Chen Shucheng

Chen Shucheng

Born: October 21, 1949
in Shantou, China
Chen Shu Cheng is a veteran artiste whose career spans over 40 years in the entertainment business. Undisputedly the person all younger artistes look up to, Shu Cheng is a role model for anyone who wishes to carve out and sustain a profession in this business.

He is well liked by sponsors due to his eloquence and quick wit. These attributes gave him the chance to host Econ Nite and Weekend Delight year after year. With his vast amount of life experience behind him, Shu Cheng is able to handle live and major shows without any hiccups.

He is also a consummate actor whose professional ethics is an exemplifying example to all other artistes. He has acted in blockbuster productions that garnered amazing ratings from viewers. Give him any role and Shu Cheng is able to break it down analytically without much effort. Without a doubt, he is definitely a valuable asset to Mediacorp.

Shu Cheng was reaffirmed of his hard work and acting skills, when he won the Best Supporting Award for The Oath 行医, at Star Awards 2012. He was also awarded the Best Evergreen Artiste Award in Star Award 2016. Shu Cheng won his second Best Everygreen Artiste Award in Star Award 2018, his second Best Supporting Actor Award for A Million Dollar Dream and his first Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes Award in Star Awards 2019.

Movies for Chen Shucheng...

Uncle Goose Waits For A Phone Call
Title: Uncle Goose Waits For A Phone Call
Released: September 18, 2020
Type: Movie
Waiting for an old friend’s phone call, the lonesome Uncle Goose has not left home for days. But when food runs out, Uncle Goose decides to go to literal great lengths in order to keep the telephone by his side! Whatever it takes to be in time to pick up that call, because a promise is a promise.
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Title: Old Is Gold
Character: Zhou Ren Fa
Released: May 28, 2019
Type: TV
Centenarian Home is a nursing home and elderly day care centre managed by Aunty Shan (Sze Kei Lee). The residents come from all walks of life, each with their own stories to tell. What secrets does the model resident of the nursing home hide? Why is a cheeky grandfather with many grandchildren staying in the nursing home? What does a long lost son hope to gain from a father suffering from dementia? Why does an old architect with a seemingly good life keep telling lies? When Aunty Shan was diagnosed with a terminal illness, she decides to pass the management of her beloved nursing home to a newly recruited nurse Xin Xin (Rui En). Without much experience coupled with her own set of personal problems, can Xin Xin rise to the occasion and hold the fort until Aunty Shan is back?
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Title: How Are You?
Character: Mr. Ng
Released: January 4, 2019
Type: TV
Gong Jia Qiao, 66 years-old, becomes wheelchair-bound after a car accident. He currently sells lottery and tissue packets for a living. Over 30 years ago, his neighbour Guo Mei Li puts Ah Dai under his care but has never returned since. With an intelligence similar to that of a six or eight year-old child, Ah Dai can only follow simple instructions and is thus easily cheated. Her ex-lover Pian Lang disappeared after she becomes pregnant with his child. One day, Ah Dai meets Xiao Gan Dang, a man that looks like Pian Lang. As it turns out, Pian Lang is Gan Dangs father. Xiao Gan Dang grew up along the streets and has seen all the good and bad sides of humans. He is best friends with Mei Da Han, who is also a gangster like him, and is thrown behind bars because of a fight. After completing his sentence, he meets a social worker Qing Qing and the two becomes a bickering duo.
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Title: Reach For The Skies
Released: April 2, 2018
Type: TV
The story centres round the inhabitants of small neighbourhood who work in an enrichment school and a minimart. From ex-criminal to middle-aged workers who lost their jobs to technology, and elderlies with a seemingly disillusioned life, can there still be hopes and dreams for these everyday folks who live at the edge of society ? A light-hearted drama bursting with colourful characters, watch how Zhong Ling the founder of Hope Training Centre, and Hong Da Cai the boss of ‘Tian Tian Lai’ minimart, deal with every day situation and at the same time manage their own love life.
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Title: Eat Already?
Character: Yuan Yong Ming
Released: September 9, 2016
Type: TV
