1981年入行的黄文永，第一年就参演《悲欢年华》等5部剧，1984年他凭怀旧剧《雾锁南洋》中，正直善良的“阿水”一角深受大家的喜爱，黄文永丝丝入扣的演技，再加上与女主角向云之间的默契使这部电视剧成为一部经典，这部剧集也让黄文永奠定“第一代阿哥的地位”。

黄文永是第一批前来新加坡发展的马来西亚籍演员，在新加坡27年后，2008年10月成为公民。

黄文永的最后一部电视作品是在2013年1月播出的《好运到》，当时举行新剧记者会，但他本人并没有现身。

外形文质彬彬的文永，戏路的宽广，实在超乎你的想像。从《暴雨狂花》里的吝啬鬼到《金枕头》里的贪心狡猾的商人、从《三个半女人》面临中年危机的普通上班族到《春到人间》喜感十足的青春鼓王，在在显示出文永收放自如的演技。

文永在长寿环境剧《敢敢做个开心人》也成功创造了黄金来这个斤斤计较、聪明反被聪明误的小人物。'黄金来'更为他赢得《红星大奖》最佳喜剧演员。

除了演戏以外，文永也主持节目。文永过去在马来西亚曾担任过教师，他扎实的文化修养，幽默机智的应对能力，让节目生色不少。他所主持的节目，就包括大型筹款节目《总统星光慈善1995》，农历新年特约节目及崭新风格的饮食节目《食指大动》。

2013.4.20，因病于新加坡去世。

Huang Wenyong was a Malaysia-born Singaporean actor and former teacher of Chinese descent. Local media and fellow colleagues referred to him as "Ah Ge" (senior actor) due to his status. Huang died at the Singapore General Hospital at around 5 pm (GMT+8) on 20 April 2013, at the age of 60 due to lymphoma.

Huang was a teacher in Kuala Lumpur before leaving for Singapore. Huang moved to Singapore in the 1970s, with only fifty dollars in hand. He joined the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation in 1977. He is perhaps best known for his appearances in The Awakening, in which he played love interest to Xiang Yun's character, and The Seletar Robbery during the 1980s. Huang is also known for starring alongside Chew Chor Meng in the long-running popular series Don't Worry, Be Happy (1996–2002) and its spin-off Lobang King as the stingy uncle Leon Ong Kim Lye to Chew's character Ah Bee. Huang was nominated for and named one of the Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes every single year in the annual Star Awards since its introduction in 1994, until his death in 2013. In total, Huang starred in more than a hundred Chinese-language television programmes. In addition to acting, Huang sang pieces for a few television sitcoms and also released two albums. He was an ambassador for anti-ageing product company Zell-V. He was an actor for MediaCorp from the late 1970s until his death. Appearing in more than 100 television programmes, he was among the first few batches of locally trained actors to enter the local entertainment industry was and considered to be one of the "pioneers in local Chinese drama".