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Lawrence Cheng is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Script Canadien born on 27 november 1954
Lawrence Cheng Tan Shui (born 27 November 1954) is a Hong Kong film actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and master of ceremonies. He was a Hong Kong DJ and radio channel executive.
Cheng became famous after he created the radio drama series The Yuppie Fantasia in 1986 which he also starred in. In 1989, he starred in the film adaptation of the series which was directed by Gordon Chan and became a box office hit.
Il rejoint ensuite immédiatement la chaîne RTV sur laquelle il travaille sur de nombreuses séries télévisées populaires. Il rejoint plus tard ATV où il est directeur de la création. Il se reconvertit en 1984 en producteur de radio et DJ après avoir rejoint RTHK. En 1987, il fait son retour à la télévision et rejoint TVB, où il est animateur d'émissions de variétés et joue dans de nombreuses séries.
Sa carrière cinématographique commence en 1980, mais il devient réellement célèbre avec The Yuppie Fantasia en 1989, un succès au box-office générant 2 millions US$ de recettes. En plus d'être acteur, il est également réalisateur, producteur et scénariste.
Cheng anime actuellement des émissions de variétés en tant que chroniqueur pour TVB, ATV, Now TV , présentant des courses hippiques pour le Jockey Club de Hong Kong et joue dans quelques séries.
En janvier 2011, il a le poumon éclaté en jouant au football.
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Lawrence Cheng
Cheng became famous after he created the radio drama series The Yuppie Fantasia in 1986 which he also starred in. In 1989, he starred in the film adaptation of the series which was directed by Gordon Chan and became a box office hit.
Biography
Scolarisé au St. Paul's College , il fait ses études à l'université baptiste de Hong Kong, la première école de radiotélédiffusion de Hong Kong et obtient son diplôme en 1978.Il rejoint ensuite immédiatement la chaîne RTV sur laquelle il travaille sur de nombreuses séries télévisées populaires. Il rejoint plus tard ATV où il est directeur de la création. Il se reconvertit en 1984 en producteur de radio et DJ après avoir rejoint RTHK. En 1987, il fait son retour à la télévision et rejoint TVB, où il est animateur d'émissions de variétés et joue dans de nombreuses séries.
Sa carrière cinématographique commence en 1980, mais il devient réellement célèbre avec The Yuppie Fantasia en 1989, un succès au box-office générant 2 millions US$ de recettes. En plus d'être acteur, il est également réalisateur, producteur et scénariste.
Cheng anime actuellement des émissions de variétés en tant que chroniqueur pour TVB, ATV, Now TV , présentant des courses hippiques pour le Jockey Club de Hong Kong et joue dans quelques séries.
En janvier 2011, il a le poumon éclaté en jouant au football.
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Find Your Voice (2020)
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Musical
Actors Andy Lau, Loletta Lee, Wan Yeung-ming, Lawrence Cheng
Rating50%
Fung Sun-hei est un jeune NEET typique bien connu, qui a un tempérament coléreux et des piètres résultats scolaires. Un jour, il a des ennuis après avoir causé d'importants dégâts à son lycée. Cependant, le directeur Lo (Lowell Lo) lui donne une dernière chance de se racheter en participant au programme « Trouvez votre voix », un projet qui consiste à former une chorale de musique classique composé de trois étudiants du groupe 3 qui vont suivre une formation spéciale de neuf mois pour participer ensuite à la compétition de chœurs inter-collégiaux. Au dos du mur, Sun-hei accepte à contrecœur l'offre. De manière inattendue, le célèbre chef d'orchestre américain d'origine hongkongaise Yim Chi-long (Andy Lau), surnommé l'« instructeur au sang-de-fer » de l'industrie de la musique, qui vit dans l'isolement depuis un an, revient à Hong Kong pour être le chef d'orchestre du chœur.
The Yuppie Fantasia 3 (2017)
, 1h33Directed by Lawrence Cheng
Origin Hong kong
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Actors Lawrence Cheng, Julian Cheung, Ekin Cheng, Carol Cheng, Anthony Chan, Manfred Wong
Roles Leung Foon
Rating56%
Leung Foon (Lawrence Cheng), 52 ans, est conscient des trois grands moments de sa vie. Le premier est le jour où sa femme, Ann (Carol Cheng), a fait de lui un homme. Le deuxième, plusieurs années plus tard, est quand il a épousé Ann et est devenu un mari soumis. Le troisième est le jour où Ann en a eu assez de son incompétence et a disparu avec leur fille de huit ans.
