According to Hong Kong media reports, the famous Hong Kong Wu Mengda died in Hong Kong on February 27, 2021, at the age of 70.
In addition to filming many Hong Kong films and Hong Kong dramas, Wu Mengda is also one of the more Taiwanese films and Taiwanese dramas among Hong Kong stars.
Wu Mengda was admitted to the third stage of wireless actor training class in 1973, and later began to participate in wireless dramas and some performances, but his career was not smooth, and he always played supporting roles at the beginning.
But he still caught up with a god-like drama of wireless, that is, the 1979 "Legend of Chu Liuxiang" directed by Wang Tianlin.
This drama created the glory of Zheng Shaoqiu.
At that time, this drama caused a sensation in Hong Kong, and it also created a rating myth in Taiwan, and all the actors in it became popular.
Zhao Yazhi, who played Su Rongrong, became the most popular actress in Hong Kong with the play, and "Shanghai Beach" will not come out until a year later.
The heroine Shen Huishan is played by the later wireless sister Wang Mingquan.
Guan Haishan and his son Guan Cong play Gao Guanying and Wuhua.
Chu Liuxiang has three confidants with red faces, Su Rongrong of Zhao Yazhi, Song Tian'er of Liao Anli, and Li Honggui of Gao Miaosi.
The cast of this drama is not inferior to the later "Shooting Eagle", such as Li Siqi, Su Xingxuan, Luo Lan, Chen Yulian, Liu Yali, Eddie, Chen Honglie, Tang Zhenye, Liao Qizhi, etc., but most of them are supporting roles or dragon sets, and Wu Mengda, who has been in wireless for several years, finally played an important role Hu Tiehua.
Hu Tiehua, nicknamed "Flower Butterfly", and Chu Liuxiang and Ji Bingyan are the best buddies.
Ji Bingyan is played by Xia Yu.
Because they are important supporting actors, Wu Mengda and Zheng Shaoqiu have a lot of scenes.
Wu Mengda and Cheng Ke play the "Qingfeng Female Swordsman" Gao Yanan.
"The Legend of Chu Liuxiang" of course also made Wu Mengda a big hit, when Taiwan offered a high price to invite the actors of this drama to go, so Wu Mengda asked wireless for two months of leave, to Taiwan drunk and dreamed of death.
The next year, Wu Mengda was hidden by wireless snow because he owed 300,000 gambling debts, and at this time, he began to study acting skills and think about the future.
When he was banned by wireless, Wu Mengda began to explore the market outside Hong Kong, and the first thing that came to mind was Taiwan.
In the 1970s and 1980s, the Hong Kong and Taiwan film circles were very closely exchanged. "The Legend of Chu Liuxiang" became popular in Taiwan, in 1982, Taiwan's Dongliang Film Company made a Chu Liuxiang movie called "Finger Divine Gong", because the soul figure Zheng Shaoqiu was not invited, so this movie actually told the story of Chu Liuxiang's friends.
Su Rongrong, played by Zhao Yazhi, became the protagonist.
Wuhua is still played by Kwan Chung, who had just left Hong Kong to develop in Taiwan, but after acting in a few plays, he switched to business.
The duo of Wu Mengda and Xia Yu is still there, but the propaganda materials at that time are marked as Hu Mengda.
Hong Kong stars in "Finger Magic" include Jiang David, Meng Fei (who had just developed from Hong Kong to Taiwan at that time), Yu Feng, who developed from Taiwan to Hong Kong, and Liao Anli and Gao Miaosi in the original TV series, and Taiwan's cast is also very strong, including Ke Junxiong, Liu Shangqian and Zhang Qiongzi, who is still active in the Taiwanese film and television circle.
In the Taiwanese film advertisement that year, Wu Mengda was called "Hu Mengda".
In 1983, Taiwanese film tycoon Wang Yingxiang, in collaboration with the legendary Hong Kong and Taiwan film circle female oddity and Xinhua Film boss Tong Yuejuan, produced a social realistic film "Death of the Flower Destroyer", starring Hong Kong actors Lu Liangwei, Liu Dan and Wu Mengda, and Taiwanese film actress Gui Yalei. Wu Mengda plays a fierce bandit.
Wireless snow hid Wu Mengda for two or three years, and in 1983, wu Mengda began to unseal, Wu Mengda acted diligently in wireless for several years, and later became a close partner with Zhou Xingchi, which everyone is familiar with.
The first joint cooperation between Xingye and Wu Mengda is wireless".
After that, Hong Kong cinema ushered in the super golden age of the early and mid-1990s, and Wu Mengda not only cooperated with Stephen Chow, but also starred in a number of famous Hong Kong films.
The Hong Kong film market was so prosperous at that time, of course, capital will not miss this era, in the early 1990s, there was a wave of Taiwanese film tycoons investing in Hong Kong films, Wu Dun's Changhong Film and Television is one of the most active companies.
