Kenneth Tsang

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1934-09-02

Deathday 2022-04-27 (87 years old)

Place of Birth Hong Kong

Also Known As Kenneth Tsang Kong, 曾江, 曾貴一, 증강

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kenneth Tsang, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Actor

Who's the Hero

as 雷亮

2024
Deliverance

as Brian Lam

2023
The Modelizer

as Wellington Koo

2022
A Sealed Book

as Governor Zhang

2022
2021
The Attorney

as Tsang Kwok-Shan

2021
Daily Fantasy

as [A Zhen's car]

2021
2021
The Dragnet

as Mr. Guo

2020
Triple Identity

as Xun Yunchang

2019
The Great Craftsman

as Zhang Bing Kun

2018
Napping Kid

as Chik Kuen

2018
I Am Your Mom

as Qin Zhenhua

2018
Detective Chinatown 2

as Uncle Seven

2018
Mystery of Antiques

as 黄克武

2017
Chasing the Dragon

as Sir Chow

2017
Love of Aurora

as Li Zhengquan

2016
For a Few Bullets

as Oda Koki

2014
Overheard 3

as Uncle To

2014
十里香大酒坊

as 汪天浩

2013
Something Good

as Signor Feng

2012
Supercapitalist

as Victor Chang

2012
2012
Inseparable

as Mr. Wang

2012
Joyful Reunion

as Tan Shichje

2011
Starry Starry Night

as Xiao Mei's Grandfather

2011
Overheard 2

as Tony Wong

2011
Motherland

as Stanley Tang

2010
金钱本色

as 雷亮

2009
The Treasure Hunter

as Tu Lao-dai

2009
Blood Ties

as Woon Sir

2009
Prince of Tears

as General Liu

2008
Kung Fu Dunk

as Wang Yiwuan

2007
The Drummer

as Stephen Ma

2007
2007
Parental Guidance

as Patrick Seto

2006
The Tokyo Trial

as Hsiang Che-Chun

2005
Memoirs of a Geisha

as The General

2005
2004
Butterfly

as Flavia's Father

2004
Six Strong Guys

as Rico 岳父

2002
Die Another Day

as General Moon

2002
The Touch

as Ping

2001
Funeral March

as Wong Cheuk Kong

2001
Rush Hour 2

as Captain Chin

2000
Killer

as Prince

2000
1999
Anna and the King

as Justice Phya Phrom

1999
Ultra Protection

as Kei Chung-nam

1998
The Blacksheep Affair

as Lone Moon / Tasta

1998
Bishonen

as Sam's Father

1998
1995
The Teochew Family

as Cai Qing-yang

1994
Long and Winding Road

as Bosco Chow

1993
1993
1993
The Unbeatables

as Ye Zhong

1993
Racing Peak

as 李奇

1992
Angel Terminators

as Ken Zheng

1992
1992
Changing Partner

as Chief Inspector Wong Kwok Wing

1992
The Greed of Man

as 龙成邦

1991
The Banquet

as Chef

1991
Legend of the Brothers

as Detective Lui Kwok Tin

1991
Inspector Pink Dragon

as Chief Insp Pao

1991
The Plot

as Kiu (The Boss)

1991
To Be Number One

as Chief Inspector Lui Ko-Tin

1991
Au Revoir, Mon Amour

as Mooi Yi's Father

1991
Once a Thief

as Chow / Dad

1991
Bury Me High

as 加里南总统

1991
Big Family

as Jiang wen shan

1991
Soldier Soldier

as Tak Cheng

1990
Point of No Return

as Uncle Min

1990
Queen's High

as Fan Yau Tim

1990
Sleazy Dizzy

as Chief Inspector Lee

1990
1989
Princess Madam

as Cheung

1989
Thank You Sir

as Mr Tsang

1989
Triads: The Inside Story

as Supt. Chan Tin-Lok

1989
1989
The Killer

as Sgt. Tsang Yeh

1989
1989
1989
The War Heroes

as Mu bu fan

1989
Deadly Secret

as 丁典

1988
1988
Last Romance

as Li Chih-Cheng

1988
1987
1986
Peking Opera Blues

as General Cho

1986
Royal Warriors

as Captain Lau Chi-Shing

1986
1986
执位夫妻

as 成家立

1984
The Duke of Mount Deer

as Chan Kan-nam

1983
The Body Is Willing

as Francis Chao(趙公子)

1982
Trap

as Ma Man-Rei

1982
1982
错结良缘

as 乐子扬

1979
The Secret

as Policeman

1979
Jaws

as 马卓汉

1978
The Extras

as Ting Chung

1975
1973
The Money-tree

as Hsiao-cheung

1973
The Awaken Punch

as Goes to the Law

1971
Demonstrator

as Thao Kimalayo

1971
The Brave and the Evil

as Bandit Jie Fei

1970
Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

as Health Department Chief Zhou

1970
I'll Get You One Day

as Wong Dai Wai

1969
The Prodigal

as Oi-Lun

1969
Sword of Emei

as Au Gong

1969
Happy Wedlock

as Kwok-wai

1969
Sky Dragon Castle

as Ngo Sei Hoi

1969
1969
The Little Warrior

as General Sheung Kwun Hung

1969
The Youth

as Chow Hoi-Kit

1968
1968
The Chivalrous Whip

as Kwok Ching-hwa

1968
A Romantic Thief

as Tsang Tai Hsiung

1967
The Witch

as Gold Hand Scholar

1966
1965
Book Without Words

as White Wolf

Director

1978
Funny Kung Fu

as Director

1976
1975
Frigidity

as Director

Crew

2024
ARK: The Animated Series

as In Memory Of