Lee's police films once dominated the Hong Kong film scene in the 1980s and 1990s, almost unbeatable, and successfully won a number of character actors such as Cheng Kui'an, Wang Juntang, and Ji Jiafa. If you are familiar with his works, you will definitely remember that there is also such a royal supporting role: if Li Xiuxian is a "professional leader of the group", then his subordinate roles are often done by him - Huang Baiwen.
In fact, Huang Baiwen's identity is not only an actor, but also a director, producer, planner and screenwriter, and the reason why Li Xiuxian's film career was able to go smoothly at that time was that Huang Baiwen played a great role in helping.
Born in Hong Kong in 1958, Wong was a student of the sixth session of the Wireless Artist Training Course, along with Lui Leung-wai, Chen Yulian, Lou Nanguang and others. During his internship, he participated in three dramas of "Tycoon", "Struggle" and "Absolute Double Pride", and as soon as he graduated, he was appreciated by director and actor Wang Zhong, and stepped into the film circle with "Goldfinger" in 1980, and only one year later, he was promoted to assistant director, and successively participated in the behind-the-scenes shooting of films such as "Stormtrooper", "One Way", "Stepping on the Line" and so on.
During this period, Huang Baiwen and Li Xiuxian became acquainted and became close friends, and since then they have become a fixed member of the latter's team, in 1984, Li Xiuxian filmed the police film "Public Servant" for Yongjia, and he pushed Huang Baiwen to play the role of the criminal "Little Black" in front of the curtain, and proposed to him the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor in the same year, although the "Oolong Incident" was finally nominated by Taibao, but Huang Baiwen's wonderful performance in the play was still widely recognized by the audience.
In 1988, Li Xiuxian founded his own Universal Pictures Co., Ltd., Huang Baiwen naturally joined and became one of the founding elders of the company, and in the same year, with the support and encouragement of the boss, he was officially promoted to director and filmed the Almighty entrepreneurial work Thunderbolt Pioneer, this film not only made Almighty the first cannon, but also had extraordinary significance for the male number two Zhou Xingchi, with the role of ah Wei, a small in the play, he also won the first acting trophy in his life for the first time. The 25th Golden Horse Awards Best Supporting Actor, and behind his award, Huang Bowen is naturally indispensable.
Subsequently, Huang Baiwen has successively directed "Wind and Rain on the Same Road" and "Thunder Sweeping Cave" produced by "Universal", one is a jianghu theme film that continues the frontier with Zhou Xingchi, the other is a typical "universal" police and bandit film, in addition to "Ambition", "Friends", "Descendants of the Dragon" and "O Record of Serious Cases" and other films, Huang Baiwen has participated in the planning.
In the 1990s, Huang Baiwen was a production director in the Universal Company, and on the other hand, he appeared in front of the stage, and because he played Li Xiuxian's police subordinates many times, he left a deep impression on the audience, and gradually became the most iconic actor in the "Almighty" era, who could both act and direct, and it is no wonder that Li Xiuxian used Huang Liwen so much at that time.
Perhaps many people only know that Huang Baiwen can interpret the image of the police in the slightest, but little is known outside the play he is still a fighter who has fought against the disease for many years, in the early nineties, he went to the hospital to be found to be suffering from cancer, in order to recover from the disease, in 1995, the family immigrated to Canada to live, while at the same time with the peace of mind to accompany his daughter to grow up, until after ten years of stable condition, he returned to Hong Kong to shoot.
In 2012, Huang Baiwen chose to re-enter THE TVB, and in the past eight years, he has achieved the ultimate in the "gold medal green leaves", and has also played a lot of popular villain roles, such as the drug lord Viagra in "Thunder Sweeping Drugs", the jianghu character Hong Ye in "Sharpshooter Sniper", the big brother in "Giant Wheel 2", etc., all of which are the screen masterpieces of Huang Baiwen in this period, until this year, his figure is still frequently active in many Hong Kong dramas.
Huang Bowen frankly said that returning to wireless is not for the sake of banknotes, but for the sake of full drama addiction, if the film circle is full of people like him, it must be a blessing for movie fans!