Fanny Fan Lai

Acting

Fanny Fan Lai

Born 1940-10-16 · Hong Kong, British Crown Colony [now China]

Fanny Fan Lai (traditional Chinese: 范麗) is a Hong Kong actress. She entered the movie business in 1957 after winning a beauty pageant. She initially entered Shaw Brothers' Cantonese film division as Wan Li-Hong (traditional Chinese: 萬里紅; simplified Chinese:万里红), and starred in the 1959 film Behind the Hidden Scene (禁地春光). However, her career took off after she entered Shaw Brother's Mandarin division with a new stage name, Fanny Fan. She played naughty roles earning a nickname "Oriental Brigitte Bardot".

Acting credits

The Eight Bandits poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Eight Bandits

1968

Angel with the Iron Fists poster
7.0

Agent 009 infiltrates a dangerous and highly organized crime syndicate, headed by a cruel woman, after a string of assassinations target government spies trying to topple the organization.

Angel with the Iron Fists

1967

Summons to Death poster
10.0

A suave swinger and a cool chick have one half of a treasure map, the bad guys have the other half. Who will get the goods?

Summons to Death

1967

The Magnificent Trio poster
6.5

A wandering swordsman named Lu Fang who is returning from battle discovers that several farmers have kidnapped the local magistrate’s daughter. He sides with them after learning that this is an act of desperation to improve their low standard of living.

The Magnificent Trio

1966

金刀怪客 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

金刀怪客

1968

The Black Forest poster
6.0

A musical set in a logging village in Taiwan. Romance and singing abound as a logger and a pretty girl from the village fall in love. A villain is there to make sure that the course of true love does not run smoothly.

The Black Forest

1964

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

Diary of a Lady-Killer poster
6.5

Diary of a Lady-Killer is a murder mystery mixed with erotica. Each time a local playboy has an affair, the lady shows up dead, making him the prime suspect.

Diary of a Lady-Killer

1969

Kiss Me Again poster
9.0

A Shaw Brothers production

Kiss Me Again

1960

The Golden Buddha poster
5.8

Paul (Zhang Chong) is a businessman who gets caught up in an international espionage plot when he accidentally switches briefcases with a friend aboard a Singapore-bound plane. The friend turns up dead, and Paul discovers a small Golden Buddha inside the briefcase that contains a set of instructions. The instructions are only one of three parts, the other two being held in similar Golden Buddhas by Lo Wei (doing double duty as actor and director) and Lin Cui. When combined, the three Buddhas will lead the bearers to a buried treasure. But the nefarious Skeleton Gang is after the Buddhas, along with a buxom femme fatale (Fannie Fan) who isn't above showing a little skin to get her way. Luckily, Paul knows kung-fu, so the bad guys had better watch out!

The Golden Buddha

1966

Travels with a Sword poster
9.0

Travels with a Sword is a Hong Kong Martial Arts movie starring Sammo Hung

Travels with a Sword

1968

The Blue Poisonous Bees poster
NR

In realising their scheme to rule the underworld, the Poisonous Snake Gang breeds the 'Blue Poisonous Bees' and sends Red Rose to the Flying Dragon Gang to execute the 'Flying Sting' mission. Chased by Lung King-tin, both of them are captured by Anna Tai of the Female Monster Gang. The three gangs fight for the possession of a nuclear pistol and allegiances shift as the agents fall in love.

The Blue Poisonous Bees

1967

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

No artwork available
6.8

Essentially an adaptation of Gaston Leroux's classic The Phantom of the Opera, Mid-Nightmare is set in a Huangmei diao teahouse theatre, which an embittered and horribly disfigured ex-performer ‘haunts', looking to extract revenge on his enemies and falling in love with a talented and beautiful, but ultimately unattainable, ingénue.

The Mid-Nightmare

1962

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

Nora Zain Ajen Wanita 001 poster
2.0

Nora Zain is a spy from Malaysia that been assigned to defeat diamond syndicate in Asia.

Nora Zain Ajen Wanita 001

1967

Kiss for Sale poster
10.0

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

Kiss for Sale

1961

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

All the Best poster
7.0

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

All the Best

1961

No artwork available
NR

A Shaw and Sons production

A Pretty Girl's Love Affair

1958

No artwork available
NR

The film follows three sisters’ ups and downs that begin with this youngest one’s jealousy. In the film, Pearl Au Kar-wai stars as a very charming actress, who is loved by every person around her. The little sister envies her sibling’s achievements but what she does impulsively has caused permanent harm to the family. Besides Siao and Au, Woo Fung, still an active TV actor today, took up the role of Au’s once boyfriend, and Fanny Fan Lai and Roy Chiao, well-known for their roles in Mandarin films, took a bold step to partake in this Cantonese film. Director Chu Kea, best known for his period dramas, turned to a contemporary-set film this time, and successfully delivered the film’s sense of modernity, probably with help from his co-directors Ho Hoi-ki and Chu Yat-hung, who was his sister. The opening scene of an orchestra performance even reminds the audience of Hollywood movies.

You Are My Love

1967

Crime of Passion in the Hotel poster
9.0

A Shaw and Sons production.

Crime of Passion in the Hotel

1958

The Pink Murder poster
8.0

A Shaw Brothers production

The Pink Murder

1959

Passion poster
NR

A Cathay Studio production

Passion

1965