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林家聲原名林曼純，廣東東莞人，1933年1月18日在香港出生。他自小迷上粵劇，1941年先在玫瑰音樂學院隨容德怡、容德昌學習粵曲及揚琴，其後隨家人遷居廣州，與姊姊林家儀同隨鄧肖蘭芳學習古老排場與官話演唱，又從李海容學掌板，並先後師事黃志允、黃滔、王粵生及京劇的周文偉、萬春明等；南、北派功夫則分隨白玉堂、陳燕棠、靚次伯與郭鴻賓、袁小田、王明樓等名家學習。他九歲以神童姿態飾演武松，十二歲入行，十四歲由文化界名人呂大呂改名「家聲」，十六歲經羅澧銘、張月兒推薦替薛覺先任掌板，後獲薛氏收為弟子。1949年起他先後參與勝利年、大鳳凰、真善美、碧雲天、仙鳳鳴等劇團。1962年組成慶新聲劇團，戲寶有《雷鳴金鼓戰笳聲》與《無情寶劍有情天》；1966年另組頌新聲劇團，演出《碧血寫春秋》、《情俠鬧璇宮》等。銀幕方面，1947年他在《賣肉養孤兒》中以童角初登銀幕，1958年《胡不歸》是他首度擔正主角，1947至1967年間演出超過三百部影片，名作包括《雷鳴金鼓戰笳聲》（1963）、《無情寶劍有情天》（1964）、《情俠鬧璇宮》（1967），最後主演《李師師》（1967）。1976年他為麗的電視拍攝二十六集《林家聲粵劇特輯》。1993年完成三十八場告別職業舞台的演出後移居加拿大，1994年成立林家聲慈善基金，推廣粵劇並扶掖後輩。他曾先後獲授勳銜表揚藝術成就，包括1981年英女皇榮譽勳銜、2005年銅紫荊星章及2011年銀紫荊星章；另於1983年獲全港十大影劇明星金球獎、1999年獲香港演藝學院榮譽院士、2000年獲香港藝術發展局戲曲終身成就獎、2010年獲香港演藝學院榮譽博士及中國戲曲表演學會終身成就獎。晚年回港後雖患上柏金遜症，仍不時出席粵劇活動，2015年8月4日病逝。
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Lam Kar-sing, born Lam Man-shun in Hong Kong on 18 January 1933 and a native of Dongguan, Guangdong, fell in love with Cantonese opera as a boy. In 1941 he first studied singing and the yangqin at the Rose Music Academy under Yung Tak-yi and Yung Tak-cheong, then moved to Guangzhou with his family, where he and his sister Lam Kar-yee studied formulaic scenes and stage Mandarin under Tang Chiu Lan Fong, learned principal percussion from Lee Hoi-yung, and trained under maestros including Wong Chi-wan, Wong To, Wong Yuet-sang and the Peking-opera teachers Zhou Wenwei and Wan Chunming; he also trained in both the Northern and Southern martial schools. A child prodigy, he played Wu Song at nine, debuted at twelve and took the name 'Kar-sing' at fourteen. At sixteen he became percussion leader for Sit Kok-sin and was later accepted as his disciple. From 1949 he worked with many troupes, forming his own in 1962 and, in 1966, another that staged such works as Blood-Stained Spring and Autumn. He made his screen debut as a child in An Orphan Raised on Love (1947), took his first leading role in Why Not Return? (1958), and appeared in more than 300 films between 1947 and 1967, his last being Madame Lee Sze-sze (1967). In 1976 he made a 26-episode Cantonese opera series for RTV. After 38 farewell performances in 1993 he emigrated to Canada, founding the Lam Kar Sing Foundation in 1994. He was decorated three times, and also received the 1983 Hong Kong Top Ten Screen and Stage Stars Golden Globe, an honorary fellowship of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in 1999, the Hong Kong Arts Development Council's Lifetime Achievement Award for Chinese Opera in 2000, and an honorary doctorate in 2010. He returned to Hong Kong in later years and, despite Parkinson's disease, kept promoting Cantonese opera. He died on 4 August 2015.
