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Kenneth Tsang

Kenneth Tsang

Birthday: 1934-09-02 | Place of Birth: Hong Kong, China

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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
Song of the Assassins

as    Chai Sheng

2021
The Attorney

as    Tsang Kwok-Shan

2021
Daily Fantasy

as    [A Zhen's car]

2019
The Great Craftsman

as    Zhang Bing Kun

2018
Mystery of Antiques

as    黄克武

2012
Inseparable

as    Mr. Wang

2012
Joyful Reunion

as    Tan Shichje

2012
Supercapitalist

as    Victor Chang

2011
My Wedding and Other Secrets

as    Dr Chu

2009
Blood Ties

as    Woon Sir

2008
Kung Fu Dunk

as    Wang Yiwuan

2007
The Drummer

as    Stephen Ma

2006
The Tokyo Trial

as    Hsiang Che-Chun

2004
Butterfly

as    Flavia's Father

2002
Die Another Day

as    General Moon

2002
The Touch

as    Ping

2001
Rush Hour 2

as    Captain Chin

1998
The Blacksheep Affair

as    Lone Moon / Tasta

1998
Bishonen

as    Sam's Father

1998
The Replacement Killers

as    Terence Wei

1994
Once a Thief

as    Chow / Dad

1993
Police Story 3: Super Cop

as    Khun Chaibat

1992
Angel Terminators

as    Ken Zheng

1990
Queen's High

as    Fan Yau Tim