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Portrait of Liao Fan

Acting

Liao Fan

Career

Active from 1995 to 2025, busiest in 2004 with 5 main titles.

Leading roles
26
top three billing
Average score
GoodWatch score64/100
Highest rated
Poster for The Long Night
The Long Night
GoodWatch score83/100

Characters

1

The characters Liao Fan played, best-known titles first.

Liao Fan as 武建超（Wu Jianchao）

Character images: TheTVDB

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 20 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Energy: 5.5 versus catalog average 4.6EnergyHeart: 4.0 versus catalog average 4.2HeartHumor: 2.5 versus catalog average 2.6HumorWorld: 6.2 versus catalog average 5.6WorldCraft: 6.0 versus catalog average 5.3CraftStyle: 6.4 versus catalog average 5.9Style
Liao Fan Catalog average

Rarely in their work

  • Coming of Age
    1.8, average 3.0
  • Family Dynamics
    3.7, average 4.8
  • Pop Culture
    1.0, average 2.2
  • Wholesome
    2.3, average 3.4

Main genres

Select a genre to see those titles.

Recurring tags

  • Character-Driven 4
  • Psychological Drama 4
  • Chinese Cinema 4
  • Political Intrigue 3
  • Complex Plot 3
  • Crime Drama 3
  • High Stakes 2
  • Period Piece 2
  • Psychological Thriller 2
  • Social Commentary 2
  • Gangster Film 2
  • Historical Drama 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

61
Type
Role
Score
Decade
Genre
Group by

Upcoming

1 title
Fate Finds Us
Fate Finds Us

TV show · as Gu Qun

2020s

11 titles · average score 76
莫得闲
莫得闲 (2026)

TV show · as 山童

Dead End
Dead End (2025)

TV show · as Ran Xi

The Sun Rises on Us All
The Sun Rises on Us All (2025)
GoodWatch score 69

Thanks

Mostly Sunny
Mostly Sunny (2025)

as Policeman

The Silent Storm
The Silent Storm (2024)

TV show · as Wu Yu

Bound in Heaven
Bound in Heaven (2024)

as Song

Kang Zhan Zhong De Wen Yi
Kang Zhan Zhong De Wen Yi (2024)

as Ba Jin

Fearless Blood
Fearless Blood (2023)

TV show · as Old Sun

Tale of the Night
Tale of the Night (2023)

as Sorehead Man

Gold Panning
Gold Panning (2022)

TV show · as Wu Jianchao

The Long Night
The Long Night (2020)
GoodWatch score 83

TV show · as Yan Liang

2010s

23 titles · average score 60
The Wild Goose Lake
The Wild Goose Lake (2019)
GoodWatch score 75

as Captain Liu

Savage
Savage (2019)
GoodWatch score 46

as Old Da

Ash Is Purest White
Ash Is Purest White (2018)
GoodWatch score 81

as Guo Bin

Lost in 1949
Lost in 1949 (2018)

TV show · as Old Guo

Hidden Man
Hidden Man (2018)
GoodWatch score 67

as Zhu Qianlong

Guilty of Mind
Guilty of Mind (2017)
GoodWatch score 51

as Tai Wei

The Final Master
The Final Master (2015)
GoodWatch score 69

as Chen Shi

Black Coal, Thin Ice
Black Coal, Thin Ice (2014)
GoodWatch score 67

as Zhang Zili

All Quiet in Peking
All Quiet in Peking (2014)

TV show · as 梁经纶

Meng's Palace
Meng's Palace (2013)

TV show

Chinese Zodiac
Chinese Zodiac (2012)
GoodWatch score 38

as David Liao

Let the Bullets Fly
Let the Bullets Fly (2010)
GoodWatch score 72

as The Third

2000s

24 titles · average score 64
The Line
The Line (2009)

TV show · as 欧阳山川

Ocean Flame
Ocean Flame (2008)
GoodWatch score 56

as Wang Yao

Assembly
Assembly (2007)
GoodWatch score 76

as Jiao Dapeng

Getting Home
Getting Home (2007)
GoodWatch score 79

as 年轻警员

Curiosity Kills the Cat
Curiosity Kills the Cat (2006)
GoodWatch score 61

as Liu Fendou

Gimme Kudos
Gimme Kudos (2005)
GoodWatch score 70

as Tan Wei

Vancouver
Vancouver (2004)

TV show · as 司马波-司马瑜

Hero of the Year
Hero of the Year (2004)

TV show · as Ma Xiaodong

Green Hat
Green Hat (2004)
GoodWatch score 55

as Wang Yao

Baober in Love
Baober in Love (2004)
GoodWatch score 53

as Li Yang

The Game of Killing
The Game of Killing (2004)

as Dawei

Chicken Poets
Chicken Poets (2002)

as Chen Xiaoyang

1990s

2 titles
Cherish Our Love Forever
Cherish Our Love Forever (1998)

TV show · as Yu Sen

北京深秋的故事
北京深秋的故事 (1995)

TV show