In 1993, Changhong Film and Television filmed "Nerve Knife and Flying Cat" in Hong Kong, directed by Zhu Yanping, a famous Taiwanese fast knife maker and commercial film director, with a popular star lineup, including Jacky Cheung, Leung Ka Fai, Maggie Cheung, Zhang Min, Wu Mengda, as well as "Little Whirlwind" Lin Zhiying, who swept Hong Kong from Taiwan, the most popular teen idol at that time, Ye Yunyi. Because of the Taiwanese capital, this film also has Taiwanese actors such as Fang Fang and Gu Baoming.
Wu Mengda plays the key character who finally saves everyone, the drunkard, who is responsible for being funny without scruples.
Wu Mengda and Da Fangfang, the eldest sister of Taiwan's theater industry.
Almost at the same time, Wu Mengda, who had a pleasant cooperation with director Zhu Yanping, filmed "Hero of the End of the Exotic Land", which was still invested by Changhong Film and Television.
"Heroes of the End of the Exotic Land", although it is still a Taiwanese film, has joined more Hong Kong filmmakers, including Liang Chaowei, Wu Mengda, Guan Zhilin, Lu Liangwei and so on.
Wu Mengda plays a veteran Lao Xie in the film, in this movie, you can also see Wu Mengda in addition to comedy performances, and in the main drama and tragedy, there can also be tear-jerking performances.
There is a very important scene between Lao Xie and the female spy played by Wu Mengda and Guan Zhilin.
Wu Mengda also won the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor for the first time with his wonderful performance in this film. It was a pity that year, he lost to Lang Xiong of "The Wedding Feast".
Lin Zhiying remembers Uncle Da on social platforms.
In 1994, Zhu Yanping once again cooperated with Wu Mengda and filmed many people's childhood memories "Laughing Forest Boy 2: New Oolong Courtyard". The first part of "Laughing Forest Boy" starred Lin Zhiying, Hao Shaowen and Shi Xiaolong, which was very popular, so Zhu Yanping quickly gathered people and horses to shoot the second part for release, forming a trio of Wulongyuan, Wu Mengda played the master brother, Hao Shaowen played Xiaowen, Shi Xiaolong played Xiaolong, and the three of them and the two killers of the female devilhead launched a super funny battle.
The famous scene where the master brother sings "Kiss Goodbye".
Only if you know the relationship between Wu Mengda and Zheng Shaoqiu in the early years can you possibly understand the significance of this scene in which Qiu Guan cameo.
Master brother and Ye Quanzhen, who plays Little Red.
Ye Quanzhen, who plays Xiaohong, posted on the social platform, saying that it was hard to believe that had left.
Shi Xiaolong put a pure black photo on the social platform, and he called Wu Mengda Uncle Da.
Hao Shaowen wrote a passage of nostalgia for North and North.
In fact, this trio of years of friendship, cooperation is not only "Laughing Forest Boy 2: New Oolong Courtyard", Zhu Yanping, who filmed quickly, filmed "Chinese Dragon" in 1995, Wu Mengda, Hao Shaowen, Shi Xiaolong, Ye Quanzhen and other royal team, as well as Jin Chengwu (Jin Chengwu was Zhu Yanping and Wong Kar-wai's two styles switched at the same time for several years).
Immediately after, the original team also filmed "Stinky Fart King" (Crayon Little Student), Wu Mengda played the school worker Uncle Da, but in this part there was no Shi Xiaolong and Ye Quanzhen, but Jin Chengwu and Zhu Yin were added.
In 1995, the trio also filmed "New Oolong courtyard 2 invincible anti-fighting star", basically still following the routine of "new oolong courtyard".
In 1996, Zhu Yanping filmed "The King of Comics", this time Uncle Da and Hao Shaowen remained unchanged, starring in the popular fresh meat, from Lin Zhiying Jin Chengwu to Wu Qilong.
The golden partner of Wu Mengda, Shi Xiaolong and Hao Shaowen, originally used by Zhu Yanping, was also "loaned" to the Hong Kong film "The Adventures of Golden Island" in 1996, directed by Qiu Litao and Xia Xiuxuan.
In this movie, Wu Mengda and Fang Fang play a couple, Hao Shaowen plays their son, and Shi Xiaolong is the owner of the Golden Island.
In 1997, Zhu Yanping made a "Ninja Soldier", and Wu Mengda once again cooperated with Hao Shaowen to play a ninja teacher.
There is also his old partner Huang Yifei in this movie.
In 1997, Zhu Yanping, who was very good at using popular stars, found Wu Qilong and Jin Chengwu, two handsome boys, to partner, and filmed the gangster film "The Rampaging of Burning Island".
Wu Mengda plays the stock king in the prison of Burning Island.
This movie also invited the Golden Horse Film Emperor Chen Songyong to star.
Entering the new century, Taiwanese director Xu Jinliang filmed the TV series "Young Liang Zhu" by China Television, Luo Zhixiang and Hong Kong actress Liang Xiaoice partner Liang Zhu. Wu Mengda plays Ding Chengyong, the master of Nishan Academy.
