文化藝術人物 / Cultural figure

李美英

大字係領域(由已登記職業/領域派生),唔係姓氏。

Lee Mei Ying

1939–2021

領域:藝術家

繁體中文

李美英(Lee Mei Ying),藝名李怡紅,廣東汕頭沙尾李人,香港潮劇及潮語片演員。她十五歲參加工人組織的業餘港務局劇團學習潮劇,工小生,曾主演劇目《陸游》。十九歲來港後,她加入香港汕頭進出口商會戲劇團,即香港潮劇團及韓江潮劇團的前身,隨團表演之餘亦在組內授課,為劇團培訓新人。1960年代初,隨着廣東潮劇院來港演出及潮劇片在東南亞大收旺場,香港潮語片製作一度蓬勃,李美英即在這一浪潮中投身銀幕。她首部電影是泰蘭影片公司出品的《蘇六娘》(1961),在片中反串飾演男主角郭繼春;其後她與陳麗麗合作,主演該公司多部出品,包括《青霜劍》(1962)、《孟姜女哭倒長城》(1963)、《明珠記》(1963)及《庵堂會》(1964)。她也為其他公司演出,計有嶺東影業公司的《感天動地竇娥冤》(1963)、榮華製片公司的《劉玉娘》(1963)、萬聲電影製片公司的《何文秀問卜》(1963)與潮藝製片公司的《雙獅圖》(1963)等。她從影期間共演出逾十部潮語片,除《挽面案》(1962)演老旦、《清官斬孝女》(1962)演旦角外,其餘多為小生角色,反串男角成為她的標誌。她既能工小生,也兼演老旦與旦角,戲路較同輩為寬;不少潮語片以潮劇傳統劇目為本,唱做唸打沿用舞台程式。舞台方面,她曾多次隨韓江、樂聲、昇藝等潮劇團赴泰國、新加坡登台,首本劇目包括《秦香蓮》(飾秦香蓮)、《白兔記》(飾李三娘)及《包公會李后》(飾李后)等。李美英於2021年1月23日在香港病逝。

English

Lee Mei Ying, who used the stage name Lee Yi-hung, was a native of Shaweili in Shantou, Guangdong, and an actress of Hong Kong Teochew opera and Chaozhou-dialect films. She joined a workers' amateur harbour board troupe at fifteen to study Teochew opera as a young male lead and starred in Lu You. After coming to Hong Kong at nineteen she joined the drama troupe of the Hong Kong Shantou Importers and Exporters Association, forerunner of the Hong Kong Teochew opera and Hanjiang troupes, performing with it and teaching within the group to train new members. In the early 1960s, as the Guangdong Chaozhou Opera Theatre toured Hong Kong and Chaozhou opera films proved hugely popular across Southeast Asia, production of Chaozhou-dialect films briefly flourished, and Lee entered the screen during that wave. Her first film was Sux Liuniang (1961) from Thailand Film Company, in which she played the male lead Guo Jichun in a cross-gender role; she then starred opposite Chan Lai-lai in several of the company's productions, among them The Frosted Sword (1962), Meng Jiangnu Weeps Down the Great Wall (1963), The Tale of the Bright Pearl (1963) and Meeting in the Hall (1964). She also appeared for other studios, including Snow in Midsummer (1963) for Ling Tung, Liu Yuniang (1963) for Wing Wah, He Wenxiu Consults the Oracle (1963) for Man Sing and The Two Lions (1963) for Chiu Ngai. In all she appeared in more than ten Chaozhou-dialect films, taking an older female or a female-lead role in only two and male leads in the rest. Besides young-male leads she could also take older-female and female-lead roles, a range wider than that of many of her peers, and many Chaozhou-dialect films were built on the traditional opera repertoire, keeping the conventions of stage song and movement. On stage she toured Thailand and Singapore with the Hanjiang, Lok Sing and Sing Ngai troupes, and her signature roles included Qin Xianglian, Li Sanniang in The White Rabbit and Empress Li in Judge Bao Meets Empress Li. She died in Hong Kong on 23 January 2021.

人物小檔 Profile

職業Occupation

演員

年期Active period

1939–2021

代表作Notable works

《陸游》、《蘇六娘》(1961)、《青霜劍》(1962)、《孟姜女哭倒長城》(1963)

資料整理日期 / Compiled: 2026-10-14

主要成就 Key Achievements

1961

首登銀幕,在《蘇六娘》反串男主角郭繼春

Made her screen debut playing the male lead Guo Jichun in a cross-gender role in Sux Liuniang

1962

與陳麗麗合演泰蘭影片公司《青霜劍》

Co-starred with Chan Lai-lai in The Frosted Sword for Thailand Film Company

1963

主演《孟姜女哭倒長城》、《明珠記》等多部潮語片

Starred in several Chaozhou-dialect films including Meng Jiangnu Weeps Down the Great Wall and The Tale of the Bright Pearl

影響與傳承 Impact & Legacy

繁體中文

李美英以女小生身分活躍於香港潮語片,反串男角成為其標誌,在逾十部作品中與陳麗麗等搭檔。她兼顧舞台與銀幕,並隨多個潮劇團赴東南亞演出,見證香港潮劇團與潮語片在1960年代的同步興盛。

English

Lee Mei Ying worked in Hong Kong's Chaozhou-dialect cinema as a female xiaosheng, making cross-gender male roles her trademark and partnering Chan Lai-lai in more than ten films. Moving between stage and screen, she toured Southeast Asia with several Teochew opera troupes, witnessing the parallel boom of Hong Kong's Teochew troupes and Chaozhou-dialect films in the 1960s.

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