TAIPEI – Award-winning Taiwanese actor Chang Feng died, aged 98, on Sunday (Feb 6).
His daughter Chang Ching confirmed the information on Wednesday (Feb 9), in accordance with information portal Focus Taiwan.
She didn’t reveal the reason for loss of life however mentioned he died “peacefully in his sleep”.
The veteran actor – whose profession spanned 70 years – is greatest remembered for his portrayal of legendary pugilist Zhang Sanfeng in Taiwanese collection The Heaven Sword And Dragon Saber (1994), an adaptation of the wuxia novel by Louis Cha.
In his lengthy profession in movie and tv, he had bagged greatest actor prizes at each the Golden Bell Awards and Golden Horse Awards.
He received greatest actor twice on the Golden Bell Awards for TV reveals Two Endings (1984) and Autumn Moon And Spring Breeze (1986).
He additionally received Golden Horse Awards for greatest actor in 1976 film Aromatic Flower Versus Noxious Grass and greatest supporting actor in 1984 film The Heat Of An Previous Home.
In 2008, he took house the Lifetime Achievement Award on the Golden Horse Awards.
Whereas he took on fewer roles in his later years, one in all his final movie appearances was in The Moon And The Tree (2021) by famend Taiwan-based Malaysian director Tsai Ming-liang.
The quick movie follows two Taiwanese veteran artistes, Chang and Nineteen Seventies singer Lee Pei-jing, and premiered on the Taipei Movie Pageant in 2021.
