# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lai-man-wai
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:01:44.450Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lai-man-wai"
name: "Lai Man-Wai"
slug: "lai-man-wai"
description: "Lai Man-wai, also romanised as Lay Min-wei or M.W. Ray, considered the \"Father of Hong Kong Cinema\", was the director of the first Hong Kong film Zhuangzi Tests His Wife in 1913. In the film, Lai played the role of the wife, partly due to the reluctance of women to participate in show business at the time."
tagline: "Chinese actor and director (1893–1953)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lai_Man-Wai.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1893-09-25"
deathDate: "1953-10-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.88
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.57876533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0508483/"
    handle:    "nm0508483"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%BB%8E%E6%B0%91%E5%81%89"
    title: "黎民偉"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%89_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%89"
    title: "لاى مان واى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Minwei"
    title: "Li Minwei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Minwei"
    title: "Li Minwei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lai_Man-Wai"
    title: "Lai Man-Wai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lai_Man-wai"
    title: "Lai Man-wai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lai_Man-Wai"
    title: "Lai Man-Wai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lai_Man-Wai"
    title: "Lai Man-Wai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Minwei"
    title: "Li Minwei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lai_Man-Wai"
    title: "Lai Man-Wai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B8_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%8C%D0%B2%D1%8D%D0%B9"
    title: "Ли Миньвэй"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%BB%8E%E6%B0%91%E5%81%89"
    title: "黎民偉"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q360583"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1643640"
    title: "Wai-Man Lai"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump