Actor

Dean Shek

Hong Kong actor and producer

1949 - 2021

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Dean Shek

His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Dean Shek is the 3,946th most popular actor, the 861st most popular biography from China and the 37th most popular Chinese Actor.

Dean Shek was perhaps best known as Professor Kai-hsien in the 1978 film Drunken Master, Lung Sei in the 1987 film A Better Tomorrow II, and Snooker in the 1990 film The Dragon from Russia. Shek made his directorial debut in 1975 with The Monk. Shek is credited as producer on 22 films most of which were for the production company Cinema City & Films Co. which he co founded with Karl Maka and Raymond Wong in 1980.

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Dean Shek's biography spans 15 Wikipedia language editions and earns a Historical Popularity Index of 57.34.

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Among Actors

Among actors, Dean Shek ranks 3,946 out of 15,712. Before him are Eva-Maria Hagen, Kenneth Mars, Rosie O'Donnell, Lupe Ontiveros, Edie Falco, and Mikhail Shchepkin. After him are Warwick Davis, Michael Gothard, Dorian Gray, Shirley Booth, Zhanna Prokhorenko, and Raoul Bova.

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Eva-Maria Hagen
1934 - 2022
HPI: 57.35
Rank: 3,940
Kenneth Mars
1935 - 2011
HPI: 57.35
Rank: 3,941
Rosie O'Donnell
1962 - Present
HPI: 57.35
Rank: 3,942
Lupe Ontiveros
1942 - 2012
HPI: 57.34
Rank: 3,943
Edie Falco
1963 - Present
HPI: 57.34
Rank: 3,944
Mikhail Shchepkin
1788 - Present
HPI: 57.34
Rank: 3,945
Dean Shek
1949 - 2021
HPI: 57.34
Rank: 3,946
Warwick Davis
1970 - Present
HPI: 57.33
Rank: 3,947
Michael Gothard
1939 - 1992
HPI: 57.33
Rank: 3,948
Dorian Gray
1931 - 2011
HPI: 57.32
Rank: 3,949
Shirley Booth
1898 - 1992
HPI: 57.32
Rank: 3,950
Zhanna Prokhorenko
1940 - 2011
HPI: 57.32
Rank: 3,951
Raoul Bova
1971 - Present
HPI: 57.32
Rank: 3,952

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Dean Shek ranks 388. Before him are Leivinha, Gheorghe Berceanu, Daniel Killer, Carlos Veiga, Tarık Akan, and Ivan Kostov. After him are Graham Swift, Franz Josef Jung, Hamad bin Mohammed Al Sharqi, Judith Light, Robert Berdella, and Bogdan Borusewicz. Among people deceased in 2021, Dean Shek ranks 336. Before him are Lee Wan-koo, Edmund Gettier, Ivo Trumbić, Donald Kagan, Bernard Lown, and István Csom. After him are Tomoyasu Asaoka, Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi, Johnny Pacheco, Ronald Pickup, Richard Lewontin, and Aydin Ibrahimov.

Others Born in 1949

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Leivinha
SOCCER PLAYER
1949 - 2026
HPI: 57.42
Rank: 382
Gheorghe Berceanu
ATHLETE
1949 - 2022
HPI: 57.42
Rank: 383
Daniel Killer
SOCCER PLAYER
1949 - Present
HPI: 57.39
Rank: 384
Carlos Veiga
POLITICIAN
1949 - Present
HPI: 57.38
Rank: 385
Tarık Akan
ACTOR
1949 - 2016
HPI: 57.38
Rank: 386
Ivan Kostov
POLITICIAN
1949 - Present
HPI: 57.37
Rank: 387
Dean Shek
ACTOR
1949 - 2021
HPI: 57.34
Rank: 388
Graham Swift
WRITER
1949 - Present
HPI: 57.29
Rank: 389
Franz Josef Jung
POLITICIAN
1949 - Present
HPI: 57.26
Rank: 390
Hamad bin Mohammed Al Sharqi
POLITICIAN
1949 - Present
HPI: 57.25
Rank: 391
Judith Light
ACTOR
1949 - Present
HPI: 57.25
Rank: 392
Robert Berdella
EXTREMIST
1949 - 1992
HPI: 57.22
Rank: 393
Bogdan Borusewicz
POLITICIAN
1949 - Present
HPI: 57.19
Rank: 394