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Kenneth Tsang
Kenneth Tsang

Kenneth Tsang

🎂 Sep 2, 1934 — 🕯️ Apr 27, 2022 (87 years) Hong Kong
Kenneth Tsang is an actor whose career stretches back to the 1950s. They are internationally recognised for their role in Rush Hour 2 as Captain Chin. Their work further includes Die Another Day and Memoirs of a Geisha. They have 230 films and 99 TV productions to their name, working mainly across genres like action, crime, thriller.
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The Legend of the Condor Heroes
The Legend of the Condor Heroes
as 黃藥師
 The Greed of Man
The Greed of Man
as 龍成邦
 Mystery of Antiques
Mystery of Antiques
as 黄克武
 The Duke of Mount Deer
The Duke of Mount Deer
as Chan Kan-nam
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Deliverance
Deliverance
Brian Lam
2024
Film The Modelizer
The Modelizer
Wellington Koo
2023
Film A Sealed Book
A Sealed Book
Governor Zhang
2022
Film Song of the Assassins
Song of the Assassins
Chai Sheng
2022
Film Man on the Edge
Man on the Edge
Senior LegCo member
2022
Film The Attorney
The Attorney
Tsang Kwok-Shan
2021
Film Daily Fantasy
Daily Fantasy
[A Zhen's car]
2021
Film The Dragnet
The Dragnet
Mr. Guo
2021–
TV Triple Identity
Triple Identity
Xun Yunchang
2020
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is Kenneth Tsang still alive?
Kenneth Tsang passed away on April 27, 2022 at age 87.
What are the most famous roles of Kenneth Tsang?
Kenneth Tsang is best known for roles in Rush Hour 2, Die Another Day, Memoirs of a Geisha.
How many movies has Kenneth Tsang been in?
Over a 67-year career (since 1955), Kenneth Tsang has appeared in 229 movies and 99 TV shows.
What was Kenneth Tsang's first movie?
The career of Kenneth Tsang began with Tragedy of Vendetta (1955).
What is Kenneth Tsang's most recent movie or series?
Kenneth Tsang's most recent release is Deliverance, which premiered on January 18, 2024.
What TV shows has Kenneth Tsang appeared in?
On television, Kenneth Tsang has appeared in The Legend of the Condor Heroes, The Greed of Man, Soldier Soldier, Mystery of Antiques.
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Kenneth Tsang
Kenneth Tsang
1934-09-02 · 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.Kenneth Tsang, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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