Roy Horan III, the U.S.-born actor and film executive whose martial arts career flourished in Hong Kong’s Golden Era, has died. The father of Hong Kong-based actor Celina Jade, Horan was 71. Horan …
Horan died on Oct. 12 after hiking and meditating in the hills near Los Angeles. A memorial ceremony will be held in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
While he missed Bruce Lee, who died in 1973, Horan’s career overlapped with the early Jackie Chan era. Horan played the evil Russian Assassin disguised as a Jesuit priest in Jackie Chan’s “Snake in the Eagle’sShadow” and later, as Lewis, a wealthy kung-fu fighter who befriends Tang Lung , in “Game of Death II” in 1980.
Horan taught meditation since 1992. From 1999, he took up an academic career, as a professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University’s School of Design where he taught filmmaking, helped establish the Multimedia Innovation Centre and, from 2005 conducted research into creative thinking. His surviving family includes seven siblings as well as Asia-based children Celina “Jade” Horan and Jillian Horan.
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