Time is too hurried, too late to embrace, it has gone far, the passing rhyme is like a piece of withered maple leaves, everything that was once gradually gone, only the memory engraved in the heart, even after experiencing the polishing of wind and frost, is still clearly visible, everywhere the vicissitudes of the remarkable years. For people who like nostalgia, it is always possible to think of shaw actors in the 70s and 80s of the last century, even if some actors are not the protagonists, they still shine on the green leaves. The one mentioned today, who studied at the Air Force School, played a supporting role and became popular, because he failed to take care of the family due to filming, resulting in a bad relationship with his son, and he died of cancer in his later years and failed to see the last side of his son, he is Wang Xia.
In the history of the film and television industry, many supporting roles have been gradually forgotten after years of development, but when we recall those classic movies, we will be impressed by him, which is the magic of the gold medal supporting role. The name Wang Xia may only be known to audiences who like to watch early Hong Kong and Taiwan dramas, but his other identity is said, and basically the audience can know, that is, the father of singer Wang Jie. Wang Xia was born in 1930 in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, when he was young, he went to Taiwan with his parents, Wang Xia in his youth was not interested in acting, but had a military dream, once was a student of the thirty-fifth batch of Taiwan Air Force Officer Academy, but had to drop out of school for health reasons, and then joined the Lixing Theater Troupe, participated in drama performances, and let Wang Xia learn to perform in the days of acting dramas.
In fact, Wang Xia debuted quite late, which may be related to his early experience, although during the period of acting in the drama, he applied for Ding Boyu's Asian company, learned to shoot and had cameos in several Taiwan dramas, but Wang Xia really debuted in 1959, at the age of 29, he played an important role in the Chinese movie "Golden Age", and then the resources became more, and he acted in "Black Butterfly", "Fourteen Thousand Witnesses", "Lover's Stone" and other movies during his time in Taiwan. In the 60s of the last century, kung fu films gradually emerged in the Hong Kong film industry, so in order to develop better, Wang Xia resolutely gave up the Taiwan market for many years in 1965, switched to Hong Kong to sign a contract with Shaw Company, and started his life as a gold medal supporting role, participating in a number of classic movies, such as the grand prince in "Fourteen Female Heroes", The Chief Zhou in "The Great Warlord", Deng Sihai in "Northland Rouge", Lai Yutian in "Asian Secret Police", Liu Yingde in "Chinese Superman", etc.
If you talk about the acting skills of the actors, people will first think of the actors of the past seventies and eighties, in that quiet era, the actors filmed less than the interference of a lot of noisy sounds outside, so the scenes filmed can always impress the audience, Wang Xia is the kind of actor with superb acting skills, although his role is very small, the camera is not much, but often with his superb acting skills to leave a deep impression on the audience. In 1977, Wang Xia left Shaw's company and returned to Taiwan to continue his acting career, but he was still active between Hong Kong and Taiwan, and wang xia in the 80s still presented to the audience with three or four works every year, and the most impressive thing for the audience was in "The True Colors of Heroes" as a gangster who gave information to Xiao Ma Ge, although there were not many shots but impressive, and in the 80s Wang Xia also participated in some TV series, such as Huang Yaoshi in "Eagle Hero" in 1984, Liu Dahong in "Deer Ding" in 1984, etc.
Although Wang Xia did not become a popular star, but also left his own figure in the glorious era of Hong Kong movies, after entering the 90s, Wang Xia gradually faded out of the film world because of physical reasons, faded out of the time, people gradually forgot about the supporting role who has played countless movies, but may not be able to put down the love of the acting career in his heart, in his later years came out to make some cameo roles, such as with Cui Haoran filmed the TV series "The Great Law Enforcement", in the 2008 idol drama "Basketball Fire" cameo Yan Chengxu's grandfather, In 2012, he made a cameo appearance in the idol drama "Flowers are Love" and so on. Wang Xia's life has been evaluated as a character actor, no matter what role, can cope with it freely, Wang Xia can stand firm in the show business circle, relying on loneliness, always maintain an actor's original heart.
Relative to the smooth career, Wang Xia's feelings are not so smooth, Wang Xia has two marriages, the first wife is Shao actor Xu Yu, has four children, two sons, two daughters, singer Wang Jie is the third child in the family, but the child star Wang Jie did not embark on the road of acting, when he was 12 years old, his parents divorced, Wang Jie was sent to boarding school, at that time no one helped him pay tuition, Wang Jie had to clean up and finish his studies. That is to say, this family background made the relationship between Wang Jie and his father very stiff, and even after Wang Jie's name, Wang Xia was not mentioned much, so many viewers did not know that Wang Jie had a father named Wang Xia, until 2004, the relationship between Wang Jie and his father gradually eased. Wang Xia's second wife is Yang Wenying, 34 years younger than him, the two have been married for more than 20 years, and have not had children.
In 2016, Wang Xia was found to have cancer, chemotherapy and radiation therapy or could not be saved, three days before his death, Wang Xia has been unable to speak, and finally died on July 21, 2016, due to pancreatic cancer, at the age of 86. Before Wang Xia's death, he was most relieved by his son Wang Jie, and when Wang Jie recalled his father, he regretted that he did not see the last side of his father: "Just one day, you did not wait for me, I still did not have time to see your last face, forgive me." Although his father did not have a high evaluation in Wang Jie's youth, after all, blood was thicker than water, and Wang Jie was very filial to the old man after forgiving his father in his later years.
There is no difference between big and small roles, no small roles, only small actors, for an actor like Wang Xia, although there is no big hit in his life, he uses his usual mentality to interpret a classic supporting role, known as a generation of golden supporting roles. If there is no supporting role in the movie, I believe that the protagonist will not be so wonderful, today's young actors should learn more from the old drama bones of the past eighties and nineties, abandon the noisy entertainment circle today, and concentrate on acting, because only solid acting skills can stand firm in the show business circle.