Profile | Why Michael Tse, Hong Kong actor behind Laughing Gor, is a lesson in resilience

Profile | Why Michael Tse, Hong Kong actor behind Laughing Gor, is a lesson in resilience

This is the 71st instalment in a biweekly series profiling major Hong Kong pop culture figures of recent decades. Back in the first decade of his entertainment career, which began in the mid-1980s, Michael Tse Tin-wah was a face you recognised but a name you might have struggled to place. He was a backup dancer hitting his marks behind Cantopop icons; a fiercely loyal triad henchman swinging a machete in the Young and Dangerous films; a dependab…