On April 23, it is the 22nd anniversary of the death of performance artist Liao Youliang, played by Li Jin, the "Eighteen-Year-Old Brother" of "The Story of Liu Fort", tong Anan in "Sentinel under Neon Lights", taking this opportunity to pay tribute to Liao Youliang!
For many middle-aged and elderly friends, if they forget the name "Liao Youliang", it is forgivable, because his "big red" is fifty or sixty years ago after all, but if you forget the deputy squad leader Li Jin in "The Story of Liu Fort" and the new soldier Tong Anan in "Sentinel under the Neon Lights", you cannot be "forgiven".
I believe that most old friends will not forget these two classic characters.
Liao Youliang, born on October 28, 1937, is a native of Jiading, Shanghai. Coincidentally, his "screen lover" Tao Yuling in "The Story of Liubao" was born on October 28, 1934, he was 3 years younger than her, but his birthday was October 28, which made people sigh the magic of "fate".
In March 1950, with the waist drum playing well, Liao Youliang, who had just been 13 years old, asked to join the 20th Army Cultural and Labor Corps that came to his hometown, and the regimental commander saw that the children were well-behaved and clever, and the determination to join the army was great, so he made an exception and approved his request.
A few months later, in October, the Korean War broke out, and although he was just 13 years old, Liao Youliang also signed up for the Volunteer Army Cultural and Labor Corps. Like the adults, he not only performed for the soldiers on the battlefield and in the tunnels, but also delivered food and transported the wounded, and he was very strong.
After returning to China, the 20th Army Cultural and Labor Troupe was disbanded, and Liao Youliang and some comrades-in-arms entered the Nanjing Frontline Drama Troupe, which was established in 1955. In 1956, he won an award at the Nanjing Military Region Literary and Art Performance.
But what really made Liao Youliang famous was in the 1958 movie "The Story of Liu Fort", he played the flamboyant deputy squad leader Li Jin. When he played Li Jin, he had just turned 20 years old, but he had already had a military career of 7 years.
The first love between the "18-year-old little brother" and the "second sister" Tian Xueying was fascinating and intoxicating, and Liao Youliang and Tao Yuling became the "red lovers" in the hearts of the audience in that era. What made people at that time even more amazed was that the original military theme movies could also be made so innocent and lyrical.
A few years later, in 1964, the movie "Sentinel under neon Lights" was released, in which Liao Youliang starred in tong Anan, a new fighter who was free and loose and tainted with bourgeois habits, and the line "I don't eat international restaurants only" was unforgettable.
Regrettably, shortly after the release of Sentinel under Neon Lights, that big movement began. The main actors of the film, such as Xu Linge, Gong Zipi, Liao Youliang, Tao Yuling, etc., were all isolated for examination, criticism, and decentralization, and then he was sent to the Transportation Department of the Shanghai Post and Telecommunications Bureau as an ordinary worker.
However, by the time Liao Youliang entered the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center in 1982 and resumed his acting career, he was 45 years old, no longer innocent and youthful, and had to play supporting roles in several movies.
These films mainly include "Village in the City", "Behind the Defendant", "Jigong", "Courtyard Deep", "The Husband's Secret", "The Battle of Huaihai", "The Last Emperor", "The Children of Zhuangyuan Village" and other film and television dramas. But of all the works, none surpassed "The Story of Willow Castle" and "Sentinel under Neon Lights".
Although Liao Youliang was revered as an "eighteen-year-old brother" everywhere he went, his life in his later years was desolate and lonely. When he was nearly half a hundred years old, his wife divorced him and left the United States with her only child. After that, he did not remarry, but lived alone in Shanghai, gu ying self-pity.
The disintegration of the family and the lonely life made him rely on tobacco and alcohol for a long time to "anesthetize" himself, he said: "Tobacco and alcohol are good things, the fuel of life..."
On April 23, 1999, Liao Youliang, who was suffering from liver cancer, died of illness in Shanghai at the age of 62. In the last moments of his life, when there was no one around, he took a tape recorder and left his last words to his loved ones and those who loved him: "You are alive, it is good to be alive!" ”
Now think about it, Liao Youliang's situation is a bit similar to Yang Likun's, both are recognized as "youth idols", the main works are only two, but the fate, but also half a life of ups and downs, when the luck is bad, people can't help but be sad from it...
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