Tribute to 2 Legends - Lydia Shum & Bill Tung

(1947 - 2008)

Lydia Shum or fondly known as Fei jie passed away yesterday morning at 8.38am due to liver cancer. Despite being 61 years old, Fei jie is a very active veteran in Hong Kong hosting variety and charity shows mostly.

Shanghai borned Fei jie started her career in the entertainment industry when she was 13 and soon became popular despite being overweight due to her good spirit, comedy talent and enormous energy.

Ever famous for her signature black framed glasses, hair and laughter, Fei jie will be missed by many; especially me. I've always like the shows that she hosted. She is so natural and well, it was all experience collected over the years in the industry.

Since HK has been experiencing the lack of hosts & MCs in this recent years (as you can see they are training artist to become new hosts/Mcs), Fei jie's death will definitely be a big lost to the entertainment industry in HK.

There will never be another Fei jie.

May you rest Rest In Peace.

*Full story on Shanghai Daily

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OMG!! I didn't know Bill Tung aka Uncle Bill, another Hong Kong legend has passed away. I'm sooooo outdated. He passed away in February 22, 2006!! Which is TWO years ago. Where have I been? Gosh!! This is crazy. One by one of the HK legends are leaving us. This is extremely unacceptable.

*faint*

(1933 - 2006)

Born in a stable Hong Kong in 1933, Tung’s family was closely associated with horses and horse racing. Learning to ride at age 9, Tung was racing as a jockey by age 12 and later followed in his father and grandfather’s footsteps and became a horse trainer. In 1967, Tung began hosting horse racing television and radio programs and soon became well known as a horse racing commentator.

Tung made his first film appropriately enough as a racetrack announcer is 1981’s Security Unlimited. For a majority of his film career Tung played characters who were the lead character’s uncles or other paternal figure. In the four It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad World comedies, Tung played the patriarch of a family whose comic misadventures are precipitated by a large lottery win.

In Look Out Officer! (1990) he played the ghost of a murdered police offer who helps rookie cop Stephen Chow to solve his murder. Tung’s best known film pairings were with Hong Kong superstar Jackie Chan. In Chan’s Police Story series, he played Chan’s police commissioner superior who was also his uncle.

Among the films he also appeared with Chan in include Project A, Part 2 (1987), Miracles (1989), Drunken Master II (1994), Rumble In The Bronx (1996) and Who Am I? (1998) as well as in the Chan-directed The Inspector Wears Skirts (1988) and its 1989 sequel. His last film appearance was in 1996’s Police Story 4: First Strike.

May Uncle Bill Rest In Peace.

*Retrieved from Film Buff Online