Đào Mộng Long
Biography
People's Artist Dao Mong Long (January 7 , 1915 - August 9 , 2006 ) was a Vietnamese actor, director, and playwright. One of the few Northern Vietnamese to gain prominence in Cải lương, he was an influential figure in the development of this genre, having written a series of popular cải lương plays and coached many popular artists of the later generations including Kim Cương and Thanh Tòng.
Known For & Full Filmography6 Titles
Movie - 1969, 2h 15m • as Ông Bảy
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1982, 2h 15m • as Bố Mộc
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1973, 2h 15m • as Bạ Kinh
Following the 1954 Geneva Accords that partitioned Vietnam into two zones at the 17th parallel, a pregnant Dịu remains back in the South with her family while her husband has to move up North. At home, the young woman has to juggle between the duties of a liberation fighter and a mother while enduring her enemies' tortures and imprisonment, as she assumes the leadership of an underground liberation movement after its previous secretary was assassinated
Movie - 1988, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Defectors from Hitler's army join the French Foreign Legion and end up in Vietnam in the late '40s.
Movie - 1991, 2h 15m • as The Tai old man
Don Duong stars as a truck driver who falls in love with a young student girl in a roadside border canteen. Unsure about him, she returns to school but finally decides to throw in her lot with him. This decision forms the gambling motif in the film, a decision which causes her grief, when she later becomes the subject of his gamble.
Movie - 1992, 2h 15m • as Thầy mo Ké So
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.