Willie Chan
Willie Chan Chi-Keung (born 22 May 1941 in Malaysia) is a Hong Kong film producer and talent manager. He is best known for helping to establish the career of Jackie Chan, serving as his manager and later as the actor’s producing partner in both Asia and North America. He also managed the career of singer-rapper and actor Edison Chen.
Career
Chan graduated from the East-West Center in Hawaii in 1966 with a master's degree in marketing. He later moved to Hong Kong from his native Malaysia in 1970 to pursue a career in the film industry. He was a film producer in the mid-1970s when he met Jackie Chan, who was, at the time, a stuntman in Lo Wei's New Fist of Fury, which was released during the "Bruceploitation" era, and was hailed as a "follow-up" to Bruce Lee's Fist of Fury. Willie had shown a keen interest in Jackie's willingness and ability to perform dangerous stunts.
After Jackie, fed up with a staggering career, moved to Australia for a few months to work as a cook, Willie brought him back to work as a leading actor for Lo's production company, "Lo Wei Motion Picture Company", a subsidiary of Golden Harvest. The films, which included Snake & Crane Arts of Shaolin, were not financially successful, and both Jackie and Willie left the company to join Golden Harvest, with Willie serving as Chan's personal manager.
'Willie Chan' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise (1940)
Actors: Don Beddoe (actor), Wade Boteler (actor), Harlan Briggs (actor), James Burke (actor), Leo G. Carroll (actor), Cliff Clark (actor), John Dilson (actor), Sherry Hall (actor), J. Anthony Hughes (actor), Richard Keene (actor), Robert Lowery (actor), Paul McVey (actor), Charles Middleton (actor), Walter Miller (actor), Lionel Atwill (actor),
Plot: On a cruise ship from Honolulu to San Francisco, the famous Chinese detective encounters four more murders while trying to figure out the murder of a Scotland Yard friend.
Keywords: 30-pieces-of-silver, aphorism, archeologist, asian-comedian, asian-detective, asian-hero, b-movie, character-name-in-title, chinese-hero, cruise-shipGenres: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller,
Taglines: Along the moonlit decks of a gay luxury liner a pair of happy lovers stroll... and so does... THE DEADLIEST KILLER ON THE HIGH SEAS! CHAN'S BEST FRIEND MURDERED!... and clutched in his fingers... thirty pieces of silver! DEATH AFLOAT...striking swiftly. suddenly...leaving on each strangled victim a calling card of crimson coin...thirty pieces of silver! (original print ad) Triple murder on a luxury line...Chan's best friend a victim! (original print ad)
Quotes:
Charlie Chan: Truth, like oil, will in time rise to surface.Charlie Chan: Better a father lose his son than a detective his memory.
Charlie Chan: To speak without thinking is to shoot without aiming.
Charlie Chan: Elusive offspring, like privacy, sometimes hard to find.
Charlie Chan: Young man's explanation, like skin of sensitive woman, very thin.
Dick Kenyon: That's fantastic! My uncle never hurt anybody in his life. He didn't have an enemy in the world.::Wilkie: Well, it certainly wasn't a friend who came in here and killed him.
Charlie Chan: When Chinese Emperor have eight suspects of murder, he solve problem very quickly.::Prof. Gordon: Really? How?::Charlie Chan: Chop off eight heads. Always sure getting one criminal.
Charlie Chan: In darkness, sometimes difficult to distinguish hawk from vulture.
Charlie Chan: Life has been risked for jewels far less valuable than friendship.
Charlie Chan: Sometimes quickest way to brain of young sprout is by impression on other end.
Chan, Willie Filmography
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2011, role: producer
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2011, role: producer
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2011, role: producer
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2009, role: producer
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2008, role: producer
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2008, role: producer
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2006, role: producer
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2006, role: producer
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2005, role: producer
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2005, role: producer
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2005, role: producer
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2005, role: producer
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2004, role: producer
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2004, role: producer
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2004, role: producer
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2004, role: producer
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2004, role: producer
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2003, role: producer
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2003, role: producer
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2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2002, role: producer
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2002, role: producer
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2001, role: producer
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2001, role: producer
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2000, role: producer
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2000, role: producer
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2000, role: producer
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1999, role: miscellaneous crew
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1999, role: producer
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1999, role: actor , character name: Himself
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1999, role: producer
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1999, role: producer
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1998, role: producer
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1998, role: actor , character name: Himself
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1992, role: producer
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1990, role: miscellaneous crew
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1989, role: producer
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1988, role: producer
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1985, role: miscellaneous crew
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1974, role: miscellaneous crew
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1974, role: actor
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1973, role: actor
THE ONE
You are the reason to believe
I've made a picture of your dream
Last night I heard your whispering
And now I'm playing symphony
Chorus:
Cause' baby u,
You are the one to trust your time
Cause' baby u,
You are the one to love me for a while
Baby you, you are the one to hold me, hold me tight
You, you are the one who knows the way I feel tonight
If you could touch me like you did
And every moment let it be
Sometimes I feel so incomplete