- On Wednesday night