Ric Young is a British character actor. He was born in Kuala Lumpur in 1944 as Wing-Wah Yung. He trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and then moved to Los Angeles to study method acting under Shelley Winters and Lee Strasberg. He is best known for his role as Dr. Zhang Lee in the TV series Alias (2001-04) and as the henchman Kao Kan in the Steven Spielberg film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984). Some of his best-known roles include Kao Kan in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Bruce Lee`s father in Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993), Mao Tse-tung in Nixon (1995), General Chang Jing Wu in Seven Years in Tibet (1997), Mr. Kwai in The Transporter (2002) and Henry Lee in The Corruptor (1999). He is one of the few individuals who performed in both the original versions of the TV series The Saint (in 1964), Hawaii Five-O (in 1976) and their reboots in Return of the Saint (in 1978) and Hawaii Five-O (2010).