Kenneth Tsang Kong (5 October 1935 – 27 April 2022) was a Hong Kong actor. Tsang's career spanned 50 years and included a variety of acting roles. Tsang won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 34th Hong Kong Film Awards in 2015. Tsang was born in Hong Kong with family roots in Zhongshan, Guangdong. He attended high school in Texas, U.S. and received a degree in architecture from the University of California, Berkeley. He returned to Hong Kong in the early 1960s but was bored by the work. His older sister, Jeanette Lin Tsui was a film star at the time and provided Tsang with several connections in the industry which boosted his acting career. In the media, Lin Tsui was always presented as Tsang's younger sister instead as it was moreover uncommon for female stars to reveal their age. Tsang's film debut was in the movie The Feud (1955), when he was just 16, which was followed by a role in Who Isn't Romantic? (1956). In the mid 1960s, Tsang starred in detective films and classic kung fu movies with (at the time) Hong Kong teen idols Connie Chan Po-chu and Josephine Siao. Tsang also appeared in a few Wong Fei-Hung movies in the late 1960s. In the 1986, Tsang worked as taxi cab owner, Ken, in John Woo's A Better Tomorrow. Subsequent collaborations with Woo included the role of Ken in A Better Tomorrow 2 in 1987, police officer Danny Lee's murdered partner in The Killer in 1989, and the strict adoptive father of Chow Yun-fat, Leslie Cheung and Cherie Chung in Once a Thief in 1991. Tsang also filmed several Singaporean Chinese dramas during the 1990s, one of his most notable works there was the 1995 epic The Teochew Family and The Unbeatables II. Up to this point, Tsang had played roles in mainly Hong Kong movies. His first Hollywood film was The Replacement Killers (1998), also the Hollywood debut of co-star Chow Yun-fat. Tsang appeared alongside Chow once again in Anna and the King as well as Jackie Chan in Rush Hour 2. Tsang played General Moon in the James Bond film Die Another Day (2002), and he continued to appear in films from his native Hong Kong. In 1994 Tsang married Chiao Chiao (焦姣), a Chinese-born Taiwanese actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kenneth Tsang, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Movie | Fortune King Is Coming to Town! | Mr Liang | 2010-02-09 |
Movie | East Wind Rain | Unknown | 2010-04-22 |
Movie | Prince of Tears | General Liu | 2009-06-25 |
Movie | The Treasure Hunter | Tu Lao-dai | 2009-12-09 |
Movie | Blood Ties | Woon Sir | 2009-09-10 |
Movie | Kung Fu Dunk | Wang Yiwuan | 2008-02-07 |
Movie | The Drummer | Stephen Ma | 2007-10-11 |
Movie | The Tokyo Trial | Hsiang Che-Chun | 2006-09-01 |
Movie | Memoirs of a Geisha | The General | 2005-12-06 |
Movie | Six Strong Guys | Rico 岳父 | 2004-09-02 |
Movie | Butterfly | Flavia's Father | 2004-12-02 |
Movie | Colour Blossoms | Unknown | 2004-10-28 |
Movie | The Touch | Ping | 2002-08-01 |
Movie | Die Another Day | General Moon | 2002-11-17 |
Movie | Rush Hour 2 | Captain Chin | 2001-08-03 |
Movie | Funeral March | Wong Cheuk Kong | 2001-09-25 |
Movie | Killer | Prince | 2000-02-24 |
Movie | Anna and the King | Justice Phya Phrom | 1999-12-16 |
Movie | The Replacement Killers | Terence Wei | 1998-02-06 |
Movie | The Blacksheep Affair | Lone Moon / Tasta | 1998-10-31 |
Movie | Bishonen | Sam's Father | 1998-08-14 |
Movie | Up for the Rising Sun | Unknown | 1997-06-04 |
Movie | Long and Winding Road | Bosco Chow | 1994-08-04 |
Movie | The Top Lady of Sword | Unknown | 1993-05-12 |
Movie | The Bare-Footed Kid | Ke Hu Pu | 1993-04-03 |
Movie | Shadow Cop | Unknown | 1993-01-08 |
Movie | Lover of the Swindler | Unknown | 1993-07-15 |
Movie | Remains of a Woman | Unknown | 1993-10-14 |
Movie | The Trail | Unknown | 1993-12-09 |
Movie | Police Story 3: Super Cop | Khun Chaibat | 1992-07-04 |
Movie | The Thief of Time | Unknown | 1992-01-01 |
Movie | Changing Partner | Unknown | 1992-01-23 |
