Jackie Chan, born in 1954 in Victoria Peak, Hong Kong, as Chan Kong Sang ( “born in Hong Kong”), and Charles Lee Lee Chan, refugees from the Chinese civil war. He was nicknamed Pao Pao (Chinese:炮炮, which literally means “Cannonball”), because it is increasingly rolling as a child. Since her parents worked for the ambassador of France in Hong Kong, Chan spent his memorable years in the explanatory memorandum to the ambassador of a residence in the district of Victoria Peak.
Shan close to the primary school in Hwa Hong Kong Island, where he was his first year, after those of his parents to the school. In 1960, his father emigrated to Canberra, Australia to work as a chef at the American embassy, and was sent to the Chancery Chinese Drama Academy, Beijing Opera School Teacher Jim Yu Yuen.
Chan exercised in a consistent manner for the next ten years, excelled in the art of fighting and acrobatics. He finally, the seven Little Fortunes, a panel composed performance of the school the best students, won the stage Yuen Lo behalf of the Tribute to his master. Chan was friends with other members of the group Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao, the three of them will be later known as the three brothers and three dragons.
At the age of 8 years old, he joined with several of his colleagues “Little Fortunes”, in the cinema Big and Little Wong Tin Bar (1962), Li Hua plays with his mother. Chan appeared with Li then again next year in The Love Eterne (1963), and had a small role in King Hu’s 1966 film, Come Drink with me. After an appearance as Komparsin in another King Hu film a hint of Zen, Chan began his career in the adult film industry. At the age of 17 years, he worked as a stuntman in films of Bruce Lee Fist of Fury and Enter The Dragon “by the name of Chen Yuen Long. He got his first starring role, later in the year, in the canton of Little Tiger, which is limited to a certain disengagement Hong Kong 1973.
Chan joined his parents in Canberra in 1976, where he visited briefly Dickson College and worked as a construction worker. A collaborator of Master Jack drew under his wing Chan, Chan deserves the nickname “Little Jack,” which later shortened to “Jackie”. In addition, changes its name Fong Shan If Chinese action, since his father, the original name was Fong.
In 1976, Jackie Chan has received a telegram from Willie Chan, a film producer of the film industry in Hong Kong, has been impressed by Jackie’s stuntwork. Willie Chan offered him a role in a film directed by Lo Wei, the draft model for the Bruce Lee film with the New Fist of fury. Its name was changed staging Sing Lung (Chinese:成龙, literally “the dragon”) to emphasize its resemblance to Bruce Lee, artists whose name was Lei Siu Lung (Chinese:李小龙, which means “Little Dragon). film failed because it was not Chancellery usual, Lee’s style martial arts. Despite animation, Lo Wei continued production of films with themes, small improvements to the cashier.
Chan’s first major breakthrough was the 1978 film Snake in the Eagle’s Shadow, have, when he began the season Film Corporation under an image of two. As directed by Yuen Woo Ping, Chan had complete freedom of turn. The film was komödiantischen Kung Fu Genre, and has proved to be a breath of fresh air, Hong Kong to the public. Shan, then played in Drunken Master, which has operated the mainstream success.
After the return to Lo Wei Shan’s Studio, Lo tried to replicate the komödiantischen approach of Drunken Master, produced a half-century Loaf of Kung Fu Kung Fu and spiritual. There was also the possibility Shan on direct cooperation with Fearless Hyena Kenneth Tsang. Willie Chan, if they leave the company, he has advised Jackie to decide for themselves if they stay or disagree with Lo Wei. While the film Fearless Hyena in Part II, Chan has broken his contract and joined Golden Harvest, blackmail Lo Shan with triads, the guilt of his star Willie’s evacuation. The dispute was with the help of my fellow actor and director Jimmy Wang Yu, the Chantiers to stay with Golden Harvest.
Willie had Jackie Chan’s personal managers and solid friend, and remained so for more than 30 years. He has been the driving force in establishing Shan international career, beginning with his first discoveries in the American film industry in the 1980’s. His first Hollywood movie was Battle Creek Brawl in 1980. Shan then a secondary role in the 1981 film The Cannonball Run, grossed US $ 100 million worldwide. Despite the largely ignored public support of the Americans have been as Burt Reynolds, Chan was impressed by the material, the course inspired him to the same unit in future films. After the commercial failure of The Protector in 1985, Chan temporarily closed to the break, his attempts for the American market, the development of his return to Hong Kong films.
