The actor who played the role of Wudalang in the 1983 TV series Wu Song was Wang Jingqiu.

Wang Jingqiu is a martial arts actor from the Jinan Peking Opera Troupe in Shandong province, who acted in "Wu Song" and "King of Darts".

In 1983, director Liu Liu and Zhu Yanping came to Jinan to shoot "Wu Song", and Zhu Yanping led director Liu Liu to visit his teacher Wang Jingqiu. As soon as director Liu Liu saw Wang Jingqiu, he fell in love with him and decided to cast Wang Jingqiu as Wu Daolang.

With the success of "Wu Sung," Wang Jingqiu attracted the attention of many famous directors, and movie offers came one after another. Soon after, he was invited to play the role of "Short Park" in "King of Darts".

Extended information:

Wu Song (《武松》), produced by Shandong Television in 1983, ****8 episodes. Based on the storyline of "Water Margin". The content includes "Jing Yang Gang Wu Song fights the tiger", "drunkenly beat Jiang Men Shen", "trapped in the capital supervisor's house", "the big mess Fei Yun Pu

The main episodes of the play include "Fighting Tiger in Wuyanggang", "Drunkenly beating Jiang Men Shen", "Falling into the House of the Capital Supervisor", "Flying Cloud Pool", "Splashing Blood on the Mandarin Ducks Tower", "Fighting to Kill Simon Qing", etc.

"Wu Sung" is the first TV production that uses professional martial arts actors to elaborate martial arts fights and visual effects. Although ordinary people were mostly attracted by the drunken fists, professionals considered the work more significant because it reached a high level of maturity in its narrative, structure and use of audio-visual language.

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