Wu Ma, real name Feng Hongyuan, is a famous Hong Kong film and television actor, director, and Hong Kong director Zhang Chezhi's senior disciple.
Noon horse
Born in Tianjin in 1942, he moved to Hong Kong in 1959 with his parents working in opera. At the age of 21, he entered the Shaw Company as a film and television actor and joined the Hong family class. In 1965, he became famous by starring in the movie "Mulan" directed by Zhang Che. After that, he began to work as an assistant director, and at the age of 28, he independently directed the action movie "Furious Sword and Wild Knife", and in 1975, Noonma directed and acted in the action movie "Seven Provinces Boxer", in which he played Duan Sanshao. Subsequently, he participated in "Salted Fish Rebirth", "Mr. Zombie", "Knife Ma Dan" and other wonderful action movies. In 1982, the film "Scary People" directed by NoonMa won the Best Director at the 3rd Hong Kong Film Awards. In 1986, he participated in "Law Enforcement Pioneer" directed by Yuan Kui, and was nominated for supporting actor at the 6th Hong Kong Film Awards.
In 1987, NoonMa played the role of Yan Chixia in the movie "Ghost of a Woman", with which he won the Best Supporting Actor at the 24th Golden Horse Awards and the Best Supporting Actor at the 7th Hong Kong Film Awards. In 1988, he planned to participate in the film "The Last Eunuch in China" and was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 8th Hong Kong Film Awards.
Stills from NoonMa's "Ghost of a Lady"
In 1990, Wu Ma played Liu Zhengfeng in the movie "Smiling Proud of the Jianghu", and he and Lin Zhengying, who played the elder of the Demon Sect and Qu Yang, both made cameo appearances, and played a song "Laughing Proud of the Jianghu" together, which became a classic. Later, he cooperated with Lin Zhengying many times and directed and participated in many zombie-themed film series. Since then, Ma has not only performed many classic movies, but also starred in a number of TV series, such as "The Great Song Ti Criminal Officer", "Under the Lion Rock", "Legend of Shaolin Temple", "New Jade Guanyin" and so on.
In 2011, the 69-year-old Noon Ma starred in a mainland movie, the role of "Wu Daozi" in "Painting Saint", with which he won the Best Actor Award at the Movie Channel Media Awards. This is the first award that Noonma won as a male lead, and it became his last.
Stills from Noonma's "Painting Saint"
In the early morning of February 4, 2014, Noon Ma died of advanced lung cancer in Hong Kong at the age of 71. On February 28, at the funeral at the Hong Kong World Funeral Home, nearly half of Hong Kong's entertainment circles came to pay their respects and farewells, and 8 people, including Hong Jinbao, Dillon, Jackie Chan, and Tsang Chi-wai, helped him.
Noon Ma can act, edit, direct and plan, and is a rare talent in the Hong Kong film industry. As an actor, Noonma is definitely a drama-level figure, in more than 40 years of acting career, has starred in more than 100 film and television works, mostly to play negative roles, small characters, although not much played the main role, but the audience have a deep impression of him, is affectionately known as "diamond-level supporting roles" and "gold medal dragon set".
Noon Horse Funeral
On September 7, 2016, NoonMa won the 20th Huading Awards and the Lifetime Honor Award of Chinese Film.
In December 2018, at the first Shaoxing Keqiao New Talent Film Festival, NoonMa won the Classic Time Award.