Hong Kong veteran actor Kenneth Tsang died at the age of 86 on Wednesday (April 27).

Here are 10 things to know about Tsang.

1. Tsang was born Tsang Koon Yat in Shanghai on Sept 5, 1934 and moved together with his household Hong Kong in 1949. He was the elder brother of actress Jeanette Lin Tsui, who died after an asthmatic assault at age 60 in 1995. He was additionally the uncle of singer Linda Wong, 53, and former singer-actor Christopher Chan, 61.

2. Tsang made his movie debut due to his sister Lin, who was already a movie star in the early Fifties. He was noticed by director Doe Ching whereas visiting his sister on a movie set, who then solid him in the film The Feud (1955) with actress Lucilla You Min.

3. Tsang then left for the United States to examine structure at the University of California, Berkeley. He returned to Hong Kong in the early Nineteen Sixties and was an architect for 3 years, however discovered that the job mundane and rejoined the leisure business. He then starred in the film The Big Circus (1964) with actresses Lan Di and Helen Li Mei, and which was directed by his then brother-in-law Chun Kim.

4. He went on to act in additional than 200 TV serials and films in his profession, together with greater than 100 Cantonese films in the Nineteen Sixties and Nineteen Seventies. He has starred a number of occasions with actress Suet Nay in swordfighting movies equivalent to Paragon Of Sword And Knife (1967), The Mighty Palm (1968) and The Twin Swords (1969).

5. Tsang joined broadcaster TVB in 1981 and rose to fame taking part in eccentric pugilist Huang Yaoshi in TV collection Legend Of The Condor Heroes (1983), an adaptation of late author Louis Cha’s martial arts novel. Another memorable position was that of a corrupt police officer in the TV collection The Greed Of Man (1992). Many Hong Kongers additionally keep in mind him for showing in the Bigen hair dye in the Nineteen Eighties.

6. Tsang has additionally acted in Singapore in TV serials equivalent to The Teochew Family, The Unbeatables II (1996), The New Adventures Of Wisely (1998) and Riding The Storm (1999). He sparked an argument in Singapore in 1995 when he stated “Singapore actors are silly” in an interview with an area weekly leisure journal. He later apologised for his remarks.

7. His command of English additionally noticed him venturing into Hollywood, performing in films equivalent to The (*10*) Killers (1998) and Anna And The King (1999), each starring Hong Kong actor Chow Yun Fat, Rush Hour 2 (2001) starring motion star Jackie Chan, and Memoirs Of A Geisha (2005), with actresses Zhang Ziyi and Michelle Yeoh.

8. Tsang was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards in 2012 for his position as the antagonist Tony Wong in surveillance thriller Overheard 2 (2011), however misplaced out to one other veteran actor Lo Hoi Pang for his position in the film Life Without Principle (2011). Tsang subsequently received Best Supporting Actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards in 2015 for his position as the rural strongman Uncle To in Overheard 3 (2014).

9. Tsang was in the information in Hong Kong in 2015 after fellow veteran actor Patrick Tse accused him of faking sickness whereas filming the travelling programme Four Amigos Bon Voyage and slapped him at a press convention whereas selling the present which additionally starred veteran actors Bowie Woo and Joe Junior. Tsang and Tse claimed later that it was staged.

10. Tsang was married thrice. His first spouse was Malaysia-born Lan Di, his co-star in The Big Circus. They tied the knot in 1969 however divorced 10 years later. Lan, who gave Tsang a son, died at age 50 in 1991.The actor married columnist and mannequin Barbara Tang in 1980 they usually have a daughter. They divorced 10 years later. He married veteran actress Lisa Chiao Chiao, now 79, in 1994 in Singapore. They haven’t any kids collectively. – The Straits Times/Asia News Network