Five memorable screen roles of Kenneth Tsang Kong, always the bad guy except when he was selling Bigen hair dye
- Usually cast as the handsome bad guy, Tsang had a prolific screen career, appearing in 220 films – 25 of them in a single year, including Teddy Girls
- As well as memorable big-screen roles in A Better Tomorrow, The Replacement Killers and Overheard 3, he appeared on TV in The Greed of Man … and a hair dye ad
From the 1970s onwards, the actor extended his repertoire to television, starring in some 50 drama series, and he had fans all over Southeast Asia.
He attended Wah Yan College, Kowloon secondary school for boys in Yau Ma Tei before heading to the US for college. Tsang graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a degree in architecture before returning to Hong Kong in the early 1960s – and appeared in Hollywood movies The Replacement Killers (1998) alongside with Chow Yun-fat, Rush Hour 2 with kung fu star Jackie Chan and American comedian and actor Chris Tucker in 2001, and James Bond movie Die Another Day in 2002.
Tsang also dabbled in stage work and appeared alongside another screen veteran, Lisa Lu Yan, in the 2006 and 2008 Hong Kong Repertory Theatre productions of De Ling & Empress Dowager Ci Xi. He finally received the recognition he deserved when he won best supporting actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards for his role in Overheard 3 (2014).