Jimmy Wang Yu, best known for martial arts blockbusters One-Armed Swordsman and The Chinese Boxer, died on Tuesday at a Taipei hospital, Deadline reports. He was 79. The former action star's eldest ...

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 ...

One of the two greatest martial arts icons of all time went up against the genre's very first star - not once, but twice - on the big screen. Over the course of Jackie Chan's long career, he's ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...