Eat Already? is set in a coffee shop, and is centered around an elderly widow named Ah Niu Sao (Yinzhu Li) , who works as a cleaner as her sons Ah Bee (Elvin Ng) and Ah Qiang (Aden Tan) who still rely on her for their living expenses. Her elder son Ah Bee is a chronic gambler who is unemployed for a long time while her younger son Ah Qiang is an introvert who is wheelchair bound. Throughout the series, she manages to tide over various issues thanks to help from neighbours, friends and several support schemes available. Will the boys finally get their acts together and be a reliable pillar of support for their aging mother?
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Title: Life - Fear Not
Released: October 19, 2015
Type: TV
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Title: Good Luck
Character: Lin Xiaohe
Released: February 2, 2015
Type: TV
Lin He Xiang Niang raised four sons and two daughters on her own. Lin Shi Jie is the son of Xiang Niang's deceased eldest son. Shi Jie's wife Su Xian left him. Shi Jie then moved abroad with their son, Jia Yuan. When Jia Yuan returned to the ancestral house and witnessed how Xiang Niang's children eyed her inheritance, he worked hand in hand with Xiang Niang to bring the family back together. The third son Lin Xiao He is domineering towards his family and his wife adheres to all he says. Their only daughter, Lin Shi Hui performs well both in school and at work but shares a strained relationship with her father. She meets the young and promising Master's student Liu Xuan and they marry shortly despite her father's disapproval. The duo soon splits after realising their mismatch, however they still habour feelings for each other. The youngest son Lin Xiao Ping is a tailor. His son Lin Shi Jun is one who seeks to take shortcuts to success.
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Title: Blessings
Character: Lian Meng Yong
Released: July 23, 2014
Type: TV
Set in the 1940s and then the modern world, this drama pits the traditional way against the modern. The story evolves around a popular traditional pastry shop called Xiji. Lian Wending, who is the only heir and has a gift in making pastries, is in love with a travelling songstress, Lin Xiaomei. But his father objects to the relationship and arranges for Wending to marry a rich merchant's daughter, Sun Xiulan. Bound by tradition, he accedes to his father's wish. On Mid-Autumn night, he falls into a well and loses his consciousness. When he wakes up, he is shocked to find himself in modern Singapore. He gets to know two brothers, who are his descendants. Xiji in the modern world is, unfortunately, facing a business crisis and Wending tries his best to save it. In the process, he meets his westernised rival, She Meiren, who looks exactly like Xiaomei but with a different personality. In the battle between modern and traditional ways, both of them fall in love with each other.
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Red Numbers
Title: Red Numbers
Released: February 22, 2013
Type: Movie
How lucky are you -or are you not? That's the question Red Numbers asks. The story revolves around a guy who, according to a Fengshui master, only has three lucky minutes in his miserable life. His fortune is wrapped up with a greedy family whose grandfather - dead or alive, nobody knows for sure, holds the key to the winning combination in the 4D lottery. Three minutes, four numbers, a lot of money - or maybe not.
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Title: Yours Fatefully
Character: Su Shuntian
Released: May 29, 2012
Type: TV
Su Xiaoyi is a single professional photographer who lives with his sickly father afflicted with night blindness. As his siblings are married, the burden of taking care of his ailing father naturally falls on him.
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Title: Pillow Talk
Character: He Guangming
Released: April 2, 2012
Type: TV
What is the true meaning of marriage? Qiu Xue (Joanne Peh), a believer in romance, marries Ting Kai (Pierre Png), a conservative and practical man. However, the newlyweds are far from happy. Qiu Xue's parents get divorced and the couple is financially strapped when Tingkai gets retrenched. Will kinship and love overcome Ting Kai's sense of inferiority and Qiu Xue's pride? In the meantime, the married couple Qiu Yu (Thomas Ong)) and Chu Ning (Michelle Chia) has a six-year-old daughter, Duo Duo. Their previously sweet romance dampens over time and Qiu Yu gets entangled in an affair with his work partner Alice (Jacelyn Tay). Is there true love brewing beneath the affair? The marriage hits rock-bottom when Duo Duo is diagnosed with a hole in her heart. Marriage is about preserving a love long expired. What will it take for them to discover the love hidden in their marriages?
