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David Nicholas Yip [1] (Chinese: 葉西園; pinyin: Yè Xīyuán; born 4 June 1951) is a British actor and playwright. He gained prominence through his role in the BBC series The Chinese Detective (1981–1982) [ 2 ] as the first Chinese lead on British television .
The series starred British Chinese actor David Yip as Detective Sergeant John Ho. Yip became the first Chinese lead actor in any British television drama series. [1] The series offered traditional police procedural storylines in a setting of occasional prejudice and distrust within the police force, and the prejudice displayed by those Ho encounters whilst doing his job.
John Michael Higgins (born February 12, 1963) is an American actor, game show host, and comedian whose film credits include Christopher Guest's mockumentaries, the role of David Letterman in HBO's The Late Shift, and a starring role in the American version of Kath & Kim.
Amy Yip Chi-mei [1] (born 10 July 1966), commonly known as Amy Yip, is a Hong Kong former actress, model and entrepreneur. Known for her small frame and voluptuous figure, [ 2 ] she was one of the leading sex symbols of Hong Kong cinema in the late 1980s and early 1990s. [ 3 ]
David Chiang Tai-wai (born Chiang Wei-nien; 29 June 1947) is a Hong Kong actor, director, producer and martial artist. A well-known martial arts actor formerly from Shaw Brothers Studio in the 1970s, he has appeared in over 130 films and 30 television series.
David Soul, an actor who rocketed to fame in the 1970s as the blond half of the TV crime-fighting duo “Starsky and Hutch” and went on to become a successful pop singer, has died. He was 80.
The 16-year-old convicted killers of a transgender teenager in northwest England nearly a year ago were named in court on Friday after the judge in the case lifted a ban on reporting their identities.
Roshan Seth OBE [1] (born 2 April 1942) is a British-Indian actor, writer and theatre director who has worked in the United Kingdom, United States and India. [2] He began his acting career in the early 1960s in the UK, but left acting the following decade and moved to India to work as a journalist.