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岑建勳祖籍廣東恩平，1952年生喺香港。年少時投入社會運動，亦愛好音樂，曾當職業樂師。1975年佢赴英國修讀文學課程，並喺當地電視台任紀錄片資料搜集，其後到加拿大參與電視台罪案紀錄片拍攝。1978年底佢回港為紀錄片搜集販毒資料，輾轉結識唔少本地影人，其後出任《號外》雜誌總編輯，活躍於文化圈。1982年佢創辦《國際城市新聞周刊》，同年同劉天蘭、陳欣健等為商業一台主持《時空穿梭三小時》，聲演潮州怒漢雷勁，操帶潮州口音嘅粵語，並據此塑造束蓬鬆鬈髮、帶口音嘅幕前諧角形象，先後演出《奇謀妙計五福星》（1983）、《神勇雙響炮》（1984）、《雙龍出海》（1984）等。八十年代初佢參與策劃《兩小無知》（1981），又協助宣傳《投奔怒海》（1982）。1983年1月佢加盟寶禾影業有限公司任策劃，促成麥當雄攝製《省港旗兵》（1984）。八十年代中，佢聯同潘廸生同洪金寶成立德寶電影公司，並喺1985年11月租下邵氏院線嘅龍頭戲院，組成德寶院線，成為三大港產片院線之一。1987年底離職前，佢統領公司嘅製作，既推出《皇家師姐》（1985）、《皇家戰士》（1986）等商業片，亦攝製《等待黎明》（1984）、《癲佬正傳》（1986）、《地下情》（1986）、《最後勝利》（1987）等偏鋒之作，並支持拍攝《秋天的童話》（1987），後者除創下票房佳績，更喺第7屆香港電影金像獎奪最佳電影、最佳編劇同最佳攝影三獎。1985年佢同陳冠中成立編導製作社，開拓不同嘅製片方向，創業作為諷刺喜劇《補鑊英雄》（1985），其後推出《人民英雄》（1987）、《殺手蝴蝶夢》（1989）、《忠義群英》（1989）、《八両金》（1989）等。佢從未獨立執導，只曾任導演組成員，如《中華戰士》（1987）。八十年代末佢逐漸淡出電影製作，九十年代創辦《號外兒童周刊》，後赴台灣開發有線電視頻道。2004年佢轉往內地發展，參與營運大地時代文化傳播（北京）有限公司嘅院線，至2020年底喺全國設逾1,170間數碼影院，並為該公司攝製嘅《武術之少年行》（2008）、《孔子》（2010）任出品人，又推動投資拍攝《歲月神偷》（2010）。除幕前演出，佢亦亮相電視綜藝節目，並涉足音樂圈，曾同劉天蘭、鍾定一、陳國新等組成散芬芳合唱團。長女岑寧兒亦係音樂人，曾為電影《少年的你》（2019）演唱〈Fly〉。
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John Sham (Shum Kin-fun) was born in Hong Kong in 1952 to a family from Enping in Guangdong. As a young man he took part in social movements and played music professionally. In 1975 he studied literature in Britain and worked in documentary research for a local television station, later joining crime-documentary shoots in Canada. Returning to Hong Kong at the end of 1978 to research drug trafficking for a documentary, he met many local filmmakers and became editor-in-chief of the culture magazine City Magazine. In 1982 he founded the International City Newsweek and co-hosted the Commercial Radio show Three Hours in Time and Space with Lau Tin-lan and Philip Chan, voicing the Chaozhou hothead Lui King and building his comic screen persona of a curly-haired, accented character, which he carried into films such as Winners and Sinners (1983), Pom Pom (1984) and The Return of Pom Pom (1984). In the early 1980s he helped plan Sealed with a Kiss (1981) and promoted Boat People (1982). In January 1983 he joined Bo Ho Films as a planner, helping Johnny Mak produce Long Arm of the Law (1984). In the mid-1980s he, Dickson Poon and Sammo Hung founded D&B Films, and in November 1985 the company took over Shaw Brothers' leading cinemas to form the D&B circuit, one of the three main Hong Kong chains. Before leaving at the end of 1987 he headed production, releasing commercial hits such as Yes, Madam! (1985) and Royal Warriors (1986) alongside edgier works like Hong Kong 1941 (1984), The Lunatics (1986), Love Unto Waste (1986) and The Final Test (1987), and supporting An Autumn's Tale (1987), which won Best Film, Best Screenplay and Best Cinematography at the 7th Hong Kong Film Awards. In 1985 he and Chan Koon-chung founded Screenplay Productions, whose satirical debut Welcome (1985) was followed by People's Hero (1987), My Heart Is That Eternal Rose (1989), Seven Warriors (1989) and Eight Taels of Gold (1989). He never directed a film on his own, serving only as a member of a directing team, as on Magnificent Warriors (1987). He gradually withdrew from production in the late 1980s, founded City Kids Weekly in the 1990s and later developed cable channels in Taiwan. From 2004 he worked in mainland China, helping run the Dadi cinema circuit, which had over 1,170 digital screens by the end of 2020, and produced films such as Kung Fu Cyborg (2008) and Confucius (2010), also backing Echoes of the Rainbow (2010). Besides acting he appeared on television variety shows and joined the music scene, forming the band San Fan Fong with Lau Tin-lan, Chung Ting-yat and Chan Kwok-san. His daughter Yoyo Sham is a musician.
