Lin Zhengying, formerly known as Lin Genbao, was born in 1952 in a poor Hong Kong working family, his parents made a living by making a living by making a living by covering food for others, plus the family had a total of six children, Lin Zhengying's family was not rich and ranked third in the family, like other siblings, he dropped out of school early to learn art before he finished primary school, and Lin Zhengying in childhood had long experienced human suffering.
In 1963, the 11-year-old Lin Zhengying studied Peking Opera with master Pink Chrysanthemum who founded the Spring and Autumn Drama Academy in Hong Kong, and became a brother of the same teacher with Chen Long, Zun Long, Luo Jiaying, etc. After half a year of training, Lin Zhengying officially stepped on the stage of drama and began his acting career. Lin Zhengying, who earns a living by his talents, has worked the Peking Opera stage for five years and has accumulated extraordinary skills.
After being introduced by a friend, he officially entered the film in 1969 at the age of 17. Dragon tiger martial artist is a special public stage created by the Hong Kong entertainment industry, and in the heyday of kung fu movies, a large number of children from cold doors will participate in it. The stand-ins, stunts, and dragon sets in the crew are all full, which can be said to be very hard.
Because Lin Zhengying is smaller, plus he has a foundation in Peking Opera, every martial arts action can be done very cleanly and neatly, so he often gives female stars a stand-in.
In 1971, Lin Zhengying ushered in the first turning point in his life, was invited by jiahe film company that had only been formed for more than a year, started a martial arts coaching work, met Bruce Lee who had just returned to Hong Kong when filming "Tangshan Big Brother", during the cooperation period, Lin Zhengying and Chen Huiyi could well complete the actions required by Bruce Lee, with tacit understanding, Chen was good at targeting, Lin was good at targeting, and became Bruce Lee's right and left arm.
In the following years, the two of them have successively collaborated on many movies such as "Jingwu Men" and "Dragon Fight Tiger Fight". Bruce Lee promised to take him to Hollywood to develop, just when the two were looking forward to the future, in 1973, Bruce Lee suddenly died suddenly, the sudden death of the 33-year-old made the whole of Hong Kong into grief, as a good friend Lin Zhengying was even more sad. This made Lin Zhengying difficult to accept for a while, but the days had to go on, but without bruce Lee's support, Lin Zhengying did not know where to go for a while.
The martial arts film circle has undergone great changes, and there has been a vacuum in the Hong Kong martial arts film industry, which has also spawned the emergence of martial arts stars represented by Jackie Chan, Hong Jinbao, Jet Li, Yuan Biao, Yuan Hua and others. Soon after, Hong Jinbao began to establish the Hongjia class, and he strongly invited Lin Zhengying to serve as the "special martial arts instructor" of the Hongjia class, and Lin Zhengying gladly agreed.
As long as there is a film in which Hong Jiaban is a martial arts instructor, there will inevitably be Lin Zhengying, and Lin Zhengying has gradually become one of the backbone members of Hong Jiaban. Lin Zhengying made a cameo role in the movie "Ghost Fighting Ghosts", which marked the beginning of Hong Kong's psychic zombie films, and the series of "Loser" and "Five Lucky Stars" cooperated by the two were very exciting, so that Lin Zhengying was nominated for Best Action Director twice.
In 1985, Lin Zhengying, Qian Xiaohao and Xu Guanying starred in the magical kung fu film "Mr. Zombie" directed by Liu Guanwei, played by Lin Zhengying, maoshan Daochangjiu Uncle, who was even more impressive, in the film he painted the iconic one-character eyebrows, left two small eight-character beards, dressed in Taoist robes, holding a peach wood sword The image of a Taoist priest is so influential that no one has surpassed it so far. Laid the foundation for Lin Zhengying's image in the subsequent film and television journey. The film was first released in Taipei and caused a sensation, and then in Hong Kong for 28 days, the box office accumulated more than 20 million Hong Kong dollars, and also set off a wave of "zombie films" boom.
In 1986, "Zombie Family" was filmed in Hong Kong for 21 days and received a total box office of more than HK$17 million, and in 1987, "Mr. Phantom" was filmed in Hong Kong for 21 days and received a total of more than HK$19 million.
In 1989, when Hong Kong's traditional Maoshan zombie films were followed by the trend and repeated imitations gradually lost their audience, Lin Zhengying integrated Western vampires and zombies into Hong Kong zombie films, and for the first time, he directed the psychic horror film "One Eyebrow Taoist" Maoshan Technique and the novel effect of Western vampire fighting together once again gained a good reputation.
In the following 1990-1992, Lin Zhengying has made more than 10 zombie-themed films, but because the plot is too rough and smashed, such films are no longer popular with the audience, and Lin Zhengying has gradually withdrawn from the shooting of zombie films.
In 1994, Lin Zhengying remade the film of the same name as a Hollywood TV series for the second time as a director, paying tribute to Bruce Lee.
Until 1995 to 1996, Asia Television's high salary hired him to star in the TV series "Zombie Road Chief" and "Zombie Road Chief II", the TV series will be humorous folk tales and supernatural zombie films, and successfully won the love of the public, Lin Zhengying also from the direction of film to the direction of TV series.
Lin Zhengying also met Yuan Qiongdan because of the filming of this "Zombie Daochang", and he fell in love with Wen Wan's beautiful Yuan Qiongdan because of the play. However, because he had already had a failed marriage and still had two children, he did not want to delay Yuan Qiongdan, and he did not dare to show his heart, and finally Yuan Qiongdan took the lead in warmly confessing, and the two naturally came together. But when Yuan Qiongdan thought that the two of them would spend the rest of their lives together, Lin Zhengying suddenly told her to break up with her, and Yuan Qiongdan could not understand and could not accept it. It wasn't until the news of Lin Zhengying's liver cancer was exposed by the media that she understood Lin Zhengying's deep meaning: he just didn't want to drag her down.
In 1997, he was scheduled to shoot "Zombie Road Chief III", but at that time, he was told that he had liver cancer, which terminated the shooting and became his last wish. In the same year, Lin Zhengying insisted on acting with illness, and co-filmed "A Flower Monk" with Xu Jinjiang and Liu Songren, which was also the last work lin Zhengying filmed in his lifetime.
On November 8, 1997, Lin Zhengying, who was at the peak of his career, died of liver cancer in the late stage, and finally passed away at the age of 45, at this point, the life of a generation of Taoist Lin Zhengying officially came to an end.
Half a bowl of clear water shines on the dry, a spirit rune destiny ghost god. Stepping on the yin and yang bagua steps, holding a wooden sword in his hand to slay the demon soul. Sprinkle tears and wine heroically, and the Taoist qi will last forever in heaven and earth. The red rope sticky rice is still there, and the exorcist is not seen!
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