Kenneth Tsang
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1934-09-02
Day of Death
2022-04-27 (87 years old)
Place of Birth
Hong Kong
Kenneth Tsang
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.
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Known For
Acting
(2024)
Deliverance
as Brian Lam
(2023)
The Modelizer
as Wellington Koo
(2023)
(2022)
A Sealed Book
as Governor Zhang
(2022)
(2022)
(2022)
Man on the Edge
as Senior LegCo member
(2021)
The Attorney
as Tsang Kwok-Shan
(2021)
(2021)
Daily Fantasy
as [A Zhen's car]
(2020)
Triple Identity
as Xun Yunchang
(2020)
(2019)
(2019)
(2019)
(2018)
Napping Kid
as Chik Kuen
(2018)
Super Time and Space Rescue
as Granddad
(2018)
Detective Chinatown 2
as Uncle Seven
(2018)
(2018)
I Am Your Mom
as Qin Zhenhua
(2018)
(2017)
Chasing the Dragon
as Sir Chow
(2017)
(2017)
(2017)
(2016)
For a Few Bullets
as Oda Koki
(2016)
(2016)
(2016)
(2016)
(2016)
(2015)
(2015)
(2015)
(2014)
The Summer of Our Graduation
as Sun Jian
(2014)
Overheard 3
as Uncle To
(2014)
(2014)
(2013)
Something Good
as Signor Feng
(2013)
(2012)
Inseparable
as Mr. Wang
(2012)
(2012)
Joyful Reunion
as Tan Shichje
(2012)
Supercapitalist
as Victor Chang
(2011)
Starry Starry Night
as Xiao Mei's Grandfather
(2011)
Overheard 2
as Tony Wong
(2011)
My Wedding and Other Secrets
as Dr Chu
(2011)
Motherland
as Stanley Tang
(2010)
Fortune King Is Coming to Town!
as Mr Liang
(2010)
(2009)
The Treasure Hunter
as Tu Lao-dai
(2009)
Prince of Tears
as General Liu
(2009)
Blood Ties
as Woon Sir
(2009)
(2008)
Kung Fu Dunk
as Wang Yiwuan
(2007)
The Drummer
as Stephen Ma
(2007)
(2006)
The Tokyo Trial
as Hsiang Che-Chun
(2005)
Memoirs of a Geisha
as The General
(2005)
(2005)
(2004)
(2004)
Six Strong Guys
as Rico 岳父
(2004)
Butterfly
as Flavia's Father
(2002)
Die Another Day
as General Moon
(2002)
The Touch
as Ping
(2001)
Rush Hour 2
as Captain Chin
(2001)
Funeral March
as Wong Cheuk Kong
(2001)
(2000)
Killer
as Prince
(1999)
Anna and the King
as Justice Phya Phrom
(1998)
The Blacksheep Affair
as Lone Moon / Tasta
(1998)
Bishonen
as Sam's Father
(1998)
The Replacement Killers
as Terence Wei
(1997)
(1995)
(1994)
Long and Winding Road
as Bosco Chow
(1993)
(1993)
The Bare-Footed Kid
as Ke Hu Pu
(1993)
(1993)
(1993)
No Regret, No Return
as Lau Sin
(1993)
(1993)
(1993)
(1992)
Second to None
as Julian's Father
(1992)
Police Story 3: Super Cop
as Khun Chaibat
(1992)
Angel Terminators
as Ken Zheng
(1992)
(1992)
(1992)
(1992)
Changing Partner
as Chief Inspector Wong Kwok Wing
(1992)
(1992)
(1991)
Legend of the Brothers
as Detective Lui Kwok Tin
(1991)
To Be Number One
as Chief Inspector Lui Ko-Tin
(1991)
Inspector Pink Dragon
as Chief Insp Pao
(1991)
The Plot
as Kiu (The Boss)
(1991)
The Banquet
as Chef
(1991)
(1991)
Once a Thief
