Jackie Chan Filmography

Born:: April 7, 1954 in Hong Kong, China
Occupation:: Actor, Director, Executive Producer
Birth name:: Chan Kwong Sang
Biography:: One of the most popular film personalities in the world, Jackie Chan came from a poverty-stricken Hong Kong family -- so poor, claims Chan, that he was almost sold in infancy to a wealthy British couple. As it turned out, Chan became his family's sole support. Enrolled in the Chinese Opera...Read More

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Kung Fu Panda

Actors: Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Ian McShane, Seth Rogen

Synopsis: A clumsy panda bear becomes an unlikely kung fu hero when a treacherous enemy spreads chaos throughout the countryside in this animated martial arts adventure featuring the voices of Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, and Jackie Chan. On the surface, Po (voice of Black) may look like just Read More

6/6/08
The Forbidden Kingdom

Actors: Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Collin Chou, Liu Yifei, Li Bingbing

Synopsis: Legendary martial arts stars Jackie Chan and Jet Li come together onscreen for the first time ever in director Rob Minkoff's time-traveling take on the Monkey King fable that finds an American teen transported back to ancient China after wandering into a pawn shop and discovering the king's Read More

4/18/08
The Shinjuku Incident

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jackie Chan

Synopsis: Jackie Chan stars in the Chinese immigrant drama The Shinjuku Incident, a film produced by Chan and headed by director Derek Yee (One Night in Mongkok). ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

1/1/08
Rush Hour 3

Crew: Stunts Coordinator

Actors: Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, Hiroyuki Sanada, Youki Kudoh, Max von Sydow

Synopsis: In this third installment of the popular action comedy franchise, LAPD Detective James Carter (Chris Tucker) and Chief Inspector Lee (Jackie Chan) book a flight for Europe and prepare to clean up the streets of Paris after discovering that Chinese triads have extended their criminal influence to Read More

8/10/07
Robin-B-Hood

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter, Stunts Coordinator

Actors: Louis Koo, Michael Hui, Gao Yuanyuan, Chen Baoguo

Synopsis: The Jackie Chan-headlined action farce Rob-B-Hood concerns Slipper (Chan), a character caught up in a hornet's nest of problems. Raised by poor parents and expelled from school at an early age, Slipper became notorious for his lightning-fast footwork and quick-fingered hijinks, but managed to Read More

2006
House of Fury

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: A pair of teenage kung fu experts find that their widowed father's far-fetched tales of adventure may hold more water than they thought in this martial arts adventure featuring fight choreography from The Matrix action director Yuen Woo Ping. In his day, Teddy (Anthony Wong) was a force to be Read More

2005
The Myth

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jackie Chan, Kim Hee-seon, Malika Sherawat

Synopsis: Historical fact blends with high-flying fiction as Jackie Chan steps into dual roles as a determined archeologist and a loyal general of China's first emperor in director Stanley Tong's lavish historical action film. Jack (Chan) is an intrepid archeologist in search of a mythical gemstone that is Read More

2005
Around the World in 80 Days

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan, Jim Broadbent, Robert Fyfe, Cécile De France

Synopsis: Jules Verne's famous novel of a daring man of science who takes on the greatest voyage in history is once again adapted for the big screen in this adventure comedy. In 1872, eccentric British inventor Phileas Fogg (Steve Coogan) has come up with any number of gadgets to help people travel with Read More

6/16/04
Chop-Socky: Cinema Hong Kong

Synopsis: Explore one of the cinema's most enduring traditions as the Independent Film Channel and filmmaker Ian Taylor team up to take viewers on an unforgettable tour of the stars, fighting styles, and inventive weaponry of the Hong Kong film industry. From the early screen adventures of Chinese folk hero Read More

2004
New Police Story

Crew: Executive Producer, Stunts Coordinator

Actors: Jackie Chan, Nicholas Tse, Charlie Yeung, Charlene Choi, Daniel Wu

Synopsis: A police officer has been disgraced in front of both the department and the entire city, and when the sadistic gang that wronged him attempts to cement their grip on the terrified community, the only man who can come to their aid is the one nobody believes in anymore as the long-running Police Read More

2004
Rice Rhapsody

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Sylvia Chang, Martin Yan, Melanie Laurent, Tan Lepham, Alvin Chiang

