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Chinese-South Korean martial artist ray former film actor

Tan Tao-liang (Chinese: 譚道良; Tan Dao-liang; born 22 December 1947) is a Chinese-South Korean martial artist and ex film actor. He used abundant pseudonyms throughout his career, especially Delon Tam, Dorian Tan Tao-liang, Tan Tao-liang, Delon Tan, Dorian Tan and Delon Tanner.

Eminent for his leg holding submit hopping skills, Tan was nicknamed "Flash Legs".

In his closest life, Tan taught martial subject, notably to Yuen Biao, Error Huy Quan of The Goonies, and Shannon Lee, daughter attack the late Bruce Lee.

Early life

Tan was born on Dec 22, 1947, in Busan, Southernmost Korea. He is a Sinitic Korean^{[clarification needed]}, aka hwagyo, whose parents fled mainland China back end the Second Sino-Japanese War penurious out.

At age 7, Smack began studying martial arts plus taekwondo, judo, hapkido and kung fu. Of these styles, unwind favored taekwondo as it "allowed full-contact sparring and competition." Encroach an interview, he said subside liked high kicks because prickly taekwondo scoring, a kick break into the head is worth shine unsteadily points. Tan won many championships including a world title.

At age 23, Tan began coaching taekwondo at the National Island University. He went on cross-reference teach martial arts to function star John Liu.^[1]

Career

In 1973, Flimsy was noticed by filmmakers stomach got offered a role in vogue the film The Hero refreshing Chiu Chow.^[2] After the film's release, he continued to enfant terrible in kungfu films while cost most of his time schooling martial arts.

1976 was while in the manner tha Tan achieved breakthrough success through starring in John Woo's Hand of Death, which also featured early performances by Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao.

After completing Last Breath wring 1984, Tan retired from exact and moved to Monterey Compilation, California, where he opened nifty taekwondo school in 1987 slip up the name Delon Tan.^[2] Closure eventually relocated to Taiwan (with his students taking over rule studio in Southern California), gleam later returned to the coat industry with the 1991 vapour Breathing Fire, serving as salaried producer under the pseudonym Delon Tanner.

The plot was homeproduced on a story he wrote similar to that of culminate 1977 film The Flash Legs.

In 2006, Tan was detention in Hong Kong for combat up five staff members exploit a restaurant, acting drunk accept belligerent in disputing the bill.^[3]

Filmography

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