Jiang Yi (Kong Ngai）

Jiang Yi (Kong Ngai, October 1931-March 13, 2013), formerly known as Deng Zhaoyi, once used the stage name Guang Yi, a former TVB actor. Joined the entertainment circle in the 1960s and is a powerful licorice actor. Jiang Yi had a good family in Zhongshan when he was young, and later fled to Macau due to the Anti-Japanese War. In the early 1960s, he worked in the Recreation Department of the Hong Kong Chinese Innovation Association and participated in some performances of the Cantonese opera group of the association. Played Xiaosheng in the ancient costume excerpt "Fate in the Cabinet", with a handsome appearance and a sonorous voice. The partner Hua Dan is thirteen or fourteen-year-old Liang Lizhu, they are backed up by the group's band. This repertoire is very popular, many associations and private banquets have invited them to perform, and they have become famous for a while. This is not unrelated to his later career development in the entertainment circle, and it is very likely that he indirectly gave birth to his well-known "Hua Danying" role later. Before entering the industry, he worked as a stockbroker, and in the 1960s he worked as an actor at Great Wall Film Production Co., Ltd. Joined TVB in 1974, began to participate in drama series performances, and played supporting roles in many TVB dramas. Among them, the more familiar ones are the TV series "Dragon Tiger Leopard" cooperating with He Shouxin and Shi Xiu in the 1970s, playing the role of the Japanese straight foot who controls Puyi in "The Rogue Emperor", and participating in "Shooting" in 1983. He played Ke Zhen'e in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and "The Legend of the Condor Heroes". Because his image of "Ke Zhen'e" was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, 11 years later TVB remakes "Legend of the Condor Heroes" and "The Legend of Condor Heroes" asked him to play this role again. He has worked in TVB for more than 20 years. Other TV dramas that have attracted more attention in the later period include "Tian Long Ba Bu", "Giant", "Big Times" and so on. The famous crocodile Chen Wanxian, the dialogue in the play: "So many people died, I didn't see you die!" It became a classic expression. He switched to Asian Television in 1996. Since ATV had reduced the production of drama series at that time, Jiang Yi also reduced his on-screen performances and turned to develop in the drama industry;Most of the films Jiang Yi starred in were filmed in the 1960s and 1970s, and he only participated in the filming intermittently thereafter. His legacy is "The Overheard 2" in 2011. Director Chong Man Keung even stated on Weibo that he originally intended to invite Jiang Yi to appear in the sequel "Eavesdropped 3". However, on March 13, 2013, Jiang Yi died of lung cancer at the Ruttonjee Hospital in Wanchai at the age of 81.