Kenneth Tsang

Acting · 2.6 popularity

Age

Movies

230

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Born: September 2, 1934 – April 27, 2022
From: 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.

Works

230 films

Rush Hour 2

20016.8

Die Another Day

20026.0

The Killer

19897.6

Memoirs of a Geisha

20057.6

A Better Tomorrow

19867.4

Police Story 3: Super Cop

19926.9

The Replacement Killers

19986.3

Once a Thief

19916.8

A Better Tomorrow II

19877.1

Anna and the King

19996.8

Last Romance

19885.9

Detective Chinatown 2

20186.2

Royal Warriors

19867.0

Peking Opera Blues

19867.1

Kung Fu Dunk

20086.0

Chasing the Dragon

20177.0

Queen's High

19906.6

Colour Blossoms

20044.5

Huang Feihong: The Invincible Lion Dancer

1968

The Blacksheep Affair

19986.5

The Banquet

19915.8

The Prince of Temple Street

19926.1

Angel Terminators

19925.2

Up for the Rising Sun

19978.0

Song of the Assassins

20225.5

The Touch

20025.1

A Romantic Thief

19687.0

Butterfly

20046.5

Legend of the Brothers

19918.5

To Be Number One

19916.9

The Trail

19936.5

Drugs Area

19917.0

Overheard 3

20145.7

Overheard 2

20116.5

The Bare-Footed Kid

19936.2

The Modelizer

20235.0

Blood Ties

20096.1

Teddy Girls

19699.5

Princess Madam

19895.5

Super Me

20217.4

The First Time is the Last Time

19896.0

The Thief of Time

19926.8

Triple Identity

2020

Famous Swordsman Tin Kiu

19696.5

The Story of Taipei Women

19928.0

Good Night

2016

The Body Is Willing

19835.4

Inseparable

20126.1

恐怖快递

2018

Au Revoir, Mon Amour

19916.1

Supercapitalist

20123.8

Shadow Cop

19938.0

Remains of a Woman

19935.7

Man on the Edge

20224.9

Megaforce from Highland

1992

那个少女不多情

1967

Dearest Anita

20197.0

Bury Me High

19916.0

Sup Sap Bup Dap

19759.0

Bishonen

19986.6

Triads: The Inside Story

19896.1

Sleazy Dizzy

19905.9

The Black Musketeer 'F'

1966

The Awaken Punch

19736.2

The Treasure Hunter

20093.6

The Secret

19796.1

ICAC: Section Nine

1978

Joyful Reunion

20124.7

For a Few Bullets

20164.5

Fortune King Is Coming to Town!

