[These daily posts will cover little known actors or people that have appeared in more recent films and TV series. Various degrees of information that I was able to find will be given and anything that you can add would be appreciated.]
Son of Simon Yuen, Cheung-Yan Yuen is with his brother Woo Ping one of the best choreographers of Hong Kong cinema. He was born in Guangzhou, China in 1957 and like his siblings, Cheung-Yan received piano training from their father at the China Drama Academy of Yu Jim Yuen. He began to follow in his father's footsteps in the 1960s, working on Cantonese films before taking on roles as a stuntman in Shaw Brothers productions. He did not waste time trying to choreograph as he was trained by Tong Gaai, collaborating on films like “Vengeance!” or “Killer Clans” on a decade of his career at the giant of the production of Hong-Kong.
In the late 1970s, Cheung-Yan left the Shaw Brothers and joined independent productions. This is how he collaborated on the choreographies of two films by Joseph Kuo: “Seven Grandmasters” and “World Of Drunken Master”. In the early 1980s, he joined Golden Harvest and collaborated, among other things, with his brother Woo Ping on films like “Miracle Fighters” and “Legend of a Fighter” (as a choreographer and actor). Hard work that will be updated throughout the rest of the careers of the two men. He created on this occasion his most famous characters: that of the mad master with the hallucinatory face that he will interpret in “Drunken Tai Chi” and “Shaolin Drunkard” and the character of the old woman as in “Miracles Fighter”.
It is in this context that he tried his first realization: “Taoism Drunkard”. He will continue in this fantastic Kung Fu solo with strange vampire movies or ghosts such as “Wizard's Curse”. Cheung-Yan will also try his luck in the urban thriller with films like “Live Hard” and “Darkside of Chinatown” but the movies are commercial chess. His choreographic work on films of the same category made by his brother will be much more satisfying like “Tiger Cage 2”.
In 1991, he took over for Lau Kar Wing on the set of “Once Upon A Time In China”. Unfortunately, he too will not be able to completely satisfy the demanding Tsui Hark and is forced to call on his brother Woo Ping to help him in the final stages. Their collaboration intensified further in the 1990s, giving birth to memorable action films such as “Tai Chi Master” and “Fist of Legend”. Cheung Yan, however, proves that she had not lost his solo hand by performing the choreography of “Madam City Hunter” and comedies like “Master Wong vs Master Wong” and “King of Beggars”.
In 1998, he helped Woo Ping on the set of “The Matrix”, mainly to rig actors for the cables. This U.S. experience opened other doors for him. He was thus proposed as choreographer for “Charlie's Angels” and thus marked his establishment in the Hollywood film world. He worked on “Charlie's Angels”, “Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle”, and “Daredevil”.
In “El karate el Colt y el impostor” (The Stranger and the Gunfighter) in 1974 he appears as a constable in his only Spaghetti western.
CHEUNG-YAN, Yeun (aka Yan Yuen Cheng, Yuen Chung, Yuen
Chang Jen, Yuen Cheong Yan, Yuen Cheung Yan, Yuen Chung Yan, Yuan Hsiang Yen,
Hsiang Jen Yuan, Hsiang-Jen Yuan, Hsiang-jen Yuan, Xiang Ren Yuan, Cheng Yan
Yuen, Cheung Jen Yuen, Cheung Yan Yuen, Mr. Cheung-Yan Yuen) [1957, Guangzhou,
China - ] – director, assistant
director, writer, SFX, stuntman, film actor, son of actor, stuntman Siu Tin
Yuen [1912–1979], brother of producer, production manager, director, assistant
director, writer, stuntman, actor Yuen Woo Ping actor, stuntman Shun-Yee Yuen,
writer, actor, stuntman Yat Chor Yuen, producer, director, writer, actor,
stuntman Brandy Yuen.
The Stranger and the Gunfighter – 1974 (constable)
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