Cho Tat-wah (or Tso Tat-wah) (15 September 1915 â€" 10 January 2007)
was a film actor of Hong Kong, most famous for the roles he played in
a number of Wuxia films in the 1950s and 1960s.The names Cho Tat-wah
and Shih Kien were synonymous to "good and evil" in the colloquial
language of Hong Kong because of the roles the two actors played in
those movies. Yu So-chow co-starred many of Cho's movies. The two
names Cho Tat-wah and Yu So-chow symbolized a perfect couple. His
well-known roles include Lung Kim-fei (é¾ åŠ é£›), Leung Foon (æ¢ å¯›)
and Inspector Wah (è ¯æŽ¢é•·).A native of Taishan, Guangdong, (Spoke
Chinese Cantonese, and Chinese Taishenese) Cho began his actor career
at the age of 15, and eventually starred in more than 700 movies. He
was a compulsive gambler. Legend has it that he lost the Wah-tat
Studio, which produced most of his movies at the time, at the gambling
table. However, it is not certain whether the studio was owned by him.
was a film actor of Hong Kong, most famous for the roles he played in
a number of Wuxia films in the 1950s and 1960s.The names Cho Tat-wah
and Shih Kien were synonymous to "good and evil" in the colloquial
language of Hong Kong because of the roles the two actors played in
those movies. Yu So-chow co-starred many of Cho's movies. The two
names Cho Tat-wah and Yu So-chow symbolized a perfect couple. His
well-known roles include Lung Kim-fei (é¾ åŠ é£›), Leung Foon (æ¢ å¯›)
and Inspector Wah (è ¯æŽ¢é•·).A native of Taishan, Guangdong, (Spoke
Chinese Cantonese, and Chinese Taishenese) Cho began his actor career
at the age of 15, and eventually starred in more than 700 movies. He
was a compulsive gambler. Legend has it that he lost the Wah-tat
Studio, which produced most of his movies at the time, at the gambling
table. However, it is not certain whether the studio was owned by him.
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