Kenneth Tsang

Kenneth Tsang

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.

Acting

2024

2023

2023

The Modelizer
Movie

Wellington Koo

2022

A Sealed Book
Movie

Governor Zhang

2022

Man on the Edge
Movie

Senior LegCo member

2022

2021

Layout
Tv

Unknown

2021

The Attorney
Movie

Tsang Kwok-Shan

2021

Daily Fantasy
Movie

[A Zhen's car]

2021

2020

2020

2020

2020

2019

The Code of Siam
Tv

Deng Jianguo

2019

2018

2017

Love of Aurora
Tv

Li Zhengquan

2016

2016

2014

2014

2013

2013

2012

2012

37
Movie

Unknown

2012

2012

2011

2011

Motherland
Movie

Stanley Tang

2010

2009

2008

2007

2007

2007

2006

The Tokyo Trial
Movie

Hsiang Che-Chun

2004

Butterfly
Movie

Flavia's Father

2004

2002

2001

Funeral March
Movie

Wong Cheuk Kong

2001

Rush Hour 2
Movie

Captain Chin

2000

Legend
Tv

Unknown

2000

2000

1999

Anna and the King
Movie

Justice Phya Phrom

1999

Ultra Protection
Tv

Kei Chung-nam

1999

1998

1998

Bishonen
Movie

Sam's Father

1995

1993

1993

1993

1993

1992

Second to None
Movie

Julian's Father

1992

Changing Partner
Movie

Chief Inspector Wong Kwok Wing

1991

Legend of the Brothers
Movie

Detective Lui Kwok Tin

1991

1991

Big Family
Tv

Jiang wen shan

1991

The Plot
Movie

Kiu (The Boss)

1991

To Be Number One
Movie

Chief Inspector Lui Ko-Tin

1991

1991

1991

Bury Me High
Movie

President of Carrinan

1990

1990

Sleazy Dizzy
Movie

Chief Inspector Lee

1989

1989

1989

1989

I Am Sorry
Movie

Edward Sung

1989

1989

The Killer
Movie

Sgt. Tsang Yeh

1989

1988

Last Romance
Movie

Li Chih-Cheng

1988

1987

1987

1986

Royal Warriors
Movie

Captain Lau Chi-Shing

1986

1986

1985

1984

Police Cadet
Tv

廉政公署調查主任

1984

1983

The Body Is Willing
Movie

Francis Chao(趙公子)

1983

1982

1982

Stardust
Tv

Unknown

1982

Trap
Movie

Ma Man-Rei

1982

1982

1981

1979

1978

The Extras
Movie

Ting Chung

1975

1975

1975

1973

The Awaken Punch
Movie

Goes to the Law

1971

1970

Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Movie

Health Department Chief Zhou

1970

Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Movie

Health Department Chief Zhou

1970

Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Movie

Health Department Chief Zhou

1970

1969

1969

1969

1969

1969

1969

1969

1969

1969

Lovely Husbands
Movie

Alan Lee Si Kong

1969

1968

1965

Directing

Crew

Infos

Full Name
Kenneth Tsang
Gender
Male
Date of Birth
9/2/1934
Date of Death
4/27/2022
Also Known As

Kenneth Tsang Kong

曾江

曾貴一

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