A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Tang Yim Chan
Tong Yim Chan
Wong Tino
Yan Tsan Tang
Yen Tsan Tang
Yim Chan Tang
唐彦超
唐炎灿
唐炎燦
Birthplace:
Hong Kong, British Crown Colony
Born:
January 1, 1955
Originally from Hong Kong, Bruce Tong Yim-Chaan began his career as an actor with the 1970 Hong Kong action film "Kung Fu Vengeance". He then teamed up with Jackie Chan, acting as his personal stunt man and action director in the films The "Young Master" (1980), "Dragon Strike "(1982), and Jackie Chan's "Project A" (1983). More recently, he decided to come to Los Angeles to pursue Hollywood filmmaking. He has attended the UCLA Extension Entertainment Studies program in order to do this, as well as becoming 2nd Unit Director in 2004 on Russ Emanuel's GWG: Girl With Gun, a Russem Productions film.
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.