Nam Seung-min
Actor
Biography
Born in Gangwon-do in 1911, his real name is Nam Tae-won. In 1935, he entered the film industry with a small role in director Bang Han-jun's Sprinkler. Afterwards, he appeared in Lee Gyu-hwan's A New Beginning (1939) and Kim Yu-young's Daffodil (1940). He appeared in a number of propaganda and cultural films, including Choi In-gyu's Children of the Sun (1944) and Kyung-kyun Shin's Our War (1945). After liberation, he appeared in director Lee Kyu-hwan's The Adventures of Smart (1946) and director Yoon Yong-gyu's Hometown of the Heart (1949). He defected to North Korea during the Korean War.
Filmography
Teen Guerrillas
as Secretary of the County Committee of the Labor Party 1951
Red Flare
as old man Choi 1960
A woman's story
as old man Liu 1960
The Road of Happiness
as Nam-goo Hwang 1956
The Miss of Guerrillas
1954
Village at the Demarcation Line
as Do-kyun 1961
Narcissus
1940
I Will Go
1942
Rural Life
as Kiyokawa 1942
Look Up at the Blue Sky
as Patriot 1943
Straits of Chosun
as Seki 1943
Dear Soldier
as Yoshiki Hiramatsu 1944
The Adventure of Ttolttori
1946
애국자
as Song Yong-sik 1959
Love the Future
1959
Defenders of the native land
as Byeong-su Nam 1952