Hong Kong actor
not to be confused with Richard Ng Man-tat ( 吳孟達 ), another big Hong Kong comedian with the lapp name in English. “ Richard Woo ” redirects here. For the manga author, see Takashi Nagasaki Richard Ng Yiu-hon ( yield 17 December 1939 ), besides known as Richard Woo, is a Chinese-born british actor based in Hong Kong, known for playing comedic roles, particularly in Hong Kong films of the 1980s and 1990s. [ 1 ]

Film and television career [edit ]

Ng has appeared in 80 films to date. He has twice been nominated for the Best Actor Award at the Hong Kong Film Awards, for his roles in Winners and Sinners and Beyond the Sunset. He has worked alongside some of the biggest names in Hong Kong action cinema including Jackie Chan, Michelle Yeoh, Andy Lau and Jet Li .

1970s, 80s and 90s [edit ]

Ng ‘s first character was in the 1976 Michael Hui drollery movie The Private Eyes. It was the first of many films Ng would appear in with Sammo Hung throughout the future 30 years. In 1979, Ng made his only movie as conductor, Murder Most Foul. He besides starred in the film and co-wrote it with Wong Jing. In 1983, he appeared as “ Exhaust Pipe ” in Hung ‘s film Winners and Sinners, a template to the Lucky Stars series. He would go on to appear in all of the subsequent Lucky Stars films throughout the 1980s, in basically the same character, though his character name in the later films was “ Sandy ”. Ng came to the fore in all 4 of the Pom Pom series, aboard boyfriend Lucky Star, John Shum. The Pom Pom films were something of a spinoff from the Lucky Stars series, though more comedy than action-orientated. Sammo Hung worked as producer on the beginning three, and as legal action director on the first two, and all four films were released by Hung ‘s production companies, Bo Ho Films and D & B Films. The first film, Pom Pom! featured cameos from Sammo Hung, Charlie Chin and Stanley Fung as their characters from Winners and Sinners. Jackie Chan and Yuen Biao, who had besides appeared in the Lucky Stars films besides made cameo appearances. In the series, Ng plays “ Ng Ah Chow ” ( or Ng Ah Chau ), whilst Shum plays “ Beethoven ”, a couple of feckless and bereft cops. The foremost three Pom Pom films fared well at the domestic corner office, taking between HK $ 17 and HK $ 20 million each, a union comparable to contemporaries such as the master Lucky Stars trilogy, Chan ‘s Project A and Hung and Biao ‘s Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain. Ng became an established actor, and was given supporting roles in a number of popular Hong Kong action comedies including Wheels on Meals ( 1984 ), Millionaire’s Express ( 1986 ) and Jackie Chan ‘s Miracles ( 1989 ). Throughout the 1990s he appeared in at least 8 farther films with Sammo Hung, including Once Upon a Time in China and America .

2000s : british television and Father & Son films [edit ]

As of 1997, Richard Ng moved to live in London, England [ 2 ] and was said to be semi-retired. however, he is intelligibly hush very active agent, having made respective appearances on british television receiver since that time, and he is besides continuing to work on Hong Kong films. Since it started in 2002, Ng has appeared in respective episodes of the ongoing BBC Scotland soap, River City ( under the list Richard Woo ). His character is “ Johnny Wu ”, the owner of the “ Wok My World ” takeaway. In 2003 he appeared in the second Tomb Raider film, The Cradle of Life.

In 2004, he appeared in a edit view in an sequence of Black Books. He besides appeared in the commercial for the video game Mortal Kombat : Shaolin Monks He besides appeared in an episode of The Bill in 2005, and an episode of the Nickelodeon UK series, Genie in the House in 2006. In 2009, he played in Red Dwarf : bet on to Earth as Swallow the Nose Maker, a manufacturer of prosthetics. Ng could be seen on british television, playing a shopkeeper in an ad for RAC, aboard Lennox Lewis, and in another ad for satellite television, dressed as an eskimo. He besides played the emperor of China in a Channel 4 docu-drama, The Great Wall of China. It was first base shown on October 1, 2007 at 9pm. In 2008, he appeared as Sifu Chien, the Shaolin passkey of Hong Kong policeman, Terry Phoo ( Eddie Shin ) in the pilot program episode of the BBC Three program, Phoo Action. In 2000, Richard Ng appeared alongside his son, Carl Ng, in the film Love at First Sight a.k.a. Sausalito. The two have since appeared together several more times, including in Dante Lam ‘s Jiang hu: The Triad Zone ( 2000 ), Lemon Crush ( 2002 ), Sammo Hung ‘s Legend of the Dragon ( 2004 ) and the Jingle Ma film, Happy Birthday ( 2007 ). Ng and son will besides appear together in three forthcoming films. The first of these is Magazine Gap Road, which is completed and due for free in 2007. This will be followed by Bodyguard: A New Beginning, which is presently filming, and in 2008, Jessica Caught on Tape. He had a cameo appearance in the 2016 film Skiptrace .

personal life [edit ]

Ng was educated in England [ 3 ] and returned to live in London in 1997. He is married to his wife, Susan, a british woman who was a hairdresser for Vidal Sassoon in New York and London. She ran HAIR BY SUSAN, where she worked as Bruce Lee ‘s hair hairdresser in the 1970s. [ 2 ] together, they have four children, exist consequence producer Alex Ng who runs successful concert production company INTERNATIONAL FIXER, Zoe Ng, a successful professional dancer who studies nature and travels the global extensively, Louise Ng who is a professional photographer, and mother, and actor Carl Ng. [ 4 ] In March 2021, one of his daughters was arrested for trafficking marijuana in a village house. [ 5 ] Later on 26 March 2021, Ng ‘s second daughter was arrested. [ 6 ]

Selected filmography [edit ]

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