Kenneth Tsang

Kenneth Tsang

  • Birthday: 1934-09-02
  • Deathday: 2022-04-27
  • Place of birth: Hong Kong
  • Also know as: Kenneth Tsang Kong

Biography

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.

Filmography

Demonstrator

1971

As

Drugs Area

1991

As

Fight Up

2015

As

Angel Terminators

1992

As Ken Zheng

The Extras

1978

As Ting Chung

Wonder Mama

2015

As

Wild Cherry

1982

As

I'll Get You One Day

1970

As Wong Dai Wai

Choi Lee Fat

1970

As

The Prodigal

1969

As Oi-Lun

Wise Wives and Foolish Husbands

1969

As Alan Lee Si Kong

Goodbye My Friend

1988

As Lung

Sword of Emei

1969

As Au Gong

The Witch

1967

As Gold Hand Scholar

Amnesty Decree

1987

As Tsai

The Little Warrior

1969

As General Sheung Kwun Hung

The Black Musketeer 'F'

1966

As Ko Cheung

The Paradise

1974

As

The Tin Long Gang

1968

As Lung

The Chivalrous Whip

1968

As Kwok Ching-hwa

Rude Husband

2001

As

My Mother

1983

As

Blood Ties

2009

As Woon Sir

Joyful Reunion

2012

As Tan Shichje

Funeral March

2001

As Wong Cheuk Kong

The Body Is Willing

1983

As Francis Chao(趙公子)

Killer

2000

As Prince

Purple Night

1968

As

The Youth

1969

As Chow Hoi-Kit

Sky Dragon Castle

1969

As Ngo Sei Hoi

No Regret, No Return

1993

As Lau Sin

Triple Identity

2020

As Xun Yunchang

A Romantic Thief

1968

As Tsang Tai Hsiung

37

2012

As

Zhuibu

2007

As

The Revenge

2023

As

Police Story 3: Super Cop

1992

As Khun Chaibat

The Replacement Killers

1998

As Terence Wei

I Am Sorry

1989

As

Point of No Return

1990

As Uncle Min

Silver Dragon Ninja

1986

As Mark

The Brave and the Evil

1971

As Bandit Jie Fei

Queen's High

1990

As Fan Yau Tim

Last Romance

1988

As Li Chih-Cheng

The Trail

1993

As

Au Revoir, Mon Amour

1991

As Mooi Yi's father

Daily Fantasy

2021

As [A Zhen's car]

For a Few Bullets

2016

As Oda Koki

I Am Your Mom

2018

As Qin Zhenhua

Dead End

1994

As

The Killer

1989

As Sgt. Tsang Yeh

The Blacksheep Affair

1998

As Lone Moon / Tasta

Once a Thief

1991

As Chow / Dad

Overheard 2

2011

As Tony Wong

The Awaken Punch

1973

As Goes to the law

Dark Side of China Town

1989

As Uncle Kwan

Book Without Words

1965

As White Wolf

Man's Creed

2022

As

My Beloved

1971

As

Legend of the Brothers

1991

As Detective Lui Kwok Tin

ICAC: A Man

1978

As

恐怖快递

2018

As

Bishonen

1998

As Sam's Father

Sleazy Dizzy

1990

As Chief Inspector Lee

Prince of Tears

2009

As General Liu

The Bare-Footed Kid

1993

As Ke Hu Pu

Triads: The Inside Story

1989

As Supt. Chan Tin-Lok

The Tokyo Trial

2006

As Hsiang Che-Chun

The Money-tree

1973

As Hsiao-cheung

Inseparable

2012

As Mr. Wang

The First Time is the Last Time

1989

As Jenny's father

A Sealed Book

2022

As Governor Zhang

Song of the Assassins

2022

As Chai Sheng

Trap

1982

As

The Treasure Hunter

2009

As Tu Lao-dai

Starry Starry Night

2011

As Xiao Mei's Grandfather

Bury Me High

1991

As 加里南总统

The Secret

1979

As Policeman

Butterfly

2004

As Flavia's Father

The Drummer

2007

As Stephen Ma

Princess Madam

1989

As Cheung

Rush Hour 2

2001

As Captain Chin

Royal Warriors

1986

As Captain Lau Chi-Shing

Teddy Girls

1969

As

Inspector Pink Dragon

1991

As Chief Insp Pao

Master Cute

1965

As

Six Strong Guys

2004

As Rico 岳父

The Attorney

2021

As Tsang Kwok-Shan

Deliverance

2024

As

Good Night

2016

As

The Touch

2002

As Ping

Peking Opera Blues

1986

As General Cho

A Better Tomorrow

1986

As Ken

Long and Winding Road

1994

As Bosco Chow

Promising Miss Bowie

1990

As Mr. Chow

Thank You Sir

1989

As Mr Tsang

Overheard 3

2014

As Uncle To

Die Another Day

2002

As General Moon

Return of the Lucky Stars

1988

As Uncle Kin

To Be Number One

1991

As Chief Inspector Lui Ko-Tin

Supercapitalist

2012

As Victor Chang

Kung Fu Dunk

2008

As Wang Yiwuan

Detective Chinatown 2

2018

As Uncle Seven

Napping Kid

2018

As Chik Kuen

The Hooker and the Hustler

1975

As Wang Kuo-Chun

Shadow Cop

1993

As

Super Me

2019

As

Chasing the Dragon

2017

As Sir Chow

The Plot

1991

As Kiu (The Boss)

Memoirs of a Geisha

2005

As The General

Anna and the King

1999

As Justice Phya Phrom

The Banquet

1991

As Chef

Production

Frigidity

1975

As Director

The Eternal Obsession

1976

As Director

Funny Kung Fu

1978

As Director

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