中英雙語話中國影視演藝圈 第17期:趙丹

Zhao Dan (1915 ~1980)

趙丹（1915 ~ 1980)

Zhao Dan, born in Zhao Feng Chao in Nan Tong city, Jiangsu Province, whose ancestor hometown was in Feicheng, Shandong Province, was one of the most acclaimed and accomplished actors in Chinese film history.

趙丹，原名趙鳳朝，原籍山東肥城，出生於江蘇南通，中國電影史上最卓越的男演員之一。

He was fascinated with film and drama since childhood，which he spent in a theater that his father owned. In 1932，Li Pingqian, a famous director of Star Film Studio, took a fancy to him and made him act a rich playboy in silent film The Spring Dream of the Lute. Since then he became a basic actor in Star and starred in over 20 films like Twenty-Four Hours in Shanghai, Three Sisters, Go to Northwest, Nation's Soul, Crossroad, Street Angel, etc. Since 1933, of which Crossroad and Street Angel Zhao played in 1936 and 1937, were two pieces that early revealed his talent. At the same time, he starred in world famous dramas such as Nala, Big Thunderstorm and Romeo and Juliet. His artistic talent in film and drama made him soon become an attractive drama actor and film star.

趙丹自幼着迷影劇，童年在父親開的劇院裏度過。1932年被明星影片公司著名導演李萍倩看中，在無聲片《琵琶春怨》中扮演一執跨子弟，從此成爲明星影片公司的基本演員。1933年起，他先後參加拍攝了《上海二十四小時》、《三姐妹》、《到西北去》、《熱血忠魂》、《十字街頭》、《馬路天使》等20多部影片。其中，1936年和1937年他主演的《十字街頭》與《馬路天使》是最早表現出他才華的優秀作品。與此同時，他還在世界名劇《娜拉》、《大雷雨》、《羅密歐與朱麗葉》中飾演主角。在影、劇兩個方面露出的藝術才華,使他很快成爲一名引人注目的話劇演員和電影明星。

After the war broke out, Zhao began a creative relationship with director Zheng Junli, with the 1948 anti-Kuomintang drama-comedy, Crows and Sparrows which was the symbol of his performing arts. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, his playing historical figures in biographical films made his performing arts reach its peak. The three figures of Nie Er, Lin Zexu and Li Shizhen have been the immortal artistic images in Chinese film gallery.

戰爭爆發後，他於1948年在反國民黨的戲劇喜劇《烏鴉與麻雀》中與導演鄭君裏合作，該片是他表演藝術成熟的標誌。五、六十年代，他在《李時珍》、《林則徐》、《聶耳》這三部傳記影片中塑造的歷史人物形象，達到當時我國表演藝術的高峯。李時珍、林則徐，聶耳這三個人物都成爲中國電影畫廊中不朽的藝術形象。

Zhao Dan was a successful performing artist with many outstanding achievements. In the several decades of his film career, he appeared in 35 films, portrayed a series of brilliant roles. In 1995's centennial commemoration of the birth of world film and 90 years of Chinese film, Zhao Dan was posthumously awarded the “Centennial Award” as one of the best actors in Chinese film.

趙丹是我國卓有成就的表演藝術家。在他幾十年的藝術生涯中，一共拍攝了35部故事片，塑造了一系列光輝的藝術形象。1995年，趙丹獲得爲紀念世界電影誕生100週年和中國電影誕生90週年而特設的中國電影“世紀獎”最佳男演 員獎。