Choi Mu-ryong
Known for: Acting
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.
Filmography
Film
Marine Battleground
Private Choi
1963
Film
A Drifting Story
Minwoo (poet)
1960
Film
Red Scarf
Bae Dae-bong (Lieutenant)
1964
Film
Aimless Bullet
Yeong-ho
1961
Film
The Iron-Eating Monster
1962
Film
Kinship
1963
Film
Prince Yeon-san
1987
Film
The Youth
Ahn Jae-yeong
1955
Film
A Sunflower Family
Changsik (Eldest son)
1961
Film
Five Marines
Woo Jong-guk
1961
Film
Woman of Fire
Detective
1971
Film
Cruel history of Myeong Dong
Hyeon (ep. 2)
1972
Film
Woman with Long Eyelashes
Park Dong-jin
1970
Film
A Second Mother
Heung-yeol
1972
Film
The Moral of Youth
1960
Film
Wonsullang
1961
The Flaming Mountain
Monk Tripitaka
1962
Film
The Teacher with Ten Daughters
1964
Film
Whirl of Betrayals on Myeongdong
Kang Dong-yeol
1972
Film
The Liberal Wife 2
1986
Film
North and South
1965
Film
The War and an Old Man
1962
Film
A Bout in 30 Years
Jang Dae-gyu
1971
Film
Even the Clouds Are Drifting
1959
Film
There is No Tragedy
1959
Film
Great Monk Wonhyo
1962
Film
A Revival
1960
Film
Ok-i Makes a Judge Cry
Lawyer
1966
Film
Special Investigation Unit: The Case of College Girl Lee Nan-hee
1973
Film
Liberal Wife '81
1981
Film
Bumpkin Oh-bok
Park Jae-seok
1961
Film
The Only Son
1963
Film
Life of the Woman
1957
Film
View from an Alley
Young-taek
1962
Film
Three O'Clock on a Rainy Afternoon
1959
Film
Azaleas Of My Hometown
Cheol-ju
1973
Film
Boxes of Death
1955
Film
The Enemy of Woman
1956
Film
Border Line
1964
Film
Weeds
1973
Ghost and Painter
1970
Film
Lim Kkeok-jeong
1961
Film
Leaving in the rain
1971
Film
One Who Comes Back and the Other Who Has To Leave
President Jang
1972
Film
A Little Star
Hyun-sik
1975
Film
A guilty woman
1971
Film
Way of the Body
1959
Film
I'll Follow My Husband
1971
Film
Call 112
Choi Kyung-min
1962
Film
명동에 흐르는 세월
1971