![]() ![]() “Facing you on the screen, you feel his presence is very strong, very powerful,” Chow told the Associated Press in 2005. Chow signed Bruce Lee in 1971 after seeing him on a Hong Kong TV variety show. He soon outmanoeuvred his former employer to grab the actor who would become synonymous with kung fu movies. ![]() Mr Chow gave me a chance to follow my dreams Jackie Chan, actor Frustrated with Shaw Brothers’ assembly-line ethic, he created his own production company, Golden Harvest, in 1970. ![]() “I said I did not think I could keep my job because the pictures were so bad,” Chow told Asiaweek magazine in 1983. Studio founder Run Run Shaw soon moved Chow to the production side of the business after Chow complained that the movies – made on low budgets and short schedules – weren’t good enough. Chow was a journalist who became a publicist for Shaw Brothers Studios, which churned out hundreds of films and popularised the kung fu genre. ![]()
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