Wu Tianming

Wu Tianming was born on 5 December 1939 in Sanyuan County, in Shaanxi. Admitted in 1960 to an actors' class at the Xi'an studio, he played small roles there, then studied directing at the Beijing Film Institute. Appointed head of the studio in 1983, he supported experimental films there and produced the first films of several filmmakers of the Fifth Generation. In the United States at the time of the crackdown of June 1989, he did not return and lived in Los Angeles; having later returned to China, he made a few more films. He died in March 2014, in Beijing.

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• CinemaOld Well老井Wu Tianming · 1986Cinema