2004
The Huadu Chronicles: Blade of the Rose

Actors: Charlene Choi, Gillian Chung, Donnie Yen, Jaycee Chan, Wilson Chen

2004
The Medallion

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jackie Chan, Lee Evans, Claire Forlani, Julian Sands, John Rhys-Davies

Synopsis: Though it's an English-language film, the fantasy action comedy The Medallion is one of the highest-budgeted movies to come out of Hong Kong. Cop Eddie Yang (Jackie Chan) and his partner, Interpol agent Arthur Watson (Lee Evans), are in pursuit of international human-smuggling crimelord Snakehead (Julian Sands Read More

8/22/03
Shanghai Knights

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson, Aaron Johnson, Tom Fisher, Aidan Gillen

Synopsis: East and West team up to take on bad guys in the British Empire in this sequel to the action comedy hit Shanghai Noon. Chon Wang (Jackie Chan), once an Imperial Guard in China, is now the Sheriff of Carson City, NV, while his onetime cohort, former train robber Roy O'Bannon (Owen Wilson), scrapes Read More

2/7/03
Jackie Chan: Fast, Funny and Furious

2003
The Tuxedo

Actors: Jackie Chan, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jason Isaacs, Debi Mazar, Ritchie Coster

Synopsis: Clothes make the superspy in this high-energy action comedy. Jimmy Tong (Jackie Chan) is a well-meaning but clumsy New York City cab driver who is tapped by Steena (Debi Mazar), associate to multi-millionaire Clark Devlin (Jason Isaacs), for a new job as Devlin's personal limo driver. After a Read More

9/27/02
The Art of Action: Martial Arts in the Movies

Actors: Bruce Lee, Jet Li, David Carradine, Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, John Woo, Ang Lee

Synopsis: The Art of Action is a compilation film, hosted by Samuel L. Jackson, that offers clips from various action films that featured martial arts action sequences. Among the films excepted for this collection are Rush Hour 2 with Jackie Chan, Charlie's Angels, and the multiple-Oscar-winning Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Read More

2002
Longde Shenchu: Shiluode Pin Tu

Actors: Ti Lung, Jackie Chan

Synopsis: Documentarian Mabel Cheung traces the seemingly improbable but true tale of international movie superstar Jackie Chan's realization that the truth about his family's history is much different than he was led to believe. As Chan's mother's health deteriorated, his father decided that the younger Read More

2002
Jackie Chan Adventures: Season 03

Actors: Sab Shimono, Jackie Chan, Mona Marshall, James Sie, Stacie Chan

2002
Rush Hour 2

Actors: Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, John Lone, Zhang Ziyi, Roselyn Sanchez

Synopsis: A surprise box-office smash spawns this inevitably action-packed buddy comedy follow-up that reunites director Brett Ratner with stars Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker. Chan is Chief Inspector Lee of the Royal Hong Kong Police, who travels back to China with his American colleague, Los Angeles Read More

8/3/01
The Accidental Spy

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jackie Chan, Eric Tsang, Vivian Hsu, Kim Min Jeong, Wu Hsing-Kuo

Synopsis: Jackie Chan tones down the martial arts action but turns up the international espionage in this globe-trotting adventure. Buck Yuen (Jackie Chan) is a sporting goods salesman from Hong Kong who daydreams of living the exciting and dangerous life of an international spy. One day, Buck makes the Read More

2001
Jackie Chan Adventures: Season 02

Actors: Sab Shimono, Jackie Chan, Mona Marshall, James Sie, Stacie Chan

2001
The Legend of Drunken Master

Actors: Jackie Chan, Ti Lung, Anita Mui, Felix Wong, Lau Kar-Leung

Synopsis: Jackie Chan returns in one of his greatest roles in this action-comedy sequel to his 1978 Hong Kong blockbuster Drunken Master. Wong Fei Hong (Chan) is a young master of the martial art of "drunken boxing," in which fighters use alcohol to blind themselves to pain and release the angry brawler Read More

10/20/00
Shanghai Noon

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson, Lucy Liu, Brandon Merrill, Roger Yuan

Synopsis: Jackie Chan has often played a fish out of water, but he's rarely found himself so far upstream as in this comic adventure, in which he puts his fighting skills to the test in the Old West of the 1850s. Lo Fong (Roger Yuan), onetime captain of the Chinese Imperial Guard, has traded upholding the Read More

