Alan Tang
# Alan Tang

Alan Tang Kwong-Wing (20 September 1946 – 29 March 2011) was a Hong Kong film actor, producer and director.

## 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."

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

## Rape allegation

In December 2013, Next Magazine obtained the video of an interview with 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. In January 2018, Chinese journalist Zhuo Wei [zh] uploaded what appeared to be the uncensored video of Lam's interview, which revealed the alleged rapists to be Alan Tang and Eric Tsang. Tsang has denied the allegation.

## Filmography

### Actor

| Year | Title (Chinese/English) | Role | Notes |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1964 | 學生王子/ The Student Prince | Tang Wan-Tung | |
| 1967 | 兔女郎/ Bunny Girl | Long Man | |
| 1967 | 金色聖誕夜/A Glamorous Christmas Night | | |
| 1968 | 春曉人歸時/A Time For Reunion | Fong Chung-Yeung | |
| 1968 | 鐵二胡/Iron Fiddle | | |
| 1968 | 鎖著的新娘 /Bride in Chains | Paul Fu | |
| 1969 | 紅燈綠燈 / Red Light, Green Light | | |
| 1969 | 黃衫客/ The One in Yellow | | |
| 1969 | 飛男飛女/Social Characters | Peter Ko | |
| 1969 | 合歡歌舞慶華年/Let's Sing and Dance to Celebrate a Peaceful Year | | |
| 1969 | 成家立室/Let's Build a Family | | |
| 1970 | 快樂時光/ Happy Times | Cheng | |
| 1970 | 學府新潮/ Modern School Life | David Tong | |
| 1970 | 瘋狂酒吧/ The Mad Bar | | |
| 1970 | 小姐不在家/ Miss Not Home | | |
| 1971 | 我為你痴迷/ I Am Crazy About You | | |
| 1971 | 我的情人/ Oh My Love | | |
| 1971 | 無敵鐵沙掌 / The Invincible Iron Palm | Yen Tsang | |
| 1971 | 日月神童/ The Mighty Couple | Yue Di | |
| 1971 | 浪子與修女 / Maria | | |
| 1971 | 淘氣女歌手/ Song of Happy Life | | |
| 1971 | 鈔票與我 /Money and I | | |
| 1971 | Tiada jalan lain/No Other Way | Roy Supit | Coproduction between Taiwan and Indonesia |
| 1972 | 偷情世界/The Stealing Love | | |
| 1972 | 鬼馬女歌手/Songs and Romance Forever | | |
| 1972 | 火戀/Impetuous Fire | Tommy | |
| 1972 | 色字頭上一把刀/The Peeper, the Model and the Hypnotist | | |
| 1972 | 騙術大觀/ Cheating in Panorama | | |
| 1972 | 辣手強徒/The Notorious Ones | | |
| 1972 | 白屋之戀/Love in a Cabin | Chung Yin-Shin | |
| 1972 | 情變/ Changing Love | | |
| 1972 | 血愛/Love and Blood | | |
| 1972 | 野馬/Wild Horse | | |
| 1972 | 拳門/The Bloody Fight | Shih Chen-Wa | |
| 1972 | 火燙的愛人/Huo Tang De Ai Ren | | |
| 1973 | 血洒後街/ Back Street | | |
| 1973 | 蕩寇三狼 / Death Comes in Three | George | |
| 1973 | 彩雲飛/ The Young Ones / | Min Yun Lau | |
| 1973 | 明日天涯/ If Tomorrow Comes/ | Paul | |
| 1973 | 小偷鬥大賊 / The Rats / | | |
| 1973 | 愛從那裡來/Where Does Love Come From? | | |
| 1973 | 香港夜譚/Hong Kong Nite Life | | |
| 1973 | 一蔣士/One Reed Soil | | |
| 1973 | 怒雙衝冠/Unsubdued Furies | Siao Wah | |
| 1973 | 鐵牛/Iron Bull | | |
| 1973 | 愛慾奇譚/Love Is a Four Letter Word | | |
| 1973 | 香港式的偷情/Adultery Chinese Style | | |
| 1973 | 應召女郎/The Call Girls | Phillip | |
| 1973 | 亡命浪子/Death on the Docks | Hsu Chien Ying | |
| 1974 | 別了親人/ Farewell Dearest | | |
| 1974 | 一年幽夢/One Year's Fantasy | Ho Dong-Ni | |
| 1974 | 天堂/ The Paradise | | |
| 1974 | 運財童子小祖宗/ Lucky, Lucky | | |
| 1974 | 海鷗飛處/Where the Seagull Flies | | |
| 1974 | 近水樓台/ First Come, First Love | Chan Ka Kai | |
| 1974 | 早婚/Too Young | | |
| 1974 | 銀色大隊/ The Silver Band | | |
| 1974 | 功夫兄弟/ The Dynamite Brothers | Larry Chin | |
| 1974 | 花花公子/The Playboy | | |
| 1974 | 龍鳳配/The Colorful Ripples | | |
| 1974 | 冬戀/ The Splendid Love in Winter | Chan Chi | |
| 1974 | 大鄉里/The Country Bumpkin | | |
| 1975 | 吾土吾民/Land of the Undaunted | Chu Yu-Bin | |
| 1975 | 翩翩情/ Love Story of Pian Pian | | |
| 1975 | 彩宏焦焦/ The Floating Clouds | | |
| 1975 | 玫瑰戀/ Blood and Rose | | |
| 1975 | 未曾留下地止/24 Hours Romance | | |
| 1975 | 愛情辰跑/Run Lover Run | Yang I-Fan | |
| 1975 | 狼吻/Kissed by the Wolves | | |
| 1976 | 楓葉情 / Forever My Love | Gao Yuan | |
| 1976 | 愛的迷藏/ Love Is Like a Game | | |
| 1976 | 愛情奪標/Game of Love | | |
| 1976 | 金色的影子/ Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow | | |
| 1976 | 狼來的時候/Long Loi Dik Shut Hau | Lu Yi Min | |
| 1976 | 海天一色/ The Beauty with Two Faces | | |
| 1976 | 戀愛功夫/Love by Post | Yan Yi Fan | |
| 1976 | 大富人家/Born Rich | | |
| 1976 | 愛在夏威弟/Love in Hawaii | Joe | |
| 1976 | 約會在早晨/The Morning Date | | |
| 1976 | 愛的奇譚/Love of Strange Talk | | |
| 1976 | 小祖宗/The Little Ancestors | | |
| 1977 | 波斯夕陽情/Mitra | | |
| 1977 | 今生今世/Impetuous Fire | Tai Lun | |
| 1977 | 牛郎艷遇 | | |
| 1977 | 出冊/The Discharged | Lee Kai Fa | |
| 1977 | 幽蘭在雨中/ Orchid in the Rain | Cheng Yang | |
| 1977 | 流氓皇帝/The Scoundrel | | |
| 1978 | 情九點零三分/ Three Minutes Past Nine / | Hua Xin-Cheng | |
| 1978 | 白粉雙雄/ The Rascal Billionaire | | |
| 1978 | 追/ The Chase | Cheng Yuan | |
| 1978 | 大冧巴/ The Big Number | | |
| 1978 | 林亞珍/ Lam Ah Chun | | cameo |
| 1978 | 金鎖匙/The Golden Key/ Chìa khóa vàng | Fang Dai-Kuen | |
| 1979 | 發窮惡/The Wickedness in Poverty | | |
| 1979 | 家法/Law Don | Hun Ying | |
| 1980 | 隻手遮天/Absolute Monarch | | |
| 1981 | 知法犯法/The Legal Illegals | | |
| 1981 | 無毒不丈夫/Don't Kill Me, Brother! | Fan Kwok-Ho | |
| 1982 | 血洗唐人街/ New York Chinatown | Lui | |
| 1982 | 狂夜大風暴/ Kong Ye Dai Fung Bou | | |
| 1983 | 怒拔太陽旗/ The Militarism Revival | Tong | |
| 1983 | 盟/I Do! | Ngon Kok | |
| 1984 | 有 Friend 冇驚/Winner Takes All? | Joe | |
| 1984 | 黃禍/Yellow Peril | Dennis Kwan Chi Wah | |
| 1984 | 朝來寒雨晚來風/The Holocaust | | Originally released in 1975 |
| 1987 | 香港小姐寫真/ Miss Hong Kong | George | Also known as "Private Life" |
| 1987 | 江湖龍虎斗/ Flaming Brothers | Wing / Chan Wai Lun | |
| 1989 | 開心巨無霸/ Mr. Sunshine | bomb specialist | cameo |
| 1990 | 再戰江湖/Return Engagement | Lung Ho Tin | |
| 1990 | 義膽雄心 /Gangland Odyssey | Mr Tang | |
| 1992 | 五湖四海/ Requital | Master Cheung | |
| 1992 | 龍騰四海/ Gun n' Rose | Alan Lung | |
| 19932 | 黑豹天下/ Warriors: The Black Panther | Black Cougar | |

### Director

* 1977: 出冊/The Discharged
* 1979: 家法/Law Don

### Producer

* 1973: 亡命浪子/Death on the Docks
* 1974: 冬戀/ The Splendid Love in Winter
* 1983: 怒拔太陽旗/ The Militarism Revival
* 1984: 有Friend冇驚/Winner Takes All?
* 1985: 開心三響炮/ Funny Triple
* 1985: 求愛反斗星/ Crazy Romance
* 1987: 江湖龍虎斗/Flaming Brothers
* 1987: 猛鬼差館/ The Haunted Cop Shop
* 1987: 香港小姐寫真 / Miss Hong Kong
* 1988: 我要富貴/ My Dear Son
* 1988: 旺角卡門/ As Tears Go By
* 1989: 捉鬼大師/ Vampire Buster
* 1990: 再戰江湖/Return Engagement
* 1991: 阿飛正傳/ Days of Being Wild
* 1992: 龍騰四海/ Gun n' Rose
* 1993: 黑豹天下 /Warriors: The Black Panther
