Having moved from Shanghai to Hong Kong as a child, his early fascination with police work led him to a brief stint at the police academy before enrolling in the Shaw Brothers-TVB acting school in 1970. A black-belt judoka, he debuted as Zhang Shun in Chang Cheh’s The Water Margin (1972) and soon headlined the superhero hit The Super Inframan (1975), later portraying Bruce Lee in Bruce Lee and I a…
