Lau Kar-leung
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| 劉家良 | |||||||||||
| Born | 28 July 1934 | ||||||||||
| Died | 25 June 2013 (aged 78) | ||||||||||
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| Occupation(s) | Director, action choreographer, actor | ||||||||||
| Years active | 1953-2013 | ||||||||||
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| Children | 7 | ||||||||||
| Father | Lau Cham | ||||||||||
| Relatives | Lau Kar-wing (brother) | ||||||||||
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| Teacher(s) | Lau Cham | ||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 劉家良 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 刘家良 | ||||||||||
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Lau Kar-leung (traditional Chinese: 劉家良; simplified Chinese: 刘家良; Jyutping: Lau4 gaa1-loeng4; pinyin: Liú Jiāliáng; born 28 July 1934 – 25 June 2013) was a Hong Kong martial artist, filmmaker, fight choreographer and actor. He is best known for the films he made in the 1970s and 1980s for the Shaw Brothers Studio, notably those starring Gordon Liu. He is considered one of the most influential figures in the history of martial arts cinema.
In many of his best-known films, Lau was credited as Liu Chia-liang, the Mandarin spelling of his name. He was part of a lineage of Hung Ga practitioners originating from Wong Fei-hung.