Kenneth Tsang
Born September 02, 1934 (Age: 91)
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Hong 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.
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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Filmography
Detective Chinatown 2
2018
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as Uncle Seven
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Age: 83
Chasing the Dragon
2017
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as Sir Chow
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Age: 83
盗爱空间之私人电影
2016
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Age: 81
Supercapitalist
2012
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as Victor Chang
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Age: 77
Starry Starry Night
2011
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as Xiao Mei's Grandfather
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Age: 77
Overheard 2
2011
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as Tony Wong
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Age: 76
Blood Ties
2009
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as Woon Sir
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Age: 75
Kung Fu Dunk
2008
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as Wang Yiwuan
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Age: 73
Memoirs of a Geisha
2005
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as The General
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Age: 71
Suz Impression
2005
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as
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Age: 70
回家看看
2005
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Age: 70
Die Another Day
2002
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as General Moon
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Age: 68
Rush Hour 2
2001
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as Captain Chin
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Age: 66
Killer
2000
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as 公子
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Age: 65
Anna and the King
1999
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as Justice Phya Phrom
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Age: 65
The Replacement Killers
1998
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as Terence Wei
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Age: 63
The Night Rider
1992
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as
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Age: 58
Police Story 3: Super Cop
1992
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as Khun Chaibat
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Age: 57
The Story of Taipei Women
1992
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as
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Age: 57
The Plot
1991
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as Kiu (The Boss)
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Age: 56
Once a Thief
1991
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as Chow / Dad
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Age: 56
Brief Encounter In Shinjuku
1990
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as Mr Tseng
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Age: 55
Triads: The Inside Story
1989
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as Supt. Chan Tin- Lok
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Age: 54
The Killer
1989
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as Sgt. Tsang Yeh
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Age: 54
A Better Tomorrow II
1987
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as Kin
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Age: 53
A Better Tomorrow
1986
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as Kin
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Age: 51
Trap
1982
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as Ma Man-Rei
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Age: 47
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ICAC: Section Nine
1978
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as
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Age: 43
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ICAC: A Man
1978
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Age: 43
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晨星
1975
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Age: 40
The Paradise
1974
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Age: 39
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The Playful Girl
1971
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Age: 37
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我永远记着你
1970
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Age: 36
The Wedding Gown
1970
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Age: 35
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To Crack the Dragon Gate
1970
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Age: 35
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小金剛
1970
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Age: 35
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飞剑神童
1970
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Age: 35
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飞凤狂龙
1970
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Age: 35
相思甜如蜜
1969
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as Tong Chi-Hung
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Age: 35
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Famous Swordsman Tin Kiu
1969
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Age: 35
成家立室
1969
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Age: 35
The Prodigal
1969
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as Oi-Lun
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Age: 35
Sword of Emei
1969
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as Au Gong
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Age: 35
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三招了
1969
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as
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Age: 34
Happy Wedlock
1969
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as Kwok-wai
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Age: 34
Wong Fei-Hung's Combat with the Five Wolves
1969
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as
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Age: 34
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雌雄妙贼
1969
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Age: 34
Sky Dragon Castle
1969
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as Ngo Sei Hoi
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Age: 34
Lovely Husbands
1969
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as Alan Lee Si Kong
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Age: 34
The Little Warrior
1969
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as General Sheung Kwun Hung
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Age: 34
The Youth
1969
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as Chow Hoi-Kit
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Age: 34
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艷俠紅玫瑰
1969
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Age: 34
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奪命雌雄劍
1969
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Age: 34
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血羅巾
1969
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Age: 34
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玉女剑
1969
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Age: 34
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黃飛鴻浴血硫磺谷
1969
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Age: 34
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七彩红男绿女
1969
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Age: 34
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鐵髮紅姑
1969
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Age: 34
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黄飞鸿神威伏三煞
1969
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Age: 34
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黄飞鸿巧夺鲨鱼青
1969
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Age: 34
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飛賊白菊花
1969
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Age: 34
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七彩姑娘十八一朵花
1969
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Age: 34
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The Vengeful Spirit
1968
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Age: 34
The Tin Long Gang
1968
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as Lung
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Age: 34
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小五義大破銅網陣
1968
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Age: 34
The Chivalrous Whip
1968
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as Kwok Ching-hwa
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Age: 33
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That Frightening Sword
1968
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Age: 33
A Romantic Thief
1968
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as Tsang Tai Hsiung
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Age: 33
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Huang Feihong: The Invincible Lion Dancer
1968
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Age: 33
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Buddhist Spiritual Palm
1968
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Age: 33
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Buddhist Spiritual Palm Returned
1968
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as 柳靜
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Age: 33
The Gilded Cage
1968
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Age: 33
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黄飞鸿肉搏黑霸王
1968
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Age: 33
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黄飞鸿醉打八金刚
1968
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Age: 33
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黄飞鸿威震五羊城
1968
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Age: 33
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玉女英魂(上集)
1965
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Age: 30
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玉女英魂(下集)
1965
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Age: 30
Tragedy of Vendetta
1955
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Age: 21