The godfather of hong Kong film industry, Shek Tin, died of cancer at the age of 72! "Hero True Colors 2" became an eternal classic and its appearance was not proud, and he was later named "Hong Kong Film Industry Laugher" Jackie Chan called him big brother, "Hero True Colors 2" Yan pressure Zhou Runfa retired for many years, only Hong Jinbao could please move him

Just yesterday night, the entertainment industry broke the news that Shi Tian, the godfather and veteran actor of the Hong Kong film industry, died at the age of 72.

After the news came out, some media called Shi Tian for the first time, when his mobile phone was turned off and transferred to the voicemail.

Not long after, the artist Lin Junxian rushed to send a long message on His personal social account to mourn Shi Tian before Shi Tian's relatives announced the news, and he wrote that he was surprised to learn that President Shi Tian had passed away, that Tiantian was jealous of talents, and that the philosopher had died early.

He praised Shi Tian for his contributions to Hong Kong films, driving the new trend of Hong Kong films, and is a film fighter who deserves everyone's respect.

Artist Lin Junxian recently took a photo

It is known that shi tian's two sons have returned from abroad to accompany their father a few days ago, and his youngest son also confirmed his father's death this morning.

Huang Baiming, a filmmaker who co-founded New Art City with Shi Tian, expressed shock and sadness after learning the news. He hopes to respect the wishes of his deceased friend and his family, even if the "New Art City" group of friends are close, they will not prepare any memorial meetings, special editions, etc. for the time being, and wait for Shi Tian's family to deal with all the aftermath before making arrangements.

He revealed that Shi Tian has always had cancer, tried to recover from cancer in the early years, but recently recurred, and the situation is more serious, last month when Huang Baiming contacted Shi Tian, he was already in the hospital, but at that time his state was OK, and Huang Baiming said "I have a good time to drink tea with you", but unfortunately now only people can be separated forever.

The media also contacted Shi Nansheng, a friend in Shi Tian's circle and the ex-wife of the famous director Xu Ke, who sadly said that she had received news of Shi Tian's death. At the same time, she revealed that she had met with the other party a year ago, and he was still in good spirits.

In fact, in previous years, Shi Tian would meet privately with Huang Baiming, Shi Nansheng, Zeng Zhiwei, etc. every few months, but in recent years, due to the epidemic, the opportunity to meet has decreased.

Perhaps some young people are very unfamiliar with the name Shi Tian, in fact, Shi Tian's original name was "Liu Weicheng", born in Tianjin, and later went to Hong Kong to settle down.

At the age of 17, he was admitted to the artist training class held by Shaw, and successfully signed Shaw to become an actor after graduation. But his appearance is not outstanding, it is difficult to be valued by the company, and he is a small supporting role with little play in the early stage of entering the industry, and his income is even more meager.

However, for the sake of the actor's dream, he did not lose heart, continued to study acting, and patiently waited for the opportunity.

Huang Tian did not pay off, and his acting skills became more and more mature, and he gained a firm foothold with movies such as "Youth Love" and "Snake-shaped Executioner".

Xu Guanjie's classic works of the 70s, such as "Ghost Horse Double Star" and "Genius and Idiot", have appeared in his shadow. Among them, his witty performance in 1978's "Snake-like Executioner" was impressive and received a lot of praise.

Its exaggerated and obscene funny expressions are very similar to the bald-headed Mak Ka, who often played villains and clowns in his early years, especially in the 1980 "Funny Times" imitating Chaplin's exquisite portrait, known as "Hong Kong Chaplin", and was even named "Hong Kong Film Industry Laugher", which became the collective memory of Hong Kong people.

Later, he participated in many classic movies such as "Difficult Brother", "Dragon Leaping Tiger Leap", "Wishing you prosperity" and so on. Shi Tian became a popular comedian at the time by virtue of his outstanding funny acting skills, and did not transform into a decent role until the later stage.

In addition to acting, the versatile Shi Tian has also tried to do behind-the-scenes work such as directing and screenwriter, and his results are also very good.

He can be said to be a genius in the film circle at that time, and he is also a box office elixir, and his position in the film industry is still very important.

In 1980, Shi Tian, Mai Jia, Huang Baiming and others established New Art City Pictures, and distributed a number of classic films, including Zhou Runfa's masterpiece "The True Colors of Heroes" series, "Best Partner" series, "Qiannu Ghost" and so on.

The New Art City Film Company he founded not only cultivated big directors such as Wu Yusen and Xu Ke, but also won a number of big stars such as Zhang Guorong, Lin Qingxia, Maggie Cheung, Chow Yun Fat, Wang Zuxian and so on.

Although Shi Tian has become a businessman, he usually likes to participate in acting, including "Chasing Girls", "Best Partner Series", "Hero True Color Series" and so on.

Everyone should remember that "Serpentine Executioner" is a representative work starring Jackie Chan, it can be said that Shi Tian is the big guy behind Jackie Chan, so Jackie Chan still has to call him a "big brother".

In "Hero Nature 2", he starred as Song Zihao's mentor "Dragon Four", and after being forced to a dead end by the villain, he joined forces with the Song Zihao brothers to take revenge, which impressed the audience, and his acting skills even suppressed Zhou Runfa, which showed his strength.

Stills from "The True Colors of Heroes 2"

The founders of New Art City later joined Shi Nansheng, Zeng Zhiwei, Teddy Robin and Xu Ke, and since then they have been known as the "Seven Monsters of New Art City".

Old photo of "Seven Monsters of New Art City"

Zeng Zhiwei and Shi Tian have also co-starred in many movies, such as "Chasing Girls", "Specially Prying the Foot of the Wall", etc., and have cooperated with others.

At the 2017 Academy Awards ceremony, the "seven monsters" other than Xu Ke gathered together, which was a major focus of the Academy Awards that year.

Unfortunately, he faded out of the film industry after producing "Uncle Cai's Sweeping a Thousand Troops" in the early 1990s, and most people asked him not to "get out of the mountain", until 2016, he made a rare cameo appearance in Hong Jinbao's movie "Grandpa Agent", in which he played one of the three old men of the railway station, which shows that Hong Jinbao has quite a big face.

In fact, the fate of the two should start from the rise of Hong Kong kung fu movies, when the "Hong Jia Ban" founded by Hong Jinbao was gaining momentum, and in 1977, Hong Jinbao filmed his debut film "The Monk of Sande and The Six Rice".

In this work, Shi Tian not only participated in the performance of the film, but also assisted Hong Jinbao in completing the shooting as an assistant director.

Since then, Shi Tian has also often appeared in the kung fu comedies of "Hong Jia Ban". He appears in works such as "Face Ignorance", "Mr. Zan and Looking for Qianhua", "Stinky Boy", "Tiger Field Chicken", "Salted Fish Turning Over", "Fighting Life Single Knife Death Gun" and other works, and the two have also formed a deep friendship due to long-term cooperation.

The death of another hall-level movie star is definitely a loss for the film industry. However, the deceased is dead, and all his classic masterpieces believe that they will live in people's hearts for a long time, and I hope that he will go all the way.