Acting
Choi Mu-ryong
Biography
South Korean actor, producer, and director who is father of Choi Min-soo. Choi was one of popular actors of the 1960s along with Shin Young-kyun and Kim Jin-kyu. Choi gained a popularity for his handsome appearance and masculine image. Choi's personal life was as much dramatic as his starred films, so he always garnered the public attention. 1952, Choi married a colleague actress, Kang Hyo-shil, the daughter of a noted actress, Jeon Ok with the nickname, "Queen of Tears" and a singer Gang Hong-sik. Choi and his wife had one son and four daughters including an actor, Choi Min-soo. However, Choi had an affair with Kim Ji-mee, the best popular actress at that time, so that Choi and Gang divorced in 1962. Choi soon married Kim Ji-mee, but he owed massive debts due to his failed film production. As a result, Choi chose to divorce Kim again in 1969. At that time, the phrase, Because I love you, I have to part from her was circulated among the public.
Movies with Choi Mu-ryong
A Drifting Story
1960
Aimless Bullet
1961
Prince Yeon-san
1987
Marine Battleground
1963
Cruel history of Myeong Dong
1972
The Flaming Mountain
1962
A Sunflower Family
1961
Woman of Fire
1971
Red Scarf
1964
Kinship
1963
Five Marines
1961
The Iron-Eating Monster
1962
Even the Clouds Are Drifting
1959
Whirl of Betrayals on Myeongdong
1972
View from an Alley
1962
The Liberal Wife 2
1986
Way of the Body
1959
Life of the Woman
1957
A Revival
1960
Bumpkin Oh-bok
1961
The Teacher with Ten Daughters
1964
Wonsullang
1961
North and South
1965
Leaving in the rain
1971
A Second Mother
1972
A Bout in 30 Years
1971
Great Monk Wonhyo
1962
The Youth
1955
One Who Comes Back and the Other Who Has To Leave
1972
Weeds
1973
Border Line
1964
Ok-i Makes a Judge Cry
1966
The War and an Old Man
1962
Liberal Wife '81
1981
Three O'Clock on a Rainy Afternoon
1959
Lim Kkeok-jeong
1961
Woman with Long Eyelashes
1970
A Little Star
1975
There is No Tragedy
1959
Boxes of Death
1955
The Enemy of Woman
1956
The Moral of Youth
1960
Call 112
1962
명동에 흐르는 세월
1971
Special Investigation Unit: The Case of College Girl Lee Nan-hee
1973
Ghost and Painter
1970
Azaleas Of My Hometown
1973
I'll Follow My Husband
1971
The Only Son
1963
A guilty woman
1971