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姚佳雄是香港潮劇與潮語片演員。他原在內地戲班出身，五十年代初在香港已是新天彩潮劇團的資深成員，丑生、大花臉、鬚生都能演，以聲音宏亮聞名，並協助班主張木津教導新成員，張應炎亦曾跟隨他學鬚生。他其後隻身赴越南加入當地戲班演出，逗留約十年。當他由越南回港時，新天彩已兼拍電影，他旋即重新加入。首部演出是高立執導的《孔雀東南飛》（1962），其後演出了《呂蒙正》（1963）、《紅鬃烈馬》（1963）、《狀元巡更》（1963）、《孟麗君》（1963）、《仙姬送子》（1963）、《喬太守亂點鴛鴦譜》（1964）、《共傘奇緣》（1965）、《洛神》（1966）等影片。影片中他多演奸角，像《四告狀》（1964）的狠心哥哥皮盾、《真假金牡丹》（1965）中嫌貧愛富的丞相、《二歲夫》（1965）的貪財族長、《金殿辯本》（1966）中恃勢凌人的凶悍公主侍衛、《崔鳴鳳晉袈裟》（上、下集，1968）中常向奸相出謀獻策的岳忠，均十分獨到。但他其實能奸能忠，像《雙起解》（1965）中演忠肝義膽的知府同樣有說服力，故有「萬能老倌」的美譽。他從影期間共拍了三十多部潮語片。他所屬的新天彩潮劇團為當時香港主要的潮劇班，曾把大量潮劇拍成潮語片，供應東南亞的觀眾。六十年代中潮劇式微後，他便專注舞台演出，並協理新天彩的團務。後來他先後加入新天藝和昇藝潮劇團，成為主要演員，長年隨團在內地、台灣、新加坡、泰國等地登台表演，深受本地和海外觀眾歡迎。
English
Yiu Kai-hung was an actor of the Hong Kong Teochew opera and film world. Trained in mainland troupes, by the early 1950s he was a senior member of the New Tin Choi Teochew Opera Troupe, able to play chou-sheng clowns, painted-face roles and bearded roles, and known for his powerful voice; he helped the troupe's head Zhang Mujin train newcomers, and the actor Zhang Yingyan learned bearded roles under him. He later spent about ten years performing with troupes in Vietnam, and rejoined New Tin Choi on his return just as it was making films. His screen debut was The Peacock Flies Southeast (1962), directed by Gao Li, followed by Lu Mengzheng (1963), Red Bristle Steed (1963), The Number One Scholar on Night Patrol (1963), Meng Lijun (1963) and more. On screen he often played villains, such as the cruel brother Pi Dun in Si Gao Zhuang (1964), the wealthy, disdainful chancellor in The Real and Fake Golden Peony (1965), the grasping clan elder in Er Sui Fu (1965) and the scheming advisor Yue Zhong in Cui Ming-feng Offers a Robe (1968), yet he was equally convincing as loyal officials, as in Shuang Qi Jie (1965), earning the title of the 'all-purpose actor'. He appeared in over thirty Teochew-language films. New Tin Choi, then a leading Hong Kong Teochew troupe, made a large number of these films for audiences in Southeast Asia. When Teochew cinema declined in the mid-1960s he turned to the stage, managing the troupe's affairs and joining the Xin Tian Yi and Sheng Yi troupes, touring the mainland, Taiwan, Singapore and Thailand.
