Overview

• His representatives confirmed he died in his sleep on May 27 at age 73.
• He rose to prominence as Rain in John Carpenter’s 1986 cult classic Big Trouble in Little China and as Tommy Tong in Eddie Murphy’s The Golden Child.
• Over nearly five decades he appeared in dozens of films and television series—from Miami Vice and The A-Team to Gleaming the Cube—showcasing his martial arts expertise.
• He served more than a decade on the SAG National Board of Directors and held leadership positions with AFTRA and the Academy’s Actors Branch Executive Committee.
• An advocate against anti-Asian stereotyping, he signed a 2016 letter decrying Oscars jokes and received the Asian World Film Festival’s Snow Leopard Award in 2023.