His management company announced last week that he had stopped working due to ill health. Veteran Hong Kong actor Liu Kai-chi died on Sunday (Mar 28) night after a short illness, according to media reports. He was 66. The actor, affectionately known as Uncle Chi, had been battling stomach cancer in recent months. His management company L&P Entertainment released a statement on Sunday saying that his family had been at his side when he died and that he had “returned to the arms of his heavenly father”. The statement also said that he died at Hong Kong’s Prince of Wales Hospital at 8.32pm. Liu’s wife, former TVB actress Barbara Chan, told Hong Kong media earlier this month that he had been diagnosed with stomach cancer in December. Last week, the late actor’s management company announced that he had stopped working due to health problems. Liu had acted in more than 90 dramas and 70 movies in his long career. He won best supporting actor awards for Cageman in 1993 and The Beast Stalker in 2009 at the Hong Kong Film Awards. He was nominated another six times, with the most recent one in 2019 for Project Gutenberg. The statement from the agency also said that the family thanked medical staff for their care in the past few months, as well as the public and media for their concern and blessings. Liu’s death comes a month after another veteran Hong Kong actor, Ng Man-Tat, died. Ng died on Feb 27 at the age of 70 after being diagnosed with cancer last year. Source: channelnewsasia.com
