ''Film/Hero1997'' being one of its last productions before it closes down. Nowadays, the former Shaw Brothers studio backlot is more popular as a tourist attraction. (It briefly re-opened in 2002, for filming the House of Blue Leaves scene in the first ''Film/KillBill'' movie. Incidentally, Creator/QuentinTarantino is one of the many western directors who is a massive fan of Shaw Brothers).

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!!Notable Action Legends from Shaw Brothers:

* ''Creator/JimmyWangYu'' - the ''first'' megastar developed by Shaw Brothers and their penultimate icon in the 1970s, Jimmy would spearhead one project after another until he eventually jumped ship to Golden Harvest, culminating in Run-run Shaw blacklisting Jimmy from finding work at Shaw Brothers and choosing to develop Ti Lung and David Chiang as a backup.
* ''Creator/ChengPeiPei'' - despite Cheng's reputation as "The Queen of Swords", her career as a wuxia queen in Shaw Brothers turns out to be [[BrieferThanTheyThink shorter than most people would imagine'', with only 15 (out of 70+) of her movies made under Shaw Brothers to be under the ''wuxia'' genre.
* ''Creator/YuehHua''
* ''Creator/GordonLiu''
* ''Creator/LoLieh''
* ''Creator/ChangYi'' - Jimmy's real-life best friend who co-starred with him in several of his movies. He stayed in the studios for maybe a decade after Jimmy's departure before he leaves as well, although unlike Jimmy, Chang maintains a more stable, mutual understanding without any residual hostilities.
* ''Creator/ChenKuanTai''
* ''Creator/DavidChiang'' - One of two mega-stars groomed to be Jimmy's replacement, Chiang would find a life-long best friend with Ti Lung, where they will co-star in more than 50 films during their days in Shaw Brothers.
* ''Creator/TiLung'' - see above.
* ''Creator/DannyLee''

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!! A ''Partial'' List of Movies Produced by this Studio:

* ''Film/The36thChamberofShaolin''
* ''Film/AManCalledTiger''
* ''Film/ATasteOfColdSteel''
* ''Film/AngelWithTheIronFist''
* ''Film/TheAnonymousHeroes''
* ''Film/AsiaPol''
* ''Film/TheAssassin1967''
* ''Film/TheAvengingEagle''
* * ''Film/TheBellsOfDeath''
* ''Film/BlackMagic''
* ''Film/BloodBrothers1973''
* ''Film/TheBraveArcher'' - trilogy
* ''Film/TheBrothers''
* ''Film/BoxerFromShantung''
* ''Film/BrothersFive''
* ''Film/ChallengeOfTheMasters''
* ''Film/TheChineseBoxer''
* ''Film/ClanFeuds''
* ''Film/ClanOfTheWhiteLotus''
* ''Film/ClansOfIntrigue''
* ''Film/ColdBlade''
* ''Film/ComeDrinkWithMe''
* ''Film/CoolieKiller''
* ''Film/TheCrimsonCharm''
* ''Film/TheDeadlyDuo''
* ''Film/DeathDuel''
* ''Film/DelightfulForest''
* ''Film/TheDesperateChase''
* ''Film/DirtyHo''
* ''Film/DisciplesOfThe36thChamber''
* ''Film/DragonSwamp''
* ''Film/DuelOfTheIronfist''
* ''Film/TheEightDiagramPoleFighter''
* ''Film/TheEmperorAndHisBrother''
* ''Film/ExecutionersFromShaolin''
* ''Film/FiveDeadlyVenoms''
* ''Film/FiveElementNinjas''
* ''Film/FiveShaolinMasters''
* ''Film/TheFlyingDagger''
* ''Film/FlyingGuillotine''
* ''Film/FourRiders''
* ''Film/FourteenAmazons''
* ''Film/TheFugitive1982''
* ''Film/FullMoonScimitar''
* ''Film/TheGenerationGap''
* ''Film/GoldenSwallow''
* ''Film/TheGoldenSword''
* ''Film/HaveSwordWillTravel''
* ''Film/Hero1997''
* ''Film/HeroesOfShaolin''
* ''Film/TheHeroicOnes''
* ''Film/TheHiddenPowerOfTheDragonSabre'' - parts 1 and 2
* ''Film/HongKongNocturne''
* ''Film/TheInvincibleFist''
* ''Film/IronChainFighter''
* ''Film/TheJadeRaksha''
* ''Film/JudgementOfAnAssassin''
* ''Film/KillerClans''
* ''Film/KillerDarts''
* ''Film/KillersFive''
* ''Film/KingBoxer''
* ''Film/TheLadyHermit''
* ''Film/LadyOfSteel''
* ''Film/TheLegendOfThe7GoldenVampires''
* ''Film/LegendOfTheBat''
* ''Film/TheLongChase''
* ''Film/TheMagicBlade''
* ''Film/MaskedAvengers''
* ''Film/TheMightyPekingMan''
* ''Film/TheMonkeyGoesWest''
* ''Film/MercenariesFromHongKong''
* ''Film/TheNavalCommandos''
* ''Film/OneArmedSwordsman'' - all 3 movies
* ''Film/OnTheWrongTrack''
* ''Film/PrincessIronFan''
* ''Film/RawCourage''
* ''Film/TheSentimentalSwordsman''
* ''Film/SevenManArmy''
* ''Film/ShadowWhip''
* ''Film/ShaolinAndWuTang''
* ''Film/ShaolinMantis''
* ''Film/TheShaolinTemple'' - the third movie, ''Martial Arts of Shaolin'', is co-produced by Shaw Brothers
* ''Film/TheSingingKiller''
* ''Film/SoulOfTheSword''
* ''Film/TheSuperInframan''
* ''Film/TheSwordOfSwords''
* ''Film/TempleOfTheRedLotus''
* ''Film/ThatFieryGirl''
* ''Film/TheThunderingSword''
* ''Film/TrailOfTheBrokenBlade''
* ''Film/TheTwelveGoldMedallions''
* ''Film/Vengeance1970''
* ''Film/VengefulBeauty''
* ''Film/TheWanderingSwordsman''
* ''Film/TheWaterMargin'' and its sequel, ''All Men Are Brothers''
* ''Film/WebOfDeath''
* ''Film/TheYoungAvenger''
* ''Film/TheYoungRebel''

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