Lost in Hong Kong (2015)
, 1h54Directed by Xu Zheng
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime, Romance
Actors Zhao Wei, Xu Zheng, Bao Bei'er, Du Juan, Sam Lee, Pan Hong
Roles host of art exhibition (cameo)
Rating54%
In the mid-1990s, university art majors Xu Lai (Xu Zheng) and Yang Yi (Du Juan) fell in love, but then Yang was transferred to the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Xu has never seen her since. Almost twenty years later, the already bald Xu has long forgotten his dreams of becoming an artist, but he can never forget Yang even though he enjoys a comfortable life with his loving wife Cai Bo (Zhao Wei), the only major problem between them being the repeated failure conceiving a child. During a vacation in Hong Kong with Cai's overbearing family, Xu plans to secretly visit Yang, but Cai Bo's goofy young brother Cai Lala (Bao Bei'er) — always carrying a video camera in hand for his documentary project — tags along like his unwelcome shadow to spoil the rendezvous. Meanwhile, in Hong Kong, Wong Jing is filming another riotous gangster movie, while 2 police officers (Sam Lee and Eric Kot) investigate a murder.
Break Up 100 (2014)
Directed by Lawrence Cheng
Origin Hong kong
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Ekin Cheng, Miriam Yeung (杨千嬅), Lawrence Cheng
Rating58%
Sam (Cheng) and his girlfriend Barbara (Chau) open up a joint cafe - the "LA Cafe Pillowcase". It later becomes a hotspot for recently separated couples to share their stories and memorabilia from past relationships.
Bends (2013)
, 1h35Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama
Actors Chen Kun, Carina Lau, Stephanie Che, Lawrence Cheng, Tian Yuan, Elena Kong
Roles Leo
Rating59%
Anna (Carina Lau), a wealthy Hong Kong housewife, suddenly finds herself deep in financial trouble as her only source of income, her husband, disappears. Her driver, Fai (Chen Kun), who lives in Shenzhen with his wife, are expecting the couple's second child. But under China's One Child Policy, they need to find the money to pay the penalty or the couple must find a way for Fai's wife to give birth in Hong Kong.
Vulgaria (2012)
, 1h32Origin Hong kong
Genres Comedy
Actors Chapman To, Fiona Sit, Lawrence Cheng, Simon Lui, Lam Suet, Hiro Hayama
Roles Professor Cheng
Rating62%
Struggling movie producer To Wai-cheung (Chapman To) is hardly able to make alimony payments to his ex-wife (Kristal Tin), and yet his daughter Jacqueline hopes to one day sees him being interviewed by TVB so she can show her schoolmates her father is a real movie producer. In order to fulfill his daughter's dream, through his best buddy Lui (Simon Lui) he meets Tyrannosaurus (Ronald Cheng), a Guangxi based triad head and a movie investor with a peculiar taste. Tyrannosaurus takes the duo out to a dinner full of weird dishes. He wants a remake of his favorite film, the 1976 Shaw Brothers sex scorcher Confession of a Concubine, to be renamed as Confessions of Two Concubines, but only if Siu Yam-yam reprises her original starring role. As Siu Yam-yam is unwilling to act naked at her present age, To has to hire Popping Candy (Dada Chen), with whom he has oral sex, as her body double. Worse still, To and Liu, who refuse to eat the dishes before them, are told by Tyrannosaurus that the deal can be sealed only if they have sex with a mule.
Lan Kwai Fong (2011)
, 1h37Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama
Actors Shiga Lin, Pal Sinn, Gregory Wong, Miki Yeung, Race Wong, Ava Liu-Yu-Kiu
Roles Lin Lin's boyfriend
Rating47%
The movie follows three budding couple who frequent the Lan Kwai Fong nightlife: alcohol marketing distributor Steven, club manager Jacky, Lan Kwai Fong newbies (flight attendants) Jennifer and Jeana, local man eater Cat and lawyer Sean.
Hi, Fidelity (2011)
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama
Actors Carrie Ng, Michelle Ye, George Lam Chi Cheung, Chapman To, Lawrence Cheng, Candice Yu
Rating51%
Bruce Lee, My Brother (2010)
, 2h9Directed by Raymond Yip Wai-man, Manfred Wong
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Martial arts, Biography, Action, Martial arts
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films
Actors Tony Leung Ka-fai, Christy Chung, Michelle Ye, Lee Heung-kam, Lawrence Cheng, Candice Yu
Roles Ko Lo Chuen
Rating64%
Bruce Lee, My Brother is a dramatic biopic of the eponymous martial arts legend as told by his younger brother, Robert Lee. Based directly from the book "Memories of Lee Siu Loong", which is authored by Lee's siblings (Phoebe, Robert, Agnes and Peter), it revolves around Bruce Lee's life as a rebellious adolescent in Hong Kong before he sets off for the USA and conquers the world at the age of 18 with only US$102 in his pocket.
