Acting
Kenneth Tsang
ZH, CN, EN, JA cinema · 232 credits
Born
2 September 1934
Died
27 April 2022 (aged 87)
Birthplace
Hong Kong
Also known as Kenneth Tsang Kong · 曾貴一 · کنت تسانگ
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.
Known for
Filmography
大明诡事录
Actor
Deliverance
as Brian Lam
The Modelizer
as Wellington Koo
Man on the Edge
as Senior LegCo member
A Sealed Book
as Governor Zhang
Song of the Assassins
as Chai Sheng
The Attorney
as Tsang Kwok-Shan
Super Me
Actor
Daily Fantasy
as [A Zhen's car]
Triple Identity
as Xun Yunchang
I Am Your Mom
as Qin Zhenhua
Detective Chinatown 2
as Uncle Seven
Napping Kid
as Chik Kuen
Chasing the Dragon
as Sir Chow
For a Few Bullets
as Oda Koki
The Summer of Our Graduation
as Sun Jian
Overheard 3
as Uncle To
Something Good
as Signor Feng
37
Actor
Joyful Reunion
as Tan Shichje
Supercapitalist
as Victor Chang
Inseparable
as Mr. Wang
Overheard 2
as Tony Wong
Starry Starry Night
as Xiao Mei's Grandfather
Motherland
as Stanley Tang
Fortune King Is Coming to Town!
as Mr Liang
The Treasure Hunter
as Tu Lao-dai
Blood Ties
as Woon Sir
Prince of Tears
as General Liu
Kung Fu Dunk
as Wang Yiwuan
The Drummer
as Stephen Ma
The Tokyo Trial
as Hsiang Che-Chun
Memoirs of a Geisha
as The General
Butterfly
as Flavia's Father
Six Strong Guys
as Rico 岳父
The Touch
as Ping
Die Another Day
as General Moon
Rush Hour 2
as Captain Chin
Funeral March
as Wong Cheuk Kong
Killer
as Master
Anna and the King
as Justice Phya Phrom
The Replacement Killers
as Terence Wei
Bishonen
as Sam's Father
The Blacksheep Affair
as Lone Moon / Tasta
Dead End
Actor
Long and Winding Road
as Bosco Chow
The Bare-Footed Kid
as Ke Hu Pu
No Regret, No Return
as Lau Sin
Police Story 3: Super Cop
as Khun Chaibat
Angel Terminators
as Ken Zheng
Second to None
as Julian's Father
Changing Partner
as Chief Inspector Wong Kwok Wing
Legend of the Brothers
as Detective Lui Kwok Tin
To Be Number One
as Chief Inspector Lui Ko-Tin
Once a Thief
as Chow / Dad
Bury Me High
as President of Carrinan
Inspector Pink Dragon
as Chief Insp Pao
The Plot
as Kiu (The Boss)
The Banquet
as Chef
Au Revoir, Mon Amour
as Mui Yi's Father
Sleazy Dizzy
as Chief Inspector Lee
Point of No Return
as Uncle Min
Promising Miss Bowie
as Mr. Chow
Brief Encounter In Shinjuku
as Mr Tseng
Queen's High
as Fan Yau Tim
Shadow of China
as Mr. Lau
The Killer
as Sgt. Tsang Yeh
I Am Sorry
as Edward Sung
Return of the Lucky Stars
as Uncle Kin
Triads: The Inside Story
as Supt. Chan Tin- Lok
Thank You Sir
as Mr Tsang
Dark Side of China Town
as Uncle Kwan
Princess Madam
as Cheung
The First Time is the Last Time
as Jenny's Father
叠恋
Actor
Last Romance
as Li Chih-Cheng
Amnesty Decree
as Tsai
Royal Warriors
as Captain Lau Chi-Shing
Peking Opera Blues
as General Cho
The Body Is Willing
as Francis Chao(趙公子)
Trap
as Ma Man-Rei
The Secret
as Policeman
The Extras
as Ting Chung
Funny Kung Fu
Director
The Eternal Obsession
Actor, Director
The Hooker and the Hustler
as Wang Kuo-Chun
Frigidity
Director
搖錢樹
1973
The Money-tree
as Hsiao-cheung
The Awaken Punch
as Goes to the Law
Demonstrator
as Thao Kimalayo
The Brave and the Evil
as Bandit Jie Fei
Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
as Health Department Chief Zhou
I'll Get You One Day
as Wong Dai Wai
Happy Wedlock
as Kwok-wai
The Youth
as Chow Hoi-Kit
Lovely Husbands
as Alan Lee Si Kong
The Prodigal
as Oi-Lun
Sky Dragon Castle
as Ngo Sei Hoi
Sword of Emei
as Au Gong
The Little Warrior
as General Sheung Kwun Hung
相思甜如蜜
1969
相思甜如蜜
as Tong Chi-Hung
A Romantic Thief
as Tsang Tai Hsiung
The Chivalrous Whip
as Kwok Ching-hwa
The Witch
as Gold Hand Scholar
Girl with Cat's Eye
as Sit Bong
The Black Musketeer 'F'
as Ko Cheung
無字天書
1965
Book Without Words
as White Wolf
