Date of birth: 1952-12-27
Place of birth: Hong Kong, China
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Lam Ching Ying, 林正英, Ching-Ying Lam, 林根宝, Ching Ying Lam, 임정영, Lin Zhengying, Lâm Chánh Anh, Lam Gun-bo, لام چینگ-یینگ

Lam Ching-Ying (Chinese: 林正英, 27 December 1952 – 8 November 1997) was a Hong Kong actor, action director and director. A physically talented and graceful martial artist, Lam was best known for playing the stoic Taoist priest in Mr. Vampire (1985). Lam died in 1997 of liver cancer. Was a member of Madame Fan Fok-Fa's The Spring And Autumn Drama School's Peking Opera. Was a member of the Sammo Hung Stuntmen's Association.

1985-02-10
Two Hong Kong cops are sent to Tokyo to catch an ex-cop who stole a large amount of money in diamond

1989-02-11
Lo Tung and his friend Malted Candy, pedicab drivers working the streets of Macao, have both fallen

1981-11-10
A rich man's son believes himself to be the best kung fu fighter in Canton. Unfortunately, his fathe

1994-01-01
A Chinese reporter (Esther Kwan) attempts to find out the identity of a masked crime-fighter.

1980-12-24
"Big Guts" Cheung, a man well known in his local village for his lack of fear, is put to the test af

1977-08-25
Husker is a student of the Shaolin monks, learning kung fu so that he can avenge his uncle who was m

1985-11-07
After the planned reburial of a village elder goes awry and the corpse resurrects into a hopping vam

1986-08-15
Chaos ensues after a team of archaeologists accidentally breaks the seals of a sleeping vampire fami

1982-12-22
Wah Li, known as Fat Boy to his friends, lives with his great-uncle the priest (Uncle). Together wit

1990-11-01
A Taoist former cop is called to Hong Kong to assist in the investigation of of a series of strange

1989-07-26
Lam Ching-Ying returns as the famous "Vampire Buster," this time starring as the One-Eyebrow Priest.

1990-04-05
When a scroll containing valuable martial arts secrets is stolen from the Emperor, an army detachmen

1987-07-09
A motley group of Chinese prisoners held in the US is sent on a covert mission with the promise of a

1973-10-14
This documentary tells the story of Bruce Lee and his unsuccessful efforts to start a acting career

1978-07-13
Ah Lung is a pig farmer and a devoted Bruce Lee fan who is anxious to follow in Lee's footsteps, but

1980-02-28
Chung Yao, a martial arts expert, has long been on the run from his stepbrother, who he caught tryin

1990-09-24
Bencheuk (Cynthia Rothrock) helps to protect a Buddhist boy from villains, who wish to stop him from

1988-10-07
Fong Kit Ying is an unassuming nightclub employee in Macao who inadvertently angers a gang of drunk

1991-09-13
Success Hung, an ace cell phone salesman who his feeling the heat from young, up and comer Miss Chen

1990-02-09
Impoverished teahouse worker (and martial-arts student) Abao is engaged to his boss' daughter, Littl

1988-03-10
RoboCop as a woman... The Hero Gang is a nasty group of thugs terrorizing Hong Kong with their kille

1974-11-21
Plain-clothes detective Wang is the best in his trade. One day he stumbles across a young girl's bod

1991-01-01
Two feuding families brag about their sons on christening day. One, called Long-life, is destined to

1993-09-18
A roving ghost spirit controlled by Ying Yang the Evil paints her face in the guise of a concubine.

