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Birth Name: | Chan Wing-yuk | ||||||||||
Birth Date: | 1951 11, df=yes | ||||||||||
Birth Place: | British Hong Kong | ||||||||||
Occupation: | actor, film director, film producer, composer | ||||||||||
Years Active: | 1970 - present | ||||||||||
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Franklin Chan Fan-kei (born 1951) is a Hong Kong-born Chinese martial artist, actor, film director, producer, action director, and composer.
Chan is best known to Hong Kong action cinema fans as the main antagonist in Sammo Hung's The Prodigal Son, in which he faces Yuen Biao in the final reel. Chan has starred in a number of modern action films, most notably Burning Ambition, Outlaw Brothers and Carry On Pickpocket. He also directed and composed many films in the 1970s and 1980s, including The Young Master, Odd Couple and . In 2011 Chan directed Legendary Amazons, a film about the female Generals of the Yang clan.