Yuen Siu Tien

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Yuen Siu-tien (1912-1979) (also known as Yuan Xiaotian, Simon Yuen, Sam Seed or "Ol' Dirty") was a Chinese martial arts film actor in the 1970s. He starred in films with actors like Jackie Chan and under the direction of his son Yuen Woo-ping. He died of a heart attack in 1979. Yuen trained in traditional Peking opera role of Wu-Shen. He began his acting career in the first Wong Fei-hung film to star Kwan Tak-hing, Story of Huang Feihong (1949), at the age of 37, though his film appearances were rare until the late 1950s. He is most well known for portraying mentors and kung fu masters. One of his most internationally well-known films came late in his career, Drunken Master (1978), in which he played Beggar So, an old hermit who had mastered the art of drunken boxing, aiding a young Wong Fei-hung, played by Jackie Chan.