Runje Shaw

Personal Info

Known For Producer

Gender Male

Birthday 1896-01-01

Deathday 1975-02-17 (79 years old)

Also Known As Shao Zuiweng, Shao Renjie, 邵醉翁, Shao Tongzhang

Runje Shaw

Biography

Runje Shaw (1896–1975), also known as Shao Zuiweng (C.W. Shaw) and Shao Renjie, was a Chinese film entrepreneur, producer and director. The eldest of the Shaw brothers, in 1925 he founded Tianyi Film Company (also called Unique Film Productions) in Shanghai, which became one of the top three film production companies in pre-WWII Republic of China, and the beginning of the Shaw Brothers media empire. Under Runje's leadership, his younger brothers Runde, Runme, and Run Run established branches of Tianyi in Hong Kong and Singapore. Runje retired from filmmaking after Tianyi's Shanghai base was destroyed in 1937 during the Japanese invasion, but his younger brothers, particularly Sir Run Run, rebuilt Tianyi's offshoots in Hong Kong and Singapore, of which Shaw Brothers Studio came to dominate filmmaking in Hong Kong. (Wikipedia)

Known For

Producer

1934
春宵曲

as Producer

1933
Baijin long

as Producer

Writer

1938
1937
The Deadly Rose

as Writer

1935
Life

as Screenplay