Choi Mu-ryong
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.
50 acting credits · 2 directing credits
Acting · 50
Marine Battleground
1963
Aimless Bullet
1961
Great Monk Wonhyo
1962
Kinship
1963
Cruel history of Myeong Dong
1972
Liberal Wife '81
1981
A Drifting Story
1960
A Revival
1960
The Liberal Wife 2
1986
Azaleas Of My Hometown
1973
The War and an Old Man
1962
A Bout in 30 Years
1971
Even the Clouds Are Drifting
1959
Whirl of Betrayals on Myeongdong
1972
The Teacher with Ten Daughters
1964
Woman of Fire
1971
One Who Comes Back and the Other Who Has To Leave
1972
Woman with Long Eyelashes
1970
Border Line
1964
Wonsullang
1961
Ok-i Makes a Judge Cry
1966
View from an Alley
1962
A Sunflower Family
1961
The Moral of Youth
1960
Life of the Woman
1957
The Flaming Mountain
1962
Five Marines
1961
Way of the Body
1959
A Second Mother
1972
There is No Tragedy
1959
North and South
1965
Boxes of Death
1955
Weeds
1973
Ghost and Painter
1970
Lim Kkeok-jeong
1961
The Youth
1955
Red Scarf
1964
Leaving in the rain
1971
Three O'Clock on a Rainy Afternoon
1959
Prince Yeon-san
1987
Special Investigation Unit: The Case of College Girl Lee Nan-hee
1973
A Little Star
1975
Call 112
1962
The Enemy of Woman
1956
A guilty woman
1971
Bumpkin Oh-bok
1961
The Iron-Eating Monster
1962
I'll Follow My Husband
1971
The Only Son
1963
명동에 흐르는 세월
1971
