How film actor Gordon Lam Ka-tung, star of Limbo and Trivisa, became one of Hong Kong cinema’s power players on screen and off
- Gordon Lam Ka-tung has grown from bit-part television actor in the 1980s to award-winning leading man and producer of some of Hong Kong’s best regarded movies
- Lam, who as an actor initially earned less than a hotel bellboy, is now paying his fame and acclaim forward by working with those waiting for their big breaks
He has one of the most recognisable faces of today’s Hong Kong cinema, yet Gordon Lam Ka-tung’s unassuming demeanour belies the movie-star stature he has cemented over the past few years.
“Lam Ka-tung is nothing – to borrow from the Buddhist way of saying,” he says. “It’s only through my characters or screenplays that I bring out ideas for other people to reflect upon.”
Lam, who turned 54 in September, has grown from a bit-part television actor in the late 1980s to a perennial scene-stealer in big-screen supporting roles in the 2000s, all the way to an award-winning leading man and the producer of some of Hong Kong’s hottest movies. It is his slow, but seemingly unstoppable, career trajectory that has proved the most inspirational aspect of this hard-working man.
