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  • BIRTH 02/09/1934
  • DEATH 27/04/2022
  • Country Hong Kong SAR China
  • SHOWS 2
  • MOVIES 57

Kenneth Tsang

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.

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Kenneth Tsang

Shows (2)

The Monkey King: Quest for the Sutra
The Monkey King: Quest for the Sutra
玉皇大帝
New Heavenly Sword and Dragon Sabre
New Heavenly Sword and Dragon Sabre
謝遜

Movies (57)

Memoirs of a Geisha
Memoirs of a Geisha
The General
Die Another Day
Die Another Day
General Moon
Rush Hour 2
Rush Hour 2
Captain Chin
喋血雙雄
喋血雙雄
Sgt. Tsang Yeh
The Replacement Killers
The Replacement Killers
Terence Wei
英雄本色
英雄本色
Kin
警察故事 III:超級警察
警察故事 III:超級警察
Khun Chaibat
唐人街探案2
唐人街探案2
Uncle Seven
功夫灌篮
功夫灌篮
Wang Yiwuan
英雄本色2
英雄本色2
Kin
我是你的野蛮女友
我是你的野蛮女友
超级的我
超级的我
竊聽風雲 2
竊聽風雲 2
Tony Wong
爷们信条
爷们信条
追龍
追龍
Sir Chow
跛豪
跛豪
Chief Inspector Lui Ko-Tin
小男人周記 II 錯在新宿
小男人周記 II 錯在新宿
Mr Tseng
饮食男女2012
饮食男女2012
Tan Shichje
黑白道
黑白道
Bandit Jie Fei
The Touch
The Touch
Ping
你情我願
你情我願
一級指控
一級指控
Tsang Kwok-Shan
繼園臺七號
繼園臺七號
女黑俠威震地獄門
女黑俠威震地獄門
Ko Cheung
六壯士
六壯士
Rico 岳父
美少年之戀
美少年之戀
Sam's Father
毒網
毒網
Good Night
Good Night
形影不离
形影不离
Mr. Wang
邊緣行者
邊緣行者
壯志雄心
壯志雄心
Mr Tsang
走上不归路
走上不归路
Lau Sin
我在黑社會的日子
我在黑社會的日子
Supt. Chan Tin- Lok
抱擁朝陽
抱擁朝陽
恐怖快递
恐怖快递
頭七還魂夜
頭七還魂夜
Woon Sir
日常幻想指南
日常幻想指南
[A Zhen's car]
竊聽風雲 3
竊聽風雲 3
Uncle To
財神到
財神到
Mr Liang
車神
車神
群星會
群星會
我是你妈
我是你妈
Qin Zhenhua
轟天皇家將
轟天皇家將
Ken Zheng
刺陵
刺陵
Tu Lao-dai
青面修罗
青面修罗
柴胜
卫斯理之霸王卸甲
卫斯理之霸王卸甲
加里南总统
刀馬旦
刀馬旦
General Cho
西雅圖大屠殺
西雅圖大屠殺
Uncle Kwan
蝴蝶
蝴蝶
Flavia's Father
郎心如鐵
郎心如鐵
星空
星空
Xiao Mei's Grandfather
碧血藍天
碧血藍天
Lone Moon / Tasta
幸福的滋味
幸福的滋味
皇家戰士
皇家戰士
Captain Lau Chi-Shing
淚王子
淚王子
General Liu
縱橫四海
縱橫四海
Chow / Dad
戰·鼓
戰·鼓
Stephen Ma