5/26/00
Jackie Chan Adventures: Season 01

Actors: Sab Shimono, Jackie Chan, Mona Marshall, James Sie, Stacie Chan

2000
Jackie Chan Adventures [Animated TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

2000
Saturday Night Live: Jackie Chan

Actors: Jackie Chan, Kid Rock

Synopsis: This 2000 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Jackie Chan and features musical guest Kid Rock. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

2000
Twin Dragons

Actors: Teddy Robin, Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Nina Li Chi, Anthony Chan, Philip Chan

Synopsis: International action star Jackie Chan stars opposite knockabout comedy sensation Jackie Chan in this story about identical twins separated in childhood who are unexpectedly reunited years later. While on the run from a Hong Kong hospital, an escaped convict takes an infant hostage, leaving the Read More

4/9/99
Fist to Fist

Synopsis: A pair of martial arts legends do battle through the magic of 21st century technology in this documentary that dares pose the question "Who would win in a battle between Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan?" From Lee's unparalleled ferocity to Chan's cunning acrobatic comedy, this question leaves no stone Read More

1999
Gen-X Cops

Actors: Jackie Chan, Nicholas Tse, Sam Lee, Grace Yip, Stephen Fung, Toru Nakamura, Eric Tsang, Daniel Wu

Synopsis: Young upstart cops are thrown into a maelstrom of danger in this Hong Kong-lensed action thriller. Ten tons of powerful explosives, recently recovered from smugglers, have been stolen by a Japanese terrorist group, led by criminal mastermind Akatura, and the Hong Kong police have to act quickly Read More

1999
Gorgeous

Crew: Choreography, Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Bradley Allan, Jackie Chan, Shu Qi, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

Synopsis: International action star Jackie Chan shifts gears in Bolei Cheun, in which martial arts are put on the back burner and romantic comedy is in the forefront. Bu (Shu Qi), the daughter of a pair of Taiwanese restaurant owners, one day finds a bottle floating near the docks with a message inside. The Read More

1999
Sam Dung

Crew: Producer

Actors: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Gigi Leung, Karen Mok, Elaine Jin, Sylvia Chang

Synopsis: Renowned actor/director Sylvia Chang created this richly layered film about memory, regret, and lost love. The film opens as successful filmmaker Cheryl (Chang) discusses a script idea about young love with a young screenwriter. She pitches a story about Shao-rou (Gigi Leung) a beautiful though Read More

1999
Jackie Chan: My Stunts

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: Jackie Chan has become known for doing the dangerous stunts his characters perform in the films. This documentary, hosted by the actor, shows how some of those stunts were rehearsed and what happens when some of the stunts go wrong. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

1999
Rush Hour

Crew: Stunts Coordinator

Actors: Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, Tom Wilkinson, Elizabeth Peña, Philip Baker Hall

Synopsis: Brett Ratner directed this action-comedy that found box-office success by teaming Chris Tucker with Jackie Chan -- performing his own stunts as per his earlier films. As the story begins, Hong-Kong supercop Lee's (Chan), detective savvy leads to the confiscation of $500 million in weapons, drugs Read More

9/18/98
Who Am I?

Crew: Director, Screenwriter, Stunts Coordinator

Actors: Jackie Chan, Michelle Ferre, Mirai Yamamoto, Ron Smerczak, Ed Nelson, Tom Pompert

Synopsis: Jackie Chan wrote, directed and stars in this English-language action-comedy tale of about a commando group that travels to South Africa to kidnap scientists working on new energy sources. However, a Washington-based cover-up requires a downed plane after completion of the mission, and Jackie is Read More

1998
Burn Hollywood Burn

Actors: Ryan O'Neal, Coolio, Chuck D, Richard Jeni, Eric Idle

Synopsis: First, a little background: in 1955, the Director's Guild of America created the pseudonym Alan Smithee, which film directors are allowed to use if they feel their work has been tampered with to such a degree that they no longer want the credit. (For example, if you look at the credits of the Read More

1997
Mr. Nice Guy

Actors: Jackie Chan, Richard Norton, Gabrielle Fitzpatrick, Miki Lee, Karen McLymont

Synopsis: Mr. Nice Guy opens on a darkened Australian warehouse full of seedy criminal types who have gathered to make a large-scale drug transaction. When it goes horribly wrong and bullets start flying, the hoods flee in different directions -- until one realizes an investigative reporter (Gabrielle Read More

