Peter Kwong

Acting

Peter Kwong

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Apr 09, 1952 (73 years old)
Death date
May 27, 2025

Peter Kwong

Known For

Cooties
1h 28m
Movie 2014

Cooties

A mysterious virus hits an isolated elementary school, transforming the...

Dragon Dynasty
1h 29m
Movie 2006

Dragon Dynasty

A group of European explorers returning from China battle a...

Combination Platter
1h 24m
Movie 1993

Combination Platter

An employee at a Chinese Restaurant in New York City...

Angel Town
1h 42m
Movie 1990

Angel Town

A graduate student and martial-arts expert rents a room in...

Skeleton Coast
1h 38m
Movie 1988

Skeleton Coast

A retired Army colonel attempts to rescue his imprisoned son...

Steele Justice
1h 35m
Movie 1987

Steele Justice

Steele is ex-cop and Vietnam vet who is determined to...

The Golden Child
1h 34m
Movie 1986

The Golden Child

After a Tibetan boy, the mystical Golden Child, is kidnapped...

Never Too Young to Die
1h 32m
Movie 1986

Never Too Young to Die

Secret agent Drew Stargrove is brutally murdered by the ruthless...

Biography

Peter Kwong (April 9, 1952 — May 27, 2025) was a veteran of film, television and stage, best known for his roles as Rain in Big Trouble in Little China and as Tommy Tong in Eddie Murphy's The Golden Child (both 1986). Kwong began his screen career in the mid-1970s with guest shots on such TV series as Wonder Woman and Black Sheep Squadron, and into the ’80s with Cagney & Lacey, Bret Maverick, The Greatest American Hero, Little House on the Prairie, Dynasty, The A-Team, Miami Vice, 227, St. Elsewhere, and Matt Houston. Training with the East/West Players, Groundlings and other groups, Kwong would continue to work regularly in films and TV shows in the 2020s. Among his silver-screen credits are The Presidio, Gleaming the Cube, I’ll Do Anything, Paper Dragons and Cooties. His numerous TV guest roles also included such popular shows as General Hospital, JAG, My Wife and Kids, The Wayans Brothers, Sisters, Drake & Josh, Lethal Weapon and King of the Hill. Kwong also was an accomplished martial artist, working in Northern Shaolin kung fu, Chinese kata and with weapons including swords, staffs, spears and nunchaku. Dancing was another specialty — from ballroom and martial arts fusion to disco and breaking. Along with his nearly 50-year acting career, Kwong was active in Hollywood industry politics. He served on the SAG National Board of Directors for more than a decade and was on the AFTRA National Board of Directors. He also did a four-year stint on the Television Academy Board of Governors and was a member of the Actors Branch Executive Committee of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, among other roles. Kwong ran for the the merged SAG-AFTRA National Board and L.A. Local Board in 2017. He also was an activist against anti-Asian stereotyping in Hollywood. In 2016, Kwong was among about two dozen signatories on a letter to AMPAS decrying jokes made at the expense of Asians during the Oscars that year.