中英雙語話中國影視演藝圈 第16期:袁牧之

Yuan Muzhi (1909 ~ 1978)

袁牧之（1909 -1978)

Yuan Muzhi was an actor, screenwriter, director and expert in film industry. He, whose former name was Yuan Jialai, was born in Ningbo,

Zhejiang Province in 1909.

袁牧之，演員、編劇、導演，電影 事業家。原名袁家萊，1909 年出生於浙江寧波。

In middle school, Yuan Muzhi joined Drama society organized by Hong Shen and Later attended Dongwu University and acted in Uncle Vanya. He devoted himself to the drama course after graduation in 1930. He acted the leading role in dramas like Wu Kui River and Roar, China, etc. and established the monthly magazine Drama. Being good at depicting various characters on the stage, he took on the nickname "man with a thousand faces" His works included Dramatic Make-up Surgery, etc.

袁牧之中學時期即參加洪深組織的戲劇協社演戲，後入東吳大學，演出《萬尼亞舅舅》等劇。1930年離校，投身戲劇事業，主演《五奎橋》、《怒吼吧，中國》等劇，並創辦了《戲》月刊。他在舞臺上善於刻畫各種人物，有“千面人”之美稱，並著有《戲劇化裝術》等著作。

In 1934, Yuan Muzhi worked in Diantong Company as an actor and screenwriter, and he wrote his first film script Plunder of Peach and Plum as well as acted the leading role. Later, the film achieved great success and was considered as one of the excellent works after the May 4th Movement of 1919. In 1935, the first music comic Scenery of City Life was wrote, directed, and acted by Yuan Muzhi himself. Later He transferred to Star Film Company where he cooperated with Chen Boer in the film Revolutionaries. Street Angel, which was wrote and directed by him in 1937, accomplished great achievement in art method as well as content, and was considered as the symbolic work of Chinese filmdom in 1930s.

1934年袁牧之至電通公司任演員，編導，創作的第一個電影劇本爲《桃李劫》並擔任主演，獲得成功。該片是五四運動以後優秀影片之一。1935年，他自編自導自演了中國第一部音樂喜劇片《都市風光》。此後轉人明星影片公司，與陳波兒合演了《生死 同心》。1937年，他編劇、導演的《馬路天使》上映，在藝術手法和思想內容上都取得了很髙的成就，被譽爲“中國影壇上的一朵奇葩”，成爲中國電影20世紀三十年代高峯時期的標誌性作品。

In 1938, he acted the leading role in Eight Hundred Heroes. at the same year, he left for Yenan to establish Yenan film organization and began the shoot of Yenan and the Route Army. During 1940 and 1945, he pursued further education in the Soviet U-nion where he investigated and took part in the film shoot. In 1946, he was entrusted to help in the establishment of Northeast China Film Studio and later worked as the director of the factory. The first feature film Bridge was produced there. Between 1949 and 1952,he was the director of the Film Bureau of China.

1938年，他主演《八百壯士》。同年赴延安，負責組建延安電影團，並開始拍攝《延安與八路軍》。1940年-1945年他在蘇聯學習、考察 並參與拍攝影片。1946年他受命參與組建東北電影製片廠，後任廠長，製作了新中國第一部故事片《橋》等。1949年~ 1952年，袁牧之任新中國中央電影局局長。