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- Birth nameZhitong Chen
- Shu Chen was born in 1920 in Shanghai, China. He was an actor, known for The Last Emperor (1987), Shanghai Triad (1995) and Cut the Evil's Claw (1954). He died on October 17, 2006 in Shanghai, China.
- He was best known in playing villainous characters in film.
- He started off as a stage actor in 1942 and occasionally appeared in movies between 1948-1951. He joined Shanghai Film Studio in 1952 and became a professional movie actor.
- In 1995, the Chinese Film Performers' Society presented him a "Special Honorary Award".
- He got a nickname "director of intelligence" (in Chinese, "Qing bao chu zhang") because of his outstanding performance in Reconnaissance Across the Yangtze (1954) and the remake Reconnaissance Across the Yangtze (1974).
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