ID me: Mr Vampire

[MrBooth]

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Was Yuen Biao really a vampire in the film? I remember KC Woman arguing that Yuen Biao played the vampire in Encounters Of The Spooky Kind, but I've not seen any evidence he was one in Mr. Vampire...

[Brian Thibodeau]

1. Man with glasses is Ho Pak-kwong

2. I think this is Yuen Wah, on his way to reanimation (if I recall the scene correctly). Perhaps this is the source of the confusion on Yuen Biao possibly being in this (which he's not)?

5. Guy on the left is Ricky Hui (not sure if he's the one you want ID'd tough!)

6. Chin Siu-ho on the left, but not sure about the woman.

[Brian Thibodeau]

6. Actually, I think that woman with Chin Siu-ho is Wong Wan-si. Not certain, so someone else might have to confirm.

[MrBooth]

I don't think it is Wong Wan Si in that scene - she's in the film later as Wo Ma's wife...



, but I think it's a different actress in the shop with Chin Siu Ho. Somebody I've seen in lots of Shaws films if I'm not mistaken.

I think it probably is Yuen Wah in the coffin, but it's hard to tell under all the makeup.

And yeah, it was more the vampires that I was looking to ID in 5

[Brian Thibodeau]

And yeah, it was more the vampires that I was looking to ID in 5

Oh what I wouldn't give for the Hong Kong film industry to have had a system in place then (and now for that matter) under which extras were given credit in films. Judging from their lengthy Chinese-text cast scrolls, many films did try to give credit (at least it seems that way) to entire casts, but with many other films, especially many of the lesser-known films of the crank-em-out 80's and 90's, we're lucky to have much beyond the principal cast itself!

But then, such requirements would probably only happen with the presence of unions, and then we wouldn't have a fraction of the HK films that are available to us from the past 40 years or more!

[MrBooth]

And it would take all the fun out of this forum!