Bowie Lam
Date of birth: 1965-09-04
Place of birth: Hong Kong, China
Known for: Acting
Also known as: 林保怡, Lâm Bảo Di, Bowie Lam Bo-Yee, Bowie Lam, Lam Bo-Yee, Lin Baoyi, Lin Bao Yi
Biography
Bowie Lam Bo-Yee (Chinese: 林保怡, born 4 September 1965) is an Hong Kong actor with the TVB network. He has starred in several popular dramas including File of Justice and Healing Hands. Before working in entertainment, Lam held other occupations, including serving in the Hong Kong Police Force for a short time. He made his acting debut in 1986 in Kiss Me Goodbye and his singing debut in 1989. Lam's acting career took off after joining the major television network TVB in 1991. His first project was a supporting role in the 1992 drama The Greed of Man, which starred Sean Lau, Vivian Chow, Adam Cheng, and Amy Kwok. The Greed of Man as of 2011 remained one of TVB's highest-rated dramas. After The Greed of Man, Lam was featured in TVB dramas File of Justice (1994–1997), Untraceable Evidence (1997 and 1999), and Healing Hands (1998, 2000, and 2005). His major break-out role is considered the 2004 War and Beauty, which was a huge success in Hong Kong and China.
Movie Credits
Hard Boiled
1992-04-16
A cop who loses his partner in a shoot-out with gun smugglers goes on a mission to catch them. In or
The Sting
1992-11-19
Simon Tam, "The Sting", has learnt some Chinese traditional skill from his master. To avoid misfortu
In Broad Daylight
2023-11-02
Kay is a tough-as-nails investigative reporter, and goes undercover at a home for the disabled based
Vital Signs
2025-05-01
In one of his finest dramatic performances yet, Louis Koo stars as a veteran ambulanceman who simply
Unbearable Heights
2004-02-01
Those Were the Days
1995-01-01
Lawyer Lawyer
1997-07-31
Stephen Chow plays a selfish yet in some places kind hearted barrister who tricks his servant in doi
The Sniper
2009-03-24
A police sniper teams up with a hot-headed rookie to take down his former friend and teammate, who i
On the Run
1988-11-15
When Hsiang Ming's wife is murdered, he takes up the hunt for her killer. The killer turns out to no
Life Express
1998-01-01
Can't Stop Loving You
1993-01-01
Hong Kong movie
Now You See Love... Now You Don't
1992-02-01
This is a screwball-comedy in Hong Kong style. Chow Yun Fat plays the spoiled village hetman of a ti
Hong Kong X File
1998-11-19
Hong Kong's homage to the popular U.S. cult television series which tells the story of an unconsciou
Oh! My Dad!
1999-01-01
Hong Kong movie
The Deadly Sting
2002-01-01
Hong Kong movie
People's Hero
1987-12-03
Ex-gangster Sonny Koo finds himself in the middle of a bank holdup by two inexperienced crooks. The
The Trier of Fact
A detective and a crime division officer uncover the criminal activities of a drug lord.
