Actor and stuntman Al Leong has been hospitalised in California after suffering a stroke last week, according to sources close to his family.
The family sources said Leong was rushed to hospital after the medical emergency. They did not disclose whether he remains there or provide details about his condition.
Leong’s family has asked for privacy at this time.
He is best known for playing the terrorist Uli in the 1988 action film Die Hard. The character was among the group that seized control of Nakatomi Plaza before being shot and killed by Bruce Willis’s character, New York police officer John McClane.
Leong’s film career began in 1981, when he played a circus performer at a funeral in Going Ape. He later appeared as a Wing Kong hatchet man in Big Trouble in Little China in 1986.
The following year, he played Endo, a mercenary specialising in torture for a shadow company, in Lethal Weapon, starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover.
In 1989, Leong portrayed Genghis Khan in Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, alongside Keanu Reeves. His television credits include T.J. Hooker, The Fall Guy and Knight Rider.
A martial arts expert, Leong was inducted into the Martial Arts History Museum Hall of Fame in 2014.