1988-11-10
This is a story about the Peking Opera School that Jackie Chan, Samo Hung and Yuen Biao attended as

1973-02-01
A young man suspects his father's suicide was actually a murder committed by gangsters. Using his ex

1970-07-10
Gu Sheng-zhai, an artist in his early 30s, still lives with his mother, but he is suddenly shaken by

1992-10-21
Shin (Jacky Cheung) and Chiang (Stephen Tung Wai) are happy-go-lucky partners investigating a partic

1993-01-08
When a Catholic church in a small Chinese town falls prey to an evil combing the powers of Western a

1984-02-22
Chau and Beethoven, two Hong Kong police detectives, go through misadventures to protect a young gir

1974-04-04
Ever the pair of do-gooding drifters, Embroidered Pillow and Chili Boy always come to the aid of Hon

1978-03-23
A martial arts movie star must fake his death to find the people who are trying to kill him.

1973-05-09
Story is about how a revolutionist, played by Cheng Pei Pei, taking on the identity of a Captain's (

1973-02-17
Polly Shang Kwan and Sam Hui are con artists who befriend a family of street venders and entertainer

1978-07-21
Multi-Hand Chick asks Crazy Frog for protection after stealing someone's wallet at the casino. Fooli

1983-07-07
Five friends are released from prison and do their best to stay out trouble. While trying to mind th

1979-12-19
A plump butcher student of Wong Fei Hung, Lam Sai-Wing gets into trouble with a rival kung-fu school

1979-04-12
After being cheated out of some money, two small time crooks convince a martial arts expert to take

1973-01-01
Righteous Captain Ling has come to town to wipe out crime, which is sure to bring up against Wicked
1978-11-09
Two fellows who make friends under the funniest circumstances cause a riot through a series of jobs

1978-03-30
Sun Chung had made a name for himself directing satirical comedies and modern day crime thrillers wh

1972-12-30
A small village is taken over by the nasty Japanese, who kill the town's top kung fu fighter in orde

1972-03-30
A handsome stranger strolls into a casino one evening and all but cleans out the house, beating 160-

1971-06-23
Award-winning actor Ku Feng is Lei Chen-tien, a vicious, cunning, murderous brigand who wants the ti

1971-03-25
A magician-warrior who protects a man from an ambush, not knowing of his true villainous nature. But
1972-01-01
Fairly obscure Taiwanese Swordplay with a very slight fantasy edge to it.

1973-03-15
Hapkido Master Kim Jin Pal takes on a mass of Japanese bushido experts in occupied China Bolo plays

1972-06-29
Plotting to obtain the Yen family's land, dastardly Japanese plutocrat Omura bribes Yen nephew Hsu C

1973-01-01
Hong Kong movie

1971-12-31
Yueh Hua stars as an assassin who flees after killing a hated prime minister, with Lo Lieh as the re

1978-02-19
The Embroidery Bandit is stealing treasures while blinding his victims. The hero Liu Xiaofeng is cal

1992-05-28
Wong Fei Hung, as a young man, was impetuous and irresponsible. But the death of this father and the

1986-01-30
What happens when a glamorous express, with high government officials, wealthy merchants, concubines

1987-12-17
The Vampire Master joins forces with another fellow priest with his two pet ghosts along for the rid

1992-08-08
Master Lam and his two disciples must battle a horde of Chinese vampires in order to get the teeth d

1992-01-01
Tong catches Chiu attempting to rape his wife May (Amy Yip). They scuffle and Tong shoots Chiu dead

1977-11-03
He's lost his memory, but not his skill: After a fierce battle with a local tong, Hoi is thrown over

1984-11-30
The Thai government hires a group of Chinese mercenaries to capture a powerful drug lord from the Go

1977-02-16
A couple unite - she is fluent in the crane style of kung fu, he in tiger style. They have a son, bu

1971-04-30
Ho Li-Chun, a pretty but ruthless swordswoman, and three challengers are participating in an open to

1992-01-01
Francis Ng stars as Chic, who helps his friend Che, a Taoist ghostbuster, with various assignments.

