Xu Hu 徐琥 , then an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Chinese government, was assigned to Paris in 1919, but he later resigned to attend school there at his own expense. After graduating from a business college in 1921, he went to work for the Sino-French Industrial Bank of Paris as its Chinese language secretary. After the bank failed, he went back to school, studying motion pictures and makeup at the Paris School of Motion Picture and Theater Arts. In 1924, he acted in a Parisian stage play and had a role in a French motion picture set during the Russo-Japanese War. Returning to China later that year, Xu and his fellow France returnee Wang Xiangchang established a correspondence filmmaking school in Shanghai, while at the same time Xu became head of the Mingxing studio's makeup department, and co-directed "The Soul of Yuli." Xu then moved to the Baihe Film Company as head of its makeup department, but also directing its first film, "The Tea-Picking Girl." When Baihe merged with the Da Zhonghua studio in 1925, he continued on as makeup head for the new studio. When the French movie production he had acted in was imported to France, Xu translated the intertitles into Chinese.
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Filmography (credited only):
1924
The Soul of Yuli (co-directed)
The Tea-Picking Girl
