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James Bond Actor Kenneth Tsang Passes Away At 87 In Quarantine Hotel

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Veteran
Hong
Kong
actor
Kenneth
Tsang
has
died
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
and
other
media.

Hong Kong actor Kenneth Tsang - Photo by Weibo


Photo
by
Weibo
/
SCMP

The
South
China
Morning
Post
said
Tsang
was
87
but
other
sources
gave
his
age
as
86.
No
cause
of
death
was
given
and
the
paper
said
he
had
tested
negative
for
the
virus
and
had
no
underlying
medical
conditions.

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,
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.

(AP)
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