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羅熾原名羅祖，廣東中山人，1932年出生，羅熾為藝名，另有藝名羅曼，是導演羅志雄的侄兒。抗戰時他曾任刺殺漢奸的小鬼隊，在澳門、香港一帶活動。勝利後定居香港，十四歲加入影圈，1948年已在影片《蝴蝶夫人》中任場記。早期他在大觀片場工作，其後與吳丹隨秦劍學藝，參與《泣殘紅》（1951）與《慈母淚》（1953）等影片的劇務與場務工作。1954年他以羅曼藝名為胡鵬任助理導演，參與《胭脂淚》（1954）與《黃飛鴻花地搶炮》（1955）等片。1958年他在黃卓漢的自由影業公司《海王子》中開始用藝名羅熾，並從此長期使用。1960年，他獲許堅邀請升任導演，為東山影業公司拍攝首部出品《蓮香戲鞋》（1960）。此後他為東山導演多部潮劇片，包括《雙珠鳳》（許堅合導，1961）、《蕭端蒙一板打死江西王》（許堅合導，1961）、《藍繼子哭街》（1961）、《王莽篡位》（許堅合導，1961）、《火燒陳友諒》（1961）、《滴水記》（1962）、《天波樓》（1962）與《大鬧粉粧樓》（1962）等。1963年他更為東山拍了兩部潮語武俠片《俠侶情仇》、《龍虎群英會》。東山出品停滯後，他轉為其他公司導演潮語片，長期與新天彩潮劇團合作，作品包括《紅鬃烈馬》（1963）、《狀元巡更》（1963）、《芙蓉仙子》（1964）與《海瑞罷官》（1967）等。1964年，他為許堅擔任製片的粵語片《神龍五虎將》任導演，重新開始導演粵語片，並以偵探片《追兇記》（1965）、《女黑俠木蘭花》（1966）、《女黑俠血戰黑龍黨》（1966）、《女黑俠威震地獄門》（1967）、《貓眼女郎》（1967）等一系列動作片聞名。1968年他為第一影業機構有限公司往台灣執導《大瘋俠》，從此在港台兩地游走拍攝武打片，作品包括《黃飛鴻勇破烈火陣》（1970）、《五雷轟頂》（1973）、《中國真功夫》（1975）、《錦衣衛》（1979）與《醉步迷猴》（1980）等。八十年代他淡出電影圈，轉拍電視劇。九十年代初曾為中港合拍片《樓蘭》（又名《夢斷樓蘭》，1991）擔任策劃。退休後他居於台灣，2018年2月26日逝世。
English
Law Chi, whose real name was Law Cho, was born in Zhongshan, Guangdong, in 1932; Law Chi was a stage name, and he also used Law Man. He was a nephew of the director Law Chi-hung. During the war against Japan he served in a youth squad that assassinated collaborators around Macao and Hong Kong. Settling in Hong Kong after the war, he entered films at fourteen and by 1948 was a continuity man on Madame Butterfly. He began at Grandview's studio, then learned his craft under Chun Kim with Ng Tan, handling production and set duties on films such as Tears of Blood (1951) and A Mother's Tears (1953). In 1954, as Law Man, he was assistant director to Wu Pang on Rouge Tears (1954) and Wong Fei-hung's Fight at Fa Tei (1955). In 1958 he first used the name Law Chi on Wong Cheuk-hon's Freedom Film production The Prince of the Sea, keeping it thereafter. In 1960, invited by Hui Kin, he was promoted to director and made Tung Shan's first release, The Fragrant Shoes (1960). He then directed many Chaozhou opera films for Tung Shan, including The Pair of Pearls (1961, co-directed with Hui Kin), Blue Stepson Weeps in the Street (1961), Wang Mang Usurps the Throne (1961), Burning Chen Youliang (1961), The Story of Dripping Water (1962) and The Heavenly Wave Tower (1962). In 1963 he made two Chaozhou swordplay films for Tung Shan. When Tung Shan's output stalled he directed Chaozhou films for other companies, working long-term with the Sun Tin Choi troupe on titles such as The Red-Maned Steed (1963), The Number One Scholar on Night Patrol (1963), The Hibiscus Fairy (1964) and Hai Rui Dismissed from Office (1967). In 1964 he returned to Cantonese films as director of The Five Tiger Generals (1964), produced by Hui Kin, and became known for a run of action pictures: the detective film The Murder Case (1965) and the Black Musketeer Muk Lan-fa series (1966-67) and Cat-eyed Girl (1967). In 1968 he went to Taiwan for First Film to direct The Crazy Knight, and thereafter worked between Hong Kong and Taiwan on martial-arts films such as Wong Fei-hung Breaks the Flaming Array (1970), Thunderbolt (1973), The True Kung Fu of China (1975), The Imperial Guards (1979) and The Drunken Monkey (1980). Fading from cinema in the 1980s, he moved into television, planned the Hong Kong-mainland co-production Loulan (1991), and after retiring lived in Taiwan. He died on 26 February 2018.
