Kenneth Tsang, a veteran Hong Kong actor who starred in ground-breaking martial arts movies, has died at age 87.
Tsang, who was also known as Tsang Kong, was staying in a Hong Kong hotel when he was found dead in his hotel room.
The hotel was being used as a venue for passenger quarantine after overseas travel according to Covid-19 restrictions, but no immediate cause of death has been given by Hong Kong authorities.
Tsang had travelled home on Monday after a visit to Singapore, when his rapid Covid-19 test had tested negative for the disease.
Tsang has over 220 film credits after a career spanning more than 65 years, playing mostly bad guys in movies, as well as a handful of TV shows.
In the 1980s and 1990s, he appeared in several influential titles by John Woo including A Better Tomorrow and A Better Tomorrow 2 followed by The Killer and Once a Thief.
His first Hollywood movie was the Antoine Fuqua-directed The Replacement Killers, alongside Hong Kong superstar Chow Yun-fat. Tsang notably appeared opposite Pierce Brosnan’s James Bond in Die Another Day in 2002.
The actor was born in Shanghai in 1934, before he moved to the United States for his education.
Tsang continued working as an actor until last year.
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