Walter Tso
Walter Tso | |||||||||||
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曹達華 | |||||||||||
Walter Tso Tat-wah (right) from the film The Furious Buddha’s Palm | |||||||||||
| Born | 15 September 1915 Taishan, Guangdong, China | ||||||||||
| Died | 10 January 2007 (aged 91) London, England | ||||||||||
| Other names | Cho Tat-wah, Tso Tat-wah, Cao Dahua | ||||||||||
| Years active | 1936–1997, 2001 (62 years) | ||||||||||
| Awards | Hong Kong Film Awards – Professional Spirit Award, 2003 Lifetime Achievement Golden Bauhinia Awards – Life Achievement Award, 2001 Lifetime Achievement | ||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 曹達華 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 曹达华 | ||||||||||
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Walter Tso Tat-Wah (15 September 1915 – 10 January 2007) was a Hong Kong film actor most famous for the roles he played in a number of Wuxia films in the 1950s and 1960s.
Tso and actor Shih Kien starred in a number of films together. The actress Yu So-chow co-starred in many of Tso's films.
Tso's well-known roles include Lung Kim-fei (龍劍飛), Leung Foon (梁寛) and Inspector Wah (華探長).
A native of Taishan, Guangdong, (he spoke Cantonese and Taishanese) Tso began his acting career at the age of 15, and eventually starred in more than 700 film. He was a compulsive gambler. Legend has it that he lost the Wah-tat Studio, which produced most of his films at the time, while gambling, though it is not certain whether the studio was owned by him.