Shi Hui (actor)

Shi Hui (Chinese石 挥, Pinyin shi hui; actually Shi Yutao; born 1915 in Tianjin, † December 1957 in Shanghai) was a Chinese actor and director.

Life

Shi Hui dropped out of school to support his family by doing odd jobs with can. After training as an actor, he came to Shanghai in 1940 and turned to the modern theater. He was a member of the theater company Kugan jutuan.

His film debut was Shi 1947. Until 1951 he was employed by the film company Wenhua, then from 1953 to 1957 at the Shanghai Film Studio. From 1948, Shi Hui took over occasionally even the director of the films in which he appeared. His film characters are diverse. He embodied a relentless guest house owners in Yedian (1947 ) by Huang Zuo-lin, a stable underground fighters in Fushi (1950) and an imperial general in Song Jingshi (1955 ), directed by Zheng Junli and Sun Yu, but Shi Hui preferred humane and humorous roles lianzhang as in his own movie Guan ( 1951).

His most famous work is Wozhe yi Beizi (1950), in which he is actor and director. The film about the fate of the " little man" plays in the period from the end of the Qing Dynasty to founding of the People 's Republic.

1956 joined Shi Hui at the reform-oriented group of artists Wu hua she, who had founded during the Hundred Flowers movement. During the following year onset of the "war on legal trends " Shu Hui was so heavily criticized publicly that he is due to this humiliation took his own life. Rehabilitated he was only 1979.