Lo Ming-yau (1900–1967) or Luo Mingyou was a Hong Kong entrepreneur and filmmaker, and a pioneer of Chinese cinema. His uncle Lo Wen-kan (羅文榦, Luo Wengan) was a major politician during the early Republican period.
Lo Ming-yau founded the Hwa Peh Film Company (華北電影公司) in Beijing in 1927. In 1930, Hwa Peh Film Company merged with Lai Man-Wai's China Sun Motion Picture Company and a few other companies in Shanghai to become United Photoplay Service, one of the biggest film studios in China.
In 1936 Lo Ming-yau was forced to withdraw from United Photoplay Service and later made his living as a Christian priest.
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Selected filmography
A Spray of Plum Blossoms (1931), producer
The Peach Girl (1931), producer
Love and Duty (1931), producer
Two Stars in the Milky Way (1931), producer
Little Toys (1933), producer
Daybreak (1933), producer
The Goddess (1934), producer
Sports Queen (1934), producer
National Customs (1935), co-director and scriptwriter
In popular culture
Paul Chang Chung portrays Lo Ming-yau in the 1991 film Center Stage.
