Walter Tso Tat-Wah

Walter Tso Tat-Wah

Person • Sep 15, 1915–Jan 13, 2007

Walter Tso Tat-Wah (15 September 1915 – 10 January 2007) was a Hong Kong film actor most famous for the roles he played in a number of Wuxia films in the 1950s and 1960s. Tso and actor Shih Kien starred in a number of films together. The actress Yu So-chow co-starred in many of Tso's films. Tso's well-known roles include Lung Kim-fei (龍劍飛), Leung Foon (梁寛) and Inspector Wah (華探長). A native of Taishan, Guangdong, (he spoke Cantonese and Taishanese) Tso began his acting career at the age of 15, and eventually starred in more than 700 film. He was a compulsive gambler. Legend has it that he lost the Wah-tat Studio, which produced most of his films at the time, while gambling, though it is not certain whether the studio was owned by him. (Via Wikipedia)