1991-01-01
In 1941, during the Japanese occupation of mainland China, a man is infected by a Japanese vampire s

1992-01-01
A cop in the Hong Kong anti-smuggling unit goes to mainland China to retrieve some confiscated contr

1979-08-09
Hailed as possibly the greatest classical weapons movie ever made and starring world-renowned martia

1991-01-05
In late 15th century China, The Master, a Taoist priest, has been destined to fight the Japanese Dem

1991-07-05
Two guys, one of them a magician, are transporting an ancient chinese vampire who can only be contro

1993-02-01
A boatload of smugglers are slaughtered by machinegun fire by a bunch of baddies, led by the villain

1973-04-20
When a sailor accidentally kills a Japanese man in a bar room brawl, he tries to escape the law by h

1992-07-19
Lam Ching Ying is a Taoist wizard who goes to Thailand to help defeat a pair of black magic criminal

1994-03-05
Wu Ma stars as a ghost who's searching for the perfect husband for his daughter. In order to get her

1991-03-02
Sammo Hung plays three different characters: Fatty, Fatty's father and Fatty's grandfather, Hung Kau

1978-07-08
A group of swordsmen set out on a journey to the mysterious Bat Island to seek answers for their pro

1992-09-04
A crazy white scientist resurrects a corpse with a werid chemical creating a super hopping ghost. Th

1986-06-13

1975-11-28
Wang Yu plays Hsiao Chien, a con artist vagabond who uses his kung fu skills and parlor tricks to co

1976-05-07
The Wong family kung fu school gets smacked around by a rival school. Wong Fei-hong gets fed up with

1971-01-22
A young Kung Fu student seeks a reclusive teacher so that she may learn to defeat the evil Black Dem

1978-01-27
Crazy Sword, Blind Fist and Queer Strikes are three kung fu fanatics who team up with Mung, the debo

1984-06-22
Hong Kong detectives Chau and Beethoven return in this sequel to "Pom Pom." This time out, they join

1986-03-20
Tuba is a fainthearted cop who prefers to play in the brass section of the police band to pounding t

1994-09-19
This classical tale of Shaolin Temple disciples versus the Manchurian Ching government displays Shao

1985-09-14
A policeman forsakes his dream of world travel to care for a mentally impaired brother, who is later

1978-12-28
In an attempt to save his village from being taken over by brutes, Wah is beaten to a pulp and his m

1991-05-22
When expert gambler Sandra Ng is killed by a rival, her ghost enlists Wong Jing and Ng Man-Tat, two

1976-09-14
After malicious gangsters capture Bruce Wong's ex-girlfriend, a young martial artist attempts to res

1971-10-23
Cheng is a young Chinese mainlander who moves in with his expatriate cousins to work at an ice facto

1991-01-01
On July 15, the Ghost Gate opens and spirits wander the world. Taoist master Uncle Chiu prepares rit

1985-05-30
Chiu Chi-Lung and Ng Kuai-Tak are two movie stunt actors in Hong Kong and are suspicious of Lung's f

1991-07-27
A Buddhist lama and an evil wizard battle for the Palace of Heaven.

1992-01-01
A spirit is sent to earth through reincarnation and born into a family of kind-hearted beggars. It i

1992-03-26
A female psychic leaves her mainland home to visit Hong Kong. Along the way her bus crashes killing

1992-11-13
Uncle Ying is a fortune teller / Taoism Priest with a failing business and five apprentices. He take

1984-01-12
This movie follows in the same spirit as Mr. Vampire, Dead and the deadly and Spooky encounters, mix

1991-01-01
Two ghostexterminators have been married for many years. But they encounter a ghost they can not man

1976-04-09
Martial-arts expert tries to rescue an ambassador's daughter who was kidnapped in Thailand.

