Aloysius Pang

Aloysius Pang Wei Chong (24 August 1990 – 24 January 2019) was a Singaporean actor managed under NoonTalk Media, best known for his involvement in multiple Mediacorp dramas.

Pang was born in Singapore on 24 August 1990.

He had two elder brothers, Jefferson and Kenny.

Pang studied in Pei Chun Public School and Yuying Secondary School.

Pang started acting at the age of nine after he joined an acting class organised by Mediacorp, and starred in children dramas such as My Teacher, My Buddy (1999), Bukit Ho Swee (2002), The Adventures of BBT (2002), A Child's Hope (Season 1, 2003; Season 2, 2004), and I Love My Home (2004).

Growing up with the Chinese name of 冯伟忠, Pang later changed the last character of his Chinese name from 忠 to 衷 to reference the old shows he did as a child actor, while retaining its pronunciation.

He was nominated for his role as Ding Wei Liang in A Child's Hope in Star Awards 2003 Young Talent Award in Star Awards 2003.

He left acting in 2004 after being repeatedly bullied; in a 2015 interview he said he'd "told [Mediacorp] to take my file out and never call [him] again".

In 2012, he graduated from Singapore Institute of Management University with a diploma in management studies.

In 2012, Pang made his comeback in the lead role of the film Timeless Love, which was directed by Lim Koong Hwee and Singaporean celebrity Dasmond Koh.

From Star Awards 2013 to Star Awards 2016, he was nominated for Favourite Male Character.

Pang made his directorial debut in 2014 by directing the music video of Singapore-based singer Gavin Teo's I Understand (我懂了), which also starred Xu Bin and Kimberly Chia.

In 2014, he was named one of the 8 Dukes of Caldecott Hill and went on to win the Best Newcomer at the Star Awards 2015.

Pang released his first single "Black Tears" (黑色眼泪) in 2015.

It was also announced that Pang would star in Singapore's first cosplay-themed movie, Young & Fabulous.

Together with Xu Bin, he also took part in an online variety show produced by NoonTalk Media, called Freshmen (来吧！上课啦！).

In Star Awards 2015, he was awarded the Best Newcomer and was nominated for Best Supporting Actor & Rocket.

In Star Awards 2016, he won his first award for Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes.

Pang was known for setting aside 10 percent of his pay to thank and bless the production people on set.

On 7 April 2017, in an interview with Mediacorp's Toggle, Pang said that he would not renew his contract with Mediacorp in order to focus on a business he had set up with his brother.

The company was named Kairos Green and focused on wood plastic composite.

Pang was in a unpublicized relationship with actress Jayley Woo which first started from 2017.

Shortly after his death, Woo revealed that they'd only planned to go public after the wedding.

She did not elaborate on the reason for keeping the relationship secret, but Pang's manager Dasmond Koh is known to have imposed a no-dating rule on his stable of artistes.

In 2018, he acted in a Toggle romance-mystery series From Beijing to Moscow where he made a two-month road trip to China, Mongolia and Russia with Felicia Chin, River Huang and Jojo Goh.

Pang died on 24 January 2019 at 1:45am NZDT (23 January 2019 at 8:45pm SST) due to serious crush injuries sustained from a military accident while on Operationally Ready National Service reservist training in the Singapore Army, aged 28.

It premiered on Toggle in June 2019.

Pang was to start shooting in February 2019 and take on his first lead role in the Channel 8 romantic comedy drama My One In a Million, alongside his long-time onscreen partner Carrie Wong before his death.

His role was given to Beijing-based local actor Lawrence Wong.

In May 2022, three years after Pang died, it was announced that a Singapore–Thailand film, The Antique Shop, which features scenes of Pang, which were filmed prior to his death, would be released in Thailand on 2 June.

This would be his final posthumous work.

On 19 January 2019, while taking part in a live-firing exercise at Waiouru Training Area in New Zealand as an Operationally Ready National Serviceman, Pang entered the cabin of a Singapore Self-Propelled Howitzer (SSPH) to troubleshoot a fault.

At 7:05 pm NZDT (2:05 pm SST), to enable diagnosis of the fault, the barrel of the howitzer was automatically lowered to neutral position within the cabin.

Pang was in the path of the receding barrel and sustained severe crush injuries to his chest and abdomen as a result.

Pang was evacuated by helicopter to the Waiouru Camp Medical Centre and then to Waikato Hospital, where he had abdominal surgery.

Despite further surgery and initially being conscious, his condition later deteriorated and he was placed on life support for his heart, lungs and kidneys.

He died at the hospital on 24 January 2019 at 1:45 am NZDT (23 January 2019 8:45 pm SST).

According to New Zealand laws, before the body could be repatriated back to Singapore, a post-mortem was to be performed with permission from the family, but it did not proceed as Pang's family did not grant it.

Pang's body was repatriated the following day.

A wake began on the morning of 26 January 2019.