The Stool Pigeon (2010)
, 1h52Directed by Dante Lam
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Actors Nicholas Tse, Kwai Lun-mei, Nick Cheung, Liu Kai-chi, Lu Yi, Lawrence Cheng
Roles Cher's Brother
Rating66%
Don Lee (Nick Cheung), a police detective in Kowloon whose reliance on informants leaves him struggling with a guilty conscience. Lee's previous stool pigeon's cover was blown and was attacked, leading him paranoid and driven from his wife and home. Lee begins to doubt his own methods. Lee recruits a street racer named Ghost (Nicholas Tse) as his latest stool pigeon who is assigned to infiltrate a gang led by the notorious armed robber Barbarian (Lu Yi). Ghost accepts Lee's offer so he can rescue his sister from a life of prostitution as well as help his father's one-million dollar debt. Ghost joins an illegal street race to gain acceptance into Barbarian's gang. Lee also has personal problems of his own, as wife Cher (Miao Pu) who he is separated with tried to commit suicide a few months previously and has since had amnesia. Lee begins to realize how wrong he is by exploiting his informants and desperately tries to right his wrongs before Ghost is in serious trouble.
Break Up Club (2010)
, 1h44Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Jaycee Chan, Fiona Sit, Patrick Tang, Hiro Hayama, Lawrence Cheng
Roles Lawrence Cheng
Rating59%
Ocean Flame (2008)
, 1h38Directed by Liu Fendou
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Romantic comedy
Actors Liao Fan, Lam Suet, Simon Yam, Lawrence Cheng, Hui Shiu-hung, Bryan Leung
Roles Yao's Blackmailed Victim
Rating60%
The film tells the story of a punk's entanglements with a pure young girl.
Cocktail (2006)
, 1h30Directed by Herman Yau
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Race Wong, Bobo Chan, Lawrence Cheng, Patrick Tang, Derek Tsang
Roles Tsuen
Rating64%
The melancholy Candy runs the Half Mortal, a trendy bar in Hong Kong. She hires Paul; Stella, a part-time employee who's a college student in psychology, trains him. He has a gift for mixing the perfect drink to fit each customer's emotional needs. His own emotions, however, are complex: his father, an alcoholic, has died recently; he's abandoned his studies; and, although he likes Stella, he's a tyro with women and inarticulate with her. Is alcohol the key to happiness, as Paul wonders; does it simply change peoples' personality, as Stella thinks; or, is it just there, as Candy's business sense tells her? Can Paul and Stella blend into something smooth?
Bug Me Not! (2005)
, 1h27Origin Hong kong
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Actors Chen Bo-Lin, Gillian Chung, Charlene Choi, Tats Lau Yee-Tat, Lawrence Cheng, Liu Kai-chi
Rating50%
Moon is a young misfit who has the ability to talk to bugs. Moon has always been perceived as a "misfit" because she spoke baby talk too long. She has a crush on a boy named Hyland who works in a store owned by his father, across the street from her house. Unknown to Moon, Hyland has a serious problem with body contact with other people. Moon also meets Coochie, an endearing ladybug who speaks to her and becomes part of her daily life, advising her. Moon meets some kids who also have abilities, including telekinetic twins, a high jumping teen, a fortune teller, and a boy with x-ray vision that is a semi-pervert. Leading these misfits is a woman named Auntie who looks early to mid 20s but her actual age is 70. Auntie wants both Moon and Hyland to join her band of misfits because of Moon's abilities and Hyland's ability to dodge from other people's attacks, i.e. superspeed.
Mob Sister (2005)
, 1h30Directed by Wong Ching-po
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Karena Lam, Annie Liu, Eric Tsang, Anthony Wong, Simon Yam, Alex Fong
Roles Boss Wang
Rating45%
In the macho triad world where heroes are molded from blood, brawn and brains, what place is there for a defenseless girl? The only exception to the rule is if you earn your respect as 'Ah Sou' - the big boss' wife. Ah Sou tells the extraordinary story of an innocent girl who becomes appointed successor to Hong Kong's ruling triad. This role becomes a double-edged sword for our young heroine, who is sucked into a maelstrom of vicious gang wars, hair-raising assassination attempts and ruthless power struggles and betrayals. Through numerous violent episodes and unexpected reversals, she discovers her own inner strength and re-writes the laws of the triad kingdom.