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Pai Mei Dies... Old School Kung Fu Great LO LIEH is Dead
Actor Lo Lieh dies after suffering heart attack
Lo Lieh (1939 - 2002)
Father Geek here... genre actors have had a bad weekend and this death hits KUNG FU fans hard. I first saw Lo Lieh, like most american kung fu fans in Five Fingers of Death at a Drive-in, annnnnd I followed his career eagerly for years after that flick which I saw many times... His Pai Mei character has been recently revived by Quentin Tarantino in his upcoming KILL BILL played by another great old school Kung Fu artist, Gordon Liu...
Here's what the HONG KONG ENTERTAINMENT NEWS has to say about Lo Lieh's passing...
Father Geek here... genre actors have had a bad weekend and this death hits KUNG FU fans hard. I first saw Lo Lieh, like most american kung fu fans in Five Fingers of Death at a Drive-in, annnnnd I followed his career eagerly for years after that flick which I saw many times... His Pai Mei character has been recently revived by Quentin Tarantino in his upcoming KILL BILL played by another great old school Kung Fu artist, Gordon Liu...
Here's what the HONG KONG ENTERTAINMENT NEWS has to say about Lo Lieh's passing...
November 3rd, 2002: Veteran actor Lo Lieh has died. He was 63. Born Wong Lap-Dat in 1939, Lo was a staple in old-school kung fu
movies from the mid-1960s through to the mid-1980s. He appeared in such classic films as GOLDEN SWALLOW, EXECUTIONERS
FROM SHAOLIN and MIRACLES.
In 1973, Lo's FIVE FINGERS OF DEATH (aka KING BOXER) became the first Hong Kong movie to
make a splash at the American box office. Lo parlayed the recognition from that film into a role in the 1974 "Spaghetti-Western"-style
movie THE STRANGER AND THE GUNFIGHTER. "Spaghetti-Western" legend Lee Van Cleef co-starred.
Lo died in Shenzhen on Saturday morning at around 10 am after suffering a heart attack. He was rushed to the hospital but was
pronounced dead on arrival. Lo had reportedly been dealing with a heart condition for the past two years.
Lo lived a turbulent life filled with ups-and-downs in business and in his personal life. He was married four times and leaves behind three
children. His widow, his fourth and current wife, is twenty-three years old. She and Lo have a two-year old child from the marriage. Lo
also has two sons from previous marriages. One of his wives, Tong Ka-Lai, is the older sister of director/producer Stanley Tong Kwai-Lai.
Two years ago, reports emerged stating that Lo was in financial difficulty. However, according to Stanley Tong, Lo was making a
comfortable living of late by running an advertising agency and a massage parlour in the Mainland.
Despite the fact that he is probably most well-known for his work as a villain in various Shaw Brothers and Chang Cheh movies, Lo was a devout Buddhist renown for a
gentle off-screen demeanour. In 2001, Lo capped his film career with a critically-acclaimed performance as a lonely security guard in the drama GLASS TEARS.
A funeral is expected to be held later this month in Shenzhen.
Related images (courtesy Ming Pao):
(Lo with Lee Van Cleef.)
(Lo with Cheng Pei-Pei in GOLDEN SWALLOW.)
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Hasn't Van Cleef been about 60 years old for about 30 years now? sk
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Nov 04, 2002 1:50:38 PM CST
Can the Grim Reaper just take a day or two off, please?
by sod off baldric
All these deaths are starting to depress me. Yet again I send out an RIP to a talented individual who lived the dream. A flight of angels sing thee to thy rest and all that. Later.
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My bad! sk
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I've been watching it on VCD over the last few days (I keep getting interrupted) and it's a very poignant drama about modern life in Hong Kong. I'll have a review up on my site in a few days (www.thegline.com).
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People shouldn't worry about the increase in celebrities because as celebrities get older they gradually be forgotten. Only those celebrities who do something legendary or something recent get remembered. It's a sad sad life for a Z list celebrity.
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Shit, people have been dropping like flies. Who's next? Maybe it will be YOU!!! Er, or someone else named "Harris."
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And I only watched the movie for the first time a few weeks ago. It was one I had purchased on DVD about a year ago and kept getting side-tracked into watching other things. It's very similar to Fist of Fury in some ways, with two schools competeing against one another - though they are both schools are chinese (There are some japanese swordsmen called into help fight for the bad guys) in this one. It eventually culminates in a tournament where the best of each school throw down. This is one of the few kung fu films I've seen where chi is represented in the fighting sequences in a more down to earth way. It never makes the film seem unbelievable. The fights are all very powerful and the fighters all have a 'weight' to them, as opposed to many kung fu movies where the actors all seem to be feather-light. The 'weight' makes all the hits, falls, punches and kicks carry a sense of reality - and the belief that the guy on the receiving end is really getting hurt. None of the fighters in the film are invincible, and suffer serious injuries and don't recover. It's worth watching!!
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Everything comes in multiples: Jonathan Harris, the one and only Doctor Smith of LOST IN SPACE fame, has died at 87 of a blood clot. He was still working in films up until very recently, doing voices in TOY STORY 2 and A BUG'S LIFE.
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Anyone who posts on a news article that has no idea who the news article is about HAS WAAAYYYYY TOO MUCH TIME ON HIS HANDS!!!
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Nov 05, 2002 6:47:36 AM CST
It's always like this! Death takes a vacation for a while... the
by psyclops
What the fuck? Why do celebrities die within weeks of each other?
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