Wong Tin-lam

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Wong ().
Wong Tin-Lam
Chinese name 王天林
Chinese name 王天林 (traditional)
Chinese name 王天林 (simplified)
Pinyin wáng2 tiān1 lín2 (Mandarin)
Jyutping wong4 tin1 lam4 (Cantonese)
Born (1928-09-11)11 September 1928
Shanghai
Died 16 November 2010(2010-11-16) (aged 82)
Hong Kong
Other name(s) Wang Tianlin
Occupation screenwriter, film director, film producer, actor
Children Wong Jing
Ancestry Shaoxing, Zhejiang

Wong Tin-Lam was a Chinese screenwriter, producer, director, and actor, who has contributed to the Hong Kong cinema scene with a career spanning six decades. He has made films in Cantonese, Mandarin and Amoy dialect.[1]

Career

Wong began as a director in the mid-1950s, working for the Hsin Hwa Film Company. He later joined Cathay Organisation.

When Cathay Studios was shut down in the early 1970s, Wong continued to establish himself as a filmmaker, making TV drama serials by combining film production techniques with the flexibility of television production, and became a trendsetter in melodrama and wuxia serials.[1]

Wong has retired from the television production scene, and nowadays can be seen in appearances and supporting roles in films directed by Johnnie To, Wai Ka-Fai and his son, Wong Jing, who has followed in his footsteps.

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