Louis Cha
Louis Cha Leung-yung GBM OBE (Chinese: 查良鏞; 6 February 1924 – 30 October 2018), better known by his pen name Jin Yong (Chinese: 金庸), pronounced "Gum Yoong" in Cantonese, was a Chinese wuxia ("martial arts and chivalry") novelist and essayist who co-founded the Hong Kong daily newspaper Ming Pao in 1959 and served as its first editor-in-chief. He was Hong Kong's most famous writer, and is named along with Gu Long and Liang Yusheng as the "Three Legs of the Tripod of Wuxia".
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| Date of birth | 6 June 1924
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| Place of birth | Haining, Zhejiang, China
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| Date of death | 30 October 2018
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| Age | 94 (age at death)
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| Place of death | Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital, Happy Valley, Hong Kong
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Louis Cha is known for his role in the TV series The Legend of the Condor Heroes (1994) as (novel) (35 episodes, 1994).
He is also known for his role in the TV mini series The Flying Fox of the Snowy Mountain (1999) as (novel).
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