爱到尽头
1993-08-10
A Fatal Jump
1994-01-01
Hong Kong movie
Mary's Choice
1994-01-01
Mary is a nightclub hostess who falls for a married man, John, on her first day at work. Despite kno
The Wartime Lovers
1998-01-01
Hong Kong movie
Bleeding Steel
2017-12-18
Jackie Chan stars as a hardened special forces agent who fights to protect a young woman from a sini
Gun n' Rose
1992-06-05
Mr Lung, the boss of a criminal family, decides that his adopted son Alan should be his successor. H
The Most Wanted
1994-05-12
Award-winning actor Sean Lau Ching Wan goes undercover in the triads in the gritty cop thriller The
Supercop 2
1993-10-21
As a crime wave sweeps through Hong Kong, the police call Jessica Yang, a rising star in the ranks,
Mr Vampire 1992
1992-08-08
Master Lam and his two disciples must battle a horde of Chinese vampires in order to get the teeth d
A Guilty Conscience
2023-01-20
After his negligence causes an innocent woman to go to jail, a lawyer and his colleagues work to cle
The Crossing I
2014-12-02
At the end of the World War II and the middle of the Chinese Revolution, three couples from differen
Beginner's Luck
1994-09-29
Lau and Chow are roommates and they both dream to strike it rich at the races. They invent a device
The Day that Doesn't Exist
1995-11-09
A woman loses her fiancee in a car crash, but he returns to her stitched together. Meanwhile, a man
Better and Better
2013-02-10
Sun Xiangcheng, a self-styled professional fan organiser, is called from his home village of West We
Rose Rose I Love You
1993-03-27
Bumbling Hong Kong detectives Lui (Kenny Bee) and Leung (Tony Leung Ka-Fai) go undercover in an apar
My Dream is Yours
1988-12-21
Nightmares become reality for two people, and also bring them together. One is an office worker who
Evil Instinct
1996-05-04
Penny and Wendy originally are co-workers and best friends until Wendy is promoted. Penny feels that
Cesium Fallout
2024-10-25
Hong Kong’s historic first radiation disaster blockbuster! After a fire accident triggers a radiatio
Modern Romance
1994-06-30
Story 1: A superstitious girl who would only marry her 29th boyfriend. The 29th boyfriend is impoten
Gift from Heaven
1989-10-27
Three colleagues (Carol Cheng, Joey Wong, Sandy Lam) at a Hong Kong corporation put in overtime at t
Heaven Can't Wait
1995-07-28
Foreign - Tony is a wily, pessimistic scam artist who uses an ancient superstition to build a hilari
Faithfully Yours
1995-09-01
Baau Wing Cheung juggles his career as a voice actor in HK with his wife Kitty's desire to emigrate
It's Now or Never
1992-09-17
Rose (Sharla Cheung Man) heads up a gang of be-bopping teddy girls who are constantly getting into t
The Crossing II
2015-07-30
A story of three couples and their intertwining love stories set in 1940s Taiwan and Shanghai, cente
Doctor Vampire
1990-12-06
Chinese doctor has his car break down in England. he wanders into a castle where vampires congregate
I Corrupt All Cops
2009-04-30
In the early 1970s, the Governor of Hong Kong decided to clean up the police force. The ICAC was est
Massagist
2015-12-31
Chinese girl Moran (Yuan Bai Zi Hui) lost her mother during childhood, but her sudden bizarre death
The Undercover
1992-01-01
Chik Chi Ming is promoted to senior inspector after solving a major case while in prison. However, h
Cop Image
1994-10-06
Anthony Wong plays a traffic cop who is obsessed with action films. He wants to be a real life hero
S Storm
2016-09-14
A suspect is killed while the ICAC team is investigating illegal soccer gambling in Hong Kong.
First Night Nerves
2018-10-05
Yuan Xiuling, a former star and has-been actress plans to return to the spotlight of the theater a y
King of Robbery
1996-10-05
After robbing countless Hong Kong jewelery shops, Ye Kuan (Simon Yam) sets out on a murderous rampag
Wild
1996-01-25
A wild young woman drives the mysterious Cheng into the kidnapping of a wealthy businessman. The pas
Man of the Times
1993-08-28
A look at the life and times of Chan Chi Chiu--an ambitious cop's journey to become the highest rank
La Historia Du Un Amor
2017-05-27
Passionate Nights
1997-03-02
Ma Cho Fai had an auto accident and fell into the sea, his wife Liu Siu Suen becomes her husband's m
Rogues from the North
1992-01-01
Six-year-old Xiaohui witnessed her mother having sex with a strange man! Her father found out, angry
Lost Control
1997-10-10
Comprised of two wonderfully kinky tales mating sexuality with death. The first story, starring Bowi
Soursweet
1988-05-15
Just married Hong Kong couple Chen & Lily emigrate to England, soon to become parents to a little ba
Caught in Trap
2014-07-11
Kiss Me Goodbye
1986-10-16
Sing runs into Icy when they are working for a concert. It's not until Sing finds Icy in a phonograp
One 2008th
2008-07-30
short films
Wong Fei Hung Series : The Ideal Century
1996-04-20
In cruel political platform, it is the universal rule that the winner would be the one who rules the
Wait Here
2018-01-23
An Italian woman and Chinese man possess identical bottles of a rare and mysterious wine. They journ