Veteran actor Zhou Wenbin, a very good performing artist, has created an unforgettable artistic image in many films, his play path is wide, and the positive and negative roles are both: the hero father Wang Fubiao in "Heroes and Children", the villain Fang Boqian in "Jia Wu Fengyun", the old worker Master Zhao of "Railway Guard", the enemy officer Director Sun of "Daughter of the Party", and so on.
Although they all play supporting roles, the image is vivid, full and sparkling. And this multi-angle, positive and negative artistic image is vivid and full, shining, reflecting the richness of his life experience.
Zhou Wenbin (1907-1981), when he was young, worked as a cashier, salesman, and mailing clerk, and only at the age of 30 did he enter the Shanghai Xinhua Film Studio as an actor. Since then, he has successively worked as an actor in Shanghai China Film Studio No. 2, Hong Kong Yonghua Film Company, Shanghai Daguang Film No. 2 Factory, and Changchun Film Studio.
"Heroes and Children" is Zhou Wenbin's most outstanding film, when filming this film, Zhou Wenbin was nearly 60 years old, close to retirement age. Later, he made two more films from 1966, Jingpo Girl (1965) as Le Chao, and YanhongLingxia (1966) as Engineer Xu, and then retired.
And the whereabouts of Zhou Wenbin after 1966 have always been a mystery, where did he go? Why is there no news? Nor have he been heard from his family, including his children. Just now this editor "Windmill in the Snow" happened to see a related article to solve this mystery!
It was Mr. Liu Shilong, who played Wang Cheng, mentioned this matter in an interview with a newspaper a few years ago, and a small paragraph in the text was introduced: Zhou Wenbin is an actor who returned from Hong Kong, who is particularly good and rigorous in acting. The old man never married in his life, adopted a little girl by himself, and later the father and daughter opened a porridge restaurant in Guangzhou, which was considered to be an early self-employed person in the south. That's it.
Zhou Wenbin died in 1981 at the age of 74.
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