Kenneth Tsang

Kenneth Tsang Movies and TV Shows

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

Personal info

  • Gender: Male
  • Date of birth: 9/2/1934 (89 years old)
  • Place of birth: Hong Kong, China
Year
Genre
IMDB
TMDB
Available on the following streaming services in the United States
2024

Action

Adventure

Animation

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

6.9
85%
2018

Comedy

Mystery

6.1
61%
2017

Action

Crime

History

6.7
70%
Overheard 3
IMDB 6.0
TMDB 59%
role:
Uncle To
2014

Action

Crime

Mystery

Thriller

6.0
59%
Supercapitalist
IMDB 4.5
TMDB 37%
role:
Victor Chang
2012

Drama

Thriller

4.5
37%
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Inseparable
IMDB 5.4
TMDB 62%
role:
Mr. Wang
2012

Drama

Mystery

5.4
62%
Starry Starry Night
IMDB 6.9
TMDB 65%
role:
Xiao Mei's grandfather
Not available
2011

Drama

6.9
65%
Not available
Overheard 2
IMDB 6.7
TMDB 63%
role:
Tony Wong
2011

Action

Drama

Thriller

6.7
63%
2011

Drama

Romance

6.1
52%
The Treasure Hunter
IMDB 3.8
TMDB 31%
role:
Tu Lao-dai
Not available
2009

Action

Adventure

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

3.8
31%
Not available
Kung Fu Dunk
IMDB 4.8
TMDB 57%
role:
Wang Yiwuan
Not available
2008

Action

Adventure

Comedy

4.8
57%
Not available
The Drummer
IMDB 6.9
TMDB 64%
role:
Stephen Ma
Not available
2007

Action

Drama

6.9
64%
Not available
Memoirs of a Geisha
IMDB 7.3
TMDB 77%
role:
The General
2005

Drama

History

Romance

7.3
77%
Die Another Day
IMDB 6.1
TMDB 59%
role:
General Moon
2002

Action

Adventure

Thriller

6.1
59%
Rush Hour 2
IMDB 6.7
TMDB 67%
role:
Captain Chin
2001

Action

Comedy

Crime

6.7
67%
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Anna and the King
IMDB 6.7
TMDB 67%
role:
Justice Phya Phrom
1999

Drama

History

Romance

6.7
67%
1998

Action

Crime

Drama

Mystery

Thriller

6.1
62%
1992

Action

Crime

Thriller

6.9
67%
Once a Thief
IMDB 6.7
TMDB 66%
role:
Chow / Dad
Not available
1991

Action

Comedy

Crime

Thriller

6.7
66%
Not available
The Killer
IMDB 7.8
TMDB 77%
role:
Sgt. Tsang Yeh
Not available
1989

Action

Crime

Drama

Thriller

7.8
77%
Not available
A Better Tomorrow II
IMDB 7.2
TMDB 71%
role:
Ken
Not available
1987

Action

Crime

Thriller

7.2
71%
Not available
1986

Action

Crime

Drama

7.4
74%
Fearless Hyena
IMDB 6.6
TMDB 67%
role:
Director
1979

Action

Comedy

6.6
67%

FAQs

Some movies or TV shows available in the United States starring or involving Kenneth Tsang are, for example, ARK: The Animated Series, Detective Chinatown 2 and Chasing the Dragon.
The streaming services with the largest selection are Prime Video, iTunes and Amazon.
The best Anystream ratings are ARK: The Animated Series (7.7), Memoirs of a Geisha (7.5) and A Better Tomorrow (7.4).
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