Evan Yang, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Evan Yang

film director (1920–1978)

Date of Birth: 26-Nov-1920

Place of Birth: Beijing, China

Date of Death: 29-Mar-1978

Profession: film director

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Evan Yang or Yi Wen (Chinese: ??; pinyin: Yi Wen; November 26, 1920 – March 29, 1978), originally named Yang Yanqi (simplified Chinese: ???; traditional Chinese: ???) was a Hong Kong-Chinese director and songwriter.
His father was Yang Qianli, a politician and university professor.
His uncles and aunts include architect Yang Xiliu(S.
J.
Young), animator Cy Young, entrepreneur Yang Xiren and Yang Renlan (mother of sociologist Fei Xiaotong).Evan Yang moved to Wu County, Jiangsu in 1925.
In 1936, he wrote his first script In The Era which was unaccepted.
In 1937, he moved to Shanghai with family.
In 1941, he graduated from St.
John's University, Shanghai.
He started writing film script in Hong Kong from 1948 and started using the name "Evan Yang" from 1951. Evan Yang met Hu Shih in Shanghai in.
Hu Shih said 'Yang Yanqi is just 13 years old and likes reading literatures, have a inherited genius and must be uncommon ones.'He wrote lyrics from 1950s to early 1970s, and signed to EMI in 1967.
He also wrote essays with other pen names. Yang was a smoker and died from respiratory disease in 1978. Yang wrote more than 60 scripts and directed more than 40 films.
His film works include Air Hostess,The Story of a Fur Coat,Spring Song,Happily Ever After and Bachelors Beware, and lyrics works include The Second Spring, I'll Fly Into Sky, I Love Cha-cha,Spring Song.