Gu Yue (古月)
Gu Yue (古月)
Gu Yue (original name Hu Shixue 胡诗学), has played Mao Zedong since 1981. Born in Hubei around 1939
(his background being somewhat obscure, having grown up in an orphanage), he became an actor very early
and was personally chosen by Marshall Ye Jianying (叶剑英) as “role model actor” for Mao in 1978. Gu Yue
acted in this role eighty-four times, starting 1981 with the movie “The Xi’an Incident”
(Xi’an Shibian 西安事变) and
for the last time in 2002 with „Uncle Kurban visits Beijing“
(Kuerban dashu shang Beijing 库尔班大叔上北京).
During all these years he
embodied Mao Zedong in different stages of his life between the years 1921 to 1965.
Other important movies and TV series, in which he acted Mao, include:
- “Song of the Chinese Revolution” (Zhongguo geming zhi ge 中国革命之歌), 1985
- “General Peng Dehuai” (Peng da jiangjun 彭大将军), 1988
- “The Birth of New China”, (Kaiguo Dadian 开国大典), 1989
- “After the final battle” (Juezhan zhihou 决战之后), 1991
- “Final Battle” (Da juezhan 大决战), 1991-92
- “The Story of Mao Zedong” ( Mao Zedong de gushi 毛泽东的故事), 1992
- “Chongqing negotiations” (Chongqing tanpan 重庆谈判), 1993
- “Great marching” (Da jin jun 大进军), 1997-1999
- “Mao Zedong and Snow” (Mao Zedong yu Sinuo 毛泽东与斯诺), 2000
- “China brings out a Mao Zedong” (Zhongguo chu le ge Mao Zedong 中国出了个毛泽东), 1993
- „Poet Mao Zedong” (Shiren Mao Zedong 诗人毛泽东), 2003
- “War of China’s fate” (Zhongguo mingyun de juezhan 中国命运的决战), 1999
- “Ren Bishi” 任弼时, 2004
He imitated the facial expressions and gestures of Mao and also put great effort in studying the dialect of Hunan, interviewing people who had talked to Mao etc. For this role, Gu Yue won several prizes: twice the “Hundred Flowers Award” for best actor, first in 1990 for the movie “Kaiguo Dadian” and then again in 1993 for “Mao Zedong de gushi.” At the Shandong Film Festival he was awarded once as “best actor” and at the festival convened to celebrate the 90th anniversary of Chinese movies, he received the “Chinese Movie Actors Award” (华影星 Hua ying xing). He died suddenly in 2005.
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