- Chau-Shui Yee was born in 1904. He was an actor, known for Xiao xing jiang di qiu (1952), Yuan gui fu chou ji (1939) and Putian Tongquin (1938). He died on May 14, 1955.
- Wildly popular Cantonese comedian and actor.
- Was the sixth of twenty children.
- Received an English language education in Hong Kong and worked as a law secretary until he began acting at age twenty-one.
- Was known as Oriental Charlie for his comedic similarities to comic Charles Chaplin. He played in many Asian films as a Chaplinesque tramp with a bowler hat, mustache and cane.
- Soon after he died, an all star Cantonese remake of Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window (1954) was made as a tribute to him with all the film's proceeds going to his family.
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