Yuen Biao
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The ThumbScore for Yuen Biao (82.0%) is the average audience approval rating across 5 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Yuen's films are well-received by everyday viewers.
Ha Lingchun (born 26 July 1957), known professionally as Yuen Biao, is a Hong Kong actor, martial artist and stuntman. He specialises in acrobatics and Chinese martial arts and has also worked on over 80 films as actor, stuntman and action choreographer. He was one of the Seven Little Fortunes from the China Drama Academy at the Peking Opera School along with his "brothers" Sammo Hung and Jackie Chan. Throughout the 1980s, he was part of the "Three Dragons" along with Chan and Hung; the three starred in six Hong Kong films together. Yuen Biao has appeared in over 130 films. He has played roles in eight television series for the Hong Kong channel TVB.
Born Ha Lingchun (Chinese: ๅคไปค้) in Nanjing, China on the 26th July 1957, he was the fifth child in a family of eight children. He and his family moved to Hong Kong when he was five years old. At the age of six he was enrolled at the Peking Opera School The China Drama Academy.
He was given the stage name Yuen Biao (Little Tiger) and trained alongside schoolmates Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Corey Yuen, Yuen Wah and several others, under master Yu Jim-yuen, who would later become famous in Hong Kong cinema. He quickly showed a talent for acrobatics. According to Jackie Chan's autobiography, when Yuen was asked by his master to do a backflip on his first day of training, Yuen did a proper backflip on his very first try. He remained at the school until the age of 16.
Born 1957-07-26 in Hong Kong, China.
On ThumbScore, Yuen Biao appears in 5 films with an average audience score of 82.0%, most frequently in the Action genre.
