繁體中文
翁靈文（1919–2002）江蘇常熟人，生於常熟，在北方長大並接受教育，祖上翁同龢是咸豐時期狀元，曾當同治與光緒的老師。他戰前來港，在培英中學教授中國語文及歷史科，期間認識南來的蔡楚生與司徒慧敏，趁暑假為大地影業公司的《孤島天堂》（1939，蔡楚生編導）與《白雲故鄉》（1940，司徒慧敏執導）做副導演，結下電影緣；其中《孤島天堂》於1939年9月22日起在香港公映，連映十二天。太平洋戰爭爆發後他返回內地，投身抗日救國劇團，身兼編、導、演多職，輾轉雲貴川開展抗日宣傳。1945年他來到廣州，繼續教書，並在廣州藝專兼任教師，教學生用國語唸劇本。1947年朱旭華邀他來港加入大中華電影企業有限公司，在宣傳部工作，其後加入剛成立的永華影業公司，負責《國魂》、《清宮秘史》等創業作的宣傳，並跟丁聰、張光宇等一起從事電影宣傳。五十年代中後期他轉投專門發行香港影片的中國聯合影業公司，至1964年中國聯合總經理胡晉康死於空難、公司結業為止，其後轉投東寶公司，負責日本電影在香港的發行宣傳，因而結識不少當年的文藝青年。翁靈文曾幾進幾出邵氏：五十年代曾參與邵氏父子有限公司印行的《電影圈》編務，邵氏兄弟（香港）有限公司成立後離開；朱旭華為邵氏兄弟主編《香港影畫》時邀他回巢協助編務，後轉職《讀者文摘》；其後朱旭華移居加拿大，方逸華請他再回邵氏接辦。1981年初他轉職電視廣播有限公司，負責公關部門工作，1991年改任顧問，2002年正式退休，同年8月17日在香港逝世，終年八十三歲。
English
Weng Lingwen was born in Changshu, Jiangsu, in 1919, raised and educated in northern China; an ancestor, Weng Tonghe, was a top imperial scholar who tutored the Tongzhi and Guangxu emperors. Coming to Hong Kong before the war, he taught Chinese language and history at Pui Ying Middle School, where he met the émigré filmmakers Cai Chusheng and Situ Huimin, and during summer holidays served as assistant director on the Greater Earth company's Orphan Island Paradise (1939), directed by Cai Chusheng and released in Hong Kong from 22 September 1939 for a twelve-day run, and on Hometown Cloud (1940), directed by Situ Huimin, beginning his lifelong connection with film. When the Pacific war broke out he returned to the mainland, joined a resistance drama troupe as writer, director and actor, and toured Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan for anti-Japanese propaganda. In 1945 he went to Guangzhou, teaching and moonlighting at an arts college where he coached students in reading scripts in Mandarin. In 1947 Chu Yuk-wah invited him to Hong Kong to work in the publicity department of the Grand China Film Company, and he then joined the newly founded Yonghua studio, publicising its first productions and working with the illustrators Ding Cong and Zhang Guangyu. In the mid-to-late 1950s he joined the China United Film Company, which distributed Hong Kong pictures, staying until its general manager died in a plane crash and the firm closed in 1964; he then moved to Toho, handling the release and publicity of Japanese films in Hong Kong. Weng entered and left Shaw Brothers several times, editing the studio's magazine in the 1950s and later returning at Chu's request; he also worked for Reader's Digest. In 1981 he joined Television Broadcasts Limited in public relations, became an adviser in 1991, and retired in 2002, dying in Hong Kong on 17 August that year, aged 83.
