Ti Lung

Ti Lung is the kind of actor who makes you realize just how golden the golden age of Hong Kong cinema really was. Born in Guangdong and discovered by Shaw Brothers, he spent the 1970s carving out this effortlessly cool, noble-swordsman screen presence in wuxia classics like The Duel and The Blood Brothers — films where the action was brutal but the emotions hit even harder. What I find genuinely impressive is that he wasn't just a pretty face with good kicks; he could carry the dramatic weight of a whole film on his shoulders. His 1986 Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actor proved the critics eventually caught up. And then there's his late-career renaissance in John Woo's A Better Tomorrow, playing opposite Chow Yun-fat with this quiet gravitas that felt earned over a lifetime of work. A true titan of Asian cinema.

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Name (English)

Ti Lung

Name (Japanese)

ティ・ロン

Reading

てぃ・ろん

Born

August 19, 1946 (age 80)

Origin

Xinhui District, People's Republic of China

Occupation

film actor / television actor / film director / actor / screenwriter

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Dog

Awards & achievements

• 1986 Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actor

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ti%20Lung
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q700405

Tags

• film actor
• television actor
• film director

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.