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Shek Tien (sometimes written Shek Tin) aka Dean Shek (born 17 October 1950) is a veteran Hong Kong feature film actor and film producer with over 100 film acting credits to his name.

History

Shek began his career as a contracted actor at Shaw Brothers Studio in 1968^[1], making his first brief appearance in the film Twin Blades Of Doom (1969). He received more substantial roles at Shaws, in musicals such as The Singing Killer, romantic films including A Time For Love (1970), comedies such as The Human Goddess (1972) and martial arts films such as The Fists Of Vengeance (1972).

Shek left Shaw Brothers in 1973. The same year, he appeared in Little Tiger of Canton, the first film to feature Jackie Chan in a starring role. He made his directorial debut in 1975 with The Monk, and worked as assistant director on Black Alice (1975), A Queen's Ransom (1976), The Iron-Fisted Monk (1977).

Throughout the late 1970s, Shek continued to work with the likes of Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung on period kung fu films including Broken Oath (1977), Warriors Two (1978), Snake in the Eagle's Shadow (1978), Drunken Master (1978) and Odd Couple (1979).

Shek is credited as producer on 18 films, most of which were for the production company Cinema City & Films Co., which he co-founded with Karl Maka and Raymond Wong in 1980. ^[2] Throughout the 80s, he appeared in action comedies including the first 4 films in the Aces Go Places series and John Woo's A Better Tomorrow 2 (1987). He also directed 4 further films - The Perfect Wife (1983), A Family Affair (1984), Kung Hei Fat Choy (1985) and The Family Strikes Back (1986).

Shek retired in 1992, his final role in the industry was as producer for the fantasy-horror film Angel Hunter (1991).

References

External links

• Dean Shek at the Internet Movie Database
• Hong Kong Cinemagic: Dean Shek Tien