10 things to know about the late HK actor Kenneth Tsang Kong

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Tsang acted in more than 200 TV serials and movies in his career.

Kenneth Tsang Kong won Best Supporting Actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards in 2015 for his movie 'Overhead 3'. Photo: APHere are 10 things to know about Tsang.

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

2. Tsang made his film debut due to his sister Lin, who was already a film star in the early 1950s. He was spotted by director Doe Ching while visiting his sister on a film set, who then cast him in the movie3. Tsang then left for the United States to study architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. He returned to Hong Kong in the early 1960s and was an architect for three years, but found that the job mundane and rejoined the entertainment industry.

4. He went on to act in more than 200 TV serials and movies in his career, including more than 100 Cantonese movies in the 1960s and 1970s. He has starred several times with actress Suet Nay in swordfighting films such as

 

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