Sun Chien

Member of Venom Mob. To some extent the Fifth Venom, the least interesting and accomplished of the bunch, but still pretty damned cool. Taiwanese by birth, and an expert at Tae Kwan Do, which has led some to believe erroneously that he himself was Korean. Those skills made him the best “leg man” (kickboxer) at Shaw Brothers, according to HK film expert Bey Logan.

Crippled Avengers (1978):
Plays Wu Gui, a laborer who has his legs cut off after colliding with Chang (Lu Feng) in the street and failing to apologize. He later has them replaced with iron legs.

Suen Shu-Pao

AKA Sun Su-Pei.

Life Gamble (1980):
Plays the “Silver Leopard” Cheng Zhang Po, one of the four bandits whose theft of the He Huan Jade sets the whole plot in motion.

Dick Wei

AKA Ti Wai, Tiu Lung, Tu Ji Long.
A real-life professional fighter whose principal cinematic fame came from several appearances as the villain in Jackie Chan movies, in which he always seemed to bring out Chan's best, most notably in the classic Project A. He did less important work for Shaw Brothers, but did have a few memorable roles.

Crippled Avengers (1978):
Plays the leader of the Tien Nan Tigers, who kick-start the plot by invading the home of Du Tian-Dao (Chen Kuan-Tai), murdering his wife (Helen Poon), and cutting off the arms of his son (played as an adult by Lu Feng).

Left to right: Dick Wei, Jamie Luk, Stewart Tam.

Life Gamble (1979):
Plays the “Golden Hammer” Jin Ba, leader of the four bandits whose theft of the He Huan Jade sets the whole plot in motion.

Bruce Tong

AKA Tong Yim Chan.

Life Gamble (1979):
Plays the “Little King Kong” Wu Hao, one of the four bandits whose theft of the He Huan Jade sets the whole plot in motion. He also shows up at Qiu Zi-Yu’s (Philip Kwok’s) smithy for no obvious reason. He is a practitioner of something very like Hard Qigong, and is able to withstand direct hits from swords and knives. However, he is vulnerable still to missiles fired by machines, as Yan Zi-Fei (Lu Feng) proves.

Lau Wai-Ling

In Life Gamble (1979):
Plays the “Golden Hairpin” Zhen Liu-Xiang, one of the four bandits whose theft of the He Huan Jade sets the whole plot in motion. She, obviously, is the one with the poisonous hairpins, which she uses to kill Xiao Chiang (Lin Chen-Chi) before being herself killed by Mo Jun-Feng (Lo Meng).

Lam Fai-Wong

AKA Lin Huei Huang.
Perhaps the greatest of the Shaw Brothers’ comedic actors. Rubber-faced, gawky, thin and clumsy-looking as a stork, lightened a lot of otherwise heavy stories.

Life Gamble (1979):
Plays Cui, the master thief who has stolen Mo Jun-Feng’s (Lo Meng’s) daggers and later steals the He Huan Jade from Peng Shuang Shuang (Shirley Yu) before handing it over to Qiu Zi-Yu (Philip Kwok). Also, he discovers Master Nan’s (Li Yi-Min’s) treachery and alerts Yun Xiang (Fu Sheng), too late to save Qiu but at least in time to allow him to avenge Qiu’s murder. 

Clan of the White Lotus (1980):
Plays Nai-Cheng, cousin to Mei-Hsiao (Kara Hui), who takes her and Hung Wei-Ting (Gordon Liu) in after their home is destroyed and her husband and his fiancee are murdered. Assists, rather ineptly, in Wei-Ting’s training, and saves his life by carrying him home after a brutal beatdown from the White Lotus (Lo Lieh).
The Flag Of Iron (1980):
Plays Liang, the dirty old man who runs the local brothel. Gets captured, beaten, and used as a literal bargaining chip early in the film, but never does much else.
Shaolin Prince (1982):
Plays Wu Ming, one of the three Holy Fools (along with Ma Chao and Alan Chan) who adopt and raise Dao Xing (Ti Lung) and train him in kung fu. Sentenced to house arrest for fighting, and unable to leave his homestead until the film’s final battle.

Shirley Yu

AKA Yu Sha-Li, Tu Sha-Li, Qui Lee.
Shirley Yu has the most active mouth I’ve ever seen. It seems to jump all over her face while she talks, particularly when she’s being seductive. It doesn’t seem to be actually attached; it’s like those skits where a closeup of a mouth is superimposed onto a still photo.

Life Gamble (1979):
Plays the hostess (madam?) Peng Shuang-Shuang. She kills Xiao Tang the Deadly Whip (Chiang Sheng), apparently in self-defense, but is blackmailed by the Chief Constable (Ku Feng) into assisting in his plan to infiltrate his daughter (Kara Hui) into the game in hopes of retrieving the jade. She actually succeeds in getting the jade out of the casino, but doesn’t get to keep it long.