Chen Wo-Fu

Originating from Kaiping Guangdong Chen grew up in Hong Kong where he trained in Tai Chi As a middleweight boxer he was once famous for challenging a heavyweight in a Southeast Asia teenage martial arts contest in 1971 He joined Shaw Brothers the following year as an actor and debuted in All Men Are Brothers codirected by Chang Cheh and Wu Ma It was followed by Friends Two Faces of Love The Bloody Escape and The Shadow Boxer which was to be marked as Chens final act as tragically he commited suicide by gas poisoning in 1974 before the film was released Chen was only 24 when he died