繁體中文
朱紫貴（1902年5月13日—1984年7月26日），祖籍直隸（今河北省），落籍廣東番禺，是香港電影製片人。早在二十世紀三十年代，他已在啟明製片場任職錄音師及電影技術工作，1948年起轉任製片。1952年11月，他與一班粵語片從業者創辦中聯電影企業有限公司，公司股東由二十一名影人組成，包括製片劉芳、陳文及他本人，並由吳楚帆任董事長；中聯以拍攝反映社會現實、維護藝術尊嚴的影片為方針，以改進粵語片質素為己任，抗衡當時粗製濫造的作品，公司出品多改編自文學名著及五四以來的進步作品，藉以提升粵語片的思想與藝術水平，被稱為「香港電影光榮旗幟」，而朱紫貴是該公司三大製片之一。中聯的創作一直延續至1960年代中後期才告結束。中聯四十七部影片中，有超過三十部由他任製片，包括《家》（1953）、《春》（1953）、《秋》（1954）、《大雷雨》（1954）、《西廂記》（1956）及《寶蓮燈》（一至三集，1956–58）等。他亦是永茂電影企業公司的製片顧問，長年效力中聯等公司，是五十至六十年代香港寫實文藝片的主要製片人之一。由於他資歷深、人脈廣，多部集體拍攝的大製作，如《後窗》（1955）、《豪門夜宴》（1959）、《滿堂吉慶》（1964）及《錦繡天堂》（1964）等，皆由他任總製片掌舵。他亦獨具慧眼，提拔過阮兆輝、李香凝（即李鳳聲）等新星；經他栽培的製片有林醒凡、江曼、孔強、陳直康及周忠等。1984年7月26日，他在香港病逝。
English
Chu Tsi-kwai (13 May 1902 – 26 July 1984), whose ancestral home was Zhili, present-day Hebei, but who settled in Panyu, Guangdong, was a Hong Kong film producer. As early as the 1930s he worked as a sound engineer and technician at the Qiming studio, and from 1948 he turned to producing. In November 1952 he and fellow Cantonese-film workers founded the Union Film Enterprise, whose shareholders numbered twenty-one film figures, including the producers Lau Fong, Chan Man and Chu himself, with Ng Cho-fan as chairman; the company set out to reflect social reality and uphold artistic standards and to raise the quality of Cantonese films against the shoddy output of the day, earning the name 'the glorious banner of Hong Kong cinema', and Chu was one of its three principal producers. Of the company's forty-seven films, more than thirty were produced by him, including Family (1953), Spring (1953) and Autumn (1954), The Thunderstorm (1954), The Romance of the Western Chamber (1956) and The Magic Lotus Lantern in three parts (1956–58). He was also production adviser to the Yongmao Film Enterprise, and for years served the Union Film Enterprise and similar companies, becoming one of the leading producers of realist drama in 1950s and 1960s Hong Kong. Because of his seniority and wide connections, large collective productions, among them Rear Window (1955), the all-star charity film Feast of a Rich Family (1959) and the two 1964 features Full of Joy and Splendid Paradise, were steered by him as chief producer. He also had an eye for talent, promoting stars such as Yuen Siu-fai and Lee Heung-ning, and trained producers such as Lam Sing-fan, Kong Man, Hung Keung, Chan Chik-hong and Chow Chung. He died in Hong Kong on 26 July 1984.
