繁體中文
潘壘（1926年8月4日－2017年7月22日）是橫跨文學與電影的編劇、導演。他原名潘榮生，廣東合浦人，在越南海防出生，是家中獨子。抗戰時期，他隨姐姐、姐夫到昆明避亂，1943年投軍，先被派駐印度，後轉戰中印緬邊界，期間易名潘磊，戰後官至中尉。退伍後他返回越南，卻遇上法越戰爭，被迫再度離家，以僑生身分前往上海國立江蘇醫學院就讀。求學期間他開始寫新詩、散文及短篇小說，並取筆名「潘壘」。肄業後他曾在國民黨財政委員會轄下的事業機構任職，其後移居台灣。
1949年5月，潘壘自資創辦台灣第一份文藝雜誌《寶島文藝》，並在1955年至1957年連續三屆奪得中華文藝獎，著作包括《靜靜的紅河》、《安平港》、《歸魂》等。其後他獲邀加入中央電影事業股份有限公司製片部，任編導組編審，同時兼任國立臺灣藝術專科學校編導科講師。第一部正式拍成電影的編劇作品是台語片《痲瘋女》（1957）。1957年離開中影，翌年為獨立製片商首次執導《合歡山上》，接着拍攝《金色年代》（1959）。他再為中影執導《颱風》（1962），以及與松尾昭典合導的《海灣風雲》（1963）。
《颱風》入選第七屆亞洲電影節，令邵逸夫賞識，力邀其加盟。1963年，潘壘正式加入邵氏兄弟（香港）有限公司，翌年回台為邵氏編導文藝片《情人石》（1964）與《蘭嶼之歌》（1965），再執導由胡金銓編劇的動作片《山賊》（1966）。其後為邵氏攝製的作品題材多樣，包括偵探片《毒玫瑰》（1966）、愛情片《落花時節》（1968）、武俠片《天下第一劍》（1968）及文藝片《新不了情》（1970）。1971年他離開邵氏返台，成立現代電影電視實驗中心，後改營製片廠，最終易手。此後他曾短暫淡出影圈，專心寫作。
1975年，潘壘重返邵氏，編導《色中餓鬼》與《妙妙女郎》（均1975年）；《搵食三十六計》（1977）是他為邵氏編導的最後一部電影。其後他自組潘壘電影電視製作有限公司出品影片，並為羅維等導演編寫劇本。晚年他專心研究古玉，並出版個人回憶錄《不枉此生》。2017年7月22日，他在台灣逝世。
English
Pan Lei (4 August 1926 - 22 July 2017) was a screenwriter and director whose career spanned literature and cinema. Born Pan Rongsheng, a native of Hepu in Guangdong, he was an only son born in Haiphong, Vietnam. During the war with Japan he fled with his sister and brother-in-law to Kunming, enlisted in 1943, was posted to India and later fought along the Sino-Indian-Burmese border, changing his name to Pan Lei. He rose to lieutenant before the war ended. Returning to Vietnam after his discharge, he was displaced again by the Indochina War and went to Shanghai as an overseas-Chinese student at the National Jiangsu Medical College, where he began writing poetry, prose and short stories and took the pen name Pan Lei. After leaving his studies he worked for an organisation under the Kuomintang's finance committee and then settled in Taiwan.
In May 1949 he founded 《寶島文藝》, described by the Hong Kong Film Archive as Taiwan's first literary magazine, and from 1955 to 1957 he won a major Chinese literary award three years running; his books included 《靜靜的紅河》, 《安平港》 and 《歸魂》. He joined the production department of the Central Motion Picture Corporation as a script editor and taught screenwriting and directing at the Taiwan Academy of Arts. His first screenplay to reach the screen was the Taiwanese-dialect film 《痲瘋女》(1957). Leaving the studio in 1957, he made his directorial debut the next year with 《合歡山上》 and followed it with 《金色年代》(1959); he later directed 《颱風》(1962) and, with Akinori Matsuo, 《海灣風雲》(1963).
《颱風》 was entered at the seventh Asian Film Festival and drew the attention of Run Run Shaw, who recruited him. Pan joined Shaw Brothers (Hong Kong) in 1963. Back in Taiwan he wrote and directed the romances 《情人石》(1964) and 《蘭嶼之歌》(1965) and the action film 《山賊》(1966), scripted by King Hu. His later Shaw productions were stylistically varied, from the detective picture 《毒玫瑰》(1966) and the romance 《落花時節》(1968) to the martial-arts film 《天下第一劍》(1968) and the melodrama 《新不了情》(1970). He left Shaw in 1971, returned to Taiwan and set up a centre for experimental film and television that was later converted into a studio and eventually changed hands. He then withdrew from film-making for a time to concentrate on writing.
In 1975 Pan returned to Shaw Brothers, writing and directing 《色中餓鬼》 and 《妙妙女郎》 (both 1975), and 《搵食三十六計》(1977) was the last film he made there. He then formed his own company, Pan Lei Film and Television Productions, and wrote scripts for directors including Lo Wei. In later life he devoted himself to the study of antique jade and published an autobiography, 《不枉此生》. He died in Taiwan on 22 July 2017.
