Pan Wenzhan was a director of Beijing Film Studio. He studied in Yan'an Lu Xin art university and later in the Beijing Film Academy. In 1938 he participated in the revolution, serving as a propaganda officer in the prefectural committee of the third district of Jizhong, an actor in the North China United University Art Troupe, an actor and a teacher in the Beijing Military Region Anti-Enemy Drama Club, and an actor and director in the Shanghai Film Studio after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
