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Heo Jang-gang

1925 – 1975

South Korean actor

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Lived 1925 – 1975 (aged 50). Heo Jang-gang was a South Korean film director, screenwriter, film actor, actor and stage actor.

Heo Jang-gang (May 9, 1925 – September 21, 1975) was a South Korean actor, one of the representative actors in the 1960s and 1970s. He mainly took supporting roles such as villains or comical characters. He died of a heart attack after playing football in 1975.

His sons Heo Gi-ho and Huh Joon-ho also became actors.

Filmography Note; the whole list is referenced. One to One| The Fugitive in The Storm| Kneel Down and Pray| A Cattle Seller| Nationwide Graduates| Cruel History of Myeong Dong| Don't Cry, My Daughter| Ever Smiling, Mr. Park| Looking for Sons and Daughters| Zip up| Men and Women|

A Family Tree| Gap-dol and Gap-sun| Beautiful Korea| A Love Story| My Sister's Regrets| Tragic Death of Ambition| Bun-rye's Story| A Wayfarer| Break Up The Chain|Heo Dal-geon Twelve Guys in Myeongdong| No Offense| Quit Your life| The Royal Emissary With No ID| Three Black Leopards| Madame Impetuous| Tomorrow's Scenery of Korea| Let's Borrow Love| Brother and Sister in the Rain| Big Brother, Yong-Chil| The Man Who Was Crushed To Death By Money| I Risked My Life| Bravo, Korea| A Woman Fighter| Five Fighters|

Little Swordsman| Great King Sejo| Five Brothers| Sad Palace Court| Little Wife| Man of Desires| Myeongdong Fella, Nampodong Fella| Merry Wedding| Angel, Put Your Clothes On| Haunted Bedroom| A Girl Born in the Year of Tiger| The Naked Sun| The Little Bridegroom's Return| The Woman Who Wanted an Apartment| The Harbor Man Returns| Sunday Night and Monday Morning| Odd Bride| Miss Chicken| Six Terminators| Seoul Is Not That Nice| Escape| Men of the Reserve Troops| Back Alley No. 5| Revenge of a Mother| A Man Who Arrived by Night Train| Little Bridegroom| Man and Woman from Hong Kong| Dangerous Liaison| Wang-geon, the Great| Return of the Condemned| Harbin at Sunset| Heartless on Harbor| If There Were No Parting Again| The Invincible of the Far East| A Wanderer in Shanghai| One-eyed Jack in Hong Kong| Goodbye, Tokyo| Escape in the Mist| A Wild Girl| The Confession of a Girl| The Story of Warriors| The Sun Never Gets Old| Thy Name Is Woman| Five Left-handers| Born in Nampo-dong| Secret Woman| Old Gentleman in Myeongdong| Quick as Lightning| Miss Hillbilly| Why Should Only Women Cry?| The Wedding Banquet|

Forgotten Woman| The 7th Man| The World of Men| A Glorious Operation| Six Shadows| Girls| Duel of Midnight| A Blues of a Man| A Nicknamed Woman| Can't Forget| Singing Fair| Nagyo Bridge| The Main Room| A Returned Singer| Life| Eight Gallant Men| Chaser| Destiny of My Load| Singer and Daughter| Jang Nok-Su| One Step in the Hell| Installment Secretary| Spring, Spring| Deadly Sword| Blues at Midnight| A Man And a Gisaeng| Boss Heo Twin Dragon Sword| March of a Wife| 7 People in the Cellar|Father An The Old Jar Craftsman| Immortal Rivers and Mountains| A Train to Beijing| Maternal Affection| Starting Point| Sahwasan Mountain| Condemned Criminals| Evil Person| Kkotnae| Snowy Night| Barber of Jangmaru Village| The Station Police| Daughter-in-law of Blue Eyes| Vice President| Invisible Man| Mrs. Wonnim| A Heartless Swordsman| Bring Back the Night Once More| Regret| Mabeopseon| You've Made a Mistake| Left-handed Man in Tokyo| Going Well| The Fan of Witchcraft| Emphasizing| Rock of Crown Prince|