1997
First Strike

Actors: Jackie Chan, Jackson Lou, Annie Wu, Bill Tung, Yuri Petrov

Synopsis: Ever wondered what a James Bond movie might be like if (a) Bond was from Hong Kong, (b) he was too busy to chase women or drink martinis, and (c) he spent a lot more time kicking people? Well, Jackie Chan gives us an idea of what the results might be as he plays a superspy in this funny and Read More

1996
Thunderbolt

Synopsis: Jackie Chan dons a helmet and jumpsuit to stars in this critically panned action flick about crime and hotrods. Jackie is an ace car mechanic and an even better driver who gets himself involved with notorious bandit racer Cougar (Thoresten Nickel) during a casual street race. The Hong Kong cops Read More

1996
The Invincible Fighter: The Jackie Chan Story

Synopsis: The setting is Hong Kong and the hero of the film is Jackie Chan. This documentary chronicles the life and entertainment career of the star of Hong Kong action films. Archival photographs and the personal recollections of family and friends paint a portrait of the private life of the film star. Read More

1996
Rumble in the Bronx

Actors: Jackie Chan, Anita Mui, Bill Tung, Françoise Yip, Marc Akerstream

Synopsis: After years as a major star in most of the rest of the world, Jackie Chan finally broke through to stardom in the United States with Rumble in the Bronx, a dubbed and re-edited version of Hung Fan Kui. Here Chan plays Keung, a police officer from Hong Kong who travels to New York to attend the Read More

1995
Cinema of Vengeance

1994
Crime Story

Actors: Jackie Chan, Kent Cheng, Law Kar-ying

Synopsis: Internationally famed action star Jackie Chan tones down his usual martial arts pyrotechnics for a more traditionally dramatic role in this police drama. Crime Story finds Chan portraying a Hong Kong police detective, an honest cop guilt-ridden over his participation in a recent shoot-out. He is Read More

1993
Bruce Lee Martial Arts Master

Synopsis: Follow the remarkable life of martial arts icon Bruce Lee, from his birth in San Francisco to his mysterious death in Hong Kong, in an absorbing, highly informative documentary featuring interviews with those who were closest to the legendary actor and athlete. Few screen stars have experienced Read More

1993
City Hunter

Actors: Jackie Chan

Synopsis: This 1992 film is a live-action version of a popular Japanese comic book and animated series, transformed into a vehicle for international action hero Jackie Chan. Ryu Saeba (Chan), a womanizing private detective, is hired to find the runaway daughter of a wealthy businessman. Ryu's pursuit of the Read More

1992
Police Story 3: Super Cop

Actors: Jackie Chan, Michelle Khan, Maggie Cheung, Tsang Kong, Yuen Wah

Synopsis: Even for viewers who can take or leave martial-arts films, the work of Jackie Chan bears special attention. Chan is quite simply the hardest-working movie star in the world, regularly participating in the sort of death-defying stuntwork which would make most American action heroes cringe in fear. Read More

1992
The Prisoner

Actors: Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Tony Leung Kar-Fai

Synopsis: Chu Yen-ping directs this all-star cast prison flick about cop Huang Wei (Tony Leung Kar-fai) who goes into the clink undercover to figure out how the fingerprints of a long deceased death-row inmate ended up at the scene of a recent murder. There he quickly runs afoul of gangland powers, making Read More

1990
Deadliest Art: The Best of the Martial Arts Films

Synopsis: Piecing together exciting film footage of martial arts performances, Deadliest Art demonstrates the reasons for the popularity of martial arts combat in visual entertainment. The history of the art, including basics of the Eastern philosophies that govern it, provides insight along with the Read More

1990
Operation Condor

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jackie Chan, Carol Cheng, Eva Cobo, Shoko Ikeda, Aldo Sanchez

Synopsis: Jackie Chan returns to his adventuring Indiana Jones-esque Asian Hawk character with this rollicking action-adventure yarn. In this go-around, Jackie (aka the Asian Hawk) is looking for 240 tons of gold stolen by the Nazis and buried beneath the Sahara. Along the way, he teams up with a stuck-up Read More

1990
Black Dragon

Crew: Director

Actors: Jackie Chan, Anita Mui, Richard Ng

Synopsis: This Hong Kong film is inspired by two of Frank Capra's films: the 1933 classic Lady for a Day, and Capra's own 1961 remake, Pocketful of Miracles. Directed by Jackie Chan, Chan also stars as Dragon, an up-and-coming gangster in 1930s Hong Kong who rises through the mob ranks by a series of lucky Read More

