Peter Wang
Illustration — Promotional photo from Chan Is Missing, 1981. A Taiwanese actor and director from Beijing. He is best known for writing and directing the 1986 film, A Great Wall, the first American feature to be co-produced by the People's Republic of China.
Also recorded as Wang Zhengfang · Peter Wang Zheng-Fang · Wong Jing-Fong · Wang Peter
Peter Wang
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- Born
- 1938. · Beijing.
- Nationality
- United States.
- Occupation
- actor, screenwriter and director.
- Education
- Taipei Municipal Chien Kuo High School.
- Languages
- English.
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Wang was born in Beijing but grew up in Taiwan following the Chinese Communist Revolution in 1949. Wang emigrated to the United States in the 1970s to pursue a PhD in electro-optics at the University of Pennsylvania but during a teaching stint at San Mateo College in the Bay Area, he began acting at San Francisco's Asian Living Theatre. Wang's first film role came as Henry, a singing Chinatown chef, in Wayne Wang's Chan Is Missing (1982). In 1983, Wang and producer Shirley Sun partnered with the Chinese production company, Nanhai, and this led to Wang writing, directing and starring in A Great Wall. For 1988's sci-fi film The Laser Man, Wang revisited his experiences in graduate school where he had studied laser weapon research.
• Chan Is Missing (1982) • A Great Wall (1986) • The Laser Man (1988) • First Date (1989)
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1938
Peter Wang born at Beijing.
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- 1.Rudavsky, Shari. A Great Wall. The Harvard Crimson. 11 Jul 1986.
- 2.Garfield, Kim. Director/Actor Peter Wang. Drama-Logue. 31 Jul 1986.
- 3.Salamon, Julie. Film: Bridging the Great Wall. Wall Street Journal. 29 May 1986.
- 4.Mermelstein, David. Tearing Down Walls. Village View. 30 Mar 1990.
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His recorded language was English.
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