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Clarence Ford (1955-2024)

Alias:
Clarence Fok Yiu-Leung
Clarence Yiu-leung Fok
Foh Yiu-Leung
Foh Yiu-Naam
Fok Yiu-Leung
Huo Yao-Liang
霍耀南

Birthplace:
Hong Kong, British Crown Colony [now China]

Born:
June 10, 1955

Died:
February 1, 2024

Biography from TheMovieDB

Clarence Fok Yiu-Leung (Chinese: 霍耀良) is a Hong Kong film director best known for directing the international cult classic Naked Killer (1992). After graduating from the School of Design at the Hong Kong Polytechnic, he joined a six-month scriptwriting and directing training course at Redifussion TV and started working at that television station. He switched to TVB in 1978 to work as a director, and was involved in numerous productions including Conflict (1978), Over The Rainbow (1979), The Passenger (1979), The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (1979), The Bund (1980), Five Easy Pieces (1980) and Don’t Look Now (1980), among others. He made his directorial debut in 1980 with The Man from Vietnam, but the film was not released until 1982. He followed up in 1981 with Job Hunter (1981), starring Danny Chan and Leslie Cheung. Fok was promoted to the position of producer at TVB that year, and was responsible for such series as No One is Innocent (1981). He subsequently sought release from his contract at TVB in order to concentrate on film work.

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Film Performances

1985 Let's Make Laugh II
Simon Xiao Bijing
1985 Police Story
Photographer
1986 Naughty Boys
Ah Liang
1986 Armour of God
Member of The Losers Band
1987 Happy Go Lucky
Kang
1987 That Enchanting Night
Chi
1987 Project A: Part II
Robber
1987 Trouble Couples
Ah Chiao
1989 Little Cop
1999 Body Weapon
Pearl

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Film Production

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TV Production

Creator:
1981 No One is Innocent
2017 Oh My General

Director:
1981  No One is Innocent
1984  The Smiling Proud Wanderer
2006  Seven Swordsmen
2017  Oh My General
2018  The Great Adventurer Wesley
2018  The Great Adventurer Wesley: Mind Port

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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:

I added "runners up" to Top 10 lists, treating them as ties where applicable and numbering them accordingly at the bottom of each list.
Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

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