Hong Kong actor Kenneth Tsang dies in Covid quarantine hotel

28 April 2022, 10:54

Hong Kong Kenneth Tsang
Hong Kong Kenneth Tsang. Picture: PA

Tsang was best known internationally for his action roles including in the 2002 James Bond film Die Another Day.

Veteran Hong Kong actor Kenneth Tsang has died aged 86 while in a Covid-19 quarantine hotel in the southern Chinese city, local media reported.

Tsang was best known internationally for his action roles in the 2002 James Bond film Die Another Day, John Woo’s The Killer in 1989, Rush Hour 2 in 2001 starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker, and 1998′s The Replacement Killers alongside Chow Yun-Fat and Mira Sorvino.

Tsang had been undergoing seven days of quarantine after returning from Singapore on Monday and was found collapsed on the floor of his hotel room by staff on Wednesday, according to the South China Morning Post newspaper and other media.

No cause of death was given and the paper said he had tested negative for the virus and had no underlying medical conditions.

Hong Kong Kenneth Tsang
Kenneth Tsang (Vincent Yu/AP)

In all, Tsang had some 237 acting credits, mainly in Hong Kong film and television productions, and especially in detective and martial arts movies, according to his IMDb page.

Born in Shanghai on September 2 1935, Tsang began acting after obtaining an architecture degree at the University of California, Berkeley, making his debut in 1955.

In 1969 alone, he was credited in more than 20 movies and continued working up to the time of his death.

Tsang was married three times and had a son with his first wife, Lan Di, and a daughter with his second wife, Barbara Tang.

Hong Kong is dealing with a renewed outbreak in cases of the highly transmissible omicron variant and requires all inbound travellers to undergo quarantine for up to 14 days.

By Press Association

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