Alan Tang
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| Background information | |
| Chinese name | 鄧光榮 (traditional) |
| Chinese name | 邓光荣 (simplified) |
| Pinyin | Dèng Guāngróng (Mandarin) |
| Jyutping | Dang6 Gwong1 Wing4 (Cantonese) |
| Born |
20 September 1946 Guangzhou, Guangdong, China |
| Died | 29 March 2011 (aged 64) Ho Man Tin, Kowloon, Hong Kong |
| Other name(s) | The Student Prince (學生王子) |
| Occupation | Actor, film producer, film director |
| Genre(s) | Cinema of Hong Kong |
| Years active | 1964–1994 |
| Spouse(s) | Janet Yim Chan-nap (1975–2011) |
| Children | Tang Yip Yan Yvette and Tang Yip Wai Ellie |
| Ancestry | Shunde, Guangdong, China |
Alan Tang Kwong-Wing (20 September 1946 – 29 March 2011) was a Hong Kong film actor, producer and director.
Tang was born in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, He is the youngest of four children, having two older brothers and one older sister. His first starring role was actually at age 16 in the 1963 film The Student Prince, a role he had gotten 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."
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.
Upon graduation from secondary school, Tang acted in Hong Kong youth films starring Josephine Hsiao Fang-fang, Chen Chen, and Connie Chan Bo Jue 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 Brigette Lin Qing Xia, 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. He co-starred 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, later the first wife of Chow Yun-Fat. The movie was primarily shot in Macau which opened up Tang's business ventures there. Candice Yu, seventeen at the time, became the youngest actress to appear as Tang's leading lady.
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