Frankie Chan Fan-kei is a Chinese actor, film director, producer, action director, and composer.

Chan is best known to Hong Kong action cinema

Hong Kong action cinema

Hong Kong action cinema is the principal source of the Hong Kong film industry's global fame. It combines elements from the action film, as codified by Hollywood, with Chinese storytelling and aesthetic traditions, to create a culturally distinctive form that nevertheless has a wide transcultural...

 fans as the main antagonist in Sammo Hung

Sammo Hung

Sammo Hung is a Hong Kong actor, martial artist, film producer and director, known for his work in many martial arts films and Hong Kong action cinema...

's The Prodigal Son

The Prodigal Son (film)

The Prodigal Son , also released as "Pull No Punches," is a 1981 Hong Kong kung fu comedy film directed by Sammo Hung, starring Yuen Biao and Lam Ching-ying and featuring Hung in a supporting role...

where he faces Yuen Biao

Yuen Biao

Yuen Biao is a Hong Kong actor, martial artist. He specialises in acrobatics and Chinese martial arts and has worked on over 80 films as actor, stuntman and action choreographer...

 in the final reel. Chan has starred in a number of modern action films, most notably Burning Ambition, Outlaw Brothers and Carry On Pickpocket

Carry On Pickpocket

Carry On Pickpocket is 1982 Hong Kong action comedy film directed by Sammo Hung who also stars in it alongside Frankie Chan and Deannie Yip. Hung, the Sammo Hung Stuntmen's Association, Yuen Biao, Lam Ching-ying and Billy Chan served as action directors...

. He also directed and composed many films in the 1970s and 1980s, including The Young Master

The Young Master

The Young Master is a 1980 Hong Kong martial arts action film directed by and starring Jackie Chan as Dragon.The film is notable for being the first that Jackie Chan worked on for Golden Harvest, and despite being his second film as director , this is often incorrectly credited as his directorial...

, Odd Couple and Armour of God II: Operation Condor

Armour of God II: Operation Condor

Armour of God II: Operation Condor is a 1991 Hong Kong martial arts-action film, directed by and starring Jackie Chan. It is the sequel to his hit Armour of God. It was produced by Golden Harvest / Paragon Films....

. In 2011 Chan directed Legendary Amazons

Legendary Amazons

Legendary Amazons is a 2011 Chinese film based on the stories of the Yang Clan Generals. The film is directed by Frankie Chan and stars Cecilia Cheung, Richie Ren, Liu Xiaoqing, Cheng Pei-pei, Kathy Chow, Chen Zihan and Jin Qiaoqiao...

, a film about the female Generals of the Yang clan

Yang Jia Jiang

Yang Jia Jiang is a collection of folk tales, plays and novels, which detail the exploits of the Yang clan over four generations during the Northern Song Dynasty. The stories recount the unflinching loyalty of the members of the Yang clan, and of how they defended the Song Dynasty's borders from...

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External links

• Frankie Chan Fan-kei at the Hong Kong Movie Database
  Hong Kong Movie Database
  The Hong Kong Movie DataBase is a bilingual website that was created in 1995 by Ryan Law to provide a repository for information about movies originating from Hong Kong and the people that created them....
  
   Frankie Chan at the Chinese Movie Database