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Tsang, Kenneth

Kenneth Tsang Kong (1935-) is a Hong Kong actor. Tsang’s career has spanned 50 years and included a variety of acting roles. Tsang’s film debut was in the film The Feud (1955), when he was just 16, which was followed by a role in Who Isn’t Romantic? (1956).

Kenneth Tsang as General Moon in ‘Tomorrow Never Dies’.

In the mid-1960s, Tsang starred in detective films and classic kung fu films with (at the time) Hong Kong teen idols Connie Chan Po-chu and Josephine Siao. Tsang also appeared in a few Wong Fei-Hung films in the late 1960s. In the 1980s, Tsang worked with John Woo in the A Better Tomorrow films in the same role as well as a role in Woo’s The Killer.

Up to this point, Tsang had played roles in mainly Hong Kong films. His first Hollywood film was The Replacement Killers (1998), during which he worked with Chow Yun-Fat. Tsang appeared alongside Chow 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 continues to appear in films from his native Hong Kong.

 
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