Back in Hong Kong, Chan began making films, greater assistance in East Asia, with initial successes in the lucrative Japanese market, including “The boy champions (1980) and Dragon Lord (1982). Chancellery a number of measures of comedy films with his opera school friends Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao. Marqués The three co-accused together for the first time in 1983 under Project A, with the Design Award for Best Action in the Third annual Hong Kong Film Awards. Over the next two years, the “Three Brothers” Meals at home and the origin Lucky Stars Trilogy. In 1985, the first Shan Police Story Film, influenced by the United States for action comedy, in which Chan’s own towers. It has been voted “Best Movie” on the 1986 Hong Kong Film Awards. In 1987, Chan played “Asian Hawk”, an Indiana Jones-esque character in the film Armor God. film Shan’s had great success Box Office date grossing HK $ 35 million.
In 1988 Chan has played alongside Hung Yuen and for the last time to date in the cinema Dragons Forever. Hung First Love with Corey Yuen, and the villain of the film, Yuen Wah, who both of them were graduates and colleagues from the China Drama Academy.
In the late 1980’s and early 90, Chan has played in a number of successes, starting with continuations Police Story 2, which won the award for Best Action Choreography of the 1989 Hong Kong Film Awards. This was followed by God Armor II: Operation Condor, Police Story 3 for the Chancellery won the Best Actor Award from the 1993 Golden Horse Film Festival. In 1994, Chan won again its role of Wong Fei Hung in the Drunken Master II, which in Time Magazine’s All Time 100 films. Another prosecution, Police Story 4: First Strike, a most rewarding and successful Shan Box Office, but non-tariff barriers in foreign markets. Jackie Chan Hollywood resumes its ambitions in the years 1990, but rejected thieves early to play in Hollywood movies to avoid future typecast roles. For example, Sylvester Stallone offered him the role of Simon Phoenix, a criminal procedure in the futuristic Demolition Man Movie went Shan, and the role was Wesley Snipes.
Chantiers finally got a foothold in the North American market in 1995 with a version of World Rumble in the Bronx, the next realization of a sect in the United States, rare in Hong Kong film stars. He then in collaboration with Chris Tucker in the 1998 buddy action comedy policeman Rush Hour, grossing US $ 130 million in the United States alone.
During the year 1998 Shan for his latest film Golden Harvest, who I am?. After leaving Golden Harvest in 1999, he produced Gorgeous, a romantic comedy based on personal relationships. Chan then helped Playstation game of 2000, Jackie Chan Stuntmaster, on which he lent his voice and that led to the movement. Beginning this year, Chan expressed a fictionalized himself in the animated series Jackie Chan Adventures, which until 2005.
Despite new Shanghai Noon successfully in the year 2000 Rush Hour 2 in 2001 and Shanghai Knights in 2003, Chan was frustrated with Hollywood on the limited number of roles and the lack of control over the films. In response to Golden Harvest withdrawal of the film industry in 2003, Chan started his own film production company, films JCE Limited (Kaiser Jackie Chan Films Limited), in collaboration with Emperor Multimedia Group (EMG). His films have been a growing number of dramatic scenes, while continuing successfully to the body; examples New Police Story (2004), The Myth (2005) and Rob-B-Hood (2006).
Chan’s latest version was Rush Hour 3, in August 2007, the property on the US Box Office, grossing of US $ 100 million. But this evil, which in Hong Kong does grossing HK $ 3.5 million during its opening weekend. The filming of the Kingdom banned Shan of the first screen collaboration with other actors Chinese Jet Li, was signed on August 24, 2007, and the film is now in production of the Post. Shan is the character with one voice “Monkey”, in which DreamWorks Animation, Kung Fu Panda, for May 2008, this version, alongside stars such as Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman and Angelina Jolie. In addition, he has to help Anthony Szeto Advisory writers Wushu-Director’s films to come, which is currently in pre. The film will star Sammo Hung and Wang Wenjie, as father and son. In November 2007, Shan Shinjuku Incident began shooting with director Derek Yee, which provides a role of the Chancellery Chinese immigrants in Japan. According to his blog, Chan wants a sequence directly after the end of Shinjuku Incident, something he has not done for a number of years. The film is expected that the third in the series Armor God, and has a working width of God Armor Title III: Chinese Zodiac.
Jackie Chan, most of his own stunts, choreography of the Jackie Chan Stunt Team. Given that the team of the institution in 1983, Chan was, in all his films choreographierend facilitate later to be done, because it has the potential to understanding of each member. Chan and his team are committed to most of the waterfalls, the other characters in his films, shooting the scenes, so that their faces are hidden.
The danger of its waterfalls which makes it difficult to obtain insurance in Chantilly, especially in the United States, where there are turn is the employment contract are limited. Chantilly holds the Guinness World Record for “Most waterfalls By A Living actor,” which insists on “Insurance is not sign Shan’s productions, in which it has its own waterfalls. Furthermore, it takes a stranger, number of entry for anyone interested in a single entry in a film, with more than 2900 retakes complex for a scene of a game in the badminton DragonLord.
