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Kam Fong Chun ( May 27, 1918 – October 18, 2002 ), born Kam Tong Chun, was an American actor whose claim to fame was his 1968 to 1978 star performance as Chin Ho Kelly, a police detective on the CBS television network series Hawaii Five-O.
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In the show, McGarrett oversaw State Police officers — a young officer, Danny Williams ( played by Tim O ' Kelly in the show's pilot but replaced in the regular series by James MacArthur ), Chin Ho Kelly ( played by Kam Fong Chun ) and Kono Kalakaua ( played by Zulu ) for seasons one through four.
By the 12th and final season, series regular James MacArthur had left the show ( in 1996, he admitted that he had become tired and wanted to do other things ), as had Kam Fong.
Kam Fong Chun played Chin HoFreeman offered Richard Boone the part of McGarrett, but Boone turned it down ; Gregory Peck and Robert Brown were also considered.
Kam Fong Chun, an 18-year veteran of the Honolulu Police Department, auditioned for the part of the lead villain Wo Fat, but Freeman cast him in the part of Chin Ho Kelly instead.
Several cameos were made by other Five-O regulars, including Kam Fong as Chin Ho Kelly ( even though the character had been killed off at the end of Season 10 ).
His most recent appearances include spots on Entertainment Tonight, Christopher's Closeup and the BBC Radio 5 Live obituary program Brief Lives, in which he paid tribute to his Hawaii Five-O castmate, the late Kam Fong.
Chin Ho Kelly, the name of the police detective played by Kam Fong, was a tip-of-the-hat to Ilikai developer Chinn Ho.
Kam Fong ( who played Det.
Kam Fong Chun was born in the Kalihi neighborhood of Honolulu, Hawaii.
Chun's stage name came from a misunderstanding of his first name by his first teacher, who taught him to write Kam Fong Chun instead of his birthname, Kam Tong Chun.
CBS asked him to shorten his name to Kam Fong when he was hired for Hawaii Five-O.
Kam Fong Chun died of lung cancer in Honolulu on October 18, 2002, at the age of 84.
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After Pak dies, she starts a romance with Kam and helps Fong Tin-yau and his friends in the battles against Yamamoto and Lo Hau.
Harrington is among a few of the supporting Hawaii Five-O ( 1968 ) cast still alive along with William Smith, Sharon Farrell, and Dennis Chun ( also the son of Kam Fong, he had spot cameos ).
Description: Kam Fong Chun as Chin Ho in Hawaii Five-O
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The third is a pretty female scholar named Kam Ching, who resembles his 21st century girlfriend Chun Ching in appearance and shares a similar name ( completely homophonic in Standard Mandarin ).
* Sonija Kwok as Chun Ching / Kam Ching ().
After Hong is transported to two thousand years back, he meets Kam Ching, a female scholar who resembles Chun Ching in appearance and they develop a romantic relationship.
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* Kam language, a Tai – Kadai language of China or an Adamawa language of Nigeria
In the Chinese scholarly community, Tai – Kadai ( actually Kam – Tai ( Zhuang – Dong ), which excludes the Kra languages ) and Hmong – Mien have commonly been included in the Sino-Tibetan family.
Although some Chinese linguists continue to include the Miao – Yao and Kam – Tai families in Sino-Tibetan, this arrangement remains problematic.
In addition, ' Kam – Tai ' itself no longer appears to be a valid node within Tai – Kadai.
Ethnologue lists 92 languages in this family, with 76 of these languages being in the Kam – Tai branch.
Tai – Kadai consists of five well established branches, Hlai, Kra, Kam – Sui, Tai, and the Ong Be ( Bê ) language:
* Kam – Sui ( mainland China ; Dong – Shui ( 侗水 ) in Chinese )
Based on the large number of vocabulary they share, the Kam – Sui, Be, and Tai branches are often classified together.
( See Kam – Tai.
Ostapirat also claims that morphological similarities suggest instead that Kra and Kam – Sui be grouped together as Northern Kadai on the one hand, and Hlai with Tai as Southern Kadai on the other ( Ostapirat 2006 ).
* Sui people, one of the Kam – Sui peoples, an ethnic group of China and Vietnam
* Kill the Five Thieves-The Sikh Gurus tell us that our mind and spirit are constantly being attacked by the Five Evils – Kam ( Lust ), Krodh ( Rage ), Lobh ( Greed ), Moh ( Attachment ) and Ahankar ( Ego ).
* the Kam – Sui peoples ( which may or not include the Biao people )
In southern China, people speaking Kam – Tai ( Zhuang – Dong ) languages are mainly found in Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan, Hunan, Guangdong, and Hainan.
For example, some populations of the Kadai, a major branch of Tai – Kadai, are more similar to the populations of the Kam – Sui, another major branch.
* Kam – Sui
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It passed through Kam Shan, the Shing Mun Reservoir, Beacon Hill, Lion Rock, and Tate's Cairn, ending at Port Shelter in Sai Kung ; its total length was 18 kilometers.
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In 2002, the Chu language has been identified as perhaps having influence from Tai – Kam and Miao – Yao languages by researchers at University of Massachusetts Amherst.
* Ho, Tin Kam ( 2002 ).
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