Young people who say the name Chen Guantai may not be familiar with it now, but after seeing his photos, they may find that they are very familiar, and he is the star of the classic gangster film "Ma Yongzhen". This film can be said to be the originator of Hong Kong gangster films, all the scenes are real fights, there is no stand-in, completely with his own real skills to shoot, he has thus become the first generation of Hong Kong gangster films real kung fu gangster.
Chen Guantai, originally from Guangdong, was born in Hong Kong on September 24, 1945. Chen Guantai was an athlete in middle school and excelled in football and javelin. In 1963, after graduating from high school, Chen Guantai, who did not want to go to college, entered the society and his first job was a firefighter. Later, when I participated in social activities, I met some friends who made movies, and thus I had contact with the show business circle.
In 1967, Chen Guantai entered the show business circle as a martial artist and became a martial arts instructor in Liu Jialiang and Tang Jia's class. In 1969, Chen Guantai participated in the costume action film "Eight Steps to Chase the Soul" starring Qiao Zhuang, Chen Sisi, Feng Yi, etc., and worked as a martial arts instructor in the newly established Jiahe.
In 1972, he starred in the action movie "Ma Yongzhen" directed by Zhang Che with Jing Li and Jiang David, and Chen Guantai played the late Qing Dynasty boxer "Ma Yongzhen", which was familiar to the audience.
In 1973, partnering David Jiang, Dillon and Jing Li starred in the action film "Thorn Horse" directed by Zhang Che, in which Chen Guantai played the second brother of the three brothers, "Huang Zhong".
On February 15, 1974, the action-adventure film "Five Tigers" was released, in which Chen Guantai played the righteous soldier "Sabre"; on April 3, Chen Guantai, Fu Sheng, and Qi Guanguan starred Zhang Che in the costume action film "Shaolin Children", which played the Shaolin lay disciple "Hong Xiguan".
In 1977, Chen Guantai partnered with Wang Yu, Li Lili, Luo Lie and other partners to star in the costume action film "Hong Xiguan" directed by Liu Jialiang, playing the male protagonist "Hong Xiguan".
In 1983, he participated in the martial arts movie "Yang Guo and the Little Dragon Girl" starring Zhang Guorong and Weng Jingjing, in which Chen Guantai played the hero "Guo Jing".
In 1990, Chen Guantai established Wei Kai Film Company and supervised the production of a number of films, such as chu yuan's crime comedy "Thief A Star" and action film "Blood in the Wind", Huang Zhiqiang's action film "Abandoned Pawn", etc., and personally directed the action film "Blood Storm".
Chen Guantai's road can be called wonderful. A winner in his acting career, his emotional path has been tossed.
In 1976, Chen Guantai, who had a wife, and Shaw actress Yingying gave birth to a daughter; at the end of the following year, due to Fang Yizhen's intervention, Yingying ended her six-year cohabitation with him. In 1978, Fang Yizhen gave birth to a son for Chen Guantai, and Chen Guantai also formally divorced his ex-wife in 1982, becoming a legal couple with Fang Yizhen.
In 2017, Chen Guantai married three times, and at the age of 72, he married his wife, who was 30 years younger than himself, which attracted much attention for a while.
Three divorces, countless scandals, although it is said that heroes love beauty since ancient times, but it is also lamentable to treat marriage as a child's play. But marriage also contributed to the legend of Chen Guantai, which also reminds us of a joke: men always like young and beautiful women.
Regardless of the past, the 74-year-old now has gray hair, showing the change of this superstar, time has smoothed out his sharp edge, all the brilliant achievements have become a thing of the past, and now he is still in good spirits, and his smile is full of kindness and kindness. May he be free and carefree for the rest of his life, and smile always.