Career history
He started his career in the 1970s, where he gained a reputation for being the suave leading man in wuxia drama series made by TVB. Many of these are based on novels by Louis Cha and Gu Long. He often sang the theme songs of the TV dramas he starred in, such as ''The Greed of Man'', ''Cold Blood Warm Heart'' and ''Chor Lau Heung''. Many of these series are considered classics. Recently, he played a role in ''The Driving Power'', he sang the theme song in this one also.
He has a total of four daughters. The first one, Cheng On Yee was from a low profile marriage that ended in divorce. He married Lydia Shum in 1985 after 14 years of courtship. They had a daughter, in 1987, but they divorced just eight months after she was born. In 1989, he remarried and had another two daughters, and .
He has continued acting in TV series by TVB today and is considered one of the most enduringly popular actors of the company.
The Ding Hai Effect
In the 1990s, TVB aired the classic drama ''The Greed of Man'', which centred heavily around the stock market, and the schemes and plots of those who struck it rich in the market. Cheng's character in the drama, Ding Hai, made an immense fortune by short selling derivatives and stocks during a bear market. Many people went broke, but the Ding family became richer and richer until an eventual defeat by the family's nemesis.
Cheng is associated with the Ding Hai Effect, a peculiar and unexplained phenomenon that apparently causes a drop in global stock markets whenever he stars in a new TV show. No reason is given for this effect, and it has been a popular topic amongst stock brokers years after the drama series was broadcast in Hong Kong in 1993.
Discography
*愛人結婚了
*紫色的戀情
*莫把愛情玩弄
*煙雨濛濛
*秋哥有錢
*紫釵記
*洛神·同屋共主
*伴侶
*天涯孤客
*寶蓮燈
*留住了歡笑
*江山美人
*歡樂年年
*倚天屠龍記
*陸小鳳
*合唱精選
*一劍鎮神州
*心思思-旅美演唱歌曲精選
*楚留香
*輪流傳·名劍
*粤語流行曲精選
*流氓皇帝
*烽火飛花
*飛鷹
*富貴榮華
*新蜀山劍俠
*夾心人·火燒圓園
*勁歌
*有求必應
*秋意
*鄭少秋精選
*大時代
*笑看風云
*天大地大
*男人四十一頭家
*天涯孤客
*最佳友情人
*鄭少秋世紀之選
*金禧經典
*歡樂年年
*楚漢驕雄·血薦軒轅
*家傳戶曉演唱會2005
Filmography
Films
*Shao Lin Popeye 2 - Messy Temple
*Shaolin Popey 2: Messy Temple
*The Legend 2
*Painted Skin
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*Seven Warriors
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*Shaolin and Wu Tang
*Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain
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TV Series
1970 - 1980
NOTE: Most of the series mentioned where shown on the TVB Jade network
*Chinese Folklore
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*The Great Vendetta
*The Kingdom And The Beauty
*Luk Siu Fung
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*Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre
*One Sword
*Chor Lau Heung
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1980 - 1990
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*In Love and War
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*The Misadventure of Zoo
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*Sandwich Man
*"The New Adventures of Chu Liuxiang "
*Legendary of Wud
*The Legend of Wong Tai Sin
*Fate Takes a Hand
*Behind Silk Curtains
*Final Verdict
*Kuet Gin Wong Shing
1990 - 2000
*"Chronicles of Emperor Qianlong "
*The Greed of Man
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*"The Legend of Chu Liuxiang " with Taiwanese Opera actress Yarlane Chen Ya-lan as co-stars
*Forty Something
*Cold Blood Warm Heart
*The Legendary Chin Lung II
*Once Upon a Time in Shanghai
2000 - Current
*Blade Heart
*The Conqueror's Story
*The Princes Shadow
*Bar Bender
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*Return in Glory
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