Choi Mu-ryong

Known for ActingBorn 1928-02-02Died 1999-11-13Gwangju, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Cruel history of Myeong Dong

A Second Mother

Border Line

Great Monk Wonhyo

Lim Kkeok-jeong

Way of the Body

The Enemy of Woman

The Liberal Wife 2

As Firm as a Stone

Special Investigation Unit: The Case of College Girl Lee Nan-hee

Azaleas Of My Hometown

Ok-i Makes a Judge Cry

The War and an Old Man

Wonsullang

The Moral of Youth

The Teacher with Ten Daughters

One Who Comes Back and the Other Who Has To Leave

North and South

Red Scarf

View from an Alley

A Sunflower Family

Marine Battleground

Aimless Bullet

Whirl of Betrayals on Myeongdong

Woman with Long Eyelashes

The Only Son

Life of the Woman

The Youth

A Bout in 30 Years

Bumpkin Oh-bok

A Drifting Story

Weeds

Kinship

Ghost and Painter

Three O'Clock on a Rainy Afternoon

Five Marines

Even the Clouds Are Drifting

Boxes of Death

Woman of Fire

Prince Yeon-san

Liberal Wife '81

A Little Star

Leaving in the rain

A guilty woman

명동에 흐르는 세월

I'll Follow My Husband

Step-mother

The Iron-Eating Monster