Ku Feng  

                                                                                              (Guk Fung, Gu Feng, Kuk Fung, Ku Fung)     

                                 Actor

                                                                                         Born: 1930   

 

                                 Intense, rugged and authoritative, Ku Feng is one of Hong Kong cinema's most productive

                                 and reliable character actors. A mainstay of the celebrated Shaw Brothers film studio since

                                       the mid 1960's, he has anchored many of the most renowned martial arts classics. 

 

                                       Ku Feng is best known for his many antagonist roles, and his work with top directors 

                                Chang Cheh, Ho Meng Hua, and Chor Yuen. Audiences know him as the evil white haired

                                   clan leader in The Avenging Eagle (1978), the ruthless Ming dynasty general in Secret 

                                    Service of the Imperial Court (1984), the wicked witch doctor in Black Magic  (1975), 

                                     and the exploitative anthropologist in Mighty Peking Man (1977), to name a few of his

                                                                                        many guises.

                                    

                                      In 1973 he was chosen to play the lead role of Chinese folk hero Wong Fei Hung in 

                                     Shaw's The Master of Kung Fu. For his role in Li Han-Hsiang's Tiger Killer (1982),

                                            Ku Feng was awarded the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor.

 

                                     Ku was also active with independent companies. He played a crippled fighter in Four 

                                   Invincibles, a whiskey drinking fight trainer who tutored Bruce Li in Dynamo, and was

                                   Li's Japanese nemesis in Fist of Fury 2. He also co-starred with Li as the main baddie 

                                                in Last Strike, also with Lo Meng, Shaw Yin Yin and Carl Scott.                             

 

                                      In the 1980's, Ku Feng had significant roles in classics like Peking Opera Blues, 

                                         Cageman, and Hong Kong 1941. He continues to act today, most recently in 

                                                         Julian Lee's award-winning gothic drama Night Corridor.  

                                                    

                                                                          Ku Feng Filmography