Bun-nyeo| Cruel Port| Chunhyang| Blue Light, Red Light| Returned Left-handed Man| Lonely Marriage Night| Great Swordsman| Bell Daegam| Students of Karl Marx| The Life of a Woman| Fight in Gongsan| Remorse| The King of a Rock Cave| Gentleman in His Only Suit| Secret Mission of Seven People| Arirang| Prince Daewon| Potato| White Bear| A Man of Windstorm| Childish Son-in-law| Death Can't Fall Us Apart| Mistress Manong| A Solar Eclipse| A Bride on the Second Floor|Lord Heo Femme Fatale, Jang Hee-bin|Jo Sa-seok The Sword of a Shooting Star| Jade Pin| Grandfather's Bokdeokbang| The Eternal Motherhood| Yeong| The Land of Korea| Wrong Target| A Man Like the Wind| Little Lady| The Arms and the Body| Eunuch| Day and Night| Nam| Hometown| A Gaze| Prince Yang-nyeong| Crossed Love| Mother Gisaeng| Mother is Strong| Revenge| Crossing the Teary Hill of Bakdaljae| A Pastoral Song| The Adventure of Great Ttolttori| I'm Not a Traitor| Rang| Romance Mama| Realtors|

Myeongdong Hussy| A Public Cemetery of Wol-ha| Female Power| A Swordsman in the Twilight| Five Minutes before Curfew| A Cold Heartedness| Heat and Cold| Dongsimcho| Dolmuji| Tomorrow, I Will Smile| Longing in Every Heart| Nine Defecting Soldiers| Children in the Firing Range|Kim Sang-hyeon Six Daughters| The Three Hen-pecked Generations| The Queen Moonjeong| When Bucketwheet Flowers Blossom| Gang Myeong-hwa| A Swordsman| Choi Gwal Chun-Hui| A Female Student and an Old Gentleman| Confession of an Actress|Boss Heo Destiny| An Angry Calf| Seoul is Full| Harimao in Bangkok| Mubeonji| Nostalgia| Full Ship|Sung Sam Street N. 66| The Body's Destination| Swindler Mr. Heo| Yearning|

A Water Mill| My Days Set in the Twilight| Operation Tiger| Wrongfully Accused| Yeraehyang|Mr. Heo The Sun Rises Again| A Story of a Nobleman| A Salt Peddler| River of Farewell| Mountain Gyeryong| No. 1, Mujeong Street| Horse-year Bride| Flower Palanquin| A Hero without Serial Number| Salsali, You Didn't Know| Night Blues| Dangerous Youth| I am a Free Man| Hun's| Crisis 113| Love Detective|

Market| The Young Girls| The Same Starlight on this Land| A Life Wailing in Sorrow| The King and the Servant Boy| Hot Wind| Only a Woman Should Cry?| Woman is Better| A Legend of Urchins| Lion in the Dark World| A Rooster Man| Heilong River| The Cash is Mine| The Messengers to Hamheung| Airborne Troops| Lee Seong-gye King Taejo| The Violence Zone| The Married Daughter| The Sino-Japanese War and Queen Min the Heroine|Japanese Romantic Cheonggyecheon Stream| Every Dog Has His Day| The Third Doom| The Castle of Chastity| Incheon Landing Operations| Behold this Woman| Lee Su-il and Shim Sun-ae| The Story of Bae Local Official|Commander Lee Bang Three Villains in the River Songhwa| The Virgin Playing Saxophone| Good and Evil| Even Mountains and Streams Cried, Too| You've Got to Live|Hyeon Gam Haircutting Motherly Love| Love is Terrible| Fading in the Rain| The Sunflower Blooming at Night| The Idiot| The Elegy of the Mother and Daughter| The Wild Chrysanthemum| The Wild Tiger| The Foster Mother & the Natural Mother| The Widow's Daughter| The Woman with a Past| The Seven Female POW's| The Myth-Making Marine| Hwang, Man of Wealth at Mapo| The Sworn Brothers| The Great Sokgulam Cave Temple| The Night of Sadness| The Sun is Rising Again| There is also a Sunburn in the Mouse Hole| Staking One's Life|

The Bacheolor Pub| Only for You| The Regular Tardy Student| The Headwoman of Pal Tong and Pal Ban| General Nami| The Skirt Rock| The Younger Brother-in-law| The Modern Grandma| The Governor at Pyeongyang Province| The Power for Ten Years| Seaman Park| The Old Korean Folk song in Downtown| The Panmunjeom Truce Village| The Housemaid| The Night Fog| Is It Possible? No Way| The Beauty and the Robber| Myohyang's Elegy| The East of Mongolia| Let's Meet on Thursday| The Guitar for Mother and Her Daughter| The Woman of Myeongdong| The Port Sea Gulls Sing a Song| The Regular Customers| My Darling Has Passed Away, but His Song Still Remains| The Chaste Woman Arang| The Night When Raining over the Acacia| The Father at Sinchon & the daughter at Myeongdong| The Smile in Grief| Sejong the Great| The Distorted Youth| My Dear| The Meaning to Plant a Phoenix Tree Is| Princess Snow White| The Women Divers| Queen Jinseong| Let's Walk As Looking Up| The Lovebirds Boat| The Beauty Murder Case in Bath| The Yangtze River| The Flower at Ansi Province|