Chan was raped several times, try stunts, many of them were regarded as equipment or during bloopers of his films. He arrived at the shooting death of Armor closer to God, if it was made by a tree and cracked his skull which, in a permanent hole in his head. Over the years, Shan ausgerenkt broke his pelvis and his fingers, toes, nose, paumettes, hip, leg chest, neck and ribs, on numerous occasions.
Jackie Chan’s screen persona in response to Bruce Lee, and the many imitators, which, before and after the death of Lee. Unlike Lee’s signs that typically stern, morally upright heroes, Chan plays a sense, a bit laughable boys regularly (usually the arbitrariness of their friends, families or friends), which has always triumph in spite of the end of quotas . Despite the success of the Rush Hour series, Chan said he is not a fan of him, as he was paying tribute to the action scenes in American film includes not humor.
In recent years, the aging increased Shan are tired typecast as an action hero, which is to act with more emotion in his latest film. In New Police Story, he wore a sign of suffering and mourning alcoholism his colleagues murdered. For further clarification on the image Mr. Nice Guy, Chan played a anti-hero for the first time in Rob-B-Hood as strings to a burglar with gambling problems.
Jackie Chan has worldwide recognition for his acting, has won several awards, including an Innovator Award from the American choreography, and a lifetime of rewards and the transfer of Taurus World Stunt Awards. He stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hong Kong and the Avenue of Stars. Chan is a cultural icon, which looks at Ash’s Song “Kung Fu” and “Jackie Chan” Frank chickens, and television shows Celebrity Deathmatch and Family Guy. It was the inspiration for Japan as Dragon Ball, Lei Wulong character in the Tekken and combating the type of Pokémon Hitmonchan.
A number of video games were with Jackie Chan. Before Stuntmaster, Chan has a game of his own, Jackie Chan’s Action Kung Fu, in 1990 for the PC Engine and NES. In 1995, Chan was recognized in the fight against Thursday Jackie Chan Kung-Fu Master. In addition, a number of games Jackie Chan Japan has been on the MSX of Pony, on the basis of several of his films (Project: A Project A 2, Police Story, The Protector and Meals On Wheels).
Jackie Chan is a successful singer in Hong Kong and Asia, began production in the professional recording in the 1980’s. He sings his songs on the theme of the film, playing in the Credits. In 2004, Chan has his own line of clothing with the help of a Chinese dragon, logo and the English word “Jackie”.
Despite the considerable success Box Office Hollywood, Chan’s American movies have been criticized in regard to measures of choreography. Records of Rush Hour 2, The Tuxedo, and Shanghai Knights critical of the rationalization of Shan’s combative scenes, the intensity of less than his previous films. The komödiantischen value of his films is called into question, some critics child could not be explained.
Shan has always wanted a role model for children, which remains popular at home because of his gutmütigen Art. He refused to play the thieves and never kiss the word in his films. Shan’s great regret in life is not received adequate training, inspired by him for the financing of educational institutions around the world. He financed the construction of the Jackie Chan Science Center at the Australian National University and the establishment of schools in poorer parts of China.
Chan is a spokesman for the Hong Kong government, in public announcements. In a commercial Clean Hong Kong, he invited the man in Hong Kong, more visibility regarding Litter, a problem which, for decades widespread. Moreover, in a message of promoting nationalism, there was a brief statement from the March of the Volunteers, the national anthem of the People’s Republic of China. If Hong Kong Disneyland opened in the year 2005 Chan attended the opening ceremony. In the United States, Chan appeared alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger in by the government to combat piracy of advertising and other public announcement with Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, for the people, especially Asians, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
Chan is an avid philanthropist and Good Will Ambassador for UNICEF, which is relentlessly for the cause and charities. He came out in favor of conservation, and prevent abuse of the animal, aid disaster for the efforts by the floods in the People’s Republic of China and 2004 in the Indian Ocean tsunami. In June 2006, he told the referee, donate half of its assets for purposes after his death, in which his admiration for the efforts made by Warren Buffett and Bill Gates to help are in distress.
In 1982, Jackie Chan Lin Feng Jiao married a Taiwanese actress. The two had a son, in the same year, singer and actor Jaycee Chan. During the year 1999 Shan all acknowledged paternity of a daughter of 1990 Miss Asia Pageant winners Elaine Ng, although there is no other confirmation of this.
Jackie Chan’s Childhood Photos.(Click to large.)











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