
Kenneth Tsang
Born: 1934-09-02
Place of Birth: 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.
Known For

Rush Hour 2

Die Another Day

A Better Tomorrow

The Touch

The Killer

Memoirs of a Geisha

Chasing the Dragon

Police Story 3: Super Cop

Something Good

The Modelizer

Royal Warriors

A Better Tomorrow II

The Banquet

The Replacement Killers

Brief Encounter In Shinjuku

Once a Thief

Demonstrator

Detective Chinatown 2

Supercapitalist

Kung Fu Dunk

Song of the Assassins

Anna and the King

Return of the Lucky Stars

Good Night

To Be Number One

Peking Opera Blues

Super Me

The Blacksheep Affair

Au Revoir, Mon Amour

Overheard 3

No. 7 Cherry Lane

Colour Blossoms

My Wedding and Other Secrets

No Regret, No Return

Motherland

Angel Terminators

Legend of the Brothers

Fortune King Is Coming to Town!

The Bare-Footed Kid

Overheard 2

Sleazy Dizzy

The Treasure Hunter

The Body Is Willing

The Attorney

Shadow of China

Butterfly

The Thief of Time

My Will, I Will

Bishonen

Remains of a Woman

Lover of the Swindler

Man on the Edge

The Secret

For a Few Bullets

The Sword and Knife (Conclusion)

The First Time is the Last Time

Last Romance

The Awaken Punch

Long and Winding Road

Inseparable

Shadow Cop

Starry Starry Night

Deliverance

The Drummer

Triads: The Inside Story

East Wind Rain

I Am Sorry

The Tokyo Trial

Wonder Mama

Six Strong Guys

Sword of Emei

Napping Kid

Bury Me High

The Prince of Temple Street

Princess Madam

The Lady with a Cat's Eyes

Dearest Anita

Master Cute

Return to Action

Man's Creed

Funeral March

A Sealed Book

Killer

Joyful Reunion

Point of No Return

Combat at Heaven Gate

The Night Rider

The Call Girls

The Paradise

Promising Miss Bowie

Goodbye My Friend

Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

The Chivalrous Whip

Wong Fei-Hung's Combat with the Five Wolves

Amnesty Decree

Blood Ties

Sky Dragon Castle

Prince of Tears

Inspector Pink Dragon

Blood Reincarnation

The Prodigal

The Plot

Queen's High

Changing Partner

The Black Musketeer 'F'

The Brave and the Evil

Up for the Rising Sun

Wild Cherry

The Witch

Paragon of Sword and Knife

The Story of Hay Bo

I Am Your Mom

I'll Get You One Day

Purple Night

The Woman in Black and the Black Dragon

Love Is Smoke

The Top Lady of Sword

The Hooker and the Hustler

Second to None

Trap

Tragedy of Vendetta

The Youth

Dark Side of China Town

Wong Fei-Hung: Duel for the Championship

The Trail

Daily Fantasy

The Eyes of Dawn

A Romantic Thief

The Immigrant Policeman

Lovely Husbands

Romance of a Teenage Girl

Big City Little Romance

Drugs Area

The Extras

The Summer of Our Graduation

Super Time and Space Rescue

The Tin Long Gang

My Beloved

Thank You Sir

Misunderstood

叠恋

Baby Task Group

Teddy Girls

Legend of Poker King

Taste of Happiness

Lady in Black Cracks the Gate of Hell

Triple Identity

Divorce Hong Kong Style

The Gilded Cage

Special Roles

The Little Warrior

The Wedding Gown

Megaforce from Highland

Return of the Heroes

37

Dead End

Choi Lee Fat

The Revenge

Silver Dragon Ninja

Sup Sap Bup Dap

成家立室

大明诡事录

恐怖快递

The Eternal Obsession

Three Men and Half Back in the Field

扯淡侠

失恋狂想曲

Fight Up

My Mother

Rude Husband

Happy Wedlock

You Are My Sassy Girl

The Story of Taipei Women

Mimi-Private Eye

Suz Impression

你是我兄弟之牌王

回家看看

美少女战队

你是我兄弟巅峰决战
