Ou Wei (; 16 September 1937 – December 1973) was a Taiwanese actor.
Ou Wei was born Huang Huang-chi () in present-day
Xinhua District, Tainan
Sinhua District, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (), alternatively spelled Xinhua, is a suburban district in central Tainan, Taiwan.
History
Before the Dutch and Han Chinese invaded, this region was home to a community ...
, on 16 September 1937. His father, a billboard painter, died when Huang was five years old. His formal education ended after middle school. Huang worked for the police before leaving to pursue acting. He found that theatre did not suit him, and as such he joined director's Ho Chi-ming's film studio. Huang made his Hokkien film debut in 1957, and took his stage name, Ou Wei, from the character he portrayed in ''Green Mountain Bloodshed'', a historical drama about the rebellion of a tribe of
Taiwanese aborigines
Taiwanese may refer to:
* Taiwanese language, another name for Taiwanese Hokkien
* Something from or related to Taiwan ( Formosa)
* Taiwanese aborigines, the indigenous people of Taiwan
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against Japanese rule. While Ou Wei served in the
Republic of China Air Force from 1958 to 1961, Ho Chi-ming had closed his film studio in 1959. Ou Wei then became a freelance actor and worked with Ho Chi-ming's brother Ho Lin-ming, among others.
In his return to acting, Ou Wei appeared in several Mandarin films. During the 1960s, he worked for both the
Central Motion Picture Corporation
Central Motion Picture Corporation (中央電影事業股份有限公司, or CMPC 中影 in short) is a Taiwanese movie studio. It was established in 1954 as a state-owned media organisation by the then Kuomintang of Taiwan. It has produced movies ...
and
Shaw Brothers Studio. Ou Wei received his first
Golden Horse Award for Best Actor in 1964. Five years later, Ou Wei appeared in the first film made by Tachung Motion Picture Company, a studio founded by former CMPC director
Lee Hsing. In 1972, Ou Wei starred in ''
Execution in Autumn'', and was again named the Golden Horse Best Actor winner. In a sixteen-year acting career, Ou Wei portrayed over one hundred roles. He wrote a number of screenplays, and released his final work, ''The Big Raid'', in which he was writer, producer, actor, and director, in 1973. He died of kidney disease in December of that year.
Within the
Yang Kui Literature Memorial Museum, there is an exhibit dedicated to Ou Wei.
Selected filmography
*''
Beautiful Duckling'' (1965)
*''
Execution in Autumn'' (1972)
References
External links
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Site devoted to Ou Wei, by the Bureau of Education of the Tainan City Government
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1937 births
1973 deaths
20th-century Taiwanese male actors
Taiwanese male film actors
Male actors from Tainan
Deaths from kidney disease