Ouyang Yuqian, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Chinese playwright, film director and actor
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About Ouyang Yuqian
- Ouyang Yuqian (Chinese: ????; May 12, 1889 – September 21, 1962) was a Chinese playwright, Peking opera actor and writer, film screenwriter and director, and drama educator.
- He is considered by drama historians as one of the three founders of Chinese spoken drama, together with Tian Han and Hong Shen.
- He was also one of the top Peking opera performers, regarded as a southern counterpart of Mei Lanfang. Ouyang Yuqian was the founding president of the Central Academy of Drama from 1950 until his death in 1962.
- He also served as vice chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, vice chairman of the Chinese Dramatists Association, and chairman of the Chinese Dancers Association.
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