RIP Yuen Cheung-yan

 

Chinese martial arts master, choreographer, stuntman and actor Yuen Cheung-yan died in Hong Kong on January 1^st. He was 68. Born in Guangzhou, China in 1957 Yuen worked for many years in the Hong Kong film industry. During the 1970s and early 1980s, he worked with his elder brother, Yuen Woo-ping [1945- ], and other members of the Yuen family on several films, some of them kung fu comedies such as “Shaolin Drunkard” (1983) and “The Miracle Fighters” (1983). He also worked as a fight choreographer for American films like “Charlie's Angels” (2000). Yuen appeared in one Spaghetti western as a constable in 1974’s “The Stranger and the Gunfighter” with Lee Van Cleef and Lo Lieh for which he was a stand in.