‏Wo-fu Chen‏

Originating from Kaiping, Guangdong, Chen grew up in Hong Kong, where he trained in Tai Chi. As a middle-weight boxer, he was once famous for challenging a heavyweight in a Southeast Asia teenage martial arts contest in 1971. He joined Shaw Brothers the following year as an actor and made 5 films with them, the final being Tai ji quan "The Shadow Boxer", which was to be marked as Chen committed suicide by gas poisoning in 1974, before the film was released. He was only age 24 when he died.