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.
Red Flare
(old man Choi)
A woman's story
(old man Liu)
The Road of Happiness
(Nam-goo Hwang)
The Miss of Guerrillas
Village at the Demarcation Line
(Do-kyun)
Narcissus
Rural Life
(Kiyokawa)
I Will Go
Look Up at the Blue Sky
(Patriot)
Straits of Chosun
(Seki)
Dear Soldier
(Yoshiki Hiramatsu)
The Adventure of Ttolttori
애국자
(Song Yong-sik)
A Hometown in Heart
(Temple Cook)
Teen Guerrillas
(Secretary of the County Committee of the Labor Party)
Love the Future
Defenders of the native land
(Byeong-su Nam)
Scouts
(Commander of the Puppet Army Division)