Miao Tien (, 6 December 1925 – 19 February 2005) was a Chinese film

actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ...

mostly active in

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

and

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

.Lee, Daw-ming (2012).
Historical Dictionary of Taiwan Cinema
'. Scarecrow Press. pp. 281–282.

Biography

Miao graduated at the Teachers College in

Xuzhou Xuzhou (徐州), also known as Pengcheng (彭城) in ancient times, is a major city in northwestern Jiangsu province, China. The city, with a recorded population of 9,083,790 at the 2020 census (3,135,660 of which lived in the built-up area ma ...

and was working as an elementary school teacher when the civil war erupted. He joined the

National Revolutionary Army The National Revolutionary Army (NRA; ), sometimes shortened to Revolutionary Army () before 1928, and as National Army () after 1928, was the military arm of the Kuomintang (KMT, or the Chinese Nationalist Party) from 1925 until 1947 in China ...

and after the Communist victory moved to Taiwan. He continued to work for the army, which assigned him to be an actor in educational films. In 1956 the authorities asked him to join the government-owned Central Motion Picture Corporation (CMPC), where he started a career as a professional actor. Miao was not particularly successful at CMPC and moved to the privately owned Union Film Company. There, he achieved success with martial arts films. By the end of his career, he had starred in more than 100 such films and had become a recognizable name in the field. He died of cancer in 2005.

Selected filmography

*''Du mei gui'' (1966) *''

Dragon Inn ''Dragon Inn'' (, also known as ''Dragon Gate Inn'') is a 1967 Taiwanese ''wuxia'' film written and directed by King Hu. The film was remade in 1992, as ''New Dragon Gate Inn'', and again in 2011 as '' The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate''. Plot Tsao ...

'' (1967) *''Diao Chan yu Lu Bu'' (1967) *''Yi dai jian wang'' (1968) - Chou Fu *''Jiang hu ke'' (1969) *''Tie niang zi'' (1969) *''The Seisure Soul Sword of a Blind Girl'' (1970) *''Yin juan nu xia'' (1970) *''Lie huo'' (1970) *''Hei bai dao'' (1971) *''Shuang qiang Wang Ba Mei'' (1971) *''Xia yi shuang xiong'' (1971) *''Du hang da biao ke'' (1971) *''Duo ming jin jian'' (1971) *''Jian'' (1971) *''

A Touch of Zen ''A Touch of Zen'' (Chinese: 俠女) is a 1971 ''wuxia'' film co-edited, written, and directed by film maker King Hu. Its screenplay is based on a classic Chinese story "Xianü (short story), Xianü" in the book ''Strange Stories from a Chinese ...

'' (1971) *''Zhui ming qiang'' (1971) - Prime Minister Sing Pa Tou *''Yi fu dang guan'' (1971) *''Wan li xiong feng'' (1971) *''Shi wan jin shan'' (1971) *''Long hu da jue dou'' (1971) *''Da sha xing'' (1971) *''Da mo ying xiong zhuan'' (1971) - Jiu Ching *''Ci man wang'' (1971) *''Da di long she'' (1972) - Tsao Ming Chiu *''Ba wang quan'' (1972) *''Yan zi Li San'' (1972) *''Tie san jiao'' (1972) *''Nu quan shi'' (1972) *''Ying peng ying'' (1972) *'' The Bold Three'' (1972) - Boss Tiger Shih Hou *''Jiang hu nu er'' (1972) *''Bi hu you long'' (1972) *''Chao Zhou nu han'' (1973) *''Gan jin sha jue'' (1973) *''Qi sha jie'' (1973) *''Heng chong zhi zhuang nu sha xing'' (1973) *''Nu wang feng'' (1973) - Hsiung Yi Tien *''Shuang tian zhi zun'' (1973) - Lung, Casino Owner *''Ye hu'' (1973) *''Tu bo guo ji si wang xian'' (1973) *''Tie han jing hun'' (1973) *''Ying xiong bang'' (1974) *''Gui ma liang jin gang'' (1974) *''Hu wa er'' (1974) *''Zhu Jiang da feng bao'' (1974) *''Hei shou jin gang'' (1974) *''Wu long da zhui sha'' (1974) *''Hu dan zhui hun'' (1974) *''Guangdong hao han'' (1974) *''Da yin mou'' (1974) *''Da mo tian ling'' (1974) *''Chu zu zuo shou di ren'' (1974) *''Fei che long hu dou'' (1975) *''

The Empress Dowager ''The Empress Dowager'' is a 1975 Hong Kong historical film directed by Li Han-hsiang and produced by the Shaw Brothers Studio, starring Lisa Lu as Empress Dowager Cixi. Plot Although the Empress Dowager Cixi, Empress Dowager Tzu-hsi of the Qi ...

