Felix Wong

Felix Wong
黃日華
Born	(1961-09-04) September 4, 1961 British Hong Kong
Other names	Wah Gor (華哥; lit. Brother Wah) Wong Wah (黃華)
Occupation(s)	Actor, singer
Years active	1980–present
Spouse	Leung Kit-wah ​ ​ (m. 1988; died 2020)​
Children	Adrian Wong Tsz-ching (daughter)
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	黃日華
Simplified Chinese	黄日华
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Huáng Rìhuá Yue: Cantonese Jyutping Wong4 Jat6-wa4

In this Chinese name, the family name is Wong.

Felix Wong Yat-wah (born September 4, 1961) is a Hong Kong actor and singer best known for his performances in many wuxia television series produced by TVB, such as The Legend of the Condor Heroes (1983), in which he played the protagonist Kwok Ching. He is considered to be one of the most popular teen idols of the 1980s and was named as "Third Tiger" among Five Tiger Generals of TVB.

Career

Wong was recruited into TVB's Artist Training Academy in September 1979, before his 18th birthday. While he was a trainee, he made cameo appearances in several dramas, such as The Bund (1980). After finish the secondary school in 1981, Wong was offered a major supporting role in The Misadventure of Zoo (1981), which starred Lydia Shum and Adam Cheng. Afterwards, Wong was immediately cast to play the male lead in The Lonely Hunter (1981), which subsequently propelled him to instant fame in Hong Kong. While the drama was airing, Wong received more fan letters than any other popular TVB actors and actresses at the time.

In the mid-1980s, Wong, along with Andy Lau, Tony Leung, Michael Miu and Kent Tong, were called the "Five Tiger Generals of TVB" and said to be the most popular male actors from TVB at that time. According to some polls conducted at the time, Wong had the largest fanbase.

Wong is perhaps best known for his role as the hero Kwok Ching in the 1983 television series The Legend of the Condor Heroes, an adaptation of Louis Cha's novel of the same title. Wong also starred in another two television adaptations of Cha's novels, Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils (1982) and Sword Stained with Royal Blood (1986). Wong is also notable for his performance in Looking Back in Anger (1989), in which his character was involved in a love triangle with the characters played by Carina Lau and Kathy Chow. Besides playing the roles of the protagonists in most of his works, Wong has also achieved success for his portrayals of antagonists, such as the villain Lee Mat in The Grand Canal (1987), Jamukha in Genghis Khan (1987), and recently as Stone Sir in Gun Metal Grey (2010).

In 1989, Wong left TVB after having completed filming Kim-mo Tuk-ku Kau-pai. He joined ATV and worked on four television series between 1990 and 1992. He also worked in the Taiwanese television drama Imperial Wanderer with Kathy Chow. Wong returned to TVB in 1993 and starred with Amy Chan in Racing Peak, a television series about a horse racing company. He left TVB again on 11 January 2002 to work on some mainland Chinese television series. Wong expressed his unhappiness with TVB in an interview, citing that as the reason for his departure. His last major project in TVB was Treasure Raiders, an adaptation of one of the works of Gu Long.

Wong starred in the 2005 film Wait 'til You're Older after being invited by Andy Lau. In July 2009, after filming Turning Point, Wong revealed that he will be working with Michael Miu in a new crime fiction television drama on TVB in October 2009 called Gun Metal Grey.

Personal life

Wong started dating fellow actress Leung Kit-wah in 1982 and they got married on December 7, 1988. They have a daughter, Adrian Wong Tsz-ching, on May 1, 1990. Leung died of organ failure at Gleneagles Hong Kong Hospital on May 26, 2020.

Filmography

Film

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1982	Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils	Hui-juk
1983	Mad, Mad 83	FBI member	guest star
1984	New Tales of the Flying Fox	Wu Fei
1986	Who's the Crook	Wong Wah
1988	It's No Heaven
1989	Fury of a Tiger	Mak See
	Leng Nui Ying Hung		guest star
	Leng Nui Ying Hung		guest star
	The Last Bout
1991	The Tigers	Ben
1992	Twilight of the Forbidden City	Wu Ching-chung
1994	Drunken Master II	Fishmonger Tsan
2001	We're No Heroes		guest star
2002	Golden Chicken	Richard
2003	City of SARS	Hospital superintendent
	Golden Chicken 2	Richard
2004	In Laws, Out Laws
2005	Wait 'til You're Older	Chan Man
2007	Brothers	Ghostie
2008	Pretty to Think So	Man in suit
2009	Vengeance	Python
	Turning Point	Senior Inspector Poon Man-kei
2011	I Love Hong Kong	Fish Ball Wah	Cameo appearance
	Life Without Principle	Fiery Sam	Cameo appearance
2013	7 Assassins	Tit Wan
2016	Good Take, Too!
2017	Shock Wave	Officer Chow
	Chasing the Dragon	Officer Jan