20103.8

Motherland

2011

Man's Creed

20222.5

You Are My Sassy Girl

2014

Girl with Cat's Eye

1967

I Am Sorry

19896.2

The Brave and the Evil

19716.5

The Attorney

20216.6

Changing Partner

19926.5

The Plot

19915.0

Long and Winding Road

19946.0

To Crack the Dragon Gate

1970

No. 7 Cherry Lane

20194.8

成家立室

1969

The Tokyo Trial

20066.3

The Revenge

2023

Starry Starry Night

20116.3

Return of the Lucky Stars

19896.7

Brief Encounter In Shinjuku

19907.7

Daily Fantasy

20217.0

Lover of the Swindler

19938.0

Something Good

20135.8

My Wedding and Other Secrets

20114.4

Funeral March

20015.4

Happy Wedlock

1969

Combat at Heaven Gate

19936.0

飞凤狂龙

1970

晨星

1975

The Wedding Gown

1970

Return to Action

19907.5

Killer

20007.0

Romance of a Teenage Girl

1967

Shadow of China

19907.7

Amnesty Decree

19877.0

Thank You Sir

19896.3

East Wind Rain

20105.6

The Youth

19697.0

Return of the Heroes

2016

七彩红男绿女

1969

相思甜如蜜

1969

I Am Your Mom

20185.0

The Drummer

20076.3

Prince of Tears

20094.5

大師姐

1967

Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

197010.0

My Mother

1983

奪命雌雄劍

1969

The Paradise

1974

Inspector Pink Dragon

19917.5

Napping Kid

20185.2

The Call Girls

197310.0

黄飞鸿肉搏黑霸王

1968

Wonder Mama

2015

The Prodigal

196910.0

The Story of Hay Bo

19887.0

The Eyes of Dawn

20149.0

Three Men and Half Back in the Field

2016

黄飞鸿虎爪会群英

1967

Buddhist Spiritual Palm Returned

1968

The Woman in Black and the Black Dragon

1966

玉女英魂(上集)

1965

玉女的秘密

1967

My Will, I Will

19869.0

艷俠紅玫瑰

1969

The Night Rider

19925.3

Point of No Return

19906.8

Blood Reincarnation

19745.6

雌雄妙贼

1969

Purple Night

19687.0

Promising Miss Bowie

19909.0

Wong Fei-Hung's Combat with the Five Wolves

19697.0

The Little Warrior

19698.0

Deliverance

20243.6

小金剛

1970

Second to None

19927.5

The Money-tree

19738.0

Lovely Husbands

19699.0

Goodbye My Friend

19887.0

Paragon of Sword and Knife

19678.0

Legend of Poker King

2016

A Sealed Book

20223.0

Rude Husband

2001

Misunderstood

19708.0

玉女剑

1969

Choi Lee Fat

19707.0

扯淡侠

2015

The Sword and Knife (Conclusion)

1968

Wild Cherry

19823.5

Six Strong Guys

20046.2

Big City Little Romance

2009

The Summer of Our Graduation

20146.0

Divorce Hong Kong Style

1976

The Magnificent Five

1968

Tragedy of Vendetta

19557.0

Master Cute

19652.0

My Beloved

19719.0

No Regret, No Return

19935.4

黄飞鸿威震五羊城

1968

Taste of Happiness

2020

The Chivalrous Whip

1968

The Witch

1967

玉女英魂(下集)

1965

I'll Get You One Day

1970

The Extras

19787.5

七彩姑娘十八一朵花

1969

旺财嫂

1967

The Immigrant Policeman

19897.0

Baby Task Group

2017

殺手粉紅鑽

1967

The Top Lady of Sword

1993

The Eternal Obsession

1976

回家看看

2005

Trap

19825.7

The Hooker and the Hustler

1975

The Gilded Cage

1968

Wong Fei-Hung: Duel for the Championship

196810.0

姐姐的情人

1967

Buddhist Spiritual Palm

196810.0

Lady in Black Cracks the Gate of Hell

1967

The Big Circus

1964

Dark Side of China Town

19897.0

Sword of Emei

1969

Mimi-Private Eye

1965

Special Roles

20195.0

Super Time and Space Rescue

2018

Silver Dragon Ninja

19864.4

ICAC: A Man

1978

黄飞鸿醉打八金刚

1968

黄飞鸿巧夺鲨鱼青

1969

Zhuibu

20076.0

Love Is Smoke

1972

Book Without Words

1965

We Visited Southeast Asia

19737.0

你是我兄弟巅峰决战

2018

失恋狂想曲

2013

The Playful Girl

1971

Sky Dragon Castle

19698.0

渔港恩仇

1967

Dead End

19955.0

Fight Up

2015

The Tin Long Gang

19687.5

20125.0

The Vengeful Spirit

1968

小五義大破銅網陣

1968

黃飛鴻浴血硫磺谷

1969

大明诡事录

2026

Demonstrator

19718.0

叠恋

1989

盗爱空间之私人电影

2016

Hotel Lavender

1968

That Frightening Sword

1968

三招了

1969

鐵髮紅姑

1969

我永远记着你

1970

蓬门淑女

1967

飞剑神童

1970

你是我兄弟之牌王

2017

Suz Impression

2005

血羅巾

1969

黄飞鸿神威伏三煞

1969

飛賊白菊花

1969