Why is Guan Haishan called "Uncle Shrimp"? This stems from an interesting incident in Jackie Chan's cooperation with Guan Haishan in the movie "Plan A", there are many Hong Kong film production companies, and inevitably every film will have a new person to participate, so it has formed an unwritten rule, if you debut as a protagonist, honored as a brother or sister, if you debut as a supporting role, honored as uncle and aunt. In combination with Guan Haishan's thin body, bent and bowed like a shrimp, so Jackie Chan laughed and called "Uncle Shrimp", because of its vivid image, simple and easy to remember, it is still used today.
"Uncle Shrimp" Guan Haishan, who studied Cantonese opera with his father since he was a child, was only 11 years old at the end of the streets and alleys, performing his debut on the Cantonese opera stage, mostly playing the image of handsome young students and dignitaries. With more theater performances and high popularity, he was more eager for the big stage, so he went to Hong Kong to seek a movie dream.
More than ten years of ups and downs, early entry into the accumulation of Cantonese opera performance foundation and far beyond the maturity and stability of their peers, Guan Haishan in 1960 became the hot "chief student" of Cantonese films, classic works such as "do not chop Lou Lan vows not to return", "Beacon Fire Enmity Vengeance Sixteen Years" and so on, but the happy life has not yet been celebrated and enjoyed, Cantonese films have declined due to the cold theme, small audience, slow dissemination speed.
Guan Haishan, who was only 25 years old, had to try to change careers and began to learn modern film forms of acting. Ancient People's Cloud: "Is gold will shine wherever it shines", in the film "Half a Billion Inspector Renault Biography" awarded nine nominations, he is the only one to win and as a supporting role——— Hong Kong Film Awards Best Supporting Actor and Taiwan Golden Horse Awards Best Supporting Actor. Successfully interpreting how a good actor can achieve a good movie, these two film awards also prompted everyone to go to the cinema and enthusiastically watch the movie, so as to know Andy Lau, Wu Mengda, Qiu Shuzhen and Zhang Min, who were still newcomers at that time.
In 1976, Kwan chose to join TVB in Hong Kong and participated in the filming of more than 300 film and television dramas in his lifetime. Among them, in the 1980s, he played a large number of unpredictable martial arts masters, which was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and truly entered the vision of the mainland people. For example, Lu Chengfeng, the chivalrous Owner of Guiyun Zhuang in "The Legend of the Eagle Shooter", Lin Zhennan, who swore to die to protect the ancestral secret book "Evil Sword Method" in "Laughing proud of the rivers and lakes", Hu Qingniu, a Ming Sect divine doctor who saw death and could not be saved in "The Tale of the Dragon Slaughtering in the Heavens", and Ao Bai, who was fierce and fierce, treacherous and cunning in "Deer Ding", and countless other classic characters.
Guan Haishan entered the industry too early, even if he stumbled all the way, he did not delay his fame, in Cantonese opera, television, film, art, etc. that are quite accomplished, he likes to mention some of his descendants, and he will not skimp on his own lessons, never put up a shelf to lose his temper, so everyone respects him very much.
He once warned Andy Lau, who had just turned to acting, to "do the drama first and win three points diligently", which Andy Lau has always remembered, and Hua Tsai has always practiced this principle of doing things.
In addition, Guan Haishan also saved Wu Mengda, who was in debt of more than 300,000 yuan because of the drunken gold fans, not only inspired by confidence and career promotion, but also sent him the book "Six Lectures on Acting" to study. Later, the book was widely circulated among Liu Qingyun, Wu Zhenyu, and Zhou Xingchi, and they competed to read it. This also makes a film and television classic, and the most important prop in "The King of Comedy", "The Self-Cultivation of Actors", is from it.
It is such an excellent, superb acting, and beloved film and television circle big man, who suffered a stroke in 2001 and had to quit the film and television circle. Hong Kong TVB Wireless Tv is deeply sorry and specially awards the lifetime achievement - Thousands of Brilliant Performing Arts Awards, which is the highest honor for a TV series supporting actor, which is also a reward for Guan Haishan's serious performance, non-stingy skills, and enthusiastic promotion of the excellent quality of the younger generations for so many years.
The sails of the career are smooth, and the cabin of life is also tasteful. Because of the early entry time and long working hours, Uncle Shrimp has accumulated wealth in life early. Putting aside the stereotypes of Hong Kong tycoons such as drinking, horse betting, mansions, and sports cars, the marriage of his four wives and six children is amazing.
The first wife, because of the early time and good secret work, did not find the name, only learned that the two met in Guangzhou, fell in love with each other, did not choose to have children but had a daughter.
The second wife, named Huang Li, was met by Uncle Shrimp when he went out to Vietnam to shoot a scene, and she was also the most important person in the huge Guan Room family, and later followed Guan Haishan back to Live in Hong Kong, and the two had three children, namely the eldest son Guan Chuxiong, the second son Guan Cong, and the daughter Guan Wanqing. The focus is to say that the next son Guan Cong, the real son inherits the father's business, and his father Guan Haishan also plays on the same stage, and the cooperative dramas are "Yitian Slaughtering Dragon", "Xiao Li Flying Knife", "Tianlong Eight Parts" and so on.
The third wife, named Ye Erui, is also known to Uncle Shrimp when he went out to Malaysia to shoot a film, although he followed Guan Haishan back to Hong Kong to live for a few years, he had a daughter Guan Zhiying, and finally chose to leave for the United States. Guan Zhiying followed her mother at a young age, lived in the United States, and later returned to China to join TVB Hong Kong when she became an adult, which is considered to be a son inheriting his father's business.
The fourth wife, named Zeng DiRong, is still uncle shrimp out of Singapore to shoot a movie, but also the last wife of uncle shrimp, is really called by the public for more than thirty years "shrimp sister-in-law", the two raised young sons Guan Wei. At this point, Uncle Shrimp never went abroad to shoot dramas, concentrated on running marriages, working hard, and enjoying his old age happily.
Although Guan Haishan has four wives and has not heard of his divorce, it is not surprising to wonder whether this is legal and compliant? It turned out that although Uncle Shrimp had children with his previous three wives, he had not formally gone through the marriage procedures, and only received a license from his fourth wife, Zeng Dirong, and completed the entire process of marriage.
On September 11, 2006, Guan Haishan died of illness at home and died in his sleep at the age of 82.
At this point, although the grief can not be said, but the Hong Kong generation of film and television legends still came to an end, looking back on his life, too many classic roles left for posterity to learn from model, his humble character, superb acting skills, rich acting experience, tireless guidance to promote the excellent character of the younger generations have made us sigh and study hard.
Even though the emotional career of "Uncle Shrimp" makes people talk about it, but no one is perfect, and the deceased has passed away, those classic roles bring us moving, accompany us to grow, is the most precious memory of our childhood, this is not enough. Drama family affairs do not need to be known by the world, sensitive and eager to learn to do everything in the world, only those excellent moral teachings and classic role interpretations are the most perfect shrimp uncles in our hearts.
"Uncle Shrimp" Goodbye, hong Kong TVB with you is really brilliant.