Choi Eun-hee
Acting • Born 1926-11-20 – Died 2018-04-16
Biography
Choi Eun-hee (November 20, 1926 – April 16, 2018) was a South Korean actress, who was one of the country's most popular stars of the 1960s and 1970s. In 1978, Choi and her then ex-husband, movie director Shin Sang-ok, were abducted to North Korea, where they were forced to make films until they sought asylum at the US Embassy in Vienna in 1986. They returned to South Korea in 1999 after spending a decade in the United States.
Filmography
63 credits
Iljimae the Chivalrous Robber
Movie • 1961
Yeon-hwa
Love, Love, My Love
Movie • 1985
Chunhyang's mother
Six Daughters
Movie • 1967
The Tale of Shim Cheong
Movie • 1985
Shim Cheong's mother
A Country Girl
Movie • 1958
Kim Ok-gyeong
Chun Hui
Movie • 1959
Chun-hui
The Evergreen
Movie • 1961
Chae Yeong-shin
The Sun of Night
Movie • 1948
A Sad Pastorale
Movie • 1960
Han Do-sook
Prince Yeonsan
Movie • 1961
The Monkey Goes West
Movie • 1966
Mountain
Movie • 1967
Dream
Movie • 1955
Dal-lye
A New Oath
Movie • 1947
The Sino-Japanese War and Queen Min the Heroine
Movie • 1965
Queen Min
Revenge
Movie • 1962
The Story of Bae Local Offcial
Movie • 1965
The Moral of Youth
Movie • 1960
The Woman Coming in Fall
Movie • 1965
Heartlessness
Movie • 1962
Red Scarf
Movie • 1964
Ji-seon
The Flower in Hell
Movie • 1958
Sonia
A College Woman's Confession
Movie • 1958
So-yeong
It's Not Her Sin
Movie • 1959
Young-sook
Romance Papa
Movie • 1960
Eum-jeon
The Love Marriage
Movie • 1958
Suk-hee
Love Affair
Movie • 1963
When Night Falls at Myeongdong
Movie • 1964
Bound by Chastity Rule
Movie • 1962
Tyrant Yeonsan
Movie • 1962
Queen Shin
Under the Sky in Seoul
Movie • 1961
Kim Hyeon-ok
Women of Yi-Dynasty
Movie • 1969
Mother and a Guest
Movie • 1961
Mother
Seong Chun-hyang
Movie • 1961
Seong Chun-hyang
Madam White Snake
Movie • 1960
Madam White Snake
A Sister's Garden
Movie • 1959
Jeong-hui
The Lovers and the Despot
Movie • 2016
Self - Actress / Various Roles
Dongsimcho
Movie • 1959
Lee Sook-hee
The Story of Sim Cheong
Movie • 1962
The Homeless Wanderer
Movie • 1968
Woman
Movie • 1968
A Reluctant Prince
Movie • 1963
The Last Woman of Shang
Movie • 1964
Deaf Sam Yong
Movie • 1964
The Phantom Queen
Movie • 1967
A Happy Day of Jinsa Maeng
Movie • 1962
Ipbun
A Returned Man
Movie • 1960
Gyeong-hui
Salt
Movie • 1985
Mother
A Hometown in Heart
Movie • 1949
Widow
Rice
Movie • 1963
The Girl Raised as a Future Daughter-in-law
Movie • 1965
Jum-soon
Keeping the Vision Alive
Movie • 2002
Herself
The Shadowless Pagoda
Movie • 1957
Guseulagi
I'll Be Seeing Her
Movie • 2002
Herself
The Youth
Movie • 1955
Lee In-hwa
Runaway
Movie • 1984
Song Ryul's wife
The Money
Movie • 1958
Ok-gyeong
To the Last Day
Movie • 1960
Hye-kyung
The Land of Korea
Movie • 1968
Cinema in the Land of Comrade Kim
Movie • 2024
Herself
The Cloud Bridge of Gratitude
Movie • 1963
Ok-gyeong
I Love Mama
Movie • 1975
Mounted Bandits
Movie • 1967