Margaret Tu Chuan
Hong Kong actress
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Margaret Tu Chuan (Chinese: 杜娟; pinyin: Dù Juān; January 1, 1942 - November 30, 1969, aged 27) was a Hong Kong actress.
Career
She made her first film, The Magic Touch, in 1958. The film was directed by Li Han Hsiang who discovered her at age seventeen. She starred in movies such as When The Peach Blossoms Bloom (1959), The Kingdom And The Beauty (1959) and Madam White Snake (1962) with Betty Loh Ti and Lin Dai before her death in 1969. Diary Of A Lady-Killer (1969) was the last role she starred in before committing suicide by taking an overdose of sleeping pills[1] with a female lover after a failed marriage. She was 27 years old.
Filmography
- Diary of a Lady-Killer (1969)
- Yan yang tian (1967) .... Hong Ling
- The Black Falcon (1967) .... Hu Mei
- Te jing 009 (1964)
- Bian cheng san xia (1966) .... Chieh Ying
- Hu xia jian chou (1966) .... Hsiao Ching
- Shan ge yin yuan (1965) .... Sung Yu-lan
- The Black Forest (1964) .... Meidana
- Between Tears and Smiles (1964)
- Di er chun (1963)
- Her Sister's Keeper (Hong Kong: English title)
- Miao ren miao shi (1962)
- Madam White Snake (1962) (as Tu Chuan) .... Qingqing (Green Snake)
- The Dream of the Red Chamber (1962)
- Shou qiang (1961)
- Shen xian lao hu gou (1961) .... Sun Man-li
- Ge qiang yan shi(1961)
- Mang mu de ai qing (1961) .... Lu Lu-chi
- Oh Boys! Oh Girls! (1961))
- Jie da huan xi (1961)
- When the Peach Blossoms Bloom (1960) (as Juan Du)
- The Secret of Miss Pai (1960)
- How to Marry a Millionaire (1960) (Hong Kong: English title)
- The Malayan Affair (1960)
- Twilight Hours (1960)
- Spring Song (1959) (as Xiaoping Peng)
- Hou men (1959)
- Kingdom and the Beauty (1959) .... Village Girl
- Miao shou hui chun (1958)
References
- ^ Jeff Yang, Art Black - Once Upon a Time in China: A Guide to Hong Kong, Chinese, and Taiwanese Cinema
External links
- Margaret Tu Chuan at IMDb
- HK cinemagic entry
- 1962 magazine article featuring Margaret Tu Chuan
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- Tang Pao-yun (1962)
- Margaret Tu Chuan (1963)
- Wang Lai (1965)
- Lu Biyun (1966)
- Angela Yu Chien (1967)
- Ouyang Sha-fei (1968)
- Zhang Bingyu (1969)
- Xia Taifeng (1970)
- Sally Chen (1971)
- Fu Bihui (1972)
- Lisa Lu (1973)
- Josephine Siao (1975)
- Sylvia Chang (1976)
- Terry Hu (1977)
- Gua Ah-leh (1978)
- Shen Shihua (1979)
- Maggie Cheung (1990)
- Rebecca Pan and Wang Lai (1991)
- Josephine Koo (1992)
- Gua Ah-leh (1993)
- Elaine Jin (1994)
- Wern Ying (1995)
- Qiu Xiumin (1996)
- Liao Huizhen (1997)
- Shu Qi (1998)
- Deanie Ip (1999)
- Chao Mei Ling (2000)
- Yoky Lo (2001)
- Karena Lam (2002)
- Lin Mei-hsiu (2003)
- Bai Ling (2004)
- Yuen Qiu (2005)
- Nikki Hsieh (2006)
- Fan Bingbing (2007)
- Mei Fang (2008)
- Kara Hui (2009)
- Hao Lei (2010)
- Tang Qun (2011)
- Liang Jing (2012)
- Yeo Yann Yann (2013)
- Wan Qian (2014)
- Lü Hsueh-feng (2015)
- Elaine Jin (2016)
- Vicky Chen (2017)
- Ding Ning (2018)
- Winnie Chang (2019)
- Chen Shu-fang (2020)
- Wang Yu-xuan (2021)
- Kagaw Piling (2022)
- Beatrice Fang (2023)