1988-08-20
A young schoolgirl, Yuen Fong becomes caught in a tragic stranglehold of triad activity after she te

1987-10-24

1977-12-03
Lotus never had a chance. Her mother seethed with anger at being unjustly imprisoned for turning her

1974-01-12
Mr. Chi goes to Thailand to assist a close friend, Nai Sin, in preparing his Muay Thai boxers for a

1991-01-01
Yung Fang and Fung Yong are brothers in competition. One is married to Siu Gwan, who wooed him away

1990-03-24
During the 1920s in Shanghai, an all female Chinese Opera troupe is struggling. The troupe boss call

1992-09-24
A hot broad is reincarnated as a skin stripperess who sexes guys up, sorta pulls on their skin and s

1970-04-17
Respected veteran Yueh Feng made this “Martial Arts World” saga of a masked master of the “Black San

1970-05-28
The last of the Bai Family seeks revenge of the death of her whole family.

1971-01-22
Everyday when General Xiao and his men ride through the Imperial City, inhabitants have to scatter a

1973-05-02
A young merchant returns secretly to his city to avenge the treachery of his companions... Film rele

1972-10-05
Chuan Yuan is the noble, powerful hero and Shu Pei-pei, one of Shaw’s top swordswoman, is a reluctan

1978-06-07
My Darling Gals aka Kung Fu Stars is a Hong Kong Action movie starring Sammo Hung

1980-01-01
Two men each possess half of a treasure map, but over the years, their greed has prevented either fr

1977-04-06
When a terrible kung fu master seeks various martial arts manuals from around China to make himself

1975-07-31
Australian authorities arrest a man believed to be connected to the Sydney criminal underworld and s

1977-12-26
Former DEA Agent Quinlan, removed from the force some years earlier for stealing confiscated drug mo

1978-05-24
When two Hong Kong buddies become rivals for the same woman, their friendship ends, and they join ri

1980-07-10
Ricky and Fatso are friends in need. They are in dire need of money since they are only paid slave w

1979-08-16
Lau Kar-Wing plays "Nobody", an orphan who grows up stealing food to survive, learning some meagre s

1990-06-07
Frustration and recovery of a stunt man after his partner's accident.

1977-07-28
Ducky is hired by Rich Chen to transport the "diamonds" he stole from Uncle Pai Mary. Uncles Tough G

1971-07-01
A noble swordsman and a one-armed swordswoman go up against the vicious Crimson Charm gang of thieve

1979-01-26
Tung Wei is a lad who wants to learn kung fu. He trains in two different styles: Hung Gar and Wing C

1974-05-01
Young black man teams up with a Chinese kung-fu expert to fight a drug ring.

1971-10-14
After a trio of rogues murder her sister and leave her nephew for dead, a skilled swordswoman seeks

1971-05-12
The plot has to do with a reign of terror conducted by a mysterious killer dubbed "Poison Dart," who

1974-01-22
Master Wong (Kwan Tak-Hing) and his disciple Fatty (Sammo Hung) are paying a visit to Thailand when

1972-12-06
Siu Lao (Lieh) and Ma Tien Piao (Feng) are bandits who ride from town to town holding up banks and k

1972-07-27
The Yang family, men and women, have served their country loyally for generations. During the war Ge

1972-03-22
Chen Chen returns to his former school in Shanghai when he learns that his beloved instructor has be

1973-09-09
The story is about the Japanese occupation of Korea during World War II. A Korean patriot played by

1973-08-17
A martial artist agrees to spy on a reclusive crime lord using his invitation to a tournament there

1980-08-07
'FLOWER KID' was a 'Robin Hood' type of hero who robs the rich and gives the poor. He was adored by

1972-10-01
Yu Ying, Kao and Fan return to China to start a martial arts school but are bullied by the Japanese

1970-03-26
The 5 Kao brothers, separated since childhood, are unaware that the master Teng Lung Manor, Lung Che

1974-08-16
A Chinese-American cop, skilled in martial arts, battles the most powerful criminal gang in San Fran

1971-05-12
The plot has to do with a reign of terror conducted by a mysterious killer dubbed "Poison Dart," who

1978-06-07
My Darling Gals aka Kung Fu Stars is a Hong Kong Action movie starring Sammo Hung

1977-10-14
A swordsman does everything it takes to bring justice. However, he has a drinking problem which even