Veteran Hong Kong actor and action choreographer Yuen Cheung-yan has died at the age of 69.
Yuen, who was born in the city in 1957, died at noon on New Year’s Day at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, according to film director and actor Lee Lik-chi, who announced the news on his Weibo page on Thursday.
“May Master Yuen rest in eternal peace,” Li said.
He added that the funeral would be held on February 1, giving no further details about Yuen’s cause of death.
Yuen was the son of the late Hong Kong martial arts actor and choreographer Yuen Siu-tien. He was also the younger brother of Yuen Woo-ping, a renowned martial arts choreographer and film director who worked in Hong Kong action cinema and later Hollywood.
He began his decades-long film career in Hong Kong as a fight choreographer in the late 1960s and formed the “Yuen Family” production group with his brother.
