Leung Kar Yan (梁家仁, born 20 January 1949), also known as Bryan Leung, is a Hong Kong film actor and director who has played roles in numerous acclaimed martial arts films. He is affectionately known as "Beardy" due to his trademark facial hair. He also has characteristic hyper-extendable fingers, which can be observed when he his has palms open and his fingers outstretched.

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  • Leung Kar Yan (梁家仁, born 20 January 1949), also known as Bryan Leung, is a Hong Kong film actor and director who has played roles in numerous acclaimed martial arts films. He is affectionately known as "Beardy" due to his trademark facial hair. He also has characteristic hyper-extendable fingers, which can be observed when he his has palms open and his fingers outstretched. Despite being one of the most well-known faces in Hong Kong action cinema, he had no formal martial arts training, relying on his talents at mimickry to imitate the moves shown to him by the action directors. His action film career began in 1969, his good looks and natural athleticism taking him to Shaw Brothers, where he appeared in several renowned period kung fu films, although he was rarely offered leading roles. His big-break came under the direction of Sammo Hung, with whom he fought in Enter the Fat Dragon (1978), and co-starred in the seminal Warriors Two (1978). His performance in Warriors Two, as Mr. Tsang, a real-life historical doctor and master of Wing Chun, is described as "the best performance of his career" by Mark Pollard of Kung Fu Cinema, who goes on to write: Leung Kar-yan is brilliant in his role as the teacher. He adds just the right amount of austerity and presence without overdoing it. Its also obvious why he was chosen for this role over an older actor. To the layman, he really looks like a Wing Chun expert and his physical grace is undeniable. Leung Kar Yan continued to work with Sammo Hung, achieving further success with a string of highly-rated kung-fu comedies, including Knockabout (1979), where he and Yuen Biao played crooks being harassed by kung-fu beggar Sammo Hung. In Dreadnaught (1981), he played Wong Fei Hong's student. The film again featured Yuen Biao, as well as veteran kung-fu star Kwan Tak-Hing playing Wong Fei Hong. It also marked Leung Kar Yan's first collaboration with director Yuen Woo-ping, and he would go on to star in several acclaimed Yuen Woo-ping directed films, including Legend of a Fighter (1982), in which he portrayed historical figure Fok Yun Gap, and Miracle Fighters (1982). During this same period, Leung also enjoyed some success in television acting, appearing as the Khitan warrior Xiao Feng in TVB's 1982 adaptation of the Jin Yong wuxia novel Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils and as the warrior Guo Jing in 1983's Return of the Condor Heroes. Despite this acting success, his 1984 directorial debut, Profile in Anger, was relatively unsuccessful. This marked a lowering of his star profile, as he began to take more supporting roles and less leading roles. He continues to act and direct into the 2000s, occasionally appearing in high-profile films like Last Hero in China (1993), where he co-starred with Jet Li and reprised the role he had played in 1981's Dreadnaught, and several Stephen Chow vehicles including Legend of the Dragon (1990). In 2009, Leung Kar Yan is to direct once again in a new martial arts action film tentatively titled "Blood Relations". He will also star in the film alongside his son Leung Ho Yee and martial arts legend Gordon Liu.
  • Leung Kar Yan é um ator de filmes de kung fu. Também conhecido como "barbudo", o ator fez um sucesso mediano nos anos 70 e 80. Nos filmes que participa, Leung sempre utiliza o estilo do kung fu "garras de tigre". O ator já atuou junto aos atores Sammo Hung e Yuen Biao, grandes astros do cinema de Hong Kong também.
  • Leung Kar Yan, aynı zamanda Bryan Leung olarakta bilienen Hong Kong'lu aktör ve yönetmen. Leung Kar Yan daha çok dövüş saatları filmlerinde rol almıştır.
  • 梁家仁（Bryan Leung，1949年1月20日－），香港武打演員，七十年代出道，曾演出過多部武打影視作品，以《天龍八部》飾演喬峰而著名。
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  • Leung Kar Yan (梁家仁, born 20 January 1949), also known as Bryan Leung, is a Hong Kong film actor and director who has played roles in numerous acclaimed martial arts films. He is affectionately known as "Beardy" due to his trademark facial hair. He also has characteristic hyper-extendable fingers, which can be observed when he his has palms open and his fingers outstretched.
  • Leung Kar Yan é um ator de filmes de kung fu. Também conhecido como "barbudo", o ator fez um sucesso mediano nos anos 70 e 80. Nos filmes que participa, Leung sempre utiliza o estilo do kung fu "garras de tigre". O ator já atuou junto aos atores Sammo Hung e Yuen Biao, grandes astros do cinema de Hong Kong também.
  • Leung Kar Yan, aynı zamanda Bryan Leung olarakta bilienen Hong Kong'lu aktör ve yönetmen. Leung Kar Yan daha çok dövüş saatları filmlerinde rol almıştır.
  • 梁家仁（Bryan Leung，1949年1月20日－），香港武打演員，七十年代出道，曾演出過多部武打影視作品，以《天龍八部》飾演喬峰而著名。
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