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Title: Double Bonus
Character: Jin Wen Tao
Released: January 3, 2012
Type: TV
Double Bonus is a Singaporean Chinese drama which was telecasted on Singapore's free-to-air channel, MediaCorp Channel 8. This drama serial consists of 23 episodes. It made its debut on 3 Jan 2012 and was screened on Channel 8 at 2100hrs on every weekday night.
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Title: With You
Character: Zhang Yongsheng
Released: May 12, 2011
Type: TV
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Title: The Ultimatum
Character: Ye Song-Nian
Released: May 27, 2009
Type: TV
The Ultimatum is a Singaporean Chinese drama which was telecasted on Singapore's free-to-air channel, MediaCorp Channel 8. It made its debut on 27 May 2009 and ended on the date 7 July 2009. This drama serial consists of 30 episodes, and was screened on every weekday night at 9:00 pm. Being the mid-year Channel 8 blockbuster of 2009, it was the first Channel 8 drama to be fully filmed in HD. Despite being touted as the 2009 blockbuster of the year and featuring many established actors and actresses like Zoe Tay, Li Nanxing and Fann Wong, the show's reception was lukewarm at best. Many viewers faulted the serial for improbable casting and for a lack of originality in certain parts of the scripting. The series also came under harsh criticism for being overly melodramatic. However, the performance of newcomers such as Jerry Yeo, who played an antagonist for the first time, were widely praised.
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Gone Shopping
Title: Gone Shopping
Character: Mr. Wong
Released: July 26, 2007
Type: Movie
A satirical drama about how a nation's obsession with shopping changes the course of one woman's life. Clara, a forty year old 'tai tai' (wealthy lady of leisure) faces a mid life crisis and decides to runaway to the only place that has ever made any sense to her - the shopping centres. As she lives there, Clara crosses paths with other 'creatures' of the mall, namely Renu, an eight-year old latchkey kid who has been abandoned by her parents in a 24 hour mall and Aaron, an angst-y twenty three year old who skives work to hang out at the mall with his friends. Together, these characters lead audiences through a journey of love, loss and liberation through the heart of Singapore where they find that their dreams can be bought and broken.
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The Maid
Title: The Maid
Character: Mr. Teo
Released: August 18, 2005
Type: Movie
Alone for the first time and away from her family in rural Philippines, Rosa Dimaano arrives in the cosmopolitan city state of Singapore to work as a maid. Her employers Mr and Mrs Teo runs a Chinese Teochew dialect opera troupe takes well to their new domestic help. So do their mentally disabled son, Ah Soon. In Chinese superstition, the seventh month of the lunar calendar is regarded as the month when the gates of hell open for forsaken spirits to walk the earth for 30 days. Unknown to Rosa, she arrives on the eve and her hell is about to begin.
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Title: Man at Forty
Character: Chen Yao Zu
Released: May 17, 2004
Type: TV
Man At Forty is an intense drama which revolves around a pair of brothers, one born with a silver spoon and the other having to live in poverty almost all his life and how their lives are thrown into a roller-coaster ride by the sudden change in wealth and status. Things get more complicated as jealousy, complacency, resentment, hatred and disillusion steps in. This drama was broadcast in Year 2004.
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Title: Springs of Life
Character: Cai Bai Jia
Released: December 16, 2002
Type: TV
"Springs of Life" is a story that begins in the '50s and one that spans over a period of 30 years. The dramedy is a rare mix of humour and seriousness as it depicts the lives and culture of the people during the era. The story uses a medical hall as its backdrop and tells the story of Da Pao, a young entrepreneur who is willing to take risks where no one else dares to. He is inspired when he learns of a secret medical recipe for medical oil, and cracks his head to market the product. The story also includes the interesting lives of a pair of budding singing sisters. Zhang Pei Pei of 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' fame was cordially invited to star in this humorous yet telling dramedy.
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Title: The Stratagem
Character: Zhou Yun Heng
