Alan Tang Explained

Alan Tang
Birth Date:20 September 1946
Birth Place:Guangzhou, Guangdong, Republic of China
Death Place:Ho Man Tin, Hong Kong
Occupation:Actor, film producer, film director
Years Active:1964–1994
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Children:2
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Alias:Student Prince (學生王子)

Alan Tang Kwong-Wing (20 September 194629 March 2011) was a Hong Kong film actor, producer and director. Tang was part of the "Silver Rat Squad (銀色鼠隊)", a 1970s pop band formed in Hong Kong.

Early life

Tang was born in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. He was the youngest of four children, having two older brothers and one older sister.

His secondary education was at the New Method College. After graduation, he received a full scholarship to the University of Hong Kong Law School. He deferred his acceptance to pursue an acting career.

Career

His first starring role was at age 16 in the 1963 film The Student Prince, a role he landed after some school friends showed his picture to the people making a movie at their secondary school. His role in this early movie earned him the nickname of "The Student Prince."

Upon graduation from secondary school, Tang acted in Hong Kong youth films starring Josephine Siao, Chen Chen, and Connie Chan Po-chu throughout the 1960s. Tang was often voted "Best Male Actor" by film magazines.

Tang found fame when he moved to Taiwan during the 1970s, where he had made over 60 feature films. The films he made were often dramas and romances, where he would often pair off with Brigitte Lin in such films as Run Lover Run.

It was reported that Tang made a salary of HK$150,000 per picture because of his popularity. In one 1974 article, Tang said that he was working on six movies at the same time; however, he only worked on one film a day and that made it difficult for producers. In 1974, Tang not only starred in The Splendid Love in Winter with Chen Chen, but he also produced it. Also that same year, the film Dynamite Brothers was released, co-starring with American Football hero Timothy Brown and James Hong. Tang continued his popular film career in both Hong Kong and Taiwan in the late 1970s. In 1977, Tang starred in director John Lo Mar's romance movie Impetuous Fire with up-and-coming teenage star Candice Yu. The movie was primarily shot in Macau, which opened up Tang's business ventures there.

Later in 1977, he formed the production company, The Wing-Scope Company.

With Tang working in Taiwan and his girlfriend at the time (Janet Yim) in Hong Kong, the pair had occasional difficulties, especially since the press reported their every move. Tang and Janet, however, remained together, in spite of living under constant scrutiny.

In 1987, Tang established another production company, In-Gear Film Production Co., Ltd., working alongside his brother, producer/presenter Rover Tang, and continued to produce and act in films, establishing himself as an action star. He appeared in a number of films—generally of the triad genre—such as Flaming Brothers, Gangland Odyssey, Return Engagement, Gun n' Rose and The Black Panther Warriors. He has also produced two films directed by Wong Kar-wai--As Tears Go By and Days of Being Wild.

Working with Wong Kar-wai

In the mid-1980s, Wong Kar-wai became a scriptwriter/director at Wing-Scope and In-Gear. He had written the scripts for the films, Return Engagement and Flaming Brothers, which both starred Tang.

Wong's current nostalgic artsy style took shape during his apprenticeship with Tang, who invested in the first movie Wong directed, As Tears Go By. Wong's career took off when he directed the film Days of Being Wild in 1990, despite Tang losing millions of invested dollars.

Later career

Following his retirement, Media Asia Group had gained rights to release his In-Gear film titles on DVD. Throughout the 1990s, Tang pursued a second career in the restaurant business.

Personal life

Tang was an active philanthropist in Hong Kong and mainland China as both an individual and an involved Rotarian. According to the posthumous memoirs of democracy activist Szeto Wah, Tang lent significant financial and material support to help activists flee from China after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Szeto said Tang helped out Operation Yellowbird by exerting his great influence in Macau and "got involved personally to save time but he remained low-key and never claimed his share of glory."[2]

On 29 March 2011, Tang died in his home in Ho Man Tin at around 9 pm from a heart attack.[3]

