Ken Low Wai-kwong ( , also
known as Kenneth Low or Low Houi Kang, nickname Kwong Jai) is an
actor, martial
artist, and member of the Jackie Chan Stunt Team born in
Stung
Treng
province, Cambodia
on March 17, 1959.
But in
1975, he moved from Cambodia when he was
15 years old to Thailand
, then 5
years later, in 1980 he fled to Hong Kong
in where he took a job as a tour
guide.
His idol was
Bruce Lee King of
Kung Fu which led him to practice
Thai Boxing and
Tae Kwon
Do in Thailand . He won the freestyle fighting Championships
seven times so his chance finally came with his first movie
White Class (1985) starring
Sam Hui directed by
Tsui Hark.
In 1986,
he met Jackie Chan in a popular disco in
Hong
Kong, he was head of security of disco and Jackie hired
him as his own bodyguard. He not only became Jackie Chan's
bodyguard but also acted in many martial arts movies. One of his
famous roles is in
Legend
of Drunken Master (1994) in which he and Jackie Chan
engage in a protracted final fight; Lo stepped in when another
actor was injured. That climactic twenty-minute fight sequence has
become legendary: Roger Ebert called it "one of the most remarkably
sustained examples of martial arts choreography ever filmed."
In 2005, Ken Lo made his first American movie
Into the Sun with
Steven Seagal which failed in the American
market. However, Lo is still very active in Hong Kong.
Other films include
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