Adam Cheng Siu-Chow (born February 24, 1947 in Hong Kong with family roots in Taishan, Guangdong) is a popular TVB actor and singer in Hong Kong.

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Career history

He started his career in the 1970s, where he gained a reputation for being the suave leading man in wuxia drama series made by TVB. Many of these are based on novels by Louis Cha and Gu Long. He often sang the theme songs of the TV dramas he starred in, such as The Greed of Man , Cold Blood Warm Heart and Chor Lau Heung . Many of these series are considered classics. Recently, he played a role in The Driving Power , he sang the theme song in this one also.

He has a total of four daughters. The first one, Cheng On Yee was from a low profile marriage that ended in divorce. He married Lydia Shum in 1985 after 14 years of cohabitation. They had a daughter, Joyce Cheng Yan Yee in 1987, but they divorced just eight months after Joyce was born. In 1989, he remarried and had another two daughters, Cheng Wing Yan and Cheng Wing Hei.

He has continued acting in TV series by TVB today and is considered one of the most enduringly popular actors of the company.

The Ding Hai Effect

In the 1990s, TVB aired the classic drama The Greed of Man , which centred heavily around the stock market, and the schemes and plots of those who struck it rich in the market. Cheng's character in the drama, Ding Hai, made an immense fortune by short selling derivatives and stocks during a bear market. Many people went broke, but the Ding family became richer and richer until an eventual defeat by the family's nemesis.

Cheng is associated with the Ding Hai Effect, a peculiar and unexplained phenomenon that apparently causes a drop in global stock markets whenever he stars in a new TV show. No reason is given for this effect, and it has been a popular topic amongst stock brokers years after the drama series was broadcast in Hong Kong in 1993.

Discography

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Filmography

Films

Year	Title
1980	*The Sword
1983	Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain
1984	Shaolin and Wu Tang
1988	Gunmen
1989	Seven Warriors
1990	Path of Glory
1993	Painted Skin
	Fong Sai Yuk
	''Fong Sai Yuk II
1994	Shaolin Popey 2: Messy Temple
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TV Series

NOTE: Most of the series mentioned where shown on the TVB Jade network

Year	Title
1976	Chinese Folklore
	The Legend Of The Book and the Sword
1977	The Great Vendetta
	The Kingdom And The Beauty
	Luk Siu Fung
1978	Vanity Fair
	''The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber
	One Sword
1979	Chor Lau Heung
	Over The Rainbow
1980	Five Easy Pieces
	Odd Couple
1981	Brothers Four
	In Love and War
	The Hawk
	The Misadventure of Zoo
1982	The Switch
1983	The Sandwich Man
1985	The New Adventures of Chu Liuxiang
1986	Legendary of Wud
	The Legend of Wong Tai Sin
1987	Fate Takes a Hand
1988	Behind Silk Curtains
	Final Verdict
	Challenge of the Imperial Palace
1991	Chronicles of Emperor Qianlong
1993	The Greed of Man
1994	Instinct
	Forty Something
1995	The Legend of Chu Liuxiang
	Cold Blood Warm Heart
	The Legendary Chin Lung II
1996	''Once Upon a Time in Shanghai
2004	Blade Heart
	The Conqueror's Story
2005	The Princes Shadow
2006	Bar Bender
	Inside the Forbidden City
2007	Return in Glory
2009	The King of Snooker

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