Today, Li Zhiyu, a well-known old opera bone and retired professor of the Acting Department of the Shanghai Theater Academy, died at the age of 85 in Shanghai Huadong Hospital due to ineffective medical treatment.
Li Zhiyu is a native of Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, born on December 4, 1936 in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province. Graduated from the Performance Department of Shanghai Theater Academy in 1962, he is the first generation of theater performance graduate students trained in China, and then stayed on to teach at the school, successively serving as assistant teacher, lecturer, associate professor and professor of the Department of Acting, and trained many well-known actors such as Pan Hong, You Yong, Ma Shaohua, Ren Quan, Li Bingbing, Liao Fan, and Song Jia.
After the death of Li Zhiyu, the actor Song Jiafa mourned, "My acting enlightenment teacher, my mentor, an elegant gentleman, a restrained and low-key performance artist Li Zhiyu left us today. May he be in heaven without sickness, and in peace and tranquility. Teachers through the ages, your students will always love you. ”
Director Li Shaohong said: "Teacher Li Zhiyu will always be Li Zhi of Tang Gaozong in "Daming Palace Words"" ...
In 1979, Li Zhiyu came to prominence in the film "Distressed Laughter" co-directed by Yang Yanjin and Deng Yimin.
Later, he played a leading role or important role in films such as "Bashan Night Rain", "July Flowing Fire", "Don't Forget Me", "After the Rain", "Qiu Jin", "Well", "Fox Mystery Case", "Purple Trace", "Gao Peng Full Seat", "Superconductor" and other films filmed by Shangying, Changying, Emei and Guangxi. In 1985, Li Zhiyu also won the Best Actor Award at the 3rd TV Golden Eagle Awards for starring in the TV series "Xu Beihong".
"Bashan Night Rain"
"Distressed Laughter"
Li Zhiyu and his brothers Li Wei and Li Nong are known as the "three brothers in the Shanghai film industry", and his sister-in-law Zhang Ying, his wife Hong Rong and his daughter Li Yun are also film actors, and their daughter has starred in Qiong Yao's drama "On the Water Side".
In life, Li Zhiyu and most of the characters he created on the silver screen are more unified, gentle and elegant, and have the temperament of an intellectual, while the villain role he plays is a bold attempt and breakthrough in performance.
Tong Zirong once lamented in "Our Teacher Li": "The talent radiating from the teacher is really conquering us all." There is no doubt that he admired and inherited Stanislavsky's performance system. What I feel particularly deeply is that Teacher Li always emphasizes that actors should emphasize communication and feelings, and they should really want to really listen to real actions at all times, not to perform, but to live on the stage, experience and fully integrate into the role. This kind of simple and simple realm is really the most difficult realm to reach! ”
Did you ever see him in your screen memory? All the way!
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Editor: Xu Yang