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秦沛原名姜昌年，童星時期藝名嚴昌，祖籍江蘇，1945年生於北京。父親嚴化、母親紅薇皆為電影演員，佢三歲隨家人由上海遷居香港，即以稚齡首登大銀幕，演出《蕩婦心》（1949）同《春雷》（1949），其後陸續飾演童角，作品有《寸草心》（1953）、《桃花江》（1956）同《窈窕淑女》（1957）等，並喺1958年義演大型兒童話劇《苦兒樂園》為貧童籌款。喺華仁書院畢業後，佢1964年應李翰祥之邀赴台灣，加入其創辦嘅國聯影業有限公司，取藝名秦沛，演出《幾度夕陽紅》同《幾度夕陽紅大結局》（同為1966年，台灣），期間仲參與美國片《聖保羅炮艇》（The Sand Pebbles, 1966）嘅拍攝，其後接演《親情》（1968）、《苔痕》（1967）。繼而返港發展，遊走於國、粵語片界。1970年佢加盟邵氏兄弟（香港）有限公司，先拍《夕陽戀人》（1971），其後主演《愛情大拍賣》（1971）、《我們要洞房》（1972）等，並參演《水滸傳》（1972）、《十四女英豪》（1972）同《蕩寇誌》（1975）等大製作。離開邵氏後，佢接演唔同公司嘅影片，包括胡金銓導演嘅《空山靈雨》（1979）；又同弟弟姜大衛合組香港元亨影業公司，推出由姜執導、幼弟爾冬陞（化名爾小寶）編劇嘅《貓頭鷹》（1981），佢既參演又兼任出品人。期間佢應邀進入電視圈，先後為佳藝、麗的、亞洲電視同電視廣播有限公司（無綫電視，TVB）拍攝連續劇。八十年代起，秦沛持續參演各類型電影，演繹過唔少令人印象深刻嘅角色，例如喺《等待黎明》（1984）飾演漢奸花榮，喺《法外情》（1985）飾演嚴酷嘅檢控官，喺《刀馬旦》（1986）反串男花旦，皆入木三分。其後佢參演《火舞風雲》（1988）、《義膽群英》（1989）、《五億探長雷洛傳》（1991）、《烈火戰車》（1995）、《色情男女》（1996）、《98古惑仔龍爭虎鬥》（1998）、《忘不了》（2003）、《新宿事件》（2009）、《催眠．裁決》（2019）、《真．三國無雙》（2021）、《第一爐香》（2021）等。佢曾憑爾冬陞執導嘅《癲佬正傳》（1986）同《新不了情》（1993）喺第6屆同第13屆香港電影金像獎兩奪最佳男配角，前者同時獲第23屆台灣金馬獎最佳男配角，並憑《刀馬旦》、《桃姐》（2012）、《北京遇上西雅圖之不二情書》（2016）獲提名香港電影金像獎最佳男配角。2018年佢踏上台板，同劉嘉玲、謝君豪合演舞台劇《奪命証人》。除兩位弟弟從影，其子姜文杰、女兒姜麗文亦投身影視界，堪稱演藝世家。
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Paul Chun Pui, born Chiang Cheung-nin in Beijing in 1945, was known as Yim Cheong in his child-actor days. His family came from Jiangsu; both his father, Yan Hua, and mother, Hung Wei, were film actors, and he moved with them from Shanghai to Hong Kong at the age of three, making his screen debut as a toddler in 1949. He went on to play child roles in films including 寸草心 (1953), Peach Blossom River (1956) and My Fair Lady (1957), and in 1958 took part in a charity children's play to raise funds for needy children. After graduating from Wah Yan College he was invited by Li Han-hsiang to Taiwan in 1964 and joined Li's Grand Motion Picture Company, taking the stage name Qin Pei and appearing in two 1966 adaptations of Chiung Yao novels, and he also took part in the American production The Sand Pebbles (1966). Returning to Hong Kong, he worked in both Mandarin and Cantonese cinema. In 1970 he joined Shaw Brothers, starring in Sunset Lovers (1971), taking leads in Love Auction (1971) and We Must Get Married (1972), and appearing in big productions such as The Water Margin (1972), The Fourteen Amazons (1972) and All Men Are Brothers (1975). After leaving Shaw Brothers he worked for various companies, including King Hu's Raining in the Mountain (1979), and with his brother David Chiang formed the Hong Kong Yuen Hang Film Company, producing The Owl (1981), directed by Chiang and written by his youngest brother Derek Yee, in which he also acted. He then entered television, working for Commercial Television, RTV, ATV and TVB. From the 1980s he appeared across genres, playing a collaborator in Hong Kong 1941 (1984), a stern prosecutor in Why Me? (1985) and a male opera female role in Peking Opera Blues (1986). He won Best Supporting Actor at the 6th and 13th Hong Kong Film Awards for The Lunatics (1986) and C'est la vie, mon cheri (1993), the former also earning him the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor, and he was later nominated for his work in Peking Opera Blues, A Simple Life (2012) and Book of Love (2016). In 2018 he appeared on stage alongside Carina Lau and Tse Kwan-ho. Both of his brothers became actors, as did his son Benji Chiang and daughter Lesley Chiang, making the family a celebrated acting dynasty.
