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Linda Lin Dai
Born: 26th Dec 1934 Nanning, Guangxi, China - Died 17th Jul 1964
Dept: Acting
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).
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 30
Film: 30 (100%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Crime
Filmography
Original title: 电影香江：俪影倾情
2003
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 sentim ... view
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(footage)
Original title: 血痕鏡
1967
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 hom ... view
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Sun Yu-Hsia
Original title: 藍與黑(下)
1966
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 war ... view
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Tang Qi
Original title: 藍與黑
1966
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 er ... view
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Tang Qi
Original title: 寶蓮燈
1965
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. ... view
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Lady San/Liu Chen-Hsiung
Original title: Wang zhao jun
1964
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 fear ... view
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Concubine Wang Chao Chun
Original title: 妲己
1964
In order to exact revenge upon him, a young woman (Lin Dai) marries the Emperor Chou (Shin Young-kyun), who killed her father. ... view
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Su Da Ji
Original title: 花團錦簇
1963
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 ... view
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Dr Ye De Mei
Original title: 白蛇傳
1962
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 Belle ... view
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Pai Su Chen (White Snake)
Original title: 不了情
1961
Li Qingqing, an orphan, just arrives in Hong Kong and becomes a singer who sacrifices everything for her man. ... view
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Li Qingqing
Original title: 神仙老虎狗
1961
A Shaw Brothers comedy starring Peter Chen Ho, Pat Ting Hung, Ding Ling, Fanny Fan Lai and Margaret Tu Chuan. ... view
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[Cameo]
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Yin Niu (The Swallow)
Original title: 千嬌百媚
1961
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 ... view
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Lan Lan
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Guang Mei Hsi
Original title: 樑上佳人
1959
The beautiful and skilled jewel thief Zhao Wenying (Lin Dai) is clever and resourceful, causing confusion for both the police officer and the wealthy ... view
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Zhao Wenying
Original title: 江山美人
1959
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 ... view
Character:
Li Feng
Original title: Yun chang yan hou
1959
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 kid ... view
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Wang Dan Ying
Original title: 貂蟬
1958
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 titula ... view
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貂蝉
Original title: 笑聲淚影
1958
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 vani ... view
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Tao Gui Ru
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Zi Qin
Original title: 情場如戰場
1957
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 p ... view
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Yeh Wei-fang
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Jin Lan
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Jin Lian; Shen Shu Wen
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Zhu Yu Zhen/Zhang Ma
Original title: 追
1956
Private Investigator, Wu Feng, is tasked in tracking down his wife, Zhang Xiu Juan, and collecting evidence of her infidelity. He plans to blackmail h ... view
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Zhang Xiu Juan
Original title: 亂世妖姬(上下集)
1956
A Shaw and Sons production about a couple who loves each other but end up marrying different people because of parental pressures. ... view
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Shi Li Fang
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Mei Jie
Original title: 漁歌
1956
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 pr ... view
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Aying