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: TV
Office politics, power struggles and greed provide action, thrills and excitement to this new drama about the banking sector. Zoe Tay helms this series as a go-getter who has to wrestle with her male colleagues to ascend the corporate ladder. In the process, she is often called to stake her moral integrity.
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2000 AD
Title: 2000 AD
Character: Singapore General
Released: February 3, 2000
Type: Movie
The Y2K Bug. Real Warfare vs Electronic Gaming. Peter Tong, a carefree Hong Kong youngster, finds himself drawn into the web of a deadly espionage conspiracy. A clandestine organization schemes to use the Y2K Bug to cause mayhem throughout Asia. To survive, Peter has to call on reserves of courage and stamina he has never needed before.
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Title: Lost Soul
Character: Master Ba Peng
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: TV
The divine one is immortalised - literally - as a wandering apparition in this 30-part mystery-romance that spans over three decades of contemporary Singapore history.
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Title: The Return of the Condor Heroes
Character: Huang Yaoshi
Released: June 2, 1998
Type: TV
The Return of the Condor Heroes is a Singaporean television series adapted from Louis Cha's novel of the same title. It was broadcast from 2 June to 27 July 1998 on TCS Eighth Frequency in Singapore and was later released on other Asian television networks.
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Title: The Price of Peace
Character: Tan Kah Kee
Released: June 30, 1997
Type: TV
Historic figures like martyr Lim Bo Seng and philanthropist Tan Kah Kee are depicted in this dramatisation of the lives of a group of people who put country above self in the fight against Japanese aggression in Malaysia and Singapore during World War II.
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Title: The Golden Pillow
Character: Sai Qilin
Released: November 21, 1995
Type: TV
A simple man with ordinary looks from Thailand, finds himself hitting on gold when he makes it big in his career as well as having the dilemma of choosing the woman he loves - his childhood playmate or business partner? Finally, the confused trio decides to consult the golden pillow...
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Title: The Teochew Family
Character: Xiao Deng-long
Released: August 8, 1995
Type: TV
This drama describes the trials and tribulations the teochew Cai Family under the patriarch Cai Qingyang from the late 1940s to the 1990s.
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Title: The Unbeatables
Character: Yan Kun
Released: November 4, 1993
Type: TV
The Unbeatables I is a Singapore drama series that was made by MediaCorp TV Channel 8. The popularity of the series led to the production of 2 follow-ups, The Unbeatables II and The Unbeatables III.
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Title: Pretty Faces
Character: Ding Han Sheng
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: TV
This is the show that catapulted Zoe Tay into instant stardom. Along with Meijiao Lin and Miaoling Tang, this 30-parter shows how Bobo (played by Zoe) tears her best friend's life apart by stealing the latter's boyfriend and her father, and then causing her mother's death.
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Title: The Last Swordsman
Character: Lu Chen Feng
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: TV
A 1991 classic drama by Singapore Broadcasting Corporation (currently Mediacorp TV Singapore Pte Ltd)
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Title: Strange Encounters
Character: Han Gang
Released: October 26, 1987
Type: TV
A series comprising of seven tales adapted from legends, war poems, and Liao Zai's collection from the Qing dynasty. These tales consist of loves stories, comedies and stories with a moral behind it. It deals with the supernatural and the unexplored aspect of life.
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Title: 人在旅途
Released: October 8, 1985
Type: TV
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The Awakening
Title: The Awakening
Character: Dr Chuang Yuan-He
Released: February 6, 1984
Type: Movie
It mainly covers the Chinese Singaporean experience in Singapore, from the first generation of Chinese immigrants, who arrived to a relatively undeveloped island, through the Japanese occupation periods, and to the Chinese Singaporeans at the present day (1984), who resides in a developed nation that is radically different from the land their ancestors arrived to.