In 2001, another Taiwanese film and television tycoon, Yang Dengkui, remade "New Chu Liuxiang", which was broadcast on Taiwan's China Television. The son of Wang Tianlin, the director of the wireless "Legend of Chu Liuxiang" at that time, and also one of the screenwriters, Wang Jing directed, starring Ren Xianqi, Lin Xinru, Li Zi, Yuan Yongyi and so on. Wu Mengda plays a character in another novel by Gu Long, "The Legend of Lu Xiaofeng".
In 2002, Zhu Yanping made a comedy film in Hong Kong, "Never Let You Go", starring Wu Mengda, Hao Shaowen, Chen Zhipeng and Taiwanese artist Xin Long.
Xin Long's wife, Liu Zhen, died tragically last year, and it is said that Xin Long has gradually come out of the haze recently.
In 2005, Zhu Yanping opened up the mainland market and filmed "Two Birds with One Stone", which was scolded very badly that year, and the starring team he found still had Wu Mengda, in addition to Wu Zongxian, Lin Xinru, Xuecun and Zeng Zhiwei.
This is not the end, and later filmed a "One Stone Two Birds 2", Zhu Yanping himself did not direct, but Wu Mengda still starred.
The super scary thing is that this series also made a third film.
The 2006 Taiwan drama "White Tower" was the strongest TV series of that year, and Wu Mengda played Tang Guotai, the director of surgery at the affiliated hospital of the United Nations University, a person who valued power very much, and the role was very heavy, and he was the third male. His old and spicy performance is still wonderful in the program of Taiwanese idol drama.
Zhang Junning, who cooperated with "The White Tower", wrote on the social platform: Uncle Da said that performance is a very serious thing and must have sincerity.
Wu Mengda not only created a classic role in the peak era of Taiwanese idol dramas, but also caught up with a wave of bitter dramas. Around 2008, the kind of Republic of China bitter drama filmed by the Taiwanese team in the mainland, with the Republic of China as the background, more bitter than which daughter-in-law, was very popular in the mainland, "Dumb Bride" and "Kapok Spring" are among the representatives, and then many films were filmed, including this "Daddy Called Me at Dawn".
Wu Mengda played a kind-hearted seller in "Daddy Called Me at Dawn".
In 2008, Zhu Yanping gathered his own resources for many years, cooperated with the three places across the strait, and filmed a "Big Slam Dunk", which was joined by Hong Kong and Taiwan idols Jay Chou, Chen Bailin, Chen Chuhe, Cai Zhuoyi, and comedy celebrities Wu Mengda, Zeng Zhiwei, Huang Bo, Yan Ni, Wu Zongxian and Li Liqun. The film was a commercial success.
Wu Mengda made a cameo appearance as Master Wu, and the famous Hong Kong actor Leung Ka Yan played Master Leung.
In 2009, Wu Mengda also acted in a TV series about the small three links between the two sides of the strait, "Boats Coming and Going", and he and Zhang Liwei, a famous Comedian in Taiwan, had many moves.
In 2010, Taiwan's "China Television" filmed an idol drama "Rogue Principal", starring Zeng Zhiqiao and the unfortunate ghost Huang Hongsheng who died last year, Wu Mengda played a former big guy grandfather, and the famous Taiwanese actor Li Luo played his son.
In 2013, Malaysia made a musical film called "Champion Singer King", starring Wu Mengda, and most of the other actors were from Taiwan, including Gao Lingfeng, who played Wu Mengda's opponent, as well as Huang Xiaohu and Xia Keli.
Gao Lingfeng died in 2014, and now the two former "rivals" can sing in the sky.
In 2015, the famous Taiwanese artist Kang Kang (Kang Jinrong) made a comedy film "100,000 Guys", starring all comedy cafes, including Singaporean brother Li Guohuang, Hong Kong's Wu Mengda, as well as Taiwan's Wu Zongxian, Ou Di, Wang Caihua, Aunt Su Zhu and Kang Kang himself, very hilarious.
Wu Mengda is also prominently ranked on the poster.
In 2018, Zhu Yanping once again took out the IP of "New OolongYuan" and made a "Laughing And Laughing Jianghu", or was scolded very badly, but in this movie, Wu Mengda, Hao Shaowen, and Ye Quanzhen reunited again many years later, which is also a very "ye Qinghui" event.
But unexpectedly, this was the last cooperation between Wu Mengda and Zhu Yanping.
Zhu Yanping posted on the social platform that when he first met Wu Mengda, he called him Uncle Da, and later felt that he was not so old, so he was called Da Ge, but later learned that Wu Mengda was one year older than Zhu Yanping. And saidI feel very deeply, I miss
As for why Uncle Da has made so many Taiwanese movies and TV series? One reason is that Hong Kong and Taiwan films cooperated closely, and another reason may be because Uncle Da was born in Xiamen and came to Hong Kong at the age of seven, and he can speak Hokkien dialect.
Uncle Da went all the way.
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