Kenneth Tsang
Biography
Kenneth Tsang was a Hong Kong actor whose career covered close to 70 years and over 200 films. Born in Shanghai, he studied architecture in the United States before returning to Hong Kong in the early 1960s and turning to acting, making his film debut in The Feud (1955). He was a romantic lead in Cantonese dramas and martial arts films in the 1960s and 1970s, and later became known internationally for supporting roles in crime and action pictures, especially John Woo's A Better Tomorrow (1986), A Better Tomorrow II (1987), The Killer (1989) and Once a Thief (1991). Hollywood work followed, including The Replacement Killers (1998), Rush Hour 2 (2001) and Die Another Day (2002). He was named Best Supporting Actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards for Overheard 3 (2014), after a nomination for Overheard 2 (2011), and in the year of his death received a Huading Award for Lifetime Achievement.
86years old at death
- Born Shanghai
- Died The Kowloon Hotel
- Star sign: VirgoThe sign runs August 23 to September 22
- 曾貫一 (birth name)Also credited as Kenneth Tsang Kong, Tsang Kong and Zeng Jiang
Movie Career
- Films
- 25
- Career span
- 37 years1986 to 2023
First and latest
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A change of course
Tsang was an architect in Hong Kong before acting, but found the work unsatisfying and returned to the territory in the early 1960s.
First role
Tsang made his film debut at 21 in The Feud, a 1955 movie, and after that he took a role in Who Isn't Romantic? in 1956.
A first
Tsang's first Hollywood film was The Replacement Killers in 1998, which was also the Hollywood debut of his co-star Chow Yun-fat.
Behind the award
Tsang was 81 when he took home the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Supporting Actor, honored for Overheard 3. He had been nominated before, for Overheard 2.
Kenneth Tsang movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
John Woo directed four of these films, Yen-Ping Chu two and Alan Mak two. Yun-Fat Chow appears in six of them, more than any other actor. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Yun-Fat Chow's page
Daniel Wu's page
Alex Fong Chung-Sun's page
Michelle Yeoh's page
Ti Lung's page
Leslie Cheung's page
All films by John Woo
Yen-Ping ChuDirector, 2 films, 2008 to 2009
Alan MakDirector, 2 films, 2011 to 2014
Also three films together2 more actors
- Woo FungOverheard 2 (2011), Once a Thief (1991) and Royal Warriors (1986)
- Fui-On ShingThe Killer (1989), A Better Tomorrow II (1987) and A Better Tomorrow (1986)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Box office
What Kenneth Tsang's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$1.4 billion
12 of the 25 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 25 films: 12 worldwide figure; 2 us gross only; 1 never in cinemas; 10 figure not found.
- 12Worldwide figure
- 2US gross only
- 1Never in cinemas
- 10Figure not found
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 99% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$544M38.3% of the total
- 2$432M30.4% of the total
- 3$347M24.5% of the total
- 4$34M2.4% of the total
- 5$23M1.6% of the total
- 6$19M1.4% of the total
- 7$4.5M0.3% of the total
- 8$4.3M0.3% of the total
$11.1 millionfrom the other 4 films with a worldwide figure, 1% of the total
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.