Linda Lin Dai

Acting

Linda Lin Dai

Born 1934-12-26 · Nanning, Guangxi, China

Linda Lin Dai (Chinese: 林黛; 26 December 1934 – 17 July 1964), born Cheng Yueru (程月如), was a Chinese actress of Hong Kong films made in Mandarin during the 1950s–60s. She was a star actress of the Shaw Brothers Studio. She was the daughter of Cheng Siyuan (程思遠), the secretary of the KMT Chinese President Li Zongren, and Vice Chairman of the CPPCC. Lin Dai was awarded the Best Actress at the Asia Pacific Film Festival four times for her performances in films produced by Shaw Studio. While she attended short courses on drama and linguistics at Columbia University, New York in 1958, she met and fell in love with Long Shengxun, the son of Long Yun who was a former governor of China's Yunnan province. They married on 12 February 1961 in Hong Kong. She committed suicide at home in Hong Kong in July 1964, using an overdose of sleeping pills and inhalation of methane gas, due to family matters referred by the media as "trivial". Her death shocked the Chinese community. She left behind two unfinished films, The Lotus Lamp and Blue And Black (I and II).

Acting credits

The Last Woman of Shang poster
7.0

In order to exact revenge upon him, a young woman (Lin Dai) marries the Emperor Chou (Shin Young-kyun), who killed her father.

The Last Woman of Shang

1964

Love Without End poster
7.1

Li Qingqing, an orphan, just arrives in Hong Kong and becomes a singer who sacrifices everything for her man.

Love Without End

1961

The Kingdom and the Beauty poster
6.9

This is a musical about a young emperor who is lured via stories told to a place called Kiang-Nan by his royal tutor. The empress mother has the tutor go to Kiang-Nan to bring him back.

The Kingdom and the Beauty

1959

Diau Charn poster
9.0

Based on Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Diau Charn is a sublime retelling of a familiar tale with iconic actress Linda Lin Dai (Lam Doi) in the titular role of Diau Charn, one of the four storied beauties of ancient China.

Diau Charn

1958

The Lotus Lamp poster
7.3

The Goddess of Hua Mountain is imprisoned for falling in love with a mortal, meanwhile her son is raised in secret until he can attempt to free her.

The Lotus Lamp

1965

Madam White Snake poster
9.0

This Classic Seductive tale of two snakes who assume human forms will send chills of pleasure down viewers' backs. The Lovely Linda Lin Dai (Les Belles, The Kingdom And The Beauty) and margaret Tu Chuan (The Dream of The Red Chamber) play the two sister serpents, Pak Su-cheng and Ching Ching. Su-cheng meets Hsu Hsien (Chao Lei) one day and recognizes him as her savior in another life 1,000 years ago. She marries him to reward him but the snake-human union brings about problems beyond imagination.

Madam White Snake

1962

Beyond the Great Wall poster
5.0

Beyond the Great Wall is a true story based on how Wang Chao-chun sacrificed her love and life for the good of the Chinese people during war time fears between China and the Huns.

Beyond the Great Wall

1964

The Blue and the Black poster
6.6

It's a powerful melodrama about a thwarted romance in 1930s Tientsin, China, during the Japanese occupation, and it stars Linda Lin Dai, one of the era's most popular stars. It was part of Golden Horse's 100 Greatest Chinese-Language Films.

The Blue and the Black

1966

Laughter and Tears poster
9.0

Tao Zutai, a bank employee, has five children. Tao's wife is addicted to gambling and spends too much and the eldest daughter Guiru is greedy for vanity. Tao is overjoyed when he is notified that he will be promoted to deputy manager.

Laughter and Tears

1958

The Orphan Girl poster
10.0

Loosely based on Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre.

The Orphan Girl

1956

The Blue and the Black 2 poster
6.0

War and time change everything. Their love becomes more than reunion, it becomes a reckoning with what was and what could've been. Part two of the wartime love story.

The Blue and the Black 2

1966

Cinema Hong Kong: The Beauties of the Shaw Studio poster
7.0

Hong Kong cinemas had a wide range of glamorous female stars during the golden age of the 60's and 70's. The series will take the audience on a sentimental journey to the good old days and once again look at the expansive epic costume dramas and huangmei operas in which actresses played both the male and female roles. Rare interviews with Sir Run Run Shaw, stars Ivy Ling Po, Shaw Yin Yin, Tanny Tie Ni and Cheng Pei Pei are also featured.

Cinema Hong Kong: The Beauties of the Shaw Studio

2003

A Mating Story poster
NR

A Shaw and Sons production.

A Mating Story

1957

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

The Mirror poster
8.0

Property company chairman Hu Zian was attracted to his secretary Sun Yuxia's beauty and competence. One day after dinner when Hu was escorting Sun home, he received from a child on the street a box containing a mirror and two silver coins engraved with dragons.

The Mirror

1967

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

Beauty in the Maelstrom poster
8.0

A Shaw and Sons production about a couple who loves each other but end up marrying different people because of parental pressures.

Beauty in the Maelstrom

1956

Lady in Distress poster
NR

A Shaw Brothers production.

Lady in Distress

1957

A Mellow Spring poster
NR

A Shaw Brothers production

A Mellow Spring

1957

The Chase poster
10.0

Private Investigator, Wu Feng, is tasked in tracking down his wife, Zhang Xiu Juan, and collecting evidence of her infidelity. He plans to blackmail her into divorcing him while also getting a share of her inheritance from her father.

The Chase

1956

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

Golden Lotus poster
7.0

A Hong Kong historical drama

Golden Lotus

1957

The Swallow poster
7.0

The hunt for The Swallow Thief.

The Swallow

1961

No artwork available
NR

Painter Wang Zijian is saved from drowning by Aying, the daughter of a fishing folk. Their relationship becomes an intimate one. When Wang's father presses him to marry his boss's daughter Du Jiazhen, he runs away in defiance. Du sows discord between the lovers and drives Aying insane. Wang returns hoping to remedy the harm done to Aying but is too late to save her from drowning herself in the sea.

The Fisherman's Daughter

1956