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Chieh Yuan | |||||||||||||||||
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Born | Chieh Yu Kun (1945-03-15)15 March 1945 Kluang, Johor, Malaysia | ||||||||||||||||
Died | 16 November 1977(1977-11-16) (aged 32) Hong Kong | ||||||||||||||||
Years active | 1967-1977 | ||||||||||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 解元 | ||||||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 解元 | ||||||||||||||||
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Also known as | Gai Yuen | ||||||||||||||||
Musical artist |
Chieh Yuan (15 March 1945 – 16 November 1977) was an actor and martial artist. He was an actor for Shaw Brothers and in 1972, he was cast in Bruce Lee's The Game of Death. Chieh died in 1977 from cerebral edema, the same cause to Bruce Lee's death, and at age 32, the same age at which Bruce Lee had died.
See also
External links
- Yuan Chieh at IMDb
- Gai Yuen at the Hong Kong Movie Database
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- 1945 births
- 1977 deaths
- Hong Kong male film actors
- Malaysian male film actors
- Malaysian martial artists
- People from Kluang
- 20th-century Hong Kong male actors
- Neurological disease deaths in Hong Kong
- Deaths from cerebral edema
- Malaysian people of Chinese descent
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