Godfrey Ho (Chinese language: 何志强 or 何致强) (born 1948) is a former Hong Kong-based prolific film director and screenwriter, sometimes considered the Ed Wood of Hong Kong cinema. Ho is believed to have directed more than one hundred films, including over 80 movies from 1980 to 1990, but only one film since 1995, apparently retiring from film-making in 2000. Many of his works are now regarded cult films by aficionados of Z movies as being among some of the most unintentionally humorous movies ever created.

Godfrey Ho Actor - Born 1948 Hong Kong

Birth Name Chi Kueng Ho

Mini Bio (1) Godfrey Ho was born in 1948 in Hong Kong as Chi Kueng Ho. He is a director and writer, known for The Ninja Squad (1986), Thunder of Gigantic Serpent (1988) and Commando Fury (1986).

Spouse (1) Betty Chan (? - ?)

He is considered a master of B-movie Hong Kong actioners. However, a number of his movies are Z-grade movies made with a "cut-and-paste" technique. He would shoot footage for one movie, often using Caucasian actors for exportation, then edit the scenes into several other movies, mixing them with footage from old, unfinished or unreleased Asian movies (using Thai as well as Chinese or Filipino footage), then trying to make the story somewhat coherent through dubbing and voice-overs. He would then have four or five movies (of rock-bottom quality, of course) while having spent the budget of one.

He effectively retired from direction some 10 years ago, after 25 years making genre films in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Phillipines, he was most recently teaching filmmaking at Hong Kong Polytechnic Universty. [May 2005]

Teaches film making at the Hong Kong Film Academy [November 2005]

I used to be a movie maker. Now I am teaching people to make movies. It really makes me glad when my students are happily showing me their works. Only if you've been through the whole process, can you understand how satisfactory and delightful it is.

[on Richard Harrison] Richard is good! A very good guy, a kind of gentleman.

[on Mike Abbott] A kind of rude person. Because he's quite a strong guy and straightforward, western style. But no complaints for me.

[on Jonathan Isgar] Kind of funny guy. I like him too but not too professional, he made movies for fun. Still, he was very cooperative.

[on Pierre Tremblay] He's good. He's quite a guy with humor, a very nice guy, and he married a Chinese girl.

[on John Ladalski] He's a little bit of a troublemaker . . . He has quite a cinematic face but he's not very professional, he's quite emotional too. Compared to other American actors, he's not quite so professional.