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1980	Mystery Beyond (Season 4)
	The Bund
	The Broken Thread
	Family
	The Bund III
	The Shell Game
1981	The Misadventure of Zoo	Pat Tsan-bong
	The Lonely Hunter	Lee Tong
	Come Rain, Come Shine	Lo Hak-yip
	Master Fat Shan-chan	Lee Man-mau
	Summer of 1981	Yip Kar-sing
	The Young Heroes of Shaolin	Kin-lung Emperor
1982	Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils	Hui-juk
	The Roller Coaster	Wong King
	The Wild Bunch	Lee Chuen-hau
	Soldier of Fortune	Wai Lok
1983	The Legend of the Condor Heroes: The Iron-Blooded Loyalists	Kwok Ching
	The Legend of the Condor Heroes: Eastern Heretic and Western Venom
	The Legend of the Condor Heroes: The Duel on Mount Hua
	In the Game Boat	Kwok Chiu
1984	The Foundation	Kong Fung
	Pao Ching-tin: Law Enforcer	Chin Chiu
	Can Anybody Help	Chow Yun
	Young Detective	Wong Kwok-hon
	It Takes All Kinds	Tong Kar-kit
1985	The Young Wanderer	Yee Shui-hon
	Sword Stained with Royal Blood	Yuen Sing-chi
	Tough Fight	Wong Hok-kan
	The Yang's Saga	"Ng-long" Yang Yin-tak
1986	The Brothers Under the Skin	Chan Kwong-ling
	General Father, General Son	Sit Ting-san
	The Ordeal Before the Revolution	Ah-ngau
1987	The Upstart, the Self-Made Man	Cheung Wai-kin
	The Grand Canal	Lee Mat
	Genghis Khan	Jamukha
1988	Twilight of a Nation	Yeung Shau-ching
	Kay Moon Gwai Guk	Pong Yoon
	It's No Heaven		television film
	Bik Cheung Wai Leung	Kam Sau-yee	television film
1989	Looking Back in Anger	Sean Ding Yau-kin / Ding Wing-cheung
	Greed	Sze Man
	Battle of the Heart	Ching Mong-tin
1990	Kim-mo Tuk-ku Kau-pai	Lam Hong
	Heaven's Retribution	Sung Bong
	Dap Jun Kong Wu Lo	Fong Tin-yeung	television film
1991	The Good, The Ghost, And The Cop	Cheung Chuen-tsik
	All Out of Love	Kong Wai-nam
1992	The Imperial Wanderer	Fucai Duankang
1993	Racing Peak	Lee Tai-yau
	The Silver Tycoon	Tuen Chiu-yeung
1994	Love Cycle	Ng Kwok-sang
	Burden of Proof	Lam Wai-dat	television film
	Ching Nam Tsam	Mok Tsan-wah	television film
1995	Justice Pao	Chin Chiu	2 parts
	The Criminal Investigator	Sergeant Wong Chi-chung
	Man on The Verge of A Nervous Breakdown	Chan Chi-hung	television film
	Another Sky	Lee Siu-chun	television film
1996	The Criminal Investigator II	Senior Inspector Wong Chi-chung
	She Was Married to the Mob	Detective Chung Kar-shun	television film
	Unusual Revenge	Fong Jun	television film
1997	Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils	Kiu Fung & Siu Yuen-san	Nominated — TVB Anniversary Award for Best Actor
1998	Secret of the Heart	Kam Shu-sang
1999	The Flying Fox of Snowy Mountain	Wu Yat-doh
2000	Time Off	Chow Kar-chuen	Released overseas in 1998
	Incurable Traits	Cho Cho
	The Legend of Master Soh	Soh Chan
	Point of No Return	Jiang Qihua
2001	Kung Fu Master from Guangdong	Wong Kei-ying
	The Pearl King	Wei Antian
2002	Treasure Raiders	Siu Sap-yat-long
	Law 2002	Dai Ng-leung
2003	Asian Heroes	Kam Tsun-yiu
2004	Mystic Detective Files	Ko Dat
	The Dragon Heroes	Dragon King
2010	Gun Metal Grey	Shek Tung-sing (Stone Sir)	Nominated — TVB Anniversary Award for Best Actor (Top 5)
2015	Beyond the Rainbow	Tam Koon-hung
	Paranormal Mind	Sun Gei Yuen

External links

• Felix Wong at IMDb
• Felix Wong Yat-Wa at the Hong Kong Movie Database