Kenneth Tsang

Known for: Acting
Born: Sep 2, 1934
Died: Apr 27, 2022 (aged 87)
Place of birth: Hong Kong
Credits: 331

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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Known for

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Rush Hour 2

2001Movie

Captain Chin

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Die Another Day

2002Movie

General Moon

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Memoirs of a Geisha

2005Movie

The General

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The Killer

1989Movie

Sgt. Tsang Yeh

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Anna and the King

1999Movie

Justice Phya Phrom

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A Better Tomorrow

1986Movie

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Filmography

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Deliverance

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Kenneth Tsang

Known for

Rush Hour 2

Die Another Day

Memoirs of a Geisha

The Killer

Anna and the King

A Better Tomorrow

Filmography

Deliverance

The Revenge

The Modelizer

A Sealed Book

Song of the Assassins

Man on the Edge

Man's Creed

Layout

The Attorney

Daily Fantasy

Super Me

The Dragnet

Triple Identity

Taste of Happiness

The Code of Siam

Special Roles

No. 7 Cherry Lane

Linglong Bureau

Dearest Anita

Mystery of Antiques

古董局中局

恐怖快递

Napping Kid

Super Time and Space Rescue

I Am Your Mom

Happiness Chocolate

你是我兄弟巅峰决战

Detective Chinatown 2

Love of Aurora

Baby Task Group

你是我兄弟之牌王

Chasing the Dragon

Good Night

For a Few Bullets

盗爱空间之私人电影

玛嘉烈与大卫系列 绿豆

Legend of Poker King

Return of the Heroes

Three Men and Half Back in the Field

扯淡侠

Fight Up

Four Amigos Bon Voyage

Wonder Mama

The Eyes of Dawn

The Summer of Our Graduation

You Are My Sassy Girl

Flower Grandpa

Overheard 3

Shi Li Xiang Da Jiu Fang

Meng's Palace

Something Good

Tiger Kung Fu of Wulin

失恋狂想曲

Supercapitalist

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Inseparable

Joyful Reunion

Starry Starry Night

Overheard 2

Motherland

My Wedding and Other Secrets

金钱本色

Who's the Hero

East Wind Rain

柳云龙 系列

Fortune King Is Coming to Town!

The Treasure Hunter

Blood Ties

Prince of Tears

Big City Little Romance

Flaming Butterfly

玛嘉烈与大卫系列绿豆

柳云龙系列