The Hospital as Tang Guotai (), a professor and director of surgery. He was subsequently nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 42nd Golden Bell Awards in 2007. In 2019, Ng starred in the science fiction film The Wandering Earth, in which he played the grandfather of the male lead. Ng nearly rejected the role as he believed that the Chinese film industry was not fit to make science fiction movies, and he had to undergo heart surgery at the time. During the filming, he had to bear the weight of a spacesuit while still recovering from his heart failure in 2014. Personal life Ng married Mak Lee Lee, a Hong Kong artist, in 1976. They met during a TVB training class. Mak gave birth to twin daughters. After Ng's gambling debts had risen to , Mak filed for a divorce which was granted in 1994. While Ng and Mak were still married, Ng cohabited with Lo Siu Chi (卢少慈), also a Hong Kong artist, and had a daughter together. In 1993, while Ng was filming All's Well, Ends Well Too in Singapore, he met Hou Shanyan (侯珊燕), a Malaysian beauty pageant runner-up and artist. Ng married Hou in 1996, and they had a daughter and son. He lived with his family in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, until shortly before his death, when he asked to spend time in Hong Kong. Being a native of Xiamen, he was fluent in Hokkien. He sometimes spoke Hokkien with the cast when he was filming in Taiwan. Illness and death Ng was admitted to the hospital in 2014 for heart failure due to a viral infection. After this incident, Ng had a will drawn up, and remained in poor health from that point. In February 2021, he confirmed that he suffered from liver cancer and had been undergoing chemotherapy followed by rest and recuperation, but his condition had turned critical. On 27 February 2021, Ng died in his sleep at Tai Wai's Union Hospital at the age of 69. Filmography Film Television References External links Ng Man Tat at the Hong Kong Movie DataBase 1952 births 2021 deaths 20th-century Hong Kong male actors 20th-century Chinese male actors 21st-century Hong Kong male actors 21st-century Chinese male actors Chinese male film actors Chinese male television actors Hong Kong male film actors Hong Kong male television actors Hong Kong expatriates in Malaysia Hong Kong male comedians Hong