Ng Man-tat, the Hong Kong actor best known for his comic collaborations with Stephen Chow, has died. He was 70. The South China Morning Post reported that Ng died surrounded by family in a Hong Kong hospital on Saturday after a battle with liver cancer.
In a prolific career, Ng, sometimes billed as Richard Ng, starred in more than 160 movies and had major roles in dozens of television shows, but it was his comic collaborations with Chow, which epitomized the mo lei tau slapstick style of Hong Kong humor, in films such All for the Winner (1990), theFight Back to School franchise and Shaolin Soccer (2001), that endeared him with the public and cemented his legacy.
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