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Sir Run Run Shaw, also known as Shao Yifu and Siu Yat-fu, was a Hong Kong businessman, filmmaker, and philanthropist. He was one of the foremost influential movie moguls in the East Asian and Hong Kong entertainment industry. He founded the Shaw Brothers Studio, one of the largest film production companies in Hong Kong, and TVB, the dominant television company in Hong Kong.
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business · Hong Kong entertainment mogul and philanthropist (1907–2014) · entrepreneur · film producer · film director · inventor · actor · television producer · philanthropist · also Run Run Shaw, Siu Yat-fu, Sir Run Run Shaw, Shao Yifu, 邵仁楞, 邵伯
Born 19 November 1907 · Died 7 January 2014 · Q444591
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“We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.”
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The Portland Mercury: Run Run Shaw Has Died, Hollywood Theatre Plans Tribute
Died 2014-01-07.
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Shaw received the BAFTA Special Award for his outstanding contribution to cinema
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The Hollywood Reporter: Film mogul Run Run Shaw turns 100 — maybe
Coinciding with his 100th birthday, he was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Hong Kong Film Awards
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Awarded Asia Pacific Film Festival (2006).
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TVB had 80 percent of Hong Kong's viewers and 78 percent of the city's TV advertising market
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Shaw established an international award, the Shaw Prize, for scientists in three areas of research, namely astronomy, mathematics, and life and medical science
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Through his company, Shaw Brothers (Hong Kong) Limited, he sold his library of 760 classic titles to Celestial Pictures Limited
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Awarded honorary doctor of the Zhejiang University (1994).
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His other major donations include 10 million British pounds in 1990 to help establish the Run Run Shaw Institute of Chinese Affairs at Oxford University, and US$13 million for disaster relief after the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.
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To help establish the Run Run Shaw Institute of Chinese Affairs at Oxford University, and US$13 million for disaster relief after the 2008 Sichuan earthquake
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Was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by the University of Hong Kong to honour an outstanding contribution to applied visual arts, as well as to the community and cultural developments
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For his contribution to the university and community
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Awarded Knight Bachelor (1977).
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From Queen Elizabeth II and the Grand Bauhinia Medal (GBM) from the Hong Kong government in 1998
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Awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1974).
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Shaw was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
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When Shaw was described as the "Czar of Asian Movies"
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And was appointed to the University Council of the Chinese University in 1977
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And became the deputy chairman of TVB in 2000
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Co-founded TVB, the first free-to-air television station in Hong Kong, growing it into a multibillion-dollar TV empire with channels broadcast in 30 markets including the US, Canada and Taiwan, making it the world's l
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After their discovery of a small main belt asteroid between Mars and Jupiter, Chinese astronomers at the Purple Mountain Observatory named it "2899 Runrun Shaw" in Shaw's honour
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Run Run Shaw moved to Hong Kong, which was emerging as the new centre of Chinese-language cinema, and reorganised Tianyi's operations there as Shaw Brothers Studio
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The Japanese invaded Singapore and Malaya and confiscated their film equipment
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Tianyi moved its operation to Hong Kong, shipping its equipment from Shanghai
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And other films from the Dutch East Indies, the brothers established Malay Film Productions (MFP)
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And made the first Cantonese sound film in 1932
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“He must be greatly changed. Has he attained the seventh degree of concentration?”
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Run Run Shaw, then 19 years old, went to Singapore to assist his third elder brother Runme Shaw in their business venture there, initially to market films to Southeast Asia's Chinese community
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Having noticed that there were few cinemas in Malaya, Runme decided to open four cinemas there to show their films
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Shaw's brothers, led by the eldest brother Runje Shaw, established Tianyi Film Company (also called Unique Film Productions) in Shanghai, and Run Run Shaw began his film career doing odd jobs for the company
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Born 1907-11-19.
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