Yuan Muzhi (1909 ~ 1978)
袁牧之（1909 -1978)
Yuan Muzhi was an actor, screenwriter, director and expert in film industry. He, whose former name was Yuan Jialai, was born in Ningbo,
Zhejiang Province in 1909.
袁牧之，演员、编剧、导演，电影 事业家。原名袁家莱，1909 年出生于浙江宁波。
In middle school, Yuan Muzhi joined drama society organized by Hong Shen and later attended Dongwu University and acted in Uncle Vanya. He devoted himself to the drama course after graduation in 1930. He acted the leading role in dramas like Wu Kui River and Roar, China, etc. and established the monthly magazine Drama. Being good at depicting various characters on the stage, he took on the nickname "man with a thousand faces" His works included Dramatic Make-up Surgery, etc.
袁牧之中学时期即参加洪深组织的戏剧协社演戏，后入东吴大学，演出《万尼亚舅舅》等剧。1930年离校，投身戏剧事业，主演《五奎桥》、《怒吼吧，中国》等剧，并创办了《戏》月刊。他在舞台上善于刻画各种人物，有“千面人”之美称，并著有《戏剧化装术》等著作。
In 1934, Yuan Muzhi worked in Diantong Company as an actor and screenwriter, and he wrote his first film script Plunder of Peach and Plum as well as acted the leading role. Later, the film achieved great success and was considered as one of the excellent works after the May 4th Movement of 1919. In 1935, the first music comic Scenery of City Life was wrote, directed, and acted by Yuan Muzhi himself. Later He transferred to Star Film Company where he cooperated with Chen Boer in the film Revolutionaries. Street Angel, which was wrote and directed by him in 1937, accomplished great achievement in art method as well as content, and was considered as the symbolic work of Chinese filmdom in 1930s.
1934年袁牧之至电通公司任演员，编导，创作的第一个电影剧本为《桃李劫》并担任主演，获得成功。该片是五四运动以后优秀影片之一。1935年，他自编自导自演了中国第一部音乐喜剧片《都市风光》。此后转人明星影片公司，与陈波儿合演了《生死 同心》。1937年，他编剧、导演的《马路天使》上映，在艺术手法和思想内容上都取得了很髙的成就，被誉为“中国影坛上的一朵奇葩”，成为中国电影20世纪三十年代高峰时期的标志性作品。

In 1938, he acted the leading role in Eight Hundred Heroes. .And at the same year, he left for Yenan to establish Yenan film organization and began the shoot of Yenan and the Route Army. During 1940 and 1945, he pursued further education in the Soviet U-nion where he investigated and took part in the film shoot. In 1946, he was entrusted to help in the establishment of Northeast China Film Studio and later worked as the director of the factory. The first feature film Bridge was produced there. Between 1949 and 1952,he was the director of the Film Bureau of China.
1938年，他主演《八百壮士》。同年赴延安，负责组建延安电影团，并开始拍摄《延安与八路军》。1940年-1945年他在苏联学习、考察 并参与拍摄影片。1946年他受命参与组建东北电影制片厂，后任厂长，制作了新中国第一部故事片《桥》等。1949年~ 1952年，袁牧之任新中国中央电影局局长。