As we all know, Xie Tian is a famous film performance and directing artist in China, he has made great contributions to the cause of Chinese film with great enthusiasm throughout his life, and in 1961, he was named one of the twenty-two film stars in New China.
Xie Tian, born in Tianjin on June 18, 1914, originally from Panyu, Guangdong, began amateur drama performances in Tianjin in 1933, and participated in the Parrot Drama Club, performing plays by Tian Han, Cao Yu and others. In early 1936, he appeared on the screen and filmed films such as "Night Party", "Qingming Season", and "Life and Death Together" at the Star Film Company. After the founding of New China, Xie Tian entered the Beijing Film Studio and successively played various roles in films such as "Democratic Youth March", "Towards New China", "The Legend of the New Children's Heroes", "Gate Six", and "Infinite Potential".
Xie Tian played the villain Zhang Jinlong in "The Legend of the New Children's Heroes".
In 1958, in the film "Lin Family Shop", Xie Tian successfully created the artistic image of Boss Lin, a small businessman in the old society who was both oppressed and exploited, and was also oppressed and exploited, and portrayed the dual personality of this character in detail.
In addition to his role as an actor, Xie Tian also directed more than ten films, and in 1979, Xie Tian directed the opera film "Seven Pin Sesame Officer", which won the Best Feature Film Award at the 4th Hundred Flowers Awards for Popular Film in 1981.
This is the still of "Seven Pin Sesame Officer" published on the inside page of the film journal that year, "Seven Pin Sesame Officer" was written and starred by Niu Decao, and directed by Xie Tian.
Xie Tian's "Little Bells" won the first prize of the second National Children's Literary and Artistic Creation in 1980.
Xie Tian's feature film Sweet Career won the Best Director Award at the 3rd Hundred Flowers Film Awards in 1980.
Xie Tian's film "The Tea House" is a drama film produced by Beijing Film Studio, starring Zhizhi, Zheng Rong, Lan Tianye, Huang Zongluo, Ying Ruocheng and others, released in 1982, the film won the 3rd Chinese Film Golden Rooster Award Special Award and the 1982 Outstanding Film Special Award of the Ministry of Culture in 1983. The picture shows Xie Tian directing at the scene of "TeaHouse"
In 1988, Xie Tian was on the shooting scene of the Pu opera opera film "Fireworks and Tears", and he was the director of the film.
Xie Tian's TV series "The Five", starring Feng Gong and Ni Ping, won the first prize for outstanding TELEVISION dramas from the National Film Studio in 1989.
On July 1, 1961, Premier Zhou visited the Beijing Film Academy and joined Xie Tian, Chen Qiang and others in Beijing.
In addition to his role as an actor and director, Xie Tian's achievements in dubbing are absolute. In 1953, changying the Soviet comedy film "We Seem to Have Met", the main character of which was the comedian Maximov, in the film, with the development and needs of the plot, constantly changed his identity, and successively performed 24 characters of different ages, different personalities, different identities and occupations, including university professors, writers, army chiefs, photographers, prosecutors, rogues, stutterers, ministers...
Cai Chusheng, deputy director of the Cultural Film Bureau at the time, recommended Xie Tian to the dubbing director to complete the dubbing of this character, however, Xie Tian read the script and started to retreat, tried several times and felt that it was too difficult, this job could not be done, proposed to return to Beijing at his own expense, Cai Bureau ordered: "Xie Tian does not finish the sound and wants to return to Beijing." Xie Tian was helpless, locked himself in the room for more than a month, watched the film repeatedly, memorized the lips and timbre of each image, and even memorized the actor's actions. As a result, after the release of the movie, the audience reacted surprisingly well, and Xie Tian became the first person in the history of Chinese films to create a dubbing miracle.
On December 13, 2003, The People's Artist Xie Tian passed away at the age of 89. (PS: Xie Gang, the eldest son of Teacher Xie Tian, is a famous film actor in China, and his daughter Xie Lian is a first-class actor of the former General Political Drama Troupe. ）