Shin Seong-il
Department: Acting
Biography
Shin Seong-il was a Korean actor (1937-2018). Born in occupied Korea, as Kang Shin-yeong, he attended Geonguk University, majoring in Korean Literature. He made his film debut in director Shin Sang-ok's Romance Papa in 1960 and appeared in more than 500 movies. He won several awards for best actor or best supporting actor for films such as Private Tutor (1963) and Moonlight Hunter (1987). In 1979, he became the chairman of the Korean Actors League and held the position for several consecutive terms. After a long career as an actor and having directed and even produced, Shin Sung-il retired from the film industry in favour of pursuing a career in politics. He was elected to the National Assembly.
Known For
The Beautiful Maid
1964
A Young Zelkova
1968
The Three-Day Reign
1973
General's Son 3
1992
A Year-End Medley
2021
A White Feathered Gull
1983
Living in the Sky
1968
A Hero without a Serial Number
1966
Confess of Woman
1969
The Evergreen
1961
Under an Umbrella
1979
Chulsaegado
1968
My Old Sweetheart
1995
Who Saw The Dragon's Claws?
1991
Dancing daughter
1986
For My Husband
1963
The Result of the Ambition
1964
I Am a King
1966
Femme Fatale, Jang Hee Bin
1968
One Who Comes Back and the Other Who Has To Leave
1972
Five Hostesses for the Resistance
1973
The Big Chase
1973
Ring of Hell
1987
Special Agent X-7
1966
Green Rain
1966
Vega
1968
Door to the Night
2013
Is Your Husband Like This Too?
1971
Wind, Please Tell Me
1965
The Great Sokgulam Cave Temple
1965
A Woman on the Verge
1987
Beyond the Mountain
1991
A Forest Where a Woman Breathes
1988
Yes, Goodbye for Today
1976
Korean Connection
1990
Madam White Snake
1960
Why a Cuckoo Cries
1967
You Become a Star, Too
1975
Legends
1968
Herb of Desire
1968
Gate of Woman
1972
Temporary Government in Shanghai
1969
The Daughters of Kim's Pharmacy
1963
A Seagull's Dream
1974
The Wings of Lee Sang
1968
The Story of Chunhyang
1971
Miss Yang's Adventure
1978
A Coral Door
1966
A Barren Woman
1969
My Mind Is Like a Lake
1964
The Woman Coming in Fall
1965
The Field Glow with the Setting Sun
1965
The Korean Instrument with 12 Strings
1964
Rebirth
1969
The Midnight Sun
1971
A Day Off
1968
A Student Boarder
1966
An Empty Dream
1965
Romance Papa
1960
My Hometown
1976
Betrayal
1964
The Starting Point
1967
Kinship
1963
The General's Mustache
1968
Horse-year Bride
1966
The Barefooted Young
1964
The Oldest Son
1984
The Eunuch
1968
Mayumi: Virgin Terrorist
1990
A Sketch of a Rainy Day
1990
Come Down to a Lower Place
1982
Heavenly Homecoming to Stars
1974
Night Journey
1977
Mist
1967
A Misty Grassland
1967
Two Sons
1971
Lost Love
1973
Winter Woman
1977
Temptation
1982
Ban Geum-ryeon
1981
Ascetic
1976
Under the Sky in Seoul
1961
Tyrant Yeonsan
1962
Prince Yeonsan
1961
Who Saw The Dragon's Claws?
1991
Stroller
1967
Desire
1968
Typhoon
2005
Full Autumn
1966
The Continental Spy
1964
Free Woman
1982
Woman
1968
The Classroom of Youth
1963
Farewell
1973
Dangerous Youth
1966
A Man Who Died Daily
1981
Heavenly Homecoming of Stars Part II
1978
A Full Danger
1967
Bird of Paradise
1975
Love's Condition
1979
The Lost Sun
1964
Private Tutor
1963
Gunsmoke
1966
Blood Relations
1976
The Three Hen-pecked Generations
1967
Japanese Invasion in the Year of Imjin and Gye Wol-hyang
1977
The White Crow
1967
Starting Point
1969
Empty Heart
1969
Until That Day
1969
The Heir
1965
Sound of Magpies
1967
Mi-ae
1970
Correspondent in Tokyo
1968
Wildflowers on the Battleground
1974
Moonlight Hunter
1987
Holy Night
1988
The Chrysanthemum and the Clown
1982
Gilsodom
1986
The Rose That Swallowed Thorn
1979
Woman Requiem
1985
Tto Sun Yi, a college girl
1973
The Eunuch 2
1969
Yeraishang
1966
A Second Mother
1972
To the Last Day
1960
Hedgehog of the Third Dock
1977
Lethe's Love Song
1987
내일의 팔도강산 3편
1971
Farewell 2
1974
Tomorrow is Ours
1976
United Front
1967
Gam-dong
1988
Festival
1996
America, America
1988
The Whereabouts of Eve
1982
Deep in My Heart
1967
Chorus of Trees
1968
The Scent of Acacias in Your Arms
1993
Hong Do
1992
대물
1988
An Affair with Peanuts
1979
City Hunter
1979
Sand Castle
1989
One Night at a Strange Place
1980
조용히 살고 싶어
1969
She is Something
1980
The Man of the Past
1980
I Loved
1982
My Father the Bodyguard
1995