Peter Kwong, a martial artist and actor who performed one of many Three Storms in Massive Bother in Little China and a henchman in The Golden Youngster throughout a prolific appearing profession and was energetic in actors union politics and the film and TV academy management, has died. He was 73.
His reps advised Deadline that Kwong died in a single day Tuesday in his sleep however didn’t present different particulars.
Born on April 9, 1952, Kwong started his display screen profession within the mid-Seventies with visitor pictures on such TV sequence as Surprise Girl and Black Sheep Squadron and into the ’80s with Cagney & Lacey, Bret Maverick, The Biggest American Hero, Little Home on the Prairie, Dynasty, The A-Staff, Miami Vice, 227, St. Elsewhere, Matt Houston and others.
He additionally had bit elements in options however would land maybe his most well-known function by mid-decade.
Kwong was solid as Rain, one of many Three Storms, in John Carpenter’s 1986 action-adventure story Massive Bother in Little China, starring Kurt Russell and Kim Cattrall. That very same yr he appeared on the large display screen in By no means Too Younger to Die, starring John Stamos and Vainness, and within the Eddie Murphy starrer The Golden Youngster, taking part in restaurant proprietor and henchman Tommy Tong.
Coaching with the East/West Gamers, Groundlings and different teams, Kwong would proceed to work recurrently in movies and TV exhibits within the 2020s. Amongst his silver-screen credit are The Presidio, Gleaming the Dice, I’ll Do Something, Paper Dragons and Cooties. His quite a few TV visitor roles additionally included such standard exhibits as Normal Hospital, JAG, My Spouse and Children, The Wayans Brothers, Sisters, Drake & Josh, Deadly Weapon and King of the Hill.
Try his demo reel circa 2009 right here:
Kwong additionally was an achieved martial artist, working in Northern Shaolin kung fu, Chinese language kata and with weapons together with swords, staffs, spears and nunchaku. Dancing was one other specialty — from ballroom and martial arts fusion to disco and breaking. Associates additionally cited his impressing pop-locking abilities.
Alongside together with his practically 50-year appearing profession, Kwong was energetic in Hollywood business politics. He served on the SAG Nationwide Board of Administrators for greater than a decade and was on the AFTRA Nationwide Board of Administrators. He additionally did a four-year stint on the Tv Academy Board of Governors and was a member of the Actors Department Govt Committee of the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences, amongst different roles. Kwong ran for the the merged SAG-AFTRA Nationwide Board and L.A. Native Board in 2017.
He additionally was an activist in opposition to anti-Asian stereotyping in Hollywood. In 2016, Kwong was amongst about two dozen signatories on a letter to AMPAS decrying jokes made on the expense of Asians in the course of the Oscars that yr.
“I used to be there on the Academy Awards, and I used to be shocked as a result of [Academy President] Cheryl Boone-Isaacs went up and talked about range after which proper after that comes the jokes from Chris Rock and Sacha Baron Cohen,” Kwong advised Deadline on the time. “Some individuals have the perspective, ‘Why can’t you have got a humorousness, and in humor there aren’t any boundaries?’ It’s as a result of it offers individuals permission to not solely proceed it however to escalate it as properly.”
Details about survivors and a memorial service was incomplete.
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