Richard Ng
| Richard Ng | |
|---|---|
| Chinese name | 吳耀漢 (traditional) |
| Chinese name | 吴耀汉 (simplified) |
| Pinyin | Wú Yàohàn (Mandarin) |
| Jyutping | Ng4 Yiu6-hon3 (Cantonese) |
| Born |
17 December 1939 Guangdong, China |
| Nationality |
 United Kingdom
|
| Other name(s) | Richard Woo |
| Occupation | actor |
| Years active | 1976–present |
| Spouse(s) | Susan Ng |
| Children |
Carl Ng Alex Ng Zoe Ng Louise Ng |
| Ancestry | Guangdong, China |
Richard Ng Yiu-hon (born 17 December 1939) also known as Richard Woo, is a China-born Hong Kong actor. He is known for playing comedic roles, particularly in Hong Kong films of the 1980s and 1990s.
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.
Ng's first role was in the 1976 Michael Hui comedy film The Private Eyes. It was the first of many films Ng would appear in with Sammo Hung throughout the next 30 years.
In 1979, Ng made his only film as director, Murder Most Foul. He also 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 fundamentally the same role, though his character name in the later films was "Sandy".
Ng came to the fore in all 4 of the Pom Pom series, alongside fellow 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 first three, and as 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 also appeared in the Lucky Stars films also made cameo appearances. In the series, Ng plays "Ng Ah Chow" (or Ng Ah Chau), whilst Shum plays "Beethoven", a pair of inept and lovelorn cops. The first three Pom Pom films fared well at the domestic box office, taking between HK $17 and HK $20 million each, a sum comparable to contemporaries such as the original Lucky Stars trilogy, Chan's Project A and Hung and Biao's Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain.
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