Movie | The Prince of Temple Street | San | 1992-08-20 |
Series | The Greed of Man | 龙成邦 | 1992-10-05 |
Movie | Angel Terminators | Ken Zheng | 1992-10-10 |
Movie | The Night Rider | Unknown | 1992-12-17 |
Movie | Second to None | Unknown | 1992-10-08 |
Movie | Au Revoir, Mon Amour | Mooi Yi's father | 1991-03-28 |
Movie | Once a Thief | Chow / Dad | 1991-02-02 |
Movie | Bury Me High | 加里南总统 | 1991-01-10 |
Movie | Drugs Area | Unknown | 1991-01-01 |
Movie | To Be Number One | Chief Inspector Lui Ko-Tin | 1991-04-15 |
Series | Soldier Soldier | Tak Cheng | 1991-06-10 |
Movie | Legend of the Brothers | Detective Lui Kwok Tin | 1991-11-20 |
Movie | The Banquet | Chef | 1991-11-30 |
Movie | Inspector Pink Dragon | Chief Insp Pao | 1991-11-07 |
Movie | Return to Action | Unknown | 1990-03-29 |
Movie | Brief Encounter In Shinjuku | Mr Tseng | 1990-02-16 |
Movie | Promising Miss Bowie | Mr. Chow | 1990-06-14 |
Movie | Sleazy Dizzy | Chief Inspector Lee | 1990-06-15 |
Movie | Point of No Return | Uncle Min | 1990-10-25 |
Movie | Queen's High | Fan Yau Tim | 1990-09-08 |
Movie | The Immigrant Policeman | Unknown | 1989-01-19 |
Movie | Dark Side of China Town | Uncle Kwan | 1989-01-14 |
Movie | I Am Sorry | Unknown | 1989-05-10 |
Movie | The Killer | Sgt. Tsang Yeh | 1989-03-24 |
Movie | Triads: The Inside Story | Supt. Chan Tin-Lok | 1989-08-03 |
Movie | Princess Madam | Cheung | 1989-11-23 |
Movie | Thank You Sir | Mr Tsang | 1989-08-19 |
Movie | Goodbye My Friend | Lung | 1988-10-05 |
Movie | Return of the Lucky Stars | Uncle Kin | 1988-12-24 |
Movie | Last Romance | Li Chih-Cheng | 1988-12-08 |
Movie | Amnesty Decree | Tsai | 1987-11-12 |
Movie | A Better Tomorrow II | Ken | 1987-12-17 |
Movie | Royal Warriors | Captain Lau Chi-Shing | 1986-06-26 |
Movie | A Better Tomorrow | Ken | 1986-08-02 |
Movie | My Will, I Will | 1986-11-20 | |
Movie | Peking Opera Blues | General Cho | 1986-09-06 |
Series | The Yang's Saga | Unknown | 1985-09-23 |
Series | The Duke of Mount Deer | Chan Kan-nam | 1984-07-09 |
Movie | The Body Is Willing | Francis Chao(趙公子) | 1983-11-19 |
Movie | Wild Cherry | Unknown | 1982-03-18 |
Movie | Trap | Ma Man-Rei | 1982-04-30 |
Movie | The Secret | Policeman | 1979-10-31 |
Movie | The Extras | Ting Chung | 1978-12-14 |
Movie | The Hooker and the Hustler | Wang Kuo-Chun | 1975-03-08 |
Movie | Sup Sap Bup Dap | Unknown | 1975-09-18 |
Movie | Blood Reincarnation | Unknown | 1974-10-03 |
Movie | The Awaken Punch | Goes to the law | 1973-05-23 |
Movie | The Call-Girls | Unknown | 1973-04-19 |
Movie | The Money-tree | Hsiao-cheung | 1973-06-16 |
Movie | We Visited Southeast Asia | Unknown | 1973-08-02 |
Movie | The Brave and the Evil | Bandit Jie Fei | 1971-02-01 |
Movie | The Playful Girl | Unknown | 1971-09-15 |
Movie | I'll Get You One Day | Wong Dai Wai | 1970-05-12 |
Movie | Choi Lee Fat | Unknown | 1970-11-04 |
Movie | Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow | Health Department Chief Zhou | 1970-12-10 |
Movie | Wise Wives and Foolish Husbands | Alan Lee Si Kong | 1969-03-26 |
Movie | The Little Warrior | General Sheung Kwun Hung | 1969-03-10 |
Movie | The Youth | Chow Hoi-Kit | 1969-02-23 |
Movie | Teddy Girls | Unknown | 1969-04-03 |
Movie | Famous Swordsman Tin Kiu | Unknown | 1969-12-04 |
Movie | Sky Dragon Castle | Ngo Sei Hoi | 1969-04-23 |
Movie | The Prodigal | Oi-Lun | 1969-09-23 |
Movie | Sword of Emei | Au Gong | 1969-09-10 |
Movie | Wong Fei-Hung's Combat with the Five Wolves | Unknown | 1969-05-20 |
Movie | Purple Night | Unknown | 1968-04-10 |
Movie | Hotel Lavender | Unknown | 1968-05-22 |
Movie | The Sword and Knife (Conclusion) | Unknown | 1968-09-06 |
Movie | That Frightening Sword | Unknown | 1968-07-03 |
Movie | Wong Fei-Hung: Duel for the Championship | Unknown | 1968-11-15 |
Movie | The Witch | Gold Hand Scholar | 1967-04-11 |
Movie | Paragon of Sword and Knife | Unknown | 1967-12-20 |
Movie | Tragedy of Vendetta | Unknown | 1955-12-31 |
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