65-year-old Hong Kong martial arts actor Meng Hai died suddenly, suffering from esophageal cancer last year, and was Sammo Hung's partner

On October 9, the famous Hong Kong action actor Meng Hai (formerly known as Meng Jinghai, nicknamed Xiaohai) suddenly received news of his death at the age of 65.

Du Dawei, Lu Huiguang, Zhao Yonghong and other artists posted condolences on social platforms, and Meng Hai's niece Meng Xixuan (TVB artist) confirmed the death of his second uncle.

Meng Hai is one of the members of the Hong family class and looks similar to another martial arts actor, Yuan Biao.

When he was young, he studied Peking Opera with the "Dao Ma Dan" pink chrysanthemum flower, and was the same as Chen Baozhu, Xiao Fangfang, Lin Zhengying, Zunlong, Yang Panpan and others.

Meng Hai debuted at the age of 10, and his first work was the movie "Dust Guest".

At the age of 15, Meng Hai was handpicked by Bruce Lee to perform in the movie "Kirin Palm" because of his skills, and then he co-starred with Bruce Lee in "Dragon Fight Tiger Fight", but Meng Haiqian said that he only made a cameo appearance in the movie.

It is reported that Meng Hai has successively cooperated with Bruce Lee father and son (Bruce Lee, Li Guohao), and now all three have traveled.

In addition to being an actor, Meng Hai is also an action director and director.

In 1985, Meng Hai won the "Best Supporting Actor" at the 5th Hong Kong Film Awards for "Royal Senior Sister", and was nominated for "Best Action Direction" at the Hong Kong Film Awards seven times.

Meng Hai has collaborated with many famous superstars, including: Michelle Yeoh, Stephen Chow, Sammo Hung, Jackie Chan, Yuen Biao, Donnie Yen, etc.

Meng Hai and his senior brother Lin Zhengying have performed in the same frame many times:

Here are some of the film and television works he participated in:

Meng Xixuan was interviewed by Hong Kong media by phone, she revealed that Meng Hai died on the night of the 9th, "He was ill for a while, my father Meng Long is helping to deal with his uncle's aftermath, the details of the funeral, we will explain to you later." ”

Meng Xixuan said that Meng Hai was confirmed to have esophageal cancer last year, "The second uncle was found to have esophageal cancer last year, he worked hard to treat it for a while, but unfortunately it did not improve, and he passed away tonight (October 9) very peacefully." ”

In September last year, Meng Hai was interviewed by the media about his six-year relationship with American actress Rovlow.

At that time, Rovlow was arranged to Hong Kong to shoot "Royal Senior Sister", Meng Hai is both an actor and an action director, he has been with each other for more than 6 months, and he has to play every day, originally the two did not understand the language, and relied on Michelle Yeoh as an interpreter, and later Meng Hai took the initiative to learn English, which narrowed the distance between him and Roflo.

After six years of love, Roflo proposed to get married, but Meng Hai was only 26 years old at the time, he knew that once he got married, he would return to the United States with Rofolo, he wanted to stay in Hong Kong to film, and the two could not reach a consensus and broke up.

After Rovlow returned to the United States, she continued to work as an actress, and she invited Meng Hai to act abroad, but Meng Hai refused.

Meng Hai has retired from the front of the scene in recent years to focus on behind-the-scenes work, he and his wife are very low-key, the other party is not in the circle, the two have a daughter, 17 years old this year, still in middle school.

Niece Meng Xixuan (below) mentioned Meng Hai's wife and daughter in an interview, saying that his family was very hard, and after Meng Hai fell ill, he accompanied him for a long time every day.

In the past six months, the family has slowly accepted that Meng Hai may leave at any time, "The moment the second uncle really left, everyone was sad, and we hope that he can leave the suffering and be happy and no longer suffer from illness." ”

At this stage, the family is busy dealing with Meng Hai's posthumous affairs, and the funeral arrangements will be announced after a while, Meng Xixuan thanked the senior artists and the martial arts association for their help to Meng Hai, "The second uncle is very popular, after he fell ill, many friends visited the hospital every day, grateful for everyone's concern for him." ”