Like the Stars| Sinmungo| An Aristocrat's Love Affair| Daughters of Pharmacist Kim| Dried Yellow Croaker Fish| Lover of the Earth| A Sad Story of Danjong| Even Dandelions Bloom in Spring| Love Making Company| A Stubborn Guy| Shanghai Riru| What a Happy My Sister!| China Town| The Housemaid's Confession| The Classroom of Youth| The Gentlemen Like Something New| The Virgin in the Pub| Samyeongdang| The Masked Prince| Rice|Geon Bae Miss Kim's Double Life| The Loneliest Man in Seoul|

Queen Dowager Inmok| A Woman Who Came at Night| A Man from Tokyo| Farewell Tumen River| How to Marry a Millionaire| Teacher Waryong's Trip to Seoul| The Sun Does Not Shine on Me| King Dongmyeong| Even Though I Die| Leaving the Fatherland| Only for You| Mr. Gong| Times of Love and Hatred| The Best Bride and a Plain Young Man| The Seven Princesses| Qin Shu Huangdi and the Great Wall of China| Somewhere in This World| A Sad Cry|Dan Jang Swordsman and Love| The Story of Sim Cheong| War and Love| Memory of Red Roses| Tyrant Yeonsan|Prince Jae-an Yang Kuei-Fei, a Destructive Beauty| A Log Bridge|Jang Du-chil Fighting Lions| Freely Given|

Baekbaek Religious Fact| Mother and a Guest| My Only Love| A Dream of Fortune|Charlie Hong A Gang of Robbers| An Idiot| Prince Yeonsan|Prince Jae-an Seong Chun-hyang|Bang Ja Evergreen Tree| A Bonanza|Park Dal-soo Lim Kkeok-jeong| Iljimae, the Chivalrous Robber| Under the Sky of Seoul|Park Joo-sa Miryang Arirang|Heo Dal-seok A Torrent|

A Sinless Youth| A Birth Control| Over the Hill| A Deserted Angel| A Revival| Soil|Lee Geon-yeong Ryeoin| A Youth Garden| A Love History|Mr. Kim A Drifting Story|Choi Young-cheol The Returned Man| A Pearl Tower|Jang Hyeon-do A Song of a Rose| Female Power|

Looking for a Sunny Place| Triplets| Freshman at a College of Life| Even the Clouds Are Drifting| Dr. Flyboy| Heungbu and Nolbu| A Blood Bamboo| Only Wives Should Cry?| A Wife| Before A Love Is Gone| Burden of Love| Spring Comes and Goes| A Real-estate Agent for Life| She Should Live| A Prisoner of Cell No. 72| Way of the Body| Life Blessing Room|

The Bell Tower|Seok Seung Returned Lover| The Tears of Mokpo| An Empty Dream| A Beautiful, Wicked Woman| The Snow Falling Night| The Lullaby| Flowing Star| The Endless Tragedy|

The Palace of Ambition|Soe Mang-chi The No-Deul Riverside| Love| Farewell Sorrow!|

Fight Back| Beat Back| 1955 Piagol|Man-soo 1954 Arirang''

Awards and nominations 1966 the 4th Blue Dragon Film Awards : Best Supporting Actor for A Hero without Serial Number (Gunbeon-eobsneun Yongsa) 1972 the 8th Baeksang Arts Awards : Best Actor for Bun-Rye's story (Bunlyegi) 1974 the 13th Grand Bell Awards : Best Supporting Actor for A flowery bier(Kkochsang-yeo) 1975 the 14th Grand Bell Awards : Special Achievement Award

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Important facts

Birth century
Nationality
Education
Korea National Defense University
Also known as
Heo Jang-kang, Heo Jang-hyeon

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Frequently asked questions

Who was Heo Jang-gang?

South Korean actor (1925–1975)

When was Heo Jang-gang born?

Heo Jang-gang was born on 9 May 1925 in Seoul.

When did Heo Jang-gang die?

Heo Jang-gang died on 21 September 1975 in Jung District.

What was Heo Jang-gang's occupation?

Heo Jang-gang was a film director, screenwriter, film actor, actor and stage actor.

What nationality was Heo Jang-gang?

Heo Jang-gang was South Korean.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Heo Jang-gang

· Wikidata: Q5731547

· DBpedia: Heo Jang-kang

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