as Chow / Dad
(1991)
Au Revoir, Mon Amour
as Mui Yi's Father
(1991)
Bury Me High
as President of Carrinan
(1990)
Point of No Return
as Uncle Min
(1990)
Promising Miss Bowie
as Mr. Chow
(1990)
Brief Encounter In Shinjuku
as Mr Tseng
(1990)
(1990)
Sleazy Dizzy
as Chief Inspector Lee
(1990)
Shadow of China
as Mr. Lau
(1990)
Queen's High
as Fan Yau Tim
(1989)
The Killer
as Sgt. Tsang Yeh
(1989)
Return of the Lucky Stars
as Uncle Kin
(1989)
The First Time is the Last Time
as Jenny's Father
(1989)
Princess Madam
as Cheung
(1989)
Thank You Sir
as Mr Tsang
(1989)
I Am Sorry
as Edward Sung
(1989)
Triads: The Inside Story
as Supt. Chan Tin- Lok
(1989)
Dark Side of China Town
as Uncle Kwan
(1989)
(1989)
(1988)
Last Romance
as Li Chih-Cheng
(1988)
(1988)
Goodbye My Friend
as Lung
(1987)
Amnesty Decree
as Tsai
(1987)
A Better Tomorrow II
as Kin
(1986)
A Better Tomorrow
as Kin
(1986)
Peking Opera Blues
as General Cho
(1986)
Royal Warriors
as Captain Lau Chi-Shing
(1986)
(1986)
Silver Dragon Ninja
as Mark
(1983)
The Body Is Willing
as Francis Chao(趙公子)
(1983)
(1982)
Trap
as Ma Man-Rei
(1982)
(1979)
The Secret
as Policeman
(1978)
The Extras
as Ting Chung
(1978)
(1978)
(1976)
(1976)
(1975)
(1975)
(1975)
The Hooker and the Hustler
as Wang Kuo-Chun
(1974)
(1974)
(1973)
(1973)
The Money-tree
as Hsiao-cheung
(1973)
The Awaken Punch
as Goes to the Law
(1973)
(1972)
(1971)
The Brave and the Evil
as Bandit Jie Fei
(1971)
(1971)
(1971)
Demonstrator
as Thao Kimalayo
(1970)
I'll Get You One Day
as Wong Dai Wai
(1970)
(1970)
(1970)
Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
as Health Department Chief Zhou
(1970)
(1970)
(1970)
(1970)
(1970)
(1970)
(1969)
(1969)
Sword of Emei
as Au Gong
(1969)
Sky Dragon Castle
as Ngo Sei Hoi
(1969)
The Prodigal
as Oi-Lun
(1969)
(1969)
The Little Warrior
as General Sheung Kwun Hung
(1969)
(1969)
(1969)
(1969)
(1969)
(1969)
The Youth
as Chow Hoi-Kit
(1969)
Lovely Husbands
as Alan Lee Si Kong
(1969)
(1969)
(1969)
(1969)
(1969)
(1969)
(1969)
(1969)
(1969)
Happy Wedlock
as Kwok-wai
(1969)
(1969)
(1968)
The Tin Long Gang
as Lung
(1968)
(1968)
(1968)
(1968)
A Romantic Thief
as Tsang Tai Hsiung
(1968)
The Chivalrous Whip
as Kwok Ching-hwa
(1968)
(1968)
(1968)
(1968)
(1968)
(1968)
(1968)
(1968)
(1968)
(1968)
(1968)
(1967)
Lady in Black Cracks the Gate of Hell
as Ko Cheung
(1967)
(1967)
The Witch
as Gold Hand Scholar
(1967)
The Lady with a Cat's Eyes
as Sit Bong
(1967)
(1967)
(1967)
(1967)
(1967)
(1967)
(1967)
(1967)
(1967)
(1967)
(1966)
The Black Musketeer 'F'
as Ko Cheung
(1966)
The Woman in Black and the Black Dragon
as Ko Cheung
(1965)
(1965)
(1965)
Book Without Words
as White Wolf
(1965)
(1965)
(1964)
(1955)
Crew
(1978)
Funny Kung Fu
Director
(1976)
The Eternal Obsession
Director
(1975)
Frigidity
Director