'' (1975) - Eunuch Li Lien-ying *''Da qian shi jie'' (1975) *''Pai an jing ji'' (1975) *''Qi mian ren'' (1975) - 1st leg *''Qiang yu hen'' (1975) *''Da jiang nan bei'' (1975) - Beret *'' The Last Tempest'' (1976) - Li Lien Ying *''Ba dao lou zi'' (1976) - Hsi Yi *''Ba bai zhuang shi'' (1976) *''Ying lie qian qiu'' (1976) *''Bao biao'' (1976) *''

Shaolin Wooden Men ''Shaolin Wooden Men'' () (Shao Lin mu ren xiang) is a 1976 Hong Kong action film directed by Chen Chi-Hwa and starring Jackie Chan. It was made at Lo Wei's studio at Golden Harvest, during the post-Bruce Lee era. The film was also released i ...

'' (1976) *''Hei long hui'' (1976) *''Fu chou zhe'' (1976) *''Feng yun ren wu'' (1977) *''Shui ling long'' (1977) *''Long she xia ying'' (1977) *''Jin luo han'' (1977) *''Leng yue gu xing jian wu qing'' (1977) *''Sheng jian feng yun'' (1977) *''Jiao jiao bing tuan'' (1977) *''Ren ba zhao'' (1977) *''Tuo gu gui jian lang yan'' (1977) *''Bai Yu Jing'' (1977) *'' Snake & Crane Arts of Shaolin'' (1978) - Leader Gu *''Tian ya wei gui ren'' (1978) *''Yi zhao ban shi chuang jiang hu'' (1978) - Mr. Wan *''Zhan tian shan'' (1978) *''Bai zhan bao shan he'' (1978) *''Zhen bai she zhuan'' (1978) *''Yu qing ting'' (1978) *''Qi shi er sha xing'' (1978) *''You ling shen'' (1979) *''Du jiao he'' (1979) *''Xiang ye qi tan'' (1979) *''Hu tu fu xing chuang jiang hu'' (1979) *''Zui hou nu'' (1979) *''Mang han dou lao qian'' (1979) *''La shou xiao xi'' (1979) *''Jin yi wei'' (1979) *''Cheng gong ling shang'' (1979) *''Bi xue huang hua'' (1980) *''Di yu tian tang'' (1980) *''Cai yang nu bang zhu'' (1980) - Dragon Master *''You wo wu di'' (1980) *''Shi wan shan feng yun'' (1980) *''Ling ling wu shi'' (1980) *''Lang zi de yan lei'' (1980) *''Huang di yu tai jian'' (1981) *''Shou zhi ao chu'' (1981) *''Xin hai shuang shi'' (1981) *''Shen yong tu ji dui'' (1981) *''Tian ya guai ke yi zhen feng'' (1981) *''The Wandering Dragon'' (1981) *''Nu zei'' (1982) - Hu Chi *''Hei juan tao'' (1982) *''Jui gwai chat hung'' (1983) *''Tang Chao qi li nan'' (1985) *''Ninja Dragon'' (1986) *''Du mo'' (1991) *''

Rebels of the Neon God ''Rebels of the Neon God'' () is a 1992 Taiwanese drama film written and directed by Tsai Ming-liang in his feature film directorial debut. It stars Lee Kang-sheng, Chen Chao-jung, and Jen Chang-bin. Plot A young man, Hsiao-Kang, attends a cram ...

'' (1992) - Father *''Sheng nu de yu wang'' (1993) *''Man hua wang'' (1996) *''Fei tian'' (1996) *'' The River'' (1997) - Father *''San shi er li'' (1997) *'' The Hole'' (1998) - A Shopper *''

What Time Is It There? ''What Time Is It There?'' is a 2001 Taiwanese film directed by Tsai Ming-liang. It stars Lee Kang-sheng, Chen Shiang-chyi, and Lu Yi-ching. Plot Hsiao-kang is a street vendor in Taipei who sells watches out of a briefcase. His father dies. Soo ...

'' (2001) - Father *''

Goodbye, Dragon Inn ''Goodbye, Dragon Inn'' () is a 2003 Taiwanese comedy-drama slow cinema film written and directed by Tsai Ming-liang about a movie theater about to close down and its final screening of the 1967 wuxia film ''Dragon Inn''. Plot During the last 9 ...

'' (2003) - (final film role)

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