A Seoul hospital says prominent South Korean movie star Ahn Sungki has died.

A Seoul hospital says prominent South Korean movie star Ahn Sung-ki has died at age 74. He had been fighting blood cancer for years. Born to a filmmaker in the southeastern city of Daegu in 1952, Ahn made his debut as a child actor in the movie “The Twilight Train” in 1957.

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SEOUL – Ahn Sung-ki, one of South Korean cinema’s most prominent stars whose 60-year career and positive, gentle public image earned him the nickname “The Nation’s Actor,” died on Monday. He was 74. The death of Ahn, who had been fighting blood cancer for years, was announced by the Seoul-based Soonchunhyang University Hospital.

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