Zhong Xinghuo (February 5, 1924 – December 25, 2014), born in Bozhou City, Anhui Province, Chinese mainland actor, graduated from the Department of Literature and Art of Shandong University. In 1950, he participated in his first film "Farmhouse". In 1955, he starred in the feature film "South Island Storm". In 1959, he starred in the comedy film "Today I Rest".
In 1962, he won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 2nd Hundred Flowers Awards for Comedy Film "Li Shuangshuang". In 1964, he starred in the biographical film "Doctor Bethune". In 1969, he went to Shanghai Fengxian "Film May Seventh Cadre School" to participate in labor reform and the "Fight, Criticize, and Reform" movement. In 1974, he starred in the feature film "A Pair of Safety Belts".
In 1980, he won the Best Supporting Actor collective award at the 1st Golden Rooster Awards of Chinese Cinema for his feature film "Bashan Night Rain". In 1984, he officially retired from Shanghai Film Studio. In 1987, he starred in the family movie "The Legend of Little Big Old". In 1991, he starred in the romantic comedy film "Lover". In 1997, he starred in the feature film "Today I Leave".
In 2005, Zhong Xinghuo was awarded the honorary title of "National Film Artist with Outstanding Contribution" issued by the Ministry of Personnel and the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television. In 2009, he played the role of democrat Huang Shaohu in the tribute film "The Great Cause of Building the Country". In 2014, he participated in the 120th anniversary of Mao Zedong's birth gift film "Mao Zedong in Shanghai 1924", which was the last film he starred in in his life.
In 1946, Zhong Xinghuo came to linyi liberated area in Shandong and entered the department of literature and art of Shandong University. At that time, Shandong University was a school for revolutionary cadres, and often went to the front line and the countryside to perform red propaganda performances, and his acting skills were tempered. Amid the sound of victorious artillery fire in the Liberation War, the young Zhong Xinghuo went south with the Cultural and Labor Troupe of the Political Department of the East China Military Region, and in 1949 he was stationed in Shanghai and assigned to the Shanghai Film Studio with the first team of the Cultural and Labor Corps.
At that time, the salary income of the film actor was the same as that of ordinary people, the monthly income was only 2.8 yuan, and the whole family of six or seven people depended on him to support himself. 1959 was the busiest year. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Republic. He participated in the filming of "Nie Er", "New Biography of a Veteran" and other films, and was fortunate to be selected for the 18 tribute films for the 10th anniversary of the Republic of China by the Ministry of Culture, especially the light comedy style feature film "Today I Rest" starring Zhong Xinghuo, which was widely praised by the public.
Zhong Xinghuo played a dedicated policeman Ma Tianmin in "Today I Rest", until now people usually see Zhong Xinghuo and call him "Old Horse". At the beginning of the 21st century, the national network jointly selected the "Top Ten Police officers in China", and Ma Tianminxiang was still selected among them; Because of his thoughtful care for the people, Ma Tianmin is well-known in the film world and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, becoming a classic ordinary character image on the Chinese screen in the Golden Age.
In 1960, he collaborated with the famous actor Zhang Ruifang in the film "Li Shuangshuang". Zhang Ruifang played the heroine Li Shuangshuang, and Zhong Xinghuo played Li Shuangshuang's husband Sun Xiwang. The film received rave reviews after its national release. In that year, Zhang Ruifang won the Best Actress Award of the Hundred Flowers Award for "Popular Movies", and Zhong Xinghuo also won the Best Supporting Actor Award of the Hundred Flowers Award. Zhang Ruifang and Zhong Xinghuo did not get a penny of prize money when they won the prize.
His film career was synchronized with that of New China. Zhong Xinghuo's first film period was in the 1950s and 1960s, when Zhong Xinghuo's main film representative works ranged from the village chief performed in "Farmhouse" in 1950 to the machine gunner Liu Yonggui in the 1952 black-and-white feature film "Southern Expedition and Northern War", and Peng Liang in 1956 "Railway Guerrilla".
Zhongxinghuo's second film period was in the 1980s and 1990s. During this period, Zhongxinghuo's heavy films continued, from the father Hilchii in the 1979 movie "Ao Lei Yilan", to the police officer Lao Wang in "Bashan Night Rain" in 1980, from Qing Liang in "The Laughter of Moon Bay" in 1981, to Director Yan in "Housewarming Joy" in 1994. Most of the characters on the screen are positive characters, which became the second spring on the screen of Zhongxinghuo.
In his view, literary and artistic programs are not all pure entertainment, although there also needs to be a joke part, but you must know, what is the purpose of the so-called joke, should not just make the audience laugh, right? We must have a certain positive sense of orientation, serve the people, and serve socialism.
On the occasion of the Hundred Flowers Award for the film "Li Shuangshuang" 50 years ago, the great writers Guo Moruo and Mr. Lao She Er respectively presented award inscriptions for male and female protagonists. Lao She gladly wrote an inscription for him: "A hundred flowers are happy and prosperous, and the spark is burning." Lao She cleverly integrated his name with the role he played in the film. In fact, ZhongXinghuo is just a stage name.
Whether at home or abroad, everyone unanimously praised him as an excellent actor with strong adaptability and a wide range of plays. Not only can he play workers, peasants, soldiers, cadres, policemen, and intellectuals, but he also plays the role of comedy characters and villains who are very difficult. The 1950s and 1960s were the golden age of China's film industry and Zhongxinghuo's career as an actor.
2009 is China's 60th birthday, which coincides with the 60th anniversary of Zhong Xinghuo's participation in the Chinese screen, Zhong Xinghuo played the role of democrat Huang Shaohu in the new film "The Great Cause of the Founding of the People's Republic", there are not many lines, there is only one shot, but once Zhong Xinghuo is on the scene, the character is shining. On December 25, 2014, Zhong Xinghuo, an older Chinese performing artist, died at the age of 91 at The Huangpu Central Hospital in Shanghai at 11:52 a.m.