Kenneth Tsang Kong 5 October 1935 27 April 2022 was a Hong Kong actor Tsangs 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 US 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 Tsangs younger sister instead as it was moreover uncommon for female stars to reveal their age Tsangs film debut was in the movie The Feud 1955 when he was just 16 which was followed by a role in Who Isnt 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 Pochu and Josephine Siao Tsang also appeared in a few Wong FeiHung movies in the late 1960s In the 1986 Tsang worked as taxi cab owner Ken in John Woos A Better Tomorrow Subsequent collaborations with Woo included the role of Ken in A Better Tomorrow 2 in 1987 police officer Danny Lees murdered partner in The Killer in 1989 and the strict adoptive father of Chow Yunfat 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 costar Chow Yunfat 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 Chineseborn Taiwanese actress Description above from the Wikipedia article Kenneth Tsang licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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