Cung Tin Fung

Biography

Cung Tin Fung (original name Wen Shengxuan) was a Cantonese opera actor from Hong Kong, born in 1916. He specialized in the roles of scholars and martial artists in Cantonese opera. He married actress Chen Yan Nong, and they had a son and a daughter. He spent long periods touring and performing, presenting shows in Southeast Asia in the 1930s, and after the war in America and Cuba. He died on October 5, 1954, at his home in Mong Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong, at the age of 38 due to a brain hemorrhage caused by drunkenness.