Tabloid Rumour

In December 2013, Next Magazine obtained the video of an interview with the late actress Yammie Lam in which she said that she had been raped by two "big brothers" in the Hong Kong entertainment industry more than two decades before. Lam stated that the first man, who had raped her after consuming alcohol, had died recently, no names were mentioned in the original video released in 2013.[4] In January 2018, Chinese tabloid journalist uploaded a self-proclaimed uncensored video of Lam's interview. However, several Hong Kong media outlets cast doubts on the video as it appeared to be altered, including added noise cancellation and re-dubbed with a woman's voice, while Yammie Lam spoke to a male interviewer. In the re-dubbed video, Eric Tsang and Alan Tang's names were spoken by the questioner, not Yammie Lam herself. [5] Tsang has denied the allegation and taken legal actions. According to video expert analysis, the original interview was recorded in 2006, and the video released in 2018 was proven fabricated. Tsang said the alleged incident was already the subject of a 2006 defamation suit that he won. “We already cleared our name. But after all these years, people still bring this up, I want to put the cyber-bullying to an end,” he said.[6] [7] [8] [9]

Filmography

Actor

YearTitle (Chinese/English)RoleNotes
1964 學生王子/ The Student PrinceTang Wan-Tung
1967 兔女郎/ Bunny Girl Long Man
金色聖誕夜/A Glamorous Christmas Night
1968 春曉人歸時/A Time For Reunion Fong Chung-Yeung
鐵二胡/Iron Fiddle
鎖著的新娘 /Bride in ChainsPaul Fu
1969 紅燈綠燈 / Red Light, Green Light
黃衫客/ The One in Yellow
飛男飛女/Social CharactersPeter Ko
合歡歌舞慶華年/Let's Sing and Dance to Celebrate a Peaceful Year
成家立室/Let's Build a Family
1970 快樂時光/ Happy TimesCheng
學府新潮/ Modern School LifeDavid Tong
瘋狂酒吧/ The Mad Bar
小姐不在家/ Miss Not Home
1971 我為你痴迷/ I Am Crazy About You
我的情人/ Oh My Love
無敵鐵沙掌 / The Invincible Iron Palm Yen Tsang
日月神童/ The Mighty Couple Yue Di
浪子與修女 / Maria
淘氣女歌手/ Song of Happy Life
鈔票與我 /Money and I
Tiada jalan lain/No Other WayRoy Supit Coproduction between Taiwan and Indonesia
1972偷情世界/The Stealing Love
鬼馬女歌手/Songs and Romance Forever
火戀/Impetuous FireTommy
色字頭上一把刀/The Peeper, the Model and the Hypnotist
騙術大觀/ Cheating in Panorama
辣手強徒/The Notorious Ones
白屋之戀/Love in a CabinChung Yin-Shin
情變/ Changing Love
血愛/Love and Blood
野馬/Wild Horse
拳門/The Bloody Fight Shih Chen-Wa
火燙的愛人/Huo Tang De Ai Ren
1973血洒後街/ Back Street
蕩寇三狼 / Death Comes in ThreeGeorge
彩雲飛/ The Young Ones / Min Yun Lau
明日天涯/ If Tomorrow Comes/Paul
小偷鬥大賊 / The Rats /
愛從那裡來/Where Does Love Come From?
香港夜譚/Hong Kong Nite Life
一蔣士/One Reed Soil
怒雙衝冠/Unsubdued FuriesSiao Wah
鐵牛/Iron Bull
愛慾奇譚/Love Is a Four Letter Word
香港式的偷情/Adultery Chinese Style
應召女郎/The Call GirlsPhillip
亡命浪子/Death on the Docks Hsu Chien Ying
1974別了親人/ Farewell Dearest
一年幽夢/One Year's FantasyHo Dong-Ni
天堂/ The Paradise
運財童子小祖宗/ Lucky, Lucky
海鷗飛處/Where the Seagull Flies
近水樓台/ First Come, First LoveChan Ka Kai
早婚/Too Young
銀色大隊/ The Silver Band
功夫兄弟/ The Dynamite BrothersLarry Chin
花花公子/The Playboy
龍鳳配/The Colorful Ripples
冬戀/ The Splendid Love in WinterChan Chi
大鄉里/The Country Bumpkin
1975吾土吾民/Land of the UndauntedChu Yu-Bin
翩翩情/ Love Story of Pian Pian
彩宏焦焦/ The Floating Clouds
玫瑰戀/ Blood and Rose
未曾留下地止/24 Hours Romance
愛情辰跑/Run Lover Run Yang I-Fan
狼吻/Kissed by the Wolves
1976楓葉情 / Forever My LoveGao Yuan
愛的迷藏/ Love Is Like a Game
愛情奪標/Game of Love
金色的影子/ Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
狼來的時候/Long Loi Dik Shut HauLu Yi Min
海天一色/ The Beauty with Two Faces
戀愛功夫/Love by PostYan Yi Fan
大富人家/Born Rich
愛在夏威弟/Love in HawaiiJoe
約會在早晨/The Morning Date
愛的奇譚/Love of Strange Talk
小祖宗/The Little Ancestors
1977波斯夕陽情/Mitra
今生今世/Impetuous FireTai Lun
牛郎艷遇
出冊/The DischargedLee Kai Fa
幽蘭在雨中/ Orchid in the RainCheng Yang
流氓皇帝/The Scoundrel
1978情九點零三分/ Three Minutes Past Nine /Hua Xin-Cheng
白粉雙雄/ The Rascal Billionaire
追/ The Chase Cheng Yuan
大冧巴/ The Big Number
林亞珍/ Lam Ah Chuncameo
金鎖匙/The Golden Key/ Chìa khóa vàng Fang Dai-Kuen
1979發窮惡/The Wickedness in Poverty
家法/Law DonHun Ying
1980隻手遮天/Absolute Monarch
1981知法犯法/The Legal Illegals
無毒不丈夫/Don't Kill Me, Brother!Fan Kwok-Ho
1982血洗唐人街/ New York Chinatown Lui
狂夜大風暴/ Kong Ye Dai Fung Bou
1983怒拔太陽旗/ The Militarism RevivalTong
盟/I Do! Ngon Kok
1984有 Friend 冇驚/Winner Takes All?Joe
黃禍/Yellow PerilDennis Kwan Chi Wah
朝來寒雨晚來風/The HolocaustOriginally released in 1975
1987香港小姐寫真/ Miss Hong KongGeorge Also known as "Private Life"
江湖龍虎斗/ Flaming Brothers Wing / Chan Wai Lun
1989開心巨無霸/ Mr. Sunshine bomb specialistcameo
1990再戰江湖/Return EngagementLung Ho Tin
義膽雄心 /Gangland OdysseyMr Tang
1992五湖四海/ Requital Master Cheung
龍騰四海/ Gun n' Rose Alan Lung
1993黑豹天下/ Warriors: The Black PantherBlack Cougar

