Peter Chen Ho

Acting

Peter Chen Ho

Born — Died

1929-07-01 — 1970-04-16

Place of birth

Shanghai, China

Known for

Acting

Credits

52 titles

Born as Chen Shang-Ho in Shanghai, Chen was widely regarded as the "King of Comedy" in the Mandarin film circle. His screen debut was "Qiu Jin, the Revolutionary Heroine" and later became a household name with "Songs of the Peach Blossom River". Comedy and musical were Chen's specialities. His acclaimed works include "Les Belles", "Love Parade", "The Dancing Millionairies", "Hong Kong Nocturne" and "Hong Kong Rhapsody". It was a sensation when Chen and fellow actress Betty Loh Ti were married in 1962, yet the relationship only lasted for five years. Chen died of bowel cancer in New York, on april 17, 1970. He was 40.

Known for

Sons of the Good Earth poster
5.5

The year is 1937, just prior to the Japanese invasion of China. Painters Ju Rui and Lao San stumble upon He Hua, a woman sold into the sex industry at a local brothel.

Sons of the Good Earth

1965

Hong Kong Nocturne poster
5.9

A musical about 3 sisters, singers and dancers, and their dad, a magician performing in nightclubs until they make their own life.

Hong Kong Nocturne

1967

The Joy of Spring poster
NR

The film tells the story of Xing Yonghui, a rich girl who has fun with her painter boyfriend Du Shaohua and her classmates. Chen Xiaoping and Guo Dawei fall in love and want to elope, but they are prevented from doing so; Du Shaohua and Li Zhongting fall in love with each other over a painting, causing Xing Yonghui's unhappiness, and Xing Yonghui crashes a car into a rock and wants to die together, causing serious injuries to Du Shaohua and Li Zhongting; Xing Yonghui's suicide is prevented by her shame, but Li Zhongting does not care about the past suspicion, and the two of them recover from the injuries and perform with their classmates on the same day as they had planned to do so.

The Joy of Spring

1966

The Pistol poster
8.0

Long unemployed and stone-broke, Shen Jiaguang is dealt a further blow when his wife Lu Xiaoyin has fallen seriously ill and their son Xiaoguang has to quit school.

The Pistol

1961

Love Parade poster
10.0

The winning couple of Linda Lin Dai and Peter Chen Hu light up the screen in the delightful Shaw Brothers musical Love Parade. The manager of a dance company places a personal ad in the newspaper. He receives a response but has no idea the woman is his top dancer, with whom he has an antagonistic relationship.

Love Parade

1963

Blue Skies poster
NR

Hsiao Yun's rise to fame all results from a lucky break, as she's forced to substitute for another singer at the last second. The girl makes the most of her fortuitous opportunity, creating a huge splash in her debut as an entertainer, a fact which forever changes her life! However, this newfound meteoric rise to fame begins to take a toll on her personal life. For one thing, it starts to complicate her burgeoning romance with her pianist lover. And secondly, she soon finds herself the receiver of some sexual overtures from the producer of her show. What will poor Hsiao Yun do? And will blue skies be smiling at her by story's end?

Blue Skies

1967

Film credits

1960s · 35 titles

Sons of the Good Earth poster
5.5

The year is 1937, just prior to the Japanese invasion of China. Painters Ju Rui and Lao San stumble upon He Hua, a woman sold into the sex industry at a local brothel.

Sons of the Good Earth

1965

Hong Kong Nocturne poster
5.9

A musical about 3 sisters, singers and dancers, and their dad, a magician performing in nightclubs until they make their own life.

Hong Kong Nocturne

1967

The Joy of Spring poster
NR

The film tells the story of Xing Yonghui, a rich girl who has fun with her painter boyfriend Du Shaohua and her classmates. Chen Xiaoping and Guo Dawei fall in love and want to elope, but they are prevented from doing so; Du Shaohua and Li Zhongting fall in love with each other over a painting, causing Xing Yonghui's unhappiness, and Xing Yonghui crashes a car into a rock and wants to die together, causing serious injuries to Du Shaohua and Li Zhongting; Xing Yonghui's suicide is prevented by her shame, but Li Zhongting does not care about the past suspicion, and the two of them recover from the injuries and perform with their classmates on the same day as they had planned to do so.

The Joy of Spring

1966

The Pistol poster
8.0

Long unemployed and stone-broke, Shen Jiaguang is dealt a further blow when his wife Lu Xiaoyin has fallen seriously ill and their son Xiaoguang has to quit school.

