Cheng Gwan Min
鄭君綿
Born1917
Died2 August 1994(1994-08-02) (aged 76–77)
OccupationActor
Years active1937–1994
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese鄭君綿
Simplified Chinese郑君绵

Cheng Gwan Min (1917–1994) was a Hong Kong TVB actor. He died in Hong Kong at the age of 78, reportedly from lung cancer.

A native of Baoan county, Guangdong province, Cheng was once a theatre actor and broadcaster. In 1936, he made his debut in The Three-Day Massacre in Guangzhou in Guangzhou. During his long career of more than half a century, he made more than 200 films, mostly Cantonese.

A skilful imitator of singers from the East and the West, Cheng had numerous albums and performed Cantonese opera and musicals. He earned himself a nickname "Elvis Presley of the East".

From the 1970s onwards, he became a host of the classic variety show Enjoy Yourself Tonight, with occasional guest appearances in films.

Filmography

  • The Three-Day Massacre in Guangzhou (1937)
  • A Wealthy Family (1947)
  • Separated Too Soon (1948)
  • Night Discovery of the Women's Trap (1949)
  • A Pitiable Wife (1949)
  • Strange Bedfellows (1949)
  • Blood-Stained Azeleas (1951)
  • The Talking Bird (1959)
  • The Orphans (1960)
  • Death to the Killer (1960)
  • Ali Baba and the 40 Robbers (1960)
  • Revolutionary Heroine (1960)
  • Temperamental Amazon (1961)
  • False Alarm (1962)
  • Naughty! Naughty! (1974)
  • The Perfect Match (1982)
  • Rise of the Great Wall (1985)
  • Project A Part II (1987)
  • Looking Back In Anger (1989)
  • Man from Guangdong (1991)
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