Highest rated movie: Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)
Lowest rated movie: Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs (1966)
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Looking for reviews of George Wang movies? Cinafilm has a total of 969 reviews across 7 movies.
Movies starring George Wang have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 60%.
Eat Drink Man Woman - released in 1994 - is George Wang's highest rated movie, with a score of 81% based on 368 reviews.
The lowest rated film from George Wang is Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs - released in 1966 - with a score of 35% based on 13 reviews.
George Wang (born Wang Yie, 12 November 1918 – 27 March 2015) was a Taiwanese actor and producer who appeared in a multitude of Italian films.
Born in Dandong, Liaoning, Wang enrolled the Shanghai drama school China Film Studio in 1938 and the following year he made his film debut in Defending Our Homeland (保家鄉). In 1949, Wang moved to Taiwan, becoming one of the most important stars in the early years of Taiwanese cinema.
At the end of the 1950s he moved to Italy, where he was a very active character actor in genre films, mainly spy films, adventure films and Spaghetti Westerns, being mostly cast in roles of villains. Thanks to his good knowledge of English, he was also active in a number of English language productions, notably appearing in Nicholas Ray's 55 Days at Peking.
In 1976 Wang moved to Hong Kong, where with his son Don he founded the film production company "Wang Film Company". In 1978 he returned to Taiwan and back to acting, winning in 1981 a Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Coldest Winter in Peking (皇天后土).
George Wang has acted in films with Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Zhang Ziyi, Elvis Tsui Kam-Kong and Jeana Ho Pui-Yu.
George Wang has worked with these film directors: Wong Kar-Wai, Ang Lee, Mario Bava and Cheng Hsiao-Tse.
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