Dean Shek | |||||||||||
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Born | 17 June 1949[1] Beijing, China | ||||||||||
Died | 20 September 2021 | (aged 72)||||||||||
Occupation(s) | Actor, film producer, film director, screenwriter, film presenter | ||||||||||
Years active | 1968–1992, 2016–2021 | ||||||||||
Spouse | Lau Chun-yue (1979–2021) | ||||||||||
Chinese name | |||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 石天 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 石天 | ||||||||||
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Also known as | Charlie Shek | ||||||||||
Origin | Hong Kong | ||||||||||
Dean Shek (17 June 1949[1] – 20 September 2021),[2] also known as Dean Shek Tin, was a Hong Kong film actor and producer with over 72 film credits to his name. Shek was perhaps best known as Professor Kai-hsien in the 1978 film Drunken Master, Lung Sei in the 1987 film A Better Tomorrow II, and Snooker in the 1990 film The Dragon from Russia.