Keith Kwan Chiu Chung

Biography

Keith Kwan Chiu Chung was born in 1959 in Hong Kong, with a father from Kaiping in Guangdong and a Scottish mother. He attended Hong Kong True Light Secondary School in his childhood, then moved with his family to Canada at age eight where he completed his education. He participated in plays and commercials in both the United States and Canada before returning to Hong Kong after graduation. He joined the Hong Kong Repertory Theatre and worked as a director at Radio Television Hong Kong. In 1984, he joined TVB at the recommendation of artist Debora Moore. He became known for hosting programs on the English Pearl Channel and made guest appearances in TV dramas and films. Fluent in both Cantonese and English, he was among the few able to work on bilingual television channels. In the early 1990s, he moved to Vancouver, Canada, where he contracted HIV and died on September 19, 1995, at St. Paul's Hospital at the age of 36.