Keith Kwan
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Keith Kwan Chiu-Chung ({{lang-zh|關朝聰}}, 1959 - 19 September 1995), nicknamed "Gwai Chai" ({{lang-zh|鬼仔}}), was a late bilingual actor from Hong Kong. He joined TVB in 1984 and became an artist under the company. He was known as a program host on the Pearl Channel and occasionally participated in TVB guest appearances in movies and TV series, hosting and showbiz, etc. Later, in the early 1990s, Kwan Chiu-chung moved to Canada until he died of cancer caused by AIDS in Vancouver, Canada on September 19, 1995. He was 36 years old.{{Cite web |url = https://ent.ltn.com.tw/news/breakingnews/1511009 |title = 名人罹愛滋 皇后主唱港星關朝聰早逝 |date=17 November 2015 |publisher = 自由時報 |language = Chinese |access-date =7 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181130024620/https://ent.ltn.com.tw/news/breakingnews/1511009 |archive-date=30 November 2018 }}
Biography
In 1959, Keith Kwan Chiu-Chung was born in Hong Kong. His father was from Guangdong Kaiping and his mother was Scottish. When he was a child, he studied at The True Light School of Hong Kong (Second Primary School Kindergarten, graduated in 1965),{{cite news |title=香港眞光中學畢業禮 |url=https://mmis.hkpl.gov.hk/coverpage/-/coverpage/view?_coverpage_WAR_mmisportalportlet_hsf=%E7%95%A2%E6%A5%AD%E7%A6%AE&_coverpage_WAR_mmisportalportlet_actual_q=%28%20verbatim_dc.collection%3A%28%22Old%5C%20HK%5C%20Newspapers%22%29%20%29%20AND+%28%20%28%20allTermsMandatory%3A%28true%29%20OR+all_dc.title%3A%28%E7%95%A2%E6%A5%AD%E7%A6%AE%29%20OR+all_dc.creator%3A%28%E7%95%A2%E6%A5%AD%E7%A6%AE%29%20OR+all_dc.contributor%3A%28%E7%95%A2%E6%A5%AD%E7%A6%AE%29%20OR+all_dc.subject%3A%28%E7%95%A2%E6%A5%AD%E7%A6%AE%29%20OR+fulltext%3A%28%E7%95%A2%E6%A5%AD%E7%A6%AE%29%20OR+all_dc.description%3A%28%E7%95%A2%E6%A5%AD%E7%A6%AE%29%20%29%20%29&_coverpage_WAR_mmisportalportlet_sort_field=dc.publicationdate_bsort&p_r_p_-1078056564_c=QF757YsWv5%2BakvA8rFW5EmdHmRO7Fajz&_coverpage_WAR_mmisportalportlet_o=1005&_coverpage_WAR_mmisportalportlet_sort_order=desc&_coverpage_WAR_mmisportalportlet_filter=dc.publicationdate_dt%3A%5B1960-01-01T00%3A00%3A00Z+TO+1969-12-31T15%3A59%3A59Z%5D |page=14 |language= |publisher=華僑日報 |date=1965-07-11 |access-date=2022-04-21 |quote= }} he moved to Canada with his family at the age of 8 to continue his studies there. He has performed in dramas, stage plays and filmed commercials in the United States and Canada. After graduating from university, he returned to Hong Kong and became a member of the Hong Kong Performing Arts Troupe. He also worked as a director at Hong Kong Radio. In 1984, Kwan Chiu-chung joined Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) under the introduction of artist Deborah Moore,{{cite news |language = Chinese |title = 關朝聰不聽父母言 演藝天才幸未埋沒|publisher = 華僑日報 |pages = 15 |date = 1984-03-23 |access-date=2019-12-24}}{{cite news |language = Chinese |title=關朝聰修讀戲劇 希望能多拍電影 |publisher=華僑日報 |pages = 15 |date=1987-04-30 |access-date = 2019-12-24}} Kwan co-hosted a variety show on the English channel Pearl Channel with Deborah Moore in the mid-1980s,{{Cite web |url = https://www.gettyimages.hk/detail/%E6%96%B0%E8%81%9E%E7%85%A7%E7%89%87/s-pearl-channel-artists-including-miss-hong-kong-1984-joyce-mina-%E6%96%B0%E8%81%9E%E7%85%A7%E7%89%87/1126799007 |title = TVB's Pearl Channel artists |publisher = South China Morning Post |date=1984-09-28 |language=en |access-date=2019-10-16 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191016120406/https://www.gettyimages.hk/detail/%E6%96%B0%E8%81%9E%E7%85%A7%E7%89%87/s-pearl-channel-artists-including-miss-hong-kong-1984-joyce-mina-%E6%96%B0%E8%81%9E%E7%85%A7%E7%89%87/1126799007 |archive-date = 2019-10-16 }} his performance attracted the attention of the audience, and he was later invited to participate in a TV series on the Cantonese channel Jade Channel, and occasionally made guest appearances in movies and TV.{{cite news |language=Chinese |title=無線邀簽藝人合約 關朝聰看觀眾反應 |publisher=華僑日報 |pages = 8 |date=1990-06-22}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.scmedia.com.hk/scm_photos/THREEWEEKLY/201307/175316/834400.jpg |title = 好友愛滋亡 |publisher = 3周刊第717期 |language = Chinese |access-date=2019-10-04 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190707131816/http://www.scmedia.com.hk/scm_photos/THREEWEEKLY/201307/175316/834400.jpg |archive-date = 2019-07-07 }}