Kenneth Tsang
Born
September 2, 1934
Died
April 27, 2022 (87 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Hong Kong
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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The Revenge
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The Modelizer
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A Sealed Book
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Song of the Assassins
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Man on the Edge
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Man's Creed
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2021
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Super Me
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Triple Identity
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2020
Taste of Happiness
2020
Special Roles
2019
The Code of Siam
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2019
No. 7 Cherry Lane
2019
Linglong Bureau
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2019
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Dearest Anita
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2018
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2017
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2017
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2016
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2016
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2016
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2016
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2015
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2010
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2005
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Die Another Day
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2002
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2002
Funeral March
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2001
Rush Hour 2
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2001
Rude Husband
2001
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2000
Killer
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2000
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1999
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(40 episodes)
1990
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1989
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(20 episodes)
1989
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1988
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A Better Tomorrow II
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(59 episodes)
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My Will, I Will
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A Better Tomorrow
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1986
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1986
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1981
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1981
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1980
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1980
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(25 episodes)
1980
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1979
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1979
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1976
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1976
The Return of the Condor Heroes
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1976
The Legend of the Condor Heroes
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1976
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Blood Reincarnation
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We Visited Southeast Asia
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The Money-tree
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The Awaken Punch
Goes to the Law
1973
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1973
Love Is Smoke
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The Playful Girl
1971
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1971
Demonstrator
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1971
The Brave and the Evil
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1971
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1970
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1970
The Wedding Gown
1970
I'll Get You One Day
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1970
To Crack the Dragon Gate
1970
Misunderstood
1970
小金剛
1970
Famous Swordsman Tin Kiu
1969
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The Prodigal
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Sword of Emei
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Happy Wedlock
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1969
Wong Fei-Hung's Combat with the Five Wolves
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Teddy Girls
1969
Wise Wives and Foolish Husbands
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The Little Warrior
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1969
The Youth
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The Vengeful Spirit
1968
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1968
Hotel Lavender
1968
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1968
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1968
Buddhist Spiritual Palm
1968
Buddhist Spiritual Palm Returned
柳靜
1968
The Gilded Cage
1968
Paragon of Sword and Knife
1967
殺手粉紅鑽
1967
The Lady with a Cat's Eyes
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1967
Romance of a Teenage Girl
1967
蓬门淑女
1967
大師姐
1967
The Witch
Gold Hand Scholar
1967
Lady in Black Cracks the Gate of Hell
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1967
The Woman in Black and the Black Dragon
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1966
The Black Musketeer 'F'
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1966
Book Without Words
White Wolf
1965
Master Cute
1965
Mimi-Private Eye
1965
The Big Circus
1964
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Flower Grandpa
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2005
The Teochew Family
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1995
The Unbeatables
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1993
Police Magazine
(13 episodes)
1993
Bet On Fate
(20 episodes)
1992
Flame of Fury
(20 episodes)
1988
The Greenhorns
(20 episodes)
1987
Siblings of The Vice and Virtue
(20 episodes)
1986
The Smiling Proud Wanderer
(30 episodes)
1984
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1975
我永远记着你
1970
飞剑神童
1970
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1970
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1969
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1969
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1969
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1969
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1969
鐵髮紅姑
1969
黄飞鸿神威伏三煞
1969
黄飞鸿巧夺鲨鱼青
1969
七彩姑娘十八一朵花
1969
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1969
艳侠红玫瑰
1969
飛賊白菊花
1969
奪命雌雄劍
1969
小五義大破銅網陣
1968
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1968
黄飞鸿醉打八金刚
1968
黄飞鸿威震五羊城
1968
那个少女不多情
1967
姐姐的情人
1967
旺财嫂
1967
渔港恩仇
1967
玉女的秘密
1967
黄飞鸿虎爪会群英
1967
玉女英魂(上集)
1965
玉女英魂(下集)
1965
Tragedy of Vendetta
1955
陌生人
(1 episode)