Jimmy Wang Yu, a Taiwanese actor who was once one of the biggest stars of martial arts cinema, died Tuesday in a Taipei hospital from an undisclosed illness he battled for six years. He was 79 and his ...

Jimmy Wang Yu's daughter Linda Wang announced her father died in a Taipei hospital on Tuesday via Instagram Shafiq Najib is a former writer-reporter at PEOPLE. He left PEOPLE in 2023. Jimmy Wang Yu, ...

Jimmy Wang Yu, once a superstar of multiple Asian martial arts genres, died on Tuesday. He was 79. News of his death in a Taipei hospital was posted on social media by Wang’s daughter Linda, herself a ...

He changed the nature of Asian martial arts movies, which had been relying on sword fighting and fantasy, by bringing hand-to-hand combat to the fore. By Richard Sandomir Jimmy Wang Yu, who in the ...

In the beginning, before Jet Li and Jackie Chan and Chow Yun-Fat--and even before Bruce Lee--there was Jimmy Wang Yu. A former champion water-polo player, Wang Yu was recruited by Shaw Brothers ...

Jimmy Wang Yu battles crime lord George Lazenby in a scene from the film 'The Dragon Flies', 1975. (Photo by 20th Century-Fox/Getty Images) Taiwanese martial-arts film star Jimmy Wang Yu died on April ...

A wuxia icon, Wang was a breakout star for Shaw Brothers Studio, starring in classic films such as 'One-Armed Swordsman,' 'Golden Swallow' and the highly influential 'The Chinese Boxer.' By Abid ...

Jimmy Wang Yu, the trailblazing martial artist who starred in classic Hong Kong movies Golden Swallow, One-Armed Swordsman and The Chinese Boxer and paved the way for the likes of Jackie Chan and ...