Long-time friend, fellow actor Frankie Ng reveals to reporters on Friday that Loui lost his battle with gastric cancer earlier this week
2-MIN READ2-MIN ListenNg Kang-chungPublished: 8:21pm, 11 Sep 2026Updated: 8:47pm, 11 Sep 2026Veteran Hong Kong actor and filmmaker Simon Loui Yu-yeung, better known to fans as the “King of Ghosts” for his prolific work in horror films, has died at the age of 62.
Long-time friend and fellow actor Frankie Ng Chi-hung revealed to reporters on Friday that Loui’s wife, TV and radio personality Ma Li, had confirmed the filmmaker had died in a hospital in Guangzhou on Monday after losing his battle with gastric cancer.
“The family hoped to stay low profile. There was no big announcement,” Ng said. “May he rest in eternal peace, free from all pain and sickness in heaven.”
Ng said he had known of Loui’s previous struggles with gastric cancer, which had been treated, but later learned the condition had come back in recent years.
Loui was born in 1964 and enjoyed an entertainment career spanning more than three decades across TV, radio and film and included his work as a filmmaker.
After finishing an artist training course at free-to-air broadcaster TVB in the late 1980s, he started with appearances in TV dramas and variety shows before moving to the film industry in the early 1990s.