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: 鄧光榮家中疑心臟病逝世 - 新浪網 - 新聞 . 2011-03-30 . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110404134710/http://news.sina.com.hk/news/15/1/1/2060787/1.html . 2011-04-04 .
  2. Lee, Diana and Wong, Natalie (12 July 2011) "Stars who played their part" . The Standard
  3. Web site: Entertainment giant Tang found dead at home . dead . . https://web.archive.org/web/20111108060301/http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?we_cat=21&art_id=109671&sid=31843967&con_type=1&d_str=20110330&fc=2 . 2011-11-08 .
  4. Web site: Chow . Vivienne . Hong Kong Star Eric Tsang Denies Rape Allegations – Variety . Variety.com . 2018-01-11 . 2018-09-16.
  5. Web site: 藍潔瑛認遭性侵訪問被翻炒 曾志偉嚴正聲明非事實 原文網址: 藍潔瑛認遭性侵訪問被翻炒 曾志偉嚴正聲明非事實 . 10 January 2018 . 01articlecopy&utm_medium=referral . HK01 . 5 April 2024.
  6. News: 被指性侵女星 曾志偉:要讓造謠者付出代價. 17 January 2018. BBC News. 2018-11-06. zh.
  7. Web site: 曾志偉藍潔瑛事件 . 5 April 2024.
  8. Web site: 藍潔瑛認遭性侵訪問被翻炒 曾志偉嚴正聲明非事實 原文網址: 藍潔瑛認遭性侵訪問被翻炒 曾志偉嚴正聲明非事實 . 10 January 2018 . 01articlecopy&utm_medium=referral . 5 April 2024.
  9. Web site: Eric Tsang Sues Sex-Harassment Accuser Grace Han . 17 January 2018 . 5 April 2024.