Mohamed Zain "Jins" Shamsuddin was a Malaysian film actor, director, politician, writer and producer.
15 Facts About Jins Shamsuddin
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Mohamed Jins was born in Taiping, Perak on 5 November 1935.
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Jins Shamsuddin went to SMK King Edward VII Taiping, Perak and he completed his Senior Cambridge exams in 1956, hoping to continue his studies at the University of Malaya in Singapore.
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Jins Shamsuddin's hopes were dashed when the university's admission officer said that they would "keep his application in view".
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Jins Shamsuddin's great-uncle, who was a teacher at the prestigious Anderson School in Ipoh, however managed to apply for a place to study electrical engineering in England three months into the deadline.
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Meanwhile, there were rehearsals of a play that were going on nearby, in which Jins Shamsuddin would watch them daily.
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Jins Shamsuddin agreed, and thus made his screen debut in Keluarga Tolol in 1956.
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Jins Shamsuddin went on to act in several films until eventually becoming a main star in 1957 through Pancha Delima, a film directed by P Ramlee.
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From 1966 to 1968, Jins Shamsuddin had starred in several action movies produced by Malay Film Production where he portrays Jefri Zain, a James Bond-like spy character.
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Jins Shamsuddin had pursued his studies in the London Film School from 1970 to 1972, obtaining his Diploma in Motion Picture Technology and graduated with first class honours.
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In 1981, Jins Shamsuddin collaborated with the Royal Malaysia Police to produce and direct Bukit Kepong; a film dramatizing the Bukit Kepong incident, which was a chaotic armed conflict between the Malayan police and Malayan Communist Party gunmen during the Malayan Emergency.
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In 2004, Jins Shamsuddin announced plans to make an epic English-language film entitled The King of the River: Pasir Salak, though the project was ultimately never realized.
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Jins Shamsuddin was reappointed again as a Senator for a second term from 12 February 2008 until 11 February 2011.
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Jins Shamsuddin was first married to actress Rahmah Rahmat in Singapore in 1961, from which their marriage bore a son named Jeffry Jins Shamsuddin.
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Jins Shamsuddin died at 5:45 pm at a clinic in Taman Melawati after choking on cekodok on Wednesday, 1 March 2017 at the age of 81, as confirmed by his second son Putera Hang Nadim.