He worked alongside some of the biggest names in Hong Kong action cinema including Jackie Chan, Michelle Yeoh, Andy Lau, and Jet Li.

In 1983, he appeared as "Exhaust Pipe" in Hung's film Winners and Sinners, a template to the Lucky Stars series.

The first three Pom Pom films fared well at the domestic box office, taking between HK $17 and HK $20 million each, a sum comparable to contemporaries such as the original Lucky Stars trilogy, Chan's Project A and Hung and Biao's Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain.

Ng became an established actor, and was given supporting roles in a number of popular Hong Kong action comedies including Wheels on Meals (1984), Millionaire's Express (1986) and Jackie Chan's Miracles (1989).

However, he was clearly still very active, having made several appearances on British television since that time, and he also continued to work on Hong Kong films.

Since it started in 2002, Ng appeared in several episodes of the ongoing BBC Scotland soap, River City (under the name Richard Woo).

The two have since appeared together several more times, including in Dante Lam's Jiang hu: The Triad Zone (2000), Lemon Crush (2002), Sammo Hung's Legend of the Dragon (2004) and the Jingle Ma film Happy Birthday (2007).

Ng was married to his wife, Susan, a British woman who was a stylist for Vidal Sassoon in London and New York.

[12][13] According to Hong Kong media outlet HK01, which was first to report his death, doctors advised Ng's family members to visit him in hospital on 9 April to say their last goodbyes.

A family member was told that the doctors tried to resuscitate Ng after his heart stopped, but to no avail.