Hong Kong actor whose trench-coated gangster in John Woo's 英雄本色 (1986) set the style of the city's action films. He later starred in 卧虎藏龙 and in Hollywood, and has pledged his fortune to charity.
Chow Yun-fat's performance in A Better Tomorrow became a classic.
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His gangster in 《英雄本色》, Mark Gor in Cantonese, is 小马哥 in Mandarin. In 1989 he played the gambler 高进 in 《赌神》 'God of Gamblers', which broke Hong Kong's all-time box office record.
