Sun Daolin

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This is a Chinese name; the family name is Sun.

Sun Daolin (simplified Chinese: 孙道临; traditional Chinese: 孫道臨; pinyin: Sūn Dàolín) (December 18, 1921 – December 28, 2007) was a Chinese actor and film director.

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[edit] Biography

Sun Daolin was born in Beijing on November 20, 1921. He was born Sun Yi-liang 孙以亮 in Beijing from a family of four children. His father 孫文耀 was a Belgium educated railroad engineer. His mother 范念华 was a housewife. He attended Yan Ching University and studies were interrupted during Sino-Japanese War. He received a degree in philosophy. During the War he was active in patriotic activities including stage acting and he briefly was jailed by the Poppet Regime.


His career had spanned much of recent Chinese history. One of his earliest roles was in director Zheng Junli’s Crows and Sparrows, a polemic on the corruption of the Nationalist Government just prior to their defeat in the Chinese Civil War. After 1949, Sun continued to act, notably as the eldest brother in an adaptation of Ba Jin’s novel, Family.

In the 1980s, Sun began to focus increasing energy on directing. In 1983, he wrote, directed and starred in the well-received Thunderstorm, based on the play by Cao Yu. His second try behind the camera was 1992’s The Stepmother.

Sun died in Shanghai on December 28, 2007 at the age of 86. He is survived by his wife 王文娟, and a daughter 孫慶原, a Yue actress best known for her show in The Dream of Red Chamber --edited by Sam Shueh, a movie fan and a relative in 2008. [1]

[edit] Selected filmography

[edit] As actor

  • 1949- Crows and Sparrows
  • 1950- Min zhu qing nian jin xing qu
  • 1955- Nan dao feng yun
  • 1957- Family (Jia)（家）
  • 1958- Yong bu xiao shi de dian bo （永不消失的电波）
  • 1961- A Revolutionary Family (Geming jiating) （革命家庭）
  • 1963- February (Zao Chun Er Yue)（早春二月）
  • 1977- Spring to celebrate the collapse of the Gang of Four.
  • 1982- The Go Masters (Mikan no taikyoku) （一盘没有下完的棋）
  • 1983- Thunderstorm (雷雨）

[edit] As director

  • 1983 - Thunderstorm
  • 1992 - The Stepmother

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ (Chinese)Sun Daolin Died, Sina.com.

[edit] External links

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