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Home/People/Derek Yee
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Born
Dec 28, 1957
Age 68
Place of Birth
Hong Kong, British Crown Colony [now China]
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male

Career Highlights

60
Movies
9
TV Shows
19
Directed
Also Known As
爾冬陞
Yee Tung-Shing
Derek Yee
尔冬升
이동승
IMDb Profile

Derek Yee

Acting

Biography
Derek Yee Tung-sing (Chinese: 爾冬陞, born 28 December 1957), is a former Shaw Brothers actor from Hong Kong, currently a film director and screenwriter, who has achieved fame and respect in Hong Kong and international film festival circuits for treading carefully commercial viability concerns with artistic integrity. He is the younger half-brother of famed Hong Kong actors Paul Chun and David Chiang, the latter also a former Shaw Brothers star. Yee has starred in over 40 movies in Hong Kong between 1975 and 1986, during the time when Shaw Brothers Studio were still producing movies. Since then Yee turned to screenwriting and directing and has made a career out of making films like C'est la vie, mon chéri, Viva Erotica and The Truth About Jane and Sam and also gritty dramas like One Night in Mongkok and Protégé. Derek Yee was a former boyfriend of Hong Kong actress Maggie Cheung.
Keep Rolling poster

Keep Rolling

Cast
2020
I Am Nobody poster

I Am Nobody

as Himself
2016
I Am Somebody poster

I Am Somebody

as Derek Yee
2015
Protégé poster

Protégé

as Miu Chi Wah
2007
Stooge, My Love poster

Stooge, My Love

Cast
1996
Lover's Tears poster

Lover's Tears

Cast
1996
Wong Fei Hung Series : The Eight Assassins poster

Wong Fei Hung Series : The Eight Assassins

as Eight Assassins 1
1995
The True Hero poster

The True Hero

as Principal Chun
1994
Victory poster

Victory

as Ma Chi
1994
How Deep Is Your Love poster

How Deep Is Your Love

Cast
1994
Hello! Who Is It? poster

Hello! Who Is It?

as Supt [cameo]
1994
A Soul Haunted by Painting poster

A Soul Haunted by Painting

as Pan Zanhua
1994
Master of Zen poster

Master of Zen

as Puti Dharma
1994
Fatal Mission poster

Fatal Mission

Cast
1991
Sisters of the World Unite poster

Sisters of the World Unite

as Johnny
1991
This Thing Called Love poster

This Thing Called Love

as John
1991
Kawashima Yoshiko poster

Kawashima Yoshiko

as Amakasu Masahiko / Wong Ka Hung
1990
Goodbye Hero poster

Goodbye Hero

as Tony
1990
Gift from Heaven poster

Gift from Heaven

as Albert
1989
Little Cop poster

Little Cop

as Narcotic Policeman
1989