Kenneth Tsang, a veteran Hong Kong actor, died at the age of 86. The actor was discovered dead in a Hong Kong hotel on Wednesday, April 27, after testing negative for Covid earlier in the week. The cause of death has not been disclosed.
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Tsang had been quarantined at a hotel in Hong Kong’s Tsim Sha Tsui district after returning from a trip to Singapore by Hong Kong’s travel quarantine rules, according to a local government source (via South China Morning Post).
Tsang is best known to western audiences for his roles in Hollywood films such as The Replacement Killers, Rush Hour 2, and the 2002 James Bond film Die Another Day.
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Tsang had been a prominent leading man in kung-fu films since the 1960s before appearing in Hollywood films. Many of his films from the 1980s and 1990s are still popular today, including The Killer, Peking Opera Blues, and Jackie Chan’s Police Story 3: Supercop.
He also worked with director John Woo on several projects, including A Better Tomorrow (1986) and its 1987 sequel).


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