Carter Wong

Carter Wong
Born Chia-Ta Huang (黃家達)
(1947-03-22) March 22, 1947
China
Occupation Actor, martial arts instructor
Years active 1972–present
Spouse(s) Fanny

Carter Wong (born as Chia-Ta Huang on March 22, 1947) is a Chinese actor, who is mainly known for roles in Kung Fu action movies. The biggest movies he was featured in are ‘Big Trouble in Little China’, from 1986 and ‘Yong zheng ming zhang Shao Lin men’ (1977). As an actor, he contributed to more than seventy martial arts film. Besides that, he also did stuntwork for films and he was the fighting instructor for the movie ‘Rambo III’. Wong is still active in martial arts.

Filmography

Wong’s first substantial movie role was in 1972, for the movie ‘He qi dao’, in which he played Kao Chang. From that moment on, using several pseudonyms, Wong appeared for multiple martial arts movies a year for years in a row, usually based on his kung fu skills. The majority of his movies are shot in china and Taiwan, spoken in his mother tongue mandarin. With the growing popularity of Chinese kung fu films in the rest of the world a great number of movies Wong played in was overdubbed in English, among which the 1978 “kung fu Hall Of Fame Classic” ‘Tai ji yuan gong’ (translated as ‘Born Invincible’), in which he plays a shaolin fighter that is trained so heavily from childhood on, that he is now impervious to weapons. With the film ‘Yong zheng ming zhang Shao Lin men’ (in 1982 translated and released in the rest of the world as ‘Shaolin Invincibles’) he draws attention from Hollywood and he is invited to make movies there too.

Director

Besides roles in front of the camera, Wong has directed fighting scenes for a number of movies.

Other

Wong was a martial arts instructor for the Royal Hong Kong Police Department.

Filmography

as a director for fighting scenes

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