Background
Shaw, Run Run was born on October 4, 1907 in Ningbo, Shanghai, China. Son of Yuh Hsuen Shaw.
Shaw, Run Run was born on October 4, 1907 in Ningbo, Shanghai, China. Son of Yuh Hsuen Shaw.
Data Control Language (honorary), Oxford University, 1992.
With Unique Films Productions, Singapore. Co-founder Shaw Brothers Private Ltd. (now Shaw & Shaw Private Ltd.), Singapore, 1930.
Founder Shaw Studios, Kowloon, Hong Kong, 1961. Co-founder Shaw Brothers (Hong Kong) Ltd., Hong Kong, 1971, chairman Hong Kong. Co-founder television Broadcast Ltd., Kowloon, Hong Kong, since 1973, chairman Hong Kong, since 1980.
Founding member Federation Motion Picture Producers in Asia Pacific (originally Southeast Asian Film Producers Federation), Manila, 1953.
Co-founder Shaw Foundation, Singapore, 1957, Hong Kong, 1973. Chairman Hong Kong Red Cross. Founder Hong Kong Red Cross Blood Transfusion Center, 1984, Sir Run Run Shaw Scholarship Program Graduate Studies, Shaw Prize, 2002.
Married Mona Fong; Married Lily Shaw (deceased 1987). Children: Vee Ming, Harold, Violet, Dorothy.