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 ...

Taiwanese martial-arts film star Jimmy Wang Yu died on April 5 at a hospital in Taipei, his daughter, Linda Wong announced on Instagram. ‘With utmost sorrow, I inform everyone that our beloved father ...

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, ...

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 ...