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December 27, 1952, Lam Ching Ying was born in Hong Kong. As a child, his family was poor and his parents helped people pack food for a living. He had six siblings, and Lam was the third in line.

Like his siblings, Lam attended the Lutheran Primary School for two years, but dropped out.

Between 1963 and 1964, Lam joined a Peking opera troupe in Hong Kong, studying under Pink Chrysanthemum and Yu Jim-yuen, and training with members of the Seven Little Fortunes, including Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung, and with Zun Long, Wai Tin-chee, Mang-hoi, and Tung Wei as fellow students. After six months of training, Lin began performing in his first play, "White Sand Beach", but his Peking Opera career lasted only three to four years before he was introduced to the movie industry by a friend.

Acting Experience

Lam Ching-Ying's image as a Taoist priest

In 1969, at the age of seventeen, Lam Ching-Ying entered the movie industry and worked for Shaw Brothers Movie Company as a dragon and tiger martial arts master, and with his petite stature, he served as a body double for a number of actresses (e.g. Cheng Pei Pei).

Lin and Bruce Lee co-starred in The Brotherhood of Tangshan

In 1971, Lin began working as a martial arts instructor. In the same year, he appeared in his first movie, the kung fu film <>, starring Bruce Lee, and worked with Han Yingjie as martial arts director. And Lin Zhengying is the most celebrated event, is the film is invited by Bruce Lee himself, as the film's deputy martial arts director (the main martial arts director for Han Yingjie), and in the film played a role (can be clearly seen in the film), from then on will be cooperating with Bruce Lee, Bruce Lee is no Lin Zhengying beside the rather not start shooting.

In 1972, in Bruce Lee wrote, directed and acted in the action movie "Fierce Dragon", "Jingwumen", continue to cooperate with Bruce Lee, as the martial arts director of this movie.

In 1973, he was the martial arts director in Bruce Lee's original Hong Kong movie "Dragon Warrior". Within a few years thereafter, Lam continued to appear as a martial arts director in films such as "Game of Death" and "Lam Sai Wing".

In the late 1970s, the death of Bruce Lee prompted the formation of the Hung Gar Kung Fu class, of which Lam joined as a member. He later became one of the backbones of the Hung Family Class as well, and he was involved in all the films in which the Hung Family Class was the martial arts director.

Lam's funeral

In 1982, Lam won the Best Action Director award at the second Hong Kong Film Awards for the movie "The Loser", in which he demonstrated his Wing Chun style of martial arts, which is considered to be one of the best in the history of cinema. He was also nominated for Best Action Director at the 3rd Hong Kong Film Awards for his portrayal of an old and feeble Taoist priest in another movie, <>.

In 1983, he played a butler in the comedy film "Five Fortunes" and was also nominated for Best Action Director at the 3rd Hong Kong Film Awards.

Lin Zhengying "Zombie Taoist" stills

1985, starred in "Mr. Zombie" and became popular, playing Taoist in the film, it is due to the role of Taoist priests in the film, laid the image of Lin Zhengying in the subsequent film. 1985 when the public release caused a sensation, the box office wildly received more than 20 million, which set off a zombie film craze, only in 1986 there are more than 10 Followed the work of the movie was released. In the movie, the design of the zombie can be avoided by closing the breath is impressive, and was imitated by a number of similar films and TV movies, after the performance of Lin Zhengying became famous, and won the Fifth Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Supporting Actor. In the same year, he was also nominated for Best Action Design in the 5th Hong Kong Film Awards for his participation in the movie "Fortunate Son".

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Lin's stills

In 1986, Lin released "The Zombie Family", which was released to surprising success in Japan and a brief zombie craze.

In 1987, when the zombie genre was in full swing, Lin made a film called "Mr. Spiritual Fantasy," in which he still portrayed himself as a Taoist priest.

In 1988, Lin was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor award at the 25th Golden Horse Awards for his starring role in the movie "Seven Little Fortunes", in which he played Yu Huayuan, the younger brother of Yu Zhanyuan.

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Photos from TV series

In 1989, when Hong Kong's traditional Maoshan zombie films were being imitated by many followers without any innovations and gradually lost their audience, Lam Ching-ying, in order to prevent Hong Kong zombie films from running out of steam and cutting off their own way of life, began to actively incorporate vampires and zombies into his films, while striving to maintain the local folklore and interest in the films. In order to avoid the exhaustion of Hong Kong zombie movies, Ying has started to actively integrate western vampires and zombies into Hong Kong zombie movies. In this way, he launched the self-directed and self-starring One Eyebrow Taoist, the whole movie is funny and exciting, the Taoist master of Maoshan and the Christian "chicken and duck", Maoshan magic and Western zombies together with the novelty of the effect of the fight are very popular with the audience. The film was released at the box office of more than ten million, although due to Lin Zhengying regardless of the cost of excellence failed to make a profit, but opened up the Hong Kong filmmakers to re-examine the idea of local zombie movies.

Lam Ching-ying, "the loser" stills

1990, the Hong Kong zombie movie has been exhausted once again set off a creative fervor, and the trend of the Western wind eastward trend is also getting stronger and stronger. Lam Ching-ying in this year also made a "exorcism police", from the early civil war to the modern era, along the model of Liu Chun-wei "ghosts" in the police partner and the demon fighting, but the acting is still Maoshan magic, is a Maoshan zombie film and police partner to solve the case of the two major genres of the film complex. In the same year, because too much of the crude production makes the audience on this kind of theme has begun to get tired of indifference, coupled with Wang Jing's gambling film and after Tsui Hark's martial arts film began to take off, the movie business wind, all changed to shoot gambling and martial arts film to go, a time when the extremely popular zombie subject matter that few people dared to get involved again. In fact, at this time the zombie movie has indeed been difficult to return, the poor only remaining Lin Zhengying alone to support the situation. Although since then and made a funny movie such as "African Monk" this set of Maoshan magic, exotic customs, comedy business card "God is also crazy" African natives, as well as the good zombie ancestor of African giants and many other wonderful bridge creative work, but ultimately powerless to return to the sky, Lin Zhengying movie also showed a downhill road.

Lam Ching-Ying "Mr. Zombie" stills

In 1995, Lam Ching-Ying was hired by Asia Television to perform in the TV series "Zombie Taoist" with a high salary of one million dollars, and thus Lam Ching-Ying's TV career began. This TV series not only gained high ratings for ATV, but was also regarded as the first step in Lam's movie career.

In 1996, Lam accepted an invitation from Hong Kong's Asia Television to make another movie, Zombie Master II. In the same year, he participated in the TV series "Waiting for Your Return" as Jian Bo.

Lam Ching-Ying's "One Eyebrow" stills

In 1997, Lam Ching-Ying intended to shoot "Zombie Master III" for ATV, but he was told that he was suffering from liver cancer at that time, which led to the termination of the shooting and became his last wish (due to over-exhaustion from the shooting, and because of his fondness for alcohol, which led to liver cancer under the influence of the dual factors). In the same year, Lin Zhengying insisted on acting with illness, and with Xu Jinjiang, Liu Songren *** with the filming of "a flower monk" (New Water Margin), the drama is also Lin Zhengying in the world by the last filming of the work, in which Lin Zhengying played the role of Marshal Bai Yingqi.

On March 27, 2016, the ranking of Chinese kung fu superstars ranked Lin Zhengying at No. 12.