Robert Lin

Robert Lin


in Beijing, China
ROBERT LIN  is a Chinese-American actor/writer/filmmaker based in New York and Beijing.  His major film acting credits include the starring role as Chairman Mao in Martin Scorsese directed Tibetan epic Kundun, which was nominated for four Academy Awards.  He was also featured in 2003’s smash hit School of Rock (Paramount Pictures) with Jack Black, and appeared in Red Corner (MGM) with Richard Gere. Other film credits include Green Card Fever, Man of the Century, Lift to Hell, The Nightingale of Tibet, Iceberg and just releasedFront Cover, an American comedy.

Movies for Robert Lin...

Lift to Hell
Title: Lift to Hell
Character: Dr. Zhang Tiankai
Released: February 21, 2013
Type: Movie
A killing spree takes place in a northern China's hospital, an old elevator goes to the 18th floor - underground.
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Iceberg
Title: Iceberg
Released: January 1, 2013
Type: Movie
Nova, a twenty-two year old drummer in a Beijing rock band, is going to America and falling in love for the first time.
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Waiting in Beijing
Title: Waiting in Beijing
Character: Dr. Zheng
Released: November 1, 2008
Type: Movie
American George and Iraqi Nadia fall in love in Paris, but as the Iraq War threatens to erupt, the two are separated. When Nadia doesn't show up for a planned meeting at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, George is left waiting. Soon, Judy, a spirited Chinese national, begins helping George search for Nadia in this lush, sweeping drama based on actual events.
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Baober in Love
Title: Baober in Love
Character: Doctor
Released: February 10, 2004
Type: Movie
Liu Zhi, a young man, depressed and trapped in a loveless marriage with a dominating girl, meets Baober (an ageless young girl) on a Beijing street one day. They fall in love and start to live a strange, mysterious life....
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School of Rock
Title: School of Rock
Character: Lawrence's Father
Released: October 3, 2003
Type: Movie
Fired from his band and hard up for cash, guitarist and vocalist Dewey Finn finagles his way into a job as a fifth-grade substitute teacher at a private school, where he secretly begins teaching his students the finer points of rock 'n' roll. The school's hard-nosed principal is rightly suspicious of Finn's activities. But Finn's roommate remains in the dark about what he's doing.
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Green Card Fever
Title: Green Card Fever
Character: Chen
Released: August 29, 2003
Type: Movie
The story of a young immigrant from India (Dasu) who overstays his US visa. As he is forced to make decisions about whom to trust, he naively relies on his new found friends in his land of dreams, and a comical and poignant sequence of adventures ensue.
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Shanghai Knights
Title: Shanghai Knights
Character: Additional ADR Voice (uncredited)
Released: February 6, 2003
Type: Movie
The dynamic duo of Chon Wang and Roy O'Bannon return for another crazy adventure. This time, they're in London to avenge the murder of Chon's father, but end up on an even bigger case. Chon's sister is there to do the same, but instead unearths a plot to kill the royal family. No one believes her, though, and it's up to Chon and Roy (who has romance on his mind) to prove her right.
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Man of the Century
Title: Man of the Century
Character: Chinese Mob Boss
Released: October 29, 1999
Type: Movie
Fantasy-comedy about a young man who lives as if it is 1928 or so, and his encounters with modern-day women and modern-day criminals.
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In Search of 'Kundun' with Martin Scorsese
Title: In Search of 'Kundun' with Martin Scorsese
Character: Self
Released: October 7, 1998
Type: Movie
In Search of Kundun, a “making-of” documentary that is so much more, follows Scorsese as he plans his epic film and shoots in Morocco, and continues on to an audience with the Dalai Lama himself in the foothills of the Himalayas. Edited from over a hundred hours of footage, the documentary captures Scorsese’s fervor as a filmmaker and a man, the modest yet charismatic Dalai Lama, and the plight of the exiled Tibetans. -Denver Film Society
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Kundun
Title: Kundun
Character: Chairman Mao
Released: December 25, 1997
Type: Movie
The Tibetans refer to the Dalai Lama as 'Kundun', which means 'The Presence'. He was forced to escape from his native home, Tibet, when communist China invaded and enforced an oppressive regime upon the peaceful nation. The Dalai Lama escaped to India in 1959 and has been living in exile in Dharamsala ever since.
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Red Corner
Title: Red Corner
Character: Director Liu's Interpreter
Released: October 30, 1997
Type: Movie
An American attorney on business in China, ends up wrongfully on trial for murder and his only key to innocence is a female defense lawyer from the country.
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Title: Oz
Released: July 12, 1997
Type: TV
The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorize their mutual enemies.