1989
Rouge

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Anita Mui, Leslie Cheung, Man Chi Leung, Emily Chu

Synopsis: Hong Kong filmmaker Stanley Kwan directs this stunning supernatural melodrama about a passion, romance, and lost history. Fleur (Anita Mui) is a 1930s high-class courtesan who finds herself sucked into a doomed relationship with Twelfth Master Chan Chen-Pang (Leslie Cheung), the rakish scion of a Read More

1988
Painted Faces

Actors: Sammo Hung, Ham-bo, Cheng Pei-Pei, Lam Ching-Ying, John Sham

Synopsis: This drama focuses on life at the Peking Opera School and is a loose biography of Hong Kong film stars Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, and Yuen Biao. Sammo Hung portrays Master Yu, the academy's brutal schoolmaster, who takes the youths through the rigorous acrobatic training. The film offers an Read More

1988
Dragons Forever

Actors: Benny Urquidez

Synopsis: Hefty martial arts star Sammo Hung directs this wacky kung-fu-comedy featuring Jackie Chan and Yuen Biao. Jackie Lung (Chan) is a philandering attorney who has been hired by ruthless gangster Hua Hsien-wu (Yuen Wah), who thwarts a lawsuit brought about by the wealthy and angry Miss Yip (Deanie Yip Read More

1988
The Inspector Wears Skirts

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Hong Kong's answer to Hollywood's hoary Police Academy series, this film -- directed by Wellson Chin -- concerns the local police force's attempts at creating a crack all-female special unit force. Under the strict and watchful eye of Madam Hu (Sibelle Hu) and Madam Lo (Cynthia Rothrock) Read More

1988
Operation Condor 2: The Armour of Gods

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jackie Chan, Alan Tam, Rosamund Kwan, Lola Forner, Bosidale Sumiljanik

Synopsis: Jackie Chan takes a break from police thrillers featuring kung-fu and wild stunts to star and direct this action-adventure yarn featuring kung-fu and wild stunts. Chan plays Jackie, aka the Asian Hawk, an Indiana Jones-style adventurer looking to make a fortune finding exotic antiquities. After Read More

1987
Police Story 2

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung

Synopsis: In this crime drama, set in Hong Kong, police officers begin a city-wide search for a psychotic killer. Along the way, they must also deal with their own personal and professional issues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1987
Jackie Chan's Project A 2

Crew: Director

Actors: Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Rosamund Kwan, Carina Lau

Synopsis: This slapstick martial arts film is often regarded as superior to the original Project A. Dragon (Jackie Chan) runs against the pirates he defeated in the first film and also gets in trouble with corrupt cops, and a revolutionary group that includes popular Hong Kong actress Michelle Cheung. Many Read More

1987
Police Story

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Cho Yuen, Bill Tung, Kenneth Tong

Synopsis: This was internationally famous Jackie Chan's breakthrough action film, the work that got him past the ethnic boundaries of Hong Kong and into competition at the New York Film Festival in 1986. It also got him into the hospital after performing a stunt in which he fell through a glass canopy Read More

1985
My Lucky Stars

Actors: Yuen Biao, Jackie Chan

Synopsis: This is an early onscreen collaboration of Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, and Yuen Biao. Muscles (Chan) and Ricky (Biao) are two cops who go after a corrupt cop with ties to the Japanese underworld. When Ricky is kidnapped, Fastbuck (Hung), a childhood friend of Muscles, recruits some of their old Read More

1985
The Protector

Actors: Jackie Chan, Danny Aiello, Roy Chiao, Victor Arnold, Kim Bass

Synopsis: Although this American action film, which has little of Jackie Chan's comedic martial arts, was less successful in the U.S. than hoped, it is still a worthy effort. Chan plays Billy Wong, a New York cop whose partner is murdered by Hong Kong gangsters. His new partner is Danny Gorani (Danny Read More

1985
Ninja Thunderbolt

Actors: Wang Tao

Synopsis: In this actioner, an avaricious and power-mad woman gets in over her head when she tangles with ninja fighters. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1985
Heart of the Dragon

Actors: Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Emily Chu, Melvin Wong

Synopsis: This Jackie Chan martial arts actioner is a bit different than most of his films (although it does have the requisite spectacular stunts and kung fu fights). In it, he plays a police officer who is a member of a SWAT team but leaves it to join the C.I.D. division. His reason for leaving isn't to Read More

1985
Twinkle, Twinkle, Lucky Stars

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