Kwan Hoi-san Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Kwan Hoi-san Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Herman Kwan Hoi-San (Chinese: 關海山) (born Kwan Ming-kok; October

23, 1925 â€" September 11, 2006) was a Hong Kong actor. His English

name was Herman Kwan. Kwan started off as a Cantonese opera actor in

street theatre before joining New Voice Opera Troupe (æ–°è ²åŠ‡åœ˜).

He also started singing for early Hong Kong film soundtracks and moved

on to act in films, mostly adaption of opera in Cantonese. He became

famous and acted in many lead roles. When Hong Kong films started to

move towards Mandarin, Kwan's career faltered and joined TVB and acted

in various roles. Directors and filmmakers rediscovered his talent and

cast him in many supporting roles in films. In 2001, Kwan suffered a

stroke and was left mute and paralysed. He died in 2006.Kwan at an

early age, followed his father Kwan Yiu-fai (é—œè€€è¼ ), studied

Cantonese opera. At 11, he started playing in public. At the time,

Cantonese opera was mainly street theatre: actors were acting on a

stage built in front of a temple or a market. He left Guangzhou for

Hong Kong after World War II. Later, Kwan Hoi San will join the

greatest troupes of that time, such as the New Voice Opera Troupe

(æ–°è ²åŠ‡åœ˜) which featured Yam Kim-fai.In the 1940s, Kwan started

singing for the Hong Kong-produced Cantonese films soundtracks.

Cantonese cinema was booming then and stars from the Cantonese opera

moved on to act in them. Kwan followed suit and started acting in

films soon after. The films were often adaptations from the Cantonese

opera repertoire. His first movie is Huet Chai Huet Seung

(è¡€å€ºè¡€å ¿). His fame as a cinema actor quickly goes beyond the one

he had built as a theatre actor. He often acts with famous actors such

as Cho Tat-wah, Cheung Ying, Lau Hak-suen and Shih Kien. This

beautiful era wherein he was the young lead last until the end of the

1960s, when the arrival of the Mandarin language productions from the

Shaw Brothers will impose juvenile faces to the public, such as Jimmy

Wang Yu, David Chiang Da Wei or Yueh Hua. Kwan Hoi San and his friends

had then to accept this change. Some returned to theatre, others

continued to do movies in Cantonese while participating in productions

shot then in Mandarin in big studios such as Shaw Brothers or Cathay

Asia Films. Other also will integrate television, then still on its

early stage, where they will meet again some filmmakers that have also

turned toward TV.Kwan Hoi-san's cinema career went downhill until the

mid-1970s. In 1976, he joined TVB, which he didn't leave up until the

early 2000s. During his television period, he quickly became a great

and must-have supporting part in the soaps. Not unlike in cinema, Kwan

Hoi San was able to perform all kinds of characters in the small

screen without troubling his audience. He was, from one series to

another, a good family man, a Kung-fu master, a machiavellian

godfather,a minister of the emperor, a Taoist magician, a firm

manager, a historical character or also a traitor to the country. The

part he was the most often attributed was the one of the patriarch of

a rich family in decay, in the long emblematic series of the channel.

Other stars from TVB have confronted him more than once in the long

series of the channel: Chow Yun Fat, Carol Cheng Yu Ling and Simon Yam

Tat Wah in Brothers/Tsan Ching (亲情), Adam Cheng Siu Chow in Clan

of Intrigues/Chor Lau Heung (楚留香), Andy Lau Tak Wah and Tony

Leung Chiu Wai in The Duke of Mount Deer/Luk Ding Kei (鹿鼎记),

Felix Wong Yat Wah and Ray Lui Leung Wai in Kung Fu Master of Fat

Shan/Fat San Chan Sin Sang (佛山赞先ç"Ÿ), Stephen Chow Sing Chi in

The Justice of Life/Ta Loi Chi Kong Woo (他來自江湖) or also Lau

Ching Wan in The Battle Among The Clans/Dai Heung Kong (大香港). In

1982, in The Demi-Gods and Demi-Devils/Tin Lung Pa Po (天龙八部),

he crossed the path of Leung Kar Yan, but also Kwan Chung (å…³è ª),

one of his sons.
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