Not long ago, Gu Guanzhong's wife Chen Jingyun posted his birthday party photos on social platforms, and the 65-year-old Gu Guanzhong was still mentally energetic when he appeared on camera, with dark and shiny hair, an enviable hair volume, and a well-maintained figure.
Speaking of Gu Guanzhong, perhaps now young friends know less, he has shuttled through various martial arts dramas, starred in "Cloud Flying", "Book of Swords and Vengeance", "Little Hero Dragon Whirlwind", "Long Wind Dart Game", "Wind and Cloud" and many other popular TV series, leaving a generation of good memories.
Born in Hong Kong in 1955, Gu Guanzhong has been interested in drama since childhood, especially martial arts films, and often imitates the heroes in drama playing with swords and knives. In 1972, at the age of 17, Gu Guanzhong was admitted to the actor training class of the acting company founded by Zhang Che, and after two years of study, he was admitted to the actor training center jointly organized by Shaw Film Company and TVB, and was quickly signed by Shaw Film for his good performance.
Just entered the Shao Gu Guanzhong has been heavily used, in those years Shao will be Jin Yong and Gu Long a large number of works on the screen, "Meteor Butterfly Sword", "Tianya Mingyue Knife", "Three Young Masters' Sword", "Chu Liuxiang", etc., 20 of the 24 films in the Gulong series he has participated in the performance. At the age of 22, he has already starred in the role of Jin Yong's "Yellow Medicine Master".
But in these martial arts movies, Gu Guanzhongdu is only a humble supporting role, and what really gets him attention is 1979's "Silkworm Change".
"Silkworm Change" is a drama that Li's TV spent a lot of effort to prepare, after the broadcast of the ratings have been high, the limelight greatly overshadowed the wireless eight or nine o'clock unit drama at that time, so that the wireless square inch big chaos cut off all the unit dramas, at the expense of pulling back from the set Zheng Shaoqiu and Zhao Yazhi who were filming intensely to compete with the long drama "The Legend of Chu Liuxiang".
Seeing that the ratings of "Heavenly Silkworm Change" were invincible, the rival company bought Xu Shaoqiang with a salary from the bottom of the cauldron, so that he suddenly picked a pick and did not shoot. This can be anxious to spoil Li's TV station, "Heavenly Silkworm Change" is filming while broadcasting, is broadcasting can not stop halfway, Xu Shaoqiang did not appear in the screenwriter had to start from the script, let Yun Feiyang practice with the silkworm body, the silkworm in the Yun feiyang to use the stand-in shooting.
But until the day when the cocoon was about to be broken, Xu Shaoqiang still did not come back to shoot, and Li's helplessness pulled Gu Guanzhong from Shao's to save the scene, and the yunfeiyang that broke out of the cocoon became Gu Guanzhong.
The super high ratings of "Silkworm Change" ended the era of TVB golden file broadcast unit dramas, making the escaped male protagonist Xu Shaoqiang a hit, and also making Gu Guanzhong, who later replaced him, famous. At this point, Gu Guanzhong started his TV drama career, and then Li's victory chased and filmed a sequel "Tianlong Tips", Gu Guanzhong continued to play the role of Yun Feiyang.
In 1984, Gu Guanzhong ended his ten-year film career in Shaw films with a "Water Samurai", went to Taiwan to shoot the TV series "Silkworm Change Again", playing Yun Feiyang again, which became the top ratings of Taiwan's three stations, making Gu Guanzhong famous in Taiwan. Since then, he has filmed a series of TV series such as "Rose Life", "Sable Cicada", "Phoenix in The Fire", "Bao Qingtian" and so on in Taiwan, which has made him more and more popular.
In 1991, "Little Hero Dragon Whirlwind" was broadcast, and the drama received a lot of attention because of the members of the Little Tigers team who were very popular at that time, Wu Qilong and Chen Zhipeng, and later introduced and broadcast in the mainland, I believe that many post-80s and post-90s have an impression. The "Wanliyun" played by Gu Guanzhong and the "Flower Dance Shadow" played by Zhu Baoyi are a pair of bitter lovers, Wanliyun is a normal person who becomes a bat at night during the day, and the flower dance shadow is a normal person who becomes a stone statue during the day, the two cannot see each other, the poignant love has touched countless people, and many mainland audiences also know Gu Guanzhong by this role.
In 1998, he Jiajin and Liu Yuting starred in the "Changfeng Dart Bureau" was also very popular after the broadcast, and Gu Guanzhong's "fast sword Xinli" played in the play also left a very deep impression on the audience.
The hero is not addicted to acting, he has also challenged the big villain, playing the sinister and cunning villain "Wang Naxiang" in "The Legend of the Mirror Flower", and Yu Wenpu who slaughtered Wulin Haojie in "Peerless Double Glory".
In 2002, Gu Guanzhong made a cameo appearance in "The Majesty of the Wind and Clouds" as Nie Feng's father, Nie Ren wang.
After the end of the martial arts era, Gu Guanzhong joined TVB in 2013, and there were still works until 2018.
In terms of life, Gu Guanzhong had two marriages, his first wife was Taiwanese, and the two had a son and a daughter after marriage, but divorced in 1990. In 1997, Gu Guanzhong met his current wife, Chen Jingyun, and was very cautious about his second marriage, Gu Guanzhong, and the two fell in love for 15 years before entering the marriage hall, when Gu Guanzhong was 57 years old.
Chen Jingyun is also an actor, who has played Roles such as Chen Wanbi in Jiang Hua's version of "I Have a Date with Spring" and Miao Cuihua in Zhen Zidan's version of "Hong Xiguan".
Now the two have been in love for 23 years, married for 8 years, and still love each other as before.