Veteran TVB actor Chan Hung-lit died in hospital yesterday after falling ill during shooting of the popular comedy series Off Pedder. He was 66.
Chan complained of chest pains when he was in the make-up room at the station's headquarters, TVB City, in Tseung Kwan O at 4.30pm, Virginia Lok Yee-ling, controller of TVB's production resources division, said.
While a producer called for an ambulance, station security staff loosened his clothes and tried to resuscitate him. Chan was losing consciousness when the ambulance came, Lok said. He was taken to Tseung Kwan O Hospital where he died at 7.11pm. His younger sister went to the hospital after being told.
Lok said Chan's daughter and his second wife, who are in Taiwan, had been notified.
Chan had been filming during the day and had fallen ill while he was preparing to change for another scene.
Tsang Sing-ming, TVB's external affairs deputy controller, said he did not know much about the state of Chan's health, but the actor had been performing enthusiastically during a live celebration programme for TVB's 42th birthday at the station's headquarters on Thursday.