Byun Hee-bong
| Byun Hee-bong | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Byun In-chul June 8, 1942 Jangseong County, South Jeolla Province, South Korea |
| Education | Chosun University - Law (dropped out) |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1970-present |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 변희봉 |
| Hanja | 邊希峰 |
| Revised Romanization | Byeon Hui-bong |
| McCune–Reischauer | Pyŏn Hŭibong |
| Birth name | |
| Hangul | 변인철 |
| Hanja | 邊仁徹 |
| Revised Romanization | Byeon In-cheol |
| McCune–Reischauer | Pyŏn In-chŏl |
Byun Hee-bong (born Byun In-chul on June 8, 1942) is a South Korean actor.
Byun In-chul was born in Jangseong County, South Jeolla Province, and attended Salesian High School in Gwangju. He took up Law at Chosun University before dropping out to pursue acting. Byun entered the MBC actor's auditions in 1965, and made his acting debut in 1970. A year later in 1971, he became a regular on the landmark police procedural Chief Inspector. He began using the stage name Byun Hee-bong in 1977. Throughout the 1970s, he became known on TV as a character actor who played eccentric men who didn't quite fit in with mainstream Korean society. He transitioned to the big screen in the 1980s, and earlier in his film career, starred in the classic Lee Doo-yong film Eunuch (1986) and A Surrogate Father (1993).
In 2000, he appeared in a memorable supporting role in Bong Joon-ho's directorial debut Barking Dogs Never Bite, playing a bizarre apartment maintenance man with a love for dog meat. It rejuvenated his career, and Bong would later cast him in the short film Sink & Rise (2004), and his seminal works crime drama Memories of Murder (2003) and monster movie The Host (2006).The Host became the top-grossing Korean film of all time, and Byun won much acclaim for his performance as the strong-willed patriarch of a "loser" family, including Best Supporting Actor awards at the Asia Pacific Film Festival and Blue Dragon Film Awards.
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