Jimmy Wang Yu

DOB: 1944-03-28

DOD: 2022-04-05

Wang Zhengquan, better known as Jimmy Wang Yu and Wong Yu-lung, (born March 8, 1944 - died April 5, 2022) was a Chinese actor, film director, producer and screenwriter. Wang rose to fame in 1967 with his starring role in The One-Armed Swordsman, a martial arts film produced by the Shaw Brothers Studio. The Chinese Boxer (1969), another film he acted in, is credited as the first Hong Kong action film that kickstarted the unarmed combat genre that took Asia by storm in the 1970s.

Starred In

1968
Movie

Golden Swallow

1970
Movie

The Chinese Boxer

1984
Movie

Shanghai 13

1972
Movie

One-Armed Boxer

2011
Movie

Dragon

1973
Movie

The Iron Man

1967
Movie

The Assassin

1973
Movie

Knight Errant

1978
Movie

Big Leap Forward

1975
Movie

The Great Hunter

1977
Movie

The Lantern Street

1973
Movie

Fast Fists

1965
Movie

The Twin Swords

2012
Movie

The Guillotines

2011
Movie

Let's Go!

1966
Movie

Tiger Boy

1976
Movie

The Private Eyes

1990
Movie

Island of Fire

1976
Movie

A Queen's Ransom

1976
Movie

Killer Meteors

1973
Movie

A Man Called Tiger

1972
Movie

Furious Slaughter

1971
Movie

Rage of the Master

1972
Movie

Showdown

1973
Movie

Seaman No. 7

1973
Movie

The Two Cavaliers

1972
Movie

The Lion's Heart

1972
Movie

Fury of King Boxer

1971
Movie

The Hero

1967
Movie

Asia-Pol

1967
Movie

Auntie Lan

1970
Movie

My Son

1973
Movie

Queen of Fist

1977
Movie

The Criminal

1971
Movie

The Gallant Duo

1971
Movie

The Sword

1973
Movie

The Black Friday

1974
Movie

Four Real Friends

1972
Movie

The Rebel Boxer

1966
Movie

The Joy of Spring

1972
Movie

The Gallant

2013
Movie

Soul

1992
Movie

Requital

1972
Movie

The Invincible

1993
Movie

The Beheaded 1000