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Filmmaker · China

Shen Fu

Died in 1994

Shen Fu, born Shen Baining, was born in Tianjin on 23 March 1905. A journalist at first according to Larousse, he wrote his first screenplay before the age of twenty, then joined Lianhua in 1933, where he was an actor, screenwriter and director. During the war, he worked in the theatre in Chongqing, Xi'an and Chengdu, before returning to cinema in 1946. He still made films after 1949; the Cultural Revolution suspended his work, and he returned to directing only in 1979. He died on 27 April 1994.

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