Jackie Chan
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PERSONAL DATA OF JACKIE CHAN
Age: 67 years old
Born in: HONG KONG
Born on: 07/04/1954
BIOGRAPHY OF JACKIE CHAN
Actor, director, producer, Jackie Chan is one of the most important names in the world of martial arts cinema.
Born in Hong Kong on April 7, 1954 with the name of Chang Kong-Sang.
In the early 1960s, his father, a cook, moved with his family to Australia, but Jackie’s poor school results prompted him to send him back to his homeland and enroll him in the China Drama Academy, one of the schools of the Pecking Opera. There the young man Chan she studied acrobatic arts, dance, singing and martial arts for 10 years under the guidance of a very strict teacher (Yu Jim-Yuen) and following an ultra-rigid discipline, bordering on sadism.
Yu Jim-Yuen inserts Chan in the group of “Seven Little Fortunes”, which counted on its members also other future protagonists of Hong Kong cinema such as Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao.
Thanks to the performances of the group and the knowledge of Yu in the world of cinema, and friendship with Sammo Hung, Jackie at the end of school he enters the world of cinema, first as Stuntman (he will always, in the future, be his own double) and then as an actor, also appearing in films by Bruce Lee (of which he will long be considered an heir) as From China with fury is The 3 of Operation Dragon.
Success takes a while to come, e Chan shuttles between Hong Kong and Australia: up to 1978, when he interprets The snake in the shadow of the eagle, the film where for the first time he succeeds in bringing on stage the style that will make him famous, made up of kung fu, silent cinema gags and humor. The consecration comes the same year with the famous Drunken Master, which will have a sequel in the 1994.
In 1980 he made his debut as a soloist with The white fan, and in the same year he begins his approach to Hollywood, which will be slow and laborious, with films like Whoever touches yellow dies is Cannonball Run – America’s craziest run.
In the 1980s, in Hong Kong, he signed some famous titles with friends Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao, how Project A – Operation Pirates, The mystery of Count Lobos and the trilogy of Lucky Stars, until their last film together, Dragons Forever, of 1988.
In 1985 he inaugurated the successful series of Police Story (which still lasts today) and in 1987 is the protagonist a-la-Indiana Jones of Armor of God, also with a sequel.
The nineties saw him as the protagonist of films such as Twin Dragons is City Hunter (taken from the manga of the same name), and in 1995 comes the first real Hollywood success, that of Earthquake in the Bronx.
With Rush Hour, in 1998, a long Hollywood parenthesis opens, marked by titles such as Chinese bullets, Tuxedo, 2 horsemen in London is Around the world in 80 days.
But Jackie Chan, despite being an international star by now, he does not forget his homeland and shoots in Honk Kong Vampire Effect, The Myth, Rob-B-Hood, Revenge of the Dragon and much more.
In recent years a series of physical problems have slowed down his activity a bit, but master Miyagi was the same in the remake of The Karate Kid of Harald Zwart and starred in films such as Shaolin, Chinese Zodiac is Police Story 2013.
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THE MOST RECENT FILMS BY JACKIE CHAN
Chinese Zodiac (Shi Er Sheng Xiao)
Role: Film director
Year: 2012
WITHOUT NAME AND WITHOUT RULES (NGO HAI SUI)
Role: Film director
Year: 1998
Armor of God II (Fei ying gai wak)
Role: Film director
Year: 1990
Armor of God (Long xiong hu di)
Role: Film director
Year: 1986 Go to Complete Filmography
THE MOST RECURRING GENRES OF JACKIE CHAN
Action: 31% Comedy: 22% Martial Arts: 17% Adventure: 11%
THE STATISTICS OF JACKIE CHAN ON COMINGSOON.IT
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RECENT ROLES PLAYED BY JACKIE CHAN
Movie | Role |
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Vanguard | Tang Huanting |
The Iron Mask | master’s degree |
Bleeding steel – Hero of steel | Lin Dong |
Earth – An extraordinary day | (Chinese narrator) |
Kung-Fu Yoga | Jack |
The Foreigner | Quan |
Kung Fu Panda 3 | Monkey (original voice) |
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