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ID Me: The Daredevils (1979)

PostPosted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 1:48 am
by Gaijin84
http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/images.mhtml?id=6000&display_set=eng

Two listed cast members, Chan Fai-Kei and Chan Ng-Lung do not have IDs. In the movie, there are two guys sitting in a restaurant talking about Lo Meng's character. The main actors (Sun, Lu, Chiang and Phillip) ask them what happened to Lo Meng and they are told. Both these characters have multiple lines, so it makes sense that they might be in the credited cast. These are the two actors:
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I know the first guy is in a ton of Shaw Brothers movies as an extra, and this is the first time I've seen him with a speaking role. He had more lines than the second. Could he be one of these two names?

PostPosted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 9:02 am
by Michael Kistner
Both actors you mention are in hundreds of movies (I have lists for both). I don't think that they are in the cast list. The one left is also in "Deadly Secret" with the name Chan Fai-Kei in the cast. I check today "Behind the Storm" also with the name in the cast (and only a handful actors appear in the movie). But like I said I don't think he is credited in "Daredevils".

Removed wrong To Wing-Leung and Siu Yuk-Lung IDs, did a few IDs and one cast addition.

I identified last week that actor

http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/image_detail ... ay_set=eng

who you had as To Wing-Leung. I post the ID in the next few weeks.

PostPosted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 2:45 pm
by Gaijin84
The one left is also in "Deadly Secret" with the name Chan Fai-Kei in the cast. I check today "Behind the Storm" also with the name in the cast (and only a handful actors appear in the movie). But like I said I don't think he is credited in "Daredevils".


Is there any reason to believe the one of the left is not Chan Fai-Kei? I'm really not sure who these two credited people would be if not for them. There are no other characters of any significance in the film and no one else with any speaking parts.

I'll try and do a little more research as well, but I think there is an excellent possibility of an ID.

PostPosted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 8:30 am
by Michael Kistner
"""Is there any reason to believe the one of the left is not Chan Fai-Kei?"""

The actor left is in "Shaolin Rescuers" and "Deadly Secret" with the name, but I checked "Behind the Storm" with the name and he is not in the movie. "Storm" has 12 cast members listed and besides of two villagers in a brief scene only 12 people appear in the movie! That must be the 12 names in the cast list. Only two faces of the 12 I don't know and that are young actors who must be in the cast list because they have important roles. One must be Chan Fai-Kei and one Wong Chang.

People like the "actor left" are unfortunately rarely credited in Shaw movies (the same is with people like Ling Hon, Mama Hung, Chai Lam, To Wing-Leung, the famous "Kwok Wai-Ming???", Cheung Sek-Aau and all the other "older" extras).

I think Chan Fai-Kei is not the "actor left". But I check today anyway "Boxer from the Temple" and "Tiger and the Widow" with the name also listed. Maybe I can make a Chan Fai-Kei ID.

PostPosted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 4:25 pm
by Gaijin84
sounds good - I really thought we had one of the big IDs there! :wink:

PostPosted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 10:50 am
by Michael Kistner
I checked "Boxer from the Temple" (added three actors more) and "Tiger and the Widow" (added one extra) and "actor left" appears in both movies (but in "Tiger" only as extra). But because of the reasons I mentioned before I still don't think he is Chan Fai-Kei.

Chan could be one of the soldiers in "Daredevils". All other known actors in the line with Chan in the opening titles play soldiers (mostly non-speaking roles).

A possible Chan Fai-Kei ID:

A young monk in "Deadly Secret"

http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/image_detail ... ay_set=eng

looks like the young monk at the first scene of "Boxer from the Temple". That actor looks like he could also be one of the two unknowns in "Behind the Storm" and that soldier in "Daredevils":

http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/image_detail ... ay_set=eng

But I'm not sure. I hope in the near future "Best Hustler Wins " and "Bank-Buster" will be released!