Kenneth Tsang

Acting · 2.3 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

Police Story 3: Super Cop

19926.9

A Better Tomorrow

19867.4

The Replacement Killers

19986.3

Once a Thief

19916.8

A Better Tomorrow II

19877.1

Anna and the King

19996.8

Kung Fu Dunk

20086.0

Last Romance

19885.9

Peking Opera Blues

19867.1

Royal Warriors

19867.0

Detective Chinatown 2

20186.2

Up for the Rising Sun

19978.0

Huang Feihong: The Invincible Lion Dancer

1968

The Banquet

19915.8

Chasing the Dragon

20177.0

Colour Blossoms

20044.5

The Blacksheep Affair

19986.5

The Prince of Temple Street

19926.1

A Romantic Thief

19687.0

Queen's High

19906.6

To Be Number One

19916.9

The Modelizer

20235.0

Drugs Area

19917.0

The Touch

20025.1

Angel Terminators

19925.2

Song of the Assassins

20225.5

Famous Swordsman Tin Kiu

19696.5

Au Revoir, Mon Amour

19916.1

Blood Ties

20096.1

Princess Madam

19895.5

Teddy Girls

19699.5

Overheard 2

20116.5

Butterfly

20046.5

Overheard 3

20145.7

Super Me

20217.4

那个少女不多情

1967

The Bare-Footed Kid

19936.2

The Body Is Willing

19835.4

Good Night

2016

The First Time is the Last Time

19896.0

Megaforce from Highland

1992

Triple Identity

2020

The Trail

19936.5

Bishonen

19986.6

The Story of Taipei Women

19928.0

Remains of a Woman

19935.7

Legend of the Brothers

19918.5

Inseparable

20126.1

Supercapitalist

20123.8

Triads: The Inside Story

19896.1

Man on the Edge

20224.9

Bury Me High

19916.0

Shadow Cop

19938.0

ICAC: Section Nine

1978

恐怖快递

2018

You Are My Sassy Girl

2014

The Secret

19796.1

For a Few Bullets

20164.5

Man's Creed

20222.5

The Treasure Hunter

20093.6

The Thief of Time

19926.8

Dearest Anita

20197.0

The Black Musketeer 'F'

1966

The Attorney

20216.6

The Awaken Punch

19736.2

Girl with Cat's Eye

1967

The Plot

19915.0

Motherland

2011

Sleazy Dizzy

19905.9

I Am Sorry

19896.2

Sup Sap Bup Dap

19759.0

Return of the Lucky Stars

19896.7

Fortune King Is Coming to Town!

20103.8

No. 7 Cherry Lane

20194.8

Funeral March

20015.4

To Crack the Dragon Gate

1970

Long and Winding Road

19946.0

Return to Action

19907.5

Something Good

20135.8

The Tokyo Trial

20066.3

Prince of Tears

20094.5

Lover of the Swindler

19938.0

The Youth

19697.0

Changing Partner

19926.5

Shadow of China

19907.7

Joyful Reunion

20124.7

Killer

20007.0

Combat at Heaven Gate

19936.0

成家立室

1969

The Woman in Black and the Black Dragon

1966

Napping Kid

20185.2

My Wedding and Other Secrets

20114.4

Romance of a Teenage Girl

1967

The Brave and the Evil

19716.5

Starry Starry Night

20116.3

Happy Wedlock

1969

The Drummer

20076.3

East Wind Rain

20105.6

飞凤狂龙

1970

Purple Night

19687.0

The Call Girls

197310.0

My Mother

1983

黄飞鸿威震五羊城

1968

Amnesty Decree

19877.0

Buddhist Spiritual Palm Returned

1968

Inspector Pink Dragon

19917.5

The Revenge

2023

Wonder Mama

2015

Lovely Husbands

19699.0

Thank You Sir

19896.3

Wong Fei-Hung's Combat with the Five Wolves

19697.0

Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

197010.0

Point of No Return

19906.8

Choi Lee Fat

19707.0

Return of the Heroes

2016

Brief Encounter In Shinjuku

19907.7

玉女的秘密

1967

My Will, I Will

19869.0

The Prodigal

196910.0

雌雄妙贼

1969

晨星

1975

Blood Reincarnation

19745.6

黄飞鸿肉搏黑霸王

1968

Taste of Happiness

2020

Second to None

19927.5

Silver Dragon Ninja

19864.4

七彩红男绿女

1969

Six Strong Guys

20046.2

Big City Little Romance

2009

Promising Miss Bowie

19909.0

I Am Your Mom

20185.0

艷俠紅玫瑰

1969

黄飞鸿虎爪会群英

1967

The Night Rider

19925.3

相思甜如蜜

1969

Daily Fantasy

20217.0

Three Men and Half Back in the Field

2016

玉女剑

1969

大師姐

1967

The Sword and Knife (Conclusion)

1968

The Story of Hay Bo

19887.0

Goodbye My Friend

19887.0

The Immigrant Policeman

19897.0

The Playful Girl

1971

奪命雌雄劍

1969

The Money-tree

19738.0

My Beloved

19719.0

Divorce Hong Kong Style

1976

The Wedding Gown

1970

The Hooker and the Hustler

1975

Legend of Poker King

2016

殺手粉紅鑽

1967

The Gilded Cage

1968

Wild Cherry

19823.5

No Regret, No Return

19935.4

I'll Get You One Day

1970

小金剛

1970

失恋狂想曲

2013

黄飞鸿醉打八金刚

1968

Misunderstood

19708.0

The Little Warrior

19698.0

Rude Husband

2001

Trap

19825.7

Demonstrator

19718.0

姐姐的情人

1967

Mimi-Private Eye

1965

A Sealed Book

20223.0

Deliverance

20243.6

The Eyes of Dawn

20149.0

The Chivalrous Whip

1968

Love Is Smoke

1972

Paragon of Sword and Knife

19678.0

扯淡侠

2015

The Eternal Obsession

1976

The Top Lady of Sword

1993

旺财嫂

1967

Book Without Words

1965

The Magnificent Five

1968

小五義大破銅網陣

1968

Master Cute

19652.0

The Tin Long Gang

19687.5

Baby Task Group

2017

The Extras

19787.5

玉女英魂(上集)

1965

Sky Dragon Castle

19698.0

Lady in Black Cracks the Gate of Hell

1967

Tragedy of Vendetta

19557.0

Sword of Emei

1969

The Big Circus

1964

The Paradise

1974

Dark Side of China Town

19897.0

玉女英魂(下集)

1965

Wong Fei-Hung: Duel for the Championship

196810.0

七彩姑娘十八一朵花

1969

The Witch

1967

黄飞鸿巧夺鲨鱼青

1969

渔港恩仇

1967

Hotel Lavender

1968

The Summer of Our Graduation

20146.0

Zhuibu

20076.0

We Visited Southeast Asia

19737.0

20125.0

Dead End

19955.0

Buddhist Spiritual Palm

196810.0

That Frightening Sword

1968

回家看看

2005

大明诡事录

2026

叠恋

1989

ICAC: A Man

1978

Fight Up

2015

鐵髮紅姑

1969

Super Time and Space Rescue

2018

我永远记着你

1970

Special Roles

20195.0

The Vengeful Spirit

1968

蓬门淑女

1967

三招了

1969

黃飛鴻浴血硫磺谷

1969

飞剑神童

1970

Suz Impression

2005

盗爱空间之私人电影

2016

黄飞鸿神威伏三煞

1969

你是我兄弟之牌王

2017

你是我兄弟巅峰决战

2018

飛賊白菊花

1969

血羅巾

1969