Lau Kwai-hong (劉桂康）

Lau Kwai-hong (劉桂康, 1918-April 24, 1955), native place: Dongguan County, Guangdong Province, a big fat man, was a child star in Hong Kong when he was a teenager, and played a gimmick with Yang Junxia（a skinny monkey child star）. A well-known comedian at the time, he was obese and weighed 230 pounds (104 kilograms). He started filming in his teens. During the Japanese invasion of China, Lau Kwai-hong joined to the garrison headquarters of General Li Yangjing. After the peace, he was sent to Shanghai to take over the job. Afterwards, he returned to Hong Kong to continue filming, mostly comedies. Lau Kwai-hong married Yang Yuxiang on July 3, 1948, and they had two sons and two daughters after marriage. Lau Kwai-hong has acted in more than 360 Hong Kong films in his lifetime, from his screen debut in "The Spy" (1936) to his film "It's Hard to Be a New Man" (1955). In "Spring on the Stage" (1938), he was once combined with comedian Yang Junxia and Lemon into the "Three Buddha Brothers"; he was also compiled with skinny monkey comedian Yang Junxia into an oriental fat and thin comedian like "Laurel and Hardy" match. In 1954, Lau Kwai-hong had already vomited blood due to gastric ulcer, so he was admitted to Queen Mary Hospital and Taihe Hospital. In 1955, he was admitted to St. Teresa's Hospital in Kowloon City due to high blood pressure and uremia. He was tortured until he died at 6:30 am on April 24, 1955. He was 37 years old then. His body was buried in the Catholic St. Raphael Cemetery in Cheung Sha Wan, Kowloon.