Chen Guantai, originally from Guangdong, was born in Hong Kong on September 24, 1945. Hong Kong actor and director. 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. Chen Guantai's grandfather and Geng Dehai, the founder of the Great Saint Splitting Gate, were good friends, so he began to contact this kung fu at the age of seven or eight, and then worshiped under Geng Dehai's apprentice Chen Xiuzhong.
In 1969, Chen Guantai starred 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 at the newly established Jiahe; in May of the same year, in the first Southeast Asian Chinese Arts Competition Lightweight Group A competition held in Singapore, Chen Guantai won the championship in five battles and five victories; after that, he joined the Shaw Film Company and won the appreciation of Shaw director Zhang Che and became a signed actor of Shaw. In 1986, he participated in the American film "Big Class" funded by Shaw Pictures and starring Brian Brown.
Chen Guantai, who became famous in 1972 with the Shaw film "Ma Yongzhen", starred in many action films such as "Four Horsemen", "Dang Kouzhi", "Five Tiger Generals" and "Shaolin Children" during the golden age of Hong Kong cinema, becoming Shaw's box office appealing martial arts star and a representative of the first generation of martial arts stars with real kung fu in Hong Kong. Chen Guantai's image is a very tough one among Zhang Che's disciples, typical of the appearance of a southerner with thick eyebrows, wide nose and big eyes, plus that small mustache, a slight change in makeup, it is both positive and negative.