He has appeared in over 50 Mandarin-language films in Hong Kong and Taiwan, many of them produced by the Shaw Brothers Studio in the 1960s and the 1970s.
In 1961, he entered Shaw Brothers Studio, working as a script supervisor for director Yueh Feng.
In 1964, he rose to fame when Yueh Feng cast him in a major Huangmei opera film Lady General Hua Mu-lan, opposite superstar Ivy Ling Po.
They moved to Taiwan in 1973 where they continued to work in the film industry[2] until immigrating to Canada in the late 1980s.
After retirement, they made guest appearances in their son Kenneth Bi's directorial debut Rice Rhapsody (2004).