Shin Seong-il
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.
As actor 152
My Father the Bodyguard
1995
I Loved
1982
A Year-End Medley
2021
Door to the Night
2013
Vanished
1994
Mayumi: Virgin Terrorist
1990
Typhoon
2005
Rising in the World
1968
General's Son 3
1992
Gilsodom
1986
Prince Yeonsan
1961
Who Saw The Dragon's Claws?
1991
An Empty Dream
1965
The Eunuch
1968
Heavenly Homecoming to Stars
1974
Romance Papa
1960
You Become a Star, Too
1975
Night Journey
1977
Tyrant Yeonsan
1962
City Hunter
1979
To the Last Day
1960
My Hometown
1976
Hong Do
1992
대물
1988
Desire
1968
An Affair with Peanuts
1979
Lethe's Love Song
1987
Ban Geum-ryeon
1981
The Evergreen
1961
The Starting Point
1967
My Old Sweetheart
1995
A Sketch of a Rainy Day
1990
Woman Requiem
1985
The Oldest Son
1984
Come Down to a Lower Place
1982
The White Crow
1967
Sand Castle
1989
Moonlight Hunter
1987
Beyond the Mountain
1991
Gam-dong
1988
The Midnight Sun
1971
The Man of the Past
1980
A Woman on the Verge
1987
Why a Cuckoo Cries
1967
Korean Connection
1990
Festival
1996
Mist
1967
Free Woman
1982
The Rose That Swallowed Thorn
1979
Herb of Desire
1968
The Story of Chunhyang
1971
Stroller
1967
Green Rain
1966
Starting Point
1969
The Three-Day Reign
1973
Five Hostesses for the Resistance
1973
The Daughters of Kim's Pharmacy
1963
The General's Mustache
1968
Kinship
1963
Love's Condition
1979
Femme Fatale, Jang Hee Bin
1968
The Result of the Ambition
1964
Winter Woman
1977
I Am a King
1966
Horse-year Bride
1966
Madam White Snake
1960
A Second Mother
1972
Gate of Woman
1972
Private Tutor
1963
For My Husband
1963
A Man Who Died Daily
1981
Under the Sky in Seoul
1961
One Who Comes Back and the Other Who Has To Leave
1972
Ascetic
1976
Confess of Woman
1969
Legends
1968
A Day Off
1968
A Misty Grassland
1967
The Continental Spy
1964
Gunsmoke
1966
The Korean Instrument with 12 Strings
1964
A Barren Woman
1969
Dancing daughter
1986
The Great Sokgulam Cave Temple
1965
A Seagull's Dream
1974
The Scent of Acacias in Your Arms
1993
The Barefooted Young
1964
America, America
1988
The Heir
1965
Yeraishang
1966
Woman
1968
Rebirth
1969
The Big Chase
1973
Temptation
1982
Japanese Invasion in the Year of Imjin and Gye Wol-hyang
1977
Chorus of Trees
1968
She is Something
1980
Full Autumn
1966
A White Feathered Gull
1983
Special Agent X-7
1966
The Field Glow with the Setting Sun
1965
조용히 살고 싶어
1969
Heavenly Homecoming of Stars Part II
1978
The Eunuch 2
1969
The Beautiful Maid
1964
The Whereabouts of Eve
1982
Sound of Magpies
1967
Living in the Sky
1968
Under an Umbrella
1979
The Lost Sun
1964
Wildflowers on the Battleground
1974
A Young Zelkova
1968
이조 상노비사
1975
The Classroom of Youth
1963
Miss Yang's Adventure
1978
The Woman Coming in Fall
1965
A Coral Door
1966
One Night at a Strange Place
1980
Lost Love
1973
Farewell 2
1974
A Forest Where a Woman Breathes
1988
Betrayal
1964
Wind, Please Tell Me
1965
Tto Sun Yi, a college girl
1973
Deep in My Heart
1967
Yes, Goodbye for Today
1976
Blood Relations
1976
잊을 수가 있을까
1970
The Three Hen-pecked Generations
1967
My Mind Is Like a Lake
1964
Mi-ae
1970
The Wings of Lee Sang
1968
Tomorrow is Ours
1976
Vega
1968
Holy Night
1988
내일의 팔도강산 3편
1971
Hedgehog of the Third Dock
1977
Bird of Paradise
1975
Two Sons
1971
United Front
1967
A Hero without a Serial Number
1966
Until That Day
1969
Empty Heart
1969
A Full Danger
1967
Dangerous Youth
1966
Is Your Husband Like This Too?
1971
Ring of Hell
1987
Correspondent in Tokyo
1968
The Chrysanthemum and the Clown
1982
A Student Boarder
1966
Farewell
1973
Temporary Government in Shanghai
1969
