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Frankie Chan | |||||||||||
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Born | Chan Wing-yuk 30 November 1951 | ||||||||||
Occupation(s) | actor, film director, film producer, composer | ||||||||||
Years active | 1970 - present | ||||||||||
Awards | Hong Kong Film Awards – Best Original Score 1996 Fallen Angels | ||||||||||
Chinese name | |||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 陳勳奇 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 陈勋奇 | ||||||||||
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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 scores for many films in the 1970s and 1980s, including The Young Master, Odd Couple and Armour of God II: Operation Condor. In 2011 Chan directed Legendary Amazons, a film about the female Generals of the Yang clan.
Frankie Chan's other music credits include Chungking Express (1994) and Fallen Angels (1995).[1]