Cast

Kenneth Tsang

Acting

Cast

Kenneth Tsang

Known for

Acting

Born

1934-09-02

From

Hong Kong

Died

2022-04-27

Also known as Kenneth Tsang Kong, 曾貴一, کنت تسانگ

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.

Kenneth Tsang

Kenneth Tsang

Biography

Rush Hour 2

Die Another Day

Memoirs of a Geisha

A Better Tomorrow

Police Story 3: Super Cop

The Replacement Killers

The Prince of Temple Street

Anna and the King

Good Night

Teddy Girls

A Better Tomorrow II

Once a Thief

Drugs Area

Detective Chinatown 2

The Killer

Famous Swordsman Tin Kiu

Queen's High

Royal Warriors

The Story of Taipei Women

Colour Blossoms

The Banquet

Huang Feihong: The Invincible Lion Dancer

A Romantic Thief

Peking Opera Blues

Chasing the Dragon

Kung Fu Dunk

To Be Number One

Legend of the Brothers

Song of the Assassins

Blood Ties

Princess Madam

The Blacksheep Affair

Supercapitalist

The Bare-Footed Kid

恐怖快递

Overheard 2

The Trail

The Revenge

Inseparable

The Modelizer

Angel Terminators

Triple Identity

Butterfly

Overheard 3

The Thief of Time

Super Me

Return of the Lucky Stars

雌雄妙贼

To Crack the Dragon Gate

Sleazy Dizzy

The Touch

玉女剑

Bishonen

Triads: The Inside Story

ICAC: Section Nine

Megaforce from Highland

Return of the Heroes

The Awaken Punch

Sup Sap Bup Dap

The Secret

Starry Starry Night

Happy Wedlock

The Treasure Hunter

旺财嫂

玉女英魂(下集)

晨星

姐姐的情人

艷俠紅玫瑰

Shadow of China

Man on the Edge

You Are My Sassy Girl

East Wind Rain

相思甜如蜜

The Magnificent Five

黄飞鸿醉打八金刚

For a Few Bullets

七彩姑娘十八一朵花