The Pistol

1961

Love Parade poster
10.0

The winning couple of Linda Lin Dai and Peter Chen Hu light up the screen in the delightful Shaw Brothers musical Love Parade. The manager of a dance company places a personal ad in the newspaper. He receives a response but has no idea the woman is his top dancer, with whom he has an antagonistic relationship.

Love Parade

1963

Blue Skies poster
NR

Hsiao Yun's rise to fame all results from a lucky break, as she's forced to substitute for another singer at the last second. The girl makes the most of her fortuitous opportunity, creating a huge splash in her debut as an entertainer, a fact which forever changes her life! However, this newfound meteoric rise to fame begins to take a toll on her personal life. For one thing, it starts to complicate her burgeoning romance with her pianist lover. And secondly, she soon finds herself the receiver of some sexual overtures from the producer of her show. What will poor Hsiao Yun do? And will blue skies be smiling at her by story's end?

Blue Skies

1967

The Brain-Stealers poster
8.0

A mad scientist wants to get his hands on a certain growth-accelerating serum developed by Hong Kong scientist Dr. Li Zong-Hua so that he can create an army of supermen and conquer the world.

The Brain-Stealers

1968

Move Over, Darling poster
NR

A Shaw Brothers romantic comedy

Move Over, Darling

1965

The Lady and the Thief poster
7.0

A Shaw Brothers production

The Lady and the Thief

1963

The Dancing Millionairess poster
7.5

Chen Hou is a chauffeur who gets caught in a mistaken identity scandal linking him to businesswoman Lok Dai. Chen was supposed to audition for a job as her chauffeur, but a proposed musical show is far more attractive to the aspiring dancer. When a rumor gets out that the two are involved in an affair, she's angry and confronts him, but his charms overwhelm her, and it's revealed that she too desires to dance. Soon she's bankrolling the affair, the sets are being built, and the singing and dancing begin!

The Dancing Millionairess

1964

Les Belles poster
7.0

Linda Lin Dai and Fanny Fan join the dancing troupe of Kao Pao-shu. Linda and Kao's son Peter Chen, manager of the troupe, have misunderstandings and dislike each other.

Les Belles

1961

Divorce, Hong Kong Style poster
NR

A philandering business tycoon accuses his angelic wife of cheating. He learns the hard way he had it good and hopes to win his wife back.

Divorce, Hong Kong Style

1968

Forever Diamonds poster
9.0

Ding Zhi-Hua (Pat Ting Hung) and Ding Wen-Hua (Wu Ma) steal expensive jewelry while in Hong Kong. On return to their home in Singapore, the jewels are misplaced with comedic and romantic consequences.

Forever Diamonds

1968

Four Sisters poster
9.0

Hong Kong adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. Macau hospital matron Mrs. Lo has four daughters. The peaceful existence of this family is suddenly shattered when a cable arrives from Borneo urging Mrs. Lo to join her ailing husband there immediately.

Four Sisters

1967

Dear Murderer poster
NR

Tu Chang (Peter Chen Ho)’s boss Yeh Kuang Lung (Liu Kei) thinks highly of him and is prepared to give him his daughter’s hand in marriage. Lan Fen (Pat Ting Hung), a company typist, is Tu’s sweetheart. She gets pregnant by him and threatens to tell the manager unless he’s prepared to do the right thing. Tu however is bent on marrying Jenny. When words fail to win Lan over, Tu murders her and hides her body in the wall of an abandoned villa. Tu weds Jenny but after his honeymoon finds that a lawyer named Huang Hsiung (Wang Hsieh) is investigating Lan Fen’s disappearance on behalf of her family.

Dear Murderer

1969

When the Poles Meet poster
NR

A Shaw Brothers romantic comedy starring Peter Chen Ho and Patricia Lam Fung.

When the Poles Meet

1961

The Millionaire Chase poster
10.0

Shaw Brothers musical about three Showgirls chasing millionaires.

The Millionaire Chase

1969

Hong Kong, Manila, Singapore poster
7.0

Carefree Peter Chen and serious Paul Chang are airline pilots and close friends. Peter disturbs the love life of three girls, one each in Hong Kong, Manila and Singapore.

Hong Kong, Manila, Singapore

1965

The Lark poster
6.2

A musical staring Carrie Ku Mei as a singer named Xiaoyun Shi, who comes to Hong Kong after a tour of other Asian countries, hoping to develop her career.

The Lark

1965

Bitter Sweet poster
10.0

A widow of four gave up two of her children to be raised by an uncle in Singapore. Many years later, just when the widow, now a house maid, is feeling contented by good news of her long gone son and daughter, she accidentally runs into his own son, now a lawyer, and ends up being looked down upon by him. It was a story about how traditional Chinese family and its value was impacted by the change of time. The movie depicted Macau in 1945 to Hong Kong in the mid-60s, moving from poverty after WWII to opulence. The human relationships became complicated and fragile. Many elements uniquely "Hong Kong", such as upper class Chinese, western religions, English speaking and a mixed-culture society are used to contrast the traditional, kind, enduring and forgiving love of a mother.

Bitter Sweet

1963

Stranger Than Fiction poster
10.0

A Shaw Brothers comedy starring Peter Chen Ho and Grace Ting Ning.

Stranger Than Fiction

1963

The Fair Sex poster
10.0

A Shaw Brothers comedy starring Peter Chen Ho, Pat Ting Hung, Ding Ling, Fanny Fan Lai and Margaret Tu Chuan.

The Fair Sex

1961

Hong Kong Rhapsody poster
7.0

There's nothing like a good, opulent, gaudy musical to lift the spirits, but when it's a 1960's Hong Kong musical orchestrated by a Japanese director and composer, it breaks through the ranks as a classic of campy kitsch. A follow-up to the previous year's megahit Hong Kong Nocturne, with the same Japanese creative team, Hong Kong Rhapsody follows the fortunes of an unemployed magician whose love life is so knotty it would take Houdini to unravel!

Hong Kong Rhapsody

1968

Sing High, Sing Low poster
NR

Lee Ho Yin is a young musician turned advertising executive who is shy and tongue-tied when it comes to women. One day, Lee meets lovely Yiu Kit Ying on a bus. Lee's light-hearted attitude to live leads to a serious of humorous incidents.

Sing High, Sing Low

1967

The Mating Season poster
7.0

The Weiss Advertising Co under manageress Lo Yu Chun (Pat Ting Hung) and the Jen An Advertising Co. managed by playboy Tsao Chung Nien (Peter Chen Ho) are business rivals. The former works hard but without much success. The latter, with most of his staff perusing racing form or yellow journals, gets far more business. The anticipated arrival of a business tycoon from Malaya starts another battle and Lo Yu Chun goes all out to win over the prospective customer.

The Mating Season

1966

Kiss for Sale poster
10.0

A Shaw Brothers comedy starring Peter Chen Ho and Fanny Fan Lai.

Kiss for Sale

1961

裸尸痕 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

裸尸痕

1969

All the Best poster
7.0

A Shaw Brothers comedy starring Peter Chen Ho and Ding Ling.

All the Best

1961

Till the End of Time poster
10.0

Jenny Wu is a singer who charms the well-to-do Peter Chen, but his parents object to a union between their only son and a lowly cabaret singer. He ignores their advice and marries her anyway, and for a time, they find some manner of wedded bliss. But the years are not entirely kind. He works hard to make ends meet, but his health pays the price.

Till the End of Time

1966

Rendezvous in the South Sea poster
NR

A Shaw Brothers drama starring Peter Chen Ho and Ding Ling. It was filmed on location in Malaysia.

Rendezvous in the South Sea

1960

The Boat Girl poster
10.0

Overseas student Qiao Jian-hua and his friend Bai Xue-Liao traveled together to the Typhoon Shelter and met a boat girl named Li Lan-lan. Hua hired Lan as a guide to learn about the life of boat people. The two became close, which aroused the jealousy of Man-man, a rich girl who had a crush on Hua.

The Boat Girl

1968

How to Marry a Millionaire poster
10.0

A Shaw Brothers romantic comedy starring Margaret Tu Chuan and Peter Chen Ho.

How to Marry a Millionaire

1960

The Tryst poster
3.5

A Shaw Brothers comedy starring Peter Chen Ho and Pat Ting Hung.

The Tryst

1962

The Husband's Secret poster
7.0

A romantic comedy by the Shaw Brothers studio. This is a sequel to Husband's Lover (1959).

The Husband's Secret

1961

Bride For Rent poster
NR

A film by the Shaw Brothers studio starring Betty Loh Tih and Peter Chen Ho.

Bride For Rent

1961

1950s · 16 titles

Mambo Girl poster
6.0

A young woman in search of a lost identity, her long lost mother who abandoned her soon after her birth.

Mambo Girl

1957

Corpse-Drivers of Xiangxi poster
7.0

Criminals use jiangshi corpses to smuggle illicit drugs.

Corpse-Drivers of Xiangxi

1957

Our Sister Hedy poster
6.8

The Kong family has four daughters. Hilda, the eldest sister, assumes the role of a mother and often lets romance slip by. Third sister Hedy introduces her to Sun Ruhao, an engineer, but Sun is snatched by second sister Helen. The youngest girl Hazel drops out of school in pursuit of love. Hedy shows no interest in romance but is chased by a rich heir, He Yan. Meanwhile, Hilda runs away to meet her true love in a foreign land. As for Hedy, she is at last won over by He.

Our Sister Hedy

1957

Appointment with Death poster
10.0

HK crime drama thriller film.

Appointment with Death

1959

Desire poster
10.0

A Shaw Brothers drama starring Linda Lin Dai and Peter Chen Ho.

Desire

1959

Husband's Lover poster
7.0

A romantic comedy by the Shaw Brothers studio starring Peter Chen Ho, in his first starring role in a SB film, and Pat Ting Hung, in her film debut.

Husband's Lover

1959

Camille poster
7.0

A Mandarin adaption of Camille directed by Chang Shan-Kun and Evan Yang.

Camille

1955

Love & Obligation poster
10.0

Yang Naifan's family has agreed to an arranged marriage. Yang Naifan is not happy with the arrangement and runs away to be with her true love, Li Zuyi. Disowned by her family, Yang Naifan must endure many hardships as she follows her heart.

Love & Obligation

1955

No artwork available
9.0

Teenage idols Grace Chang and Jeanette Lin Cui played competitive university freshman fighting against each other for almost anything : fame, recognition and, of course, guys, who were played by Cathay heart-throbs Peter Chen Hou end Roy Chiao.

Spring Song

1959

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Qiu Jin, the Revolutionary Heroine

1953

The Battle of Love poster
10.0

Yeh Wei-fang, a rich young lady, flirts with her suitors and hopes it would make Shi Rongsheng, the cousin she loves, angry. But Rongsheng doesn’t pay attention to that, and lectures her for lacking self-respect. Tao Wen-ping, Rongsheng's friend, gets to know Wei-fang. He invites her to go to the resort house borrowed from Rongsheng, but is fooled by her. Wen-ping gets to know Fang's sister, Wei-ling, by chance. Sharing common interests, Wei-ling grows a secret love for him. Wei-fang's home has a JP’s son as a guest. Rongsheng invites Wen-ping to join. Wei-fang knows that Wei-ling likes Wen-ping, but she shows intimacy towards him. Another guest, the antiquary Prof Ho Chi-hua, arrives, he is infatuated with Wei-fang. Wei-fang shows zeal for both, who in the end quarrel and fight. Wei-fang finally declares her love for Rongsheng under the pressure from Wen-ping and Chi-hua, who had a fight over her. Rongsheng's evasiveness proves weak for Wei-fang's quest for his love.

The Battle of Love

1957

No artwork available
8.0

Black Tulip

Black Tulip

1956

No artwork available
8.0

Lady Balsam's Conquest. A sequel of General Chai and Lady Balsam.

Lady Balsam's Conquest

1955

No artwork available
8.0

Lin Fu is a resolutely romantic tailor, who talks to his mannequins and is especially attached to one that looks like an orphanage employee, whose kids sometimes do some simple tailoring for Lin Fu's shop.

Cinderella and her little Angels

1959

Calendar Girl poster
8.0

Musician Sun Ping is estranged from his wife. Second daughter Yinzheng lives with Sun while eldest daughter Jinliu follows her mother. By coincidence, the sisters both enter the 'Calendar Girl' pageant but Jinliu deliberately lets her sister win the contest. Later, the sisters and Liu Bucheng perform in Sun's musical show. Though the show is a success, Yinzheng decides to quit in order to get married. Not wishing to disappoint their father, Jinliu devises a plan to make Yinzheng stay on, but the plan misfires. Yinzheng leaves angrily. She is at last brought back to the show due to Liu's mediation. The elders also reconcile as the sisters perform together on stage.

Calendar Girl

1959

No artwork available
NR

Legendary thief Hai Tang Hong (Wang Yin) is about to retire when he accidentally kills his wife's lover

Blood Will Tell

1955