Raymond Chow

About Raymond Chow

Who is it?: Producer, Miscellaneous Crew, Actor
Birth Day: October 8, 1927
Birth Place: Hong Kong, British Crown Colony
Birth Name: Zou Wenhuai

Raymond Chow

A native of Guangdong province with Hakka roots, Golden Harvest studio president Raymond Chow was born in Hong Kong and...
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As per our current Database, Raymond Chow has been died on 2 November, 2018 at Hong Kong, China.

🎂 Raymond Chow - Age, Bio, Faces and Birthday

When Raymond Chow die, Raymond Chow was 91 years old.

Popular As Raymond Chow
Occupation Producer
Age 91 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born October 8, 1927 (Hong Kong, British Crown Colony)
Birthday October 8
Town/City Hong Kong, British Crown Colony
Nationality British Crown Colony

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Raymond Chow’s zodiac sign is Libra. According to astrologers, People born under the sign of Libra are peaceful, fair, and they hate being alone. Partnership is very important for them, as their mirror and someone giving them the ability to be the mirror themselves. These individuals are fascinated by balance and symmetry, they are in a constant chase for justice and equality, realizing through life that the only thing that should be truly important to themselves in their own inner core of personality. This is someone ready to do nearly anything to avoid conflict, keeping the peace whenever possible

🌙 Chinese Zodiac Signs

Raymond Chow was born in the Year of the Rabbit. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Rabbit enjoy being surrounded by family and friends. They’re popular, compassionate, sincere, and they like to avoid conflict and are sometimes seen as pushovers. Rabbits enjoy home and entertaining at home. Compatible with Goat or Pig.

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A native of Guangdong province with Hakka roots, Golden Harvest studio president Raymond Chow was born in Hong Kong and considered to be a role model for success as a product of the parochial Catholic education system from China's past.

Having first attended the legendary St. Stephen's College Preparatory School for Boys in the Stanley peninsula, Chow would migrate to Shanghai after his father's death during his middle school years to attend Shanghai's prestigious St.

John's Secondary school and then on to college as a journalism major at St. John's University prior to returning to Hong Kong in 1949. A notable item in Chow's early resume prior to show business was his working in the audio visual department for the US Foreign service where he was later promoted as the radio program coordinator for the Voice of America in Hong Kong.

This exposure landed Chow into the Hong Kong offices of the Shaw family from Singapore to direct their newly formed public relations and publicity operations in anticipation of usurping market share domination for the former island colony's entertainment dollar firmly held by their big studio rival Cathay/MPG&I studios run by the Loke family also of Southeast Asia.

History has it that Chow would be the key catalyst in helping elevate Shaw Brothers as the new corporate 'Taipan' studio that would go on to dominate Hong Kong entertainment circles for the next twenty five years that is, until Chow himself who along with his defecting publicity apprentice Leonard Ho, would leave Shaws in 1970 to found the upstart Golden Harvest studios across town ironically at the newly defunct Cathay/MPGI studios compound.

Having recruited other past Shaw alumni like directors Lo Wei, Huang Feng, Wu Chia Hsiang, Wu Ma and John Woo and stars like Cheng Pei Pei, Wang Yu, Michael Hui, Bruce Lee and a young stunt player named Jackie Chan, Raymond Chow and Company along with a reach that would extend across the pond to Hollywood, would quickly rise to become Shaws' main rival as a serious contender to dominate the box office for at home and abroad from the mid-1970s to the present.

Raymond Chow Movies

  • The Way of the Dragon (1972) as Producer
  • Enter the Dragon (1973) as Producer
  • Police Story (1985) as Producer
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993) as Producer

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