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Ringo Lam
Sign in to saveAlso known as Ringo Lam Ling-Tung, Ringo Lam Ling-tung, Lam Ling-tung
Hong Kong filmmaker (1955–2018)
Film & TV
Hong Kong, China
Ringo Lam Ling-Tung (1955-2018) was a Hong Kong film director, producer and scriptwriter. He was known for gritty, dark and realistic action thrillers. He was born in Hong Kong and studied film at York University film school in Toronto. Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs (1992) was reworked from Lam's City on Fire (1987), and critics have indicated that there are shot-by-shot copies of certain…
Known for
- In the Mood for Melville — Self2017
- Tarantino, le disciple de Hong-Kong2011
- Film ohne Fesseln - Das neue Hongkong Kino — Self1993
- Twin Dragons — Card Player1992
- Touch and Go1991
- The Eighth Happiness — Audience member (cameo)1988
- City on Fire — Chow's Contact1987
- ICAC: Section Nine1978
- Luk Siu Fung (Series II)1977
- A House is Not a Home1977
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 32
- Total plays
- 42
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Lin
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- China
- Place of birth
- British Hong Kong
- Place of death
- Hong Kong
- Occupation
- actor
- Educated at
- York University
- Languages spoken
- Chinese
- Notable work
- Undeclared War
- Field of work
- film
- Image
- Ringo Lam.jpg
- Residence
- Hong Kong
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- date of birth
- 1955-12-08
- end of work period
- 2018-00-00
- Commons category
- Ringo Lam
- date of death
- 2018-12-29
- start of work period
- 1983-00-00
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- manner of death
- natural causes
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Ringo Lam
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