Yuen Siu Tien
| Yuen Siu-tien | |
|---|---|
| Chinese name | 袁小田 |
| Pinyin | Yuán Xiǎotián (Mandarin) |
| Jyutping | Jyun4 Siu2tin4 (Cantonese) |
| Born |
27 November 1912 Beijing, China |
| Died | 8 January 1979 (aged 66) Hong Kong |
| Other name(s) | Simon Yuen Simon Yuen Siu-tien Siu-tien Yuen |
| Years active | 1949–1979 |
| Yuen Siu-tien | |||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 袁小田 | ||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 袁小田 | ||||||||||||
| Hanyu Pinyin | Yuán Xiǎotián | ||||||||||||
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Yuán Xiǎotián |
| Wade–Giles | Yuen Siu-tien |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Jyutping | Jyun4 Siu2tin4 |
Yuen Siu-tien (Chinese: 袁小田) (27 November 1912 – 8 January 1979) (also known as Yuan Xiaotian, Simon Yuen, Sam Seed or "Ol' Dirty") was a Hong Kong martial arts film actor in the late 1970s. Yuen is perhaps best known as Beggar So (A.K.A Sam Seed) in three films: Drunken Master, Story of Drunken Master and his final film Dance of the Drunk Mantis. He starred in several films with film actors like Jackie Chan and under the direction of his real life son Yuen Woo-ping.
Yuen trained in the traditional Peking opera role of Wu-Shen. He began his acting career at age 37, in the first Wong Fei-hung film to star Kwan Tak-hing, Story of Huang Feihong (1949), though his film appearances were rare until the late 1950s. He is best known for portraying mentors and kung fu masters, and featured in almost 150 films throughout his career.
One of his internationally best-known films came late in his career, Drunken Master (1978), in which he played Beggar So (Sam Seed in some English dubs), an old hermit who had mastered the art of drunken boxing, aiding a young Wong Fei-hung, played by Jackie Chan. The role was a reprisal (in all but name) of the one he had played in another of Chan's films, Snake in the Eagle's Shadow (1978). At the time, Drunken Master proved to be the most successful film to feature Chan. The film portrayed Wong Fei-hung as a young and mischievous rascal as opposed to the venerable, Confucian master of kung fu played in many films by Kwan Tak-hing. The movie was a surprise international hit, and greatly helped to boost the career of the then 66-year-old actor. Yuen reprised the role of The Beggar So for three further films, Dance of the Drunk Mantis, Story of Drunken Master, and World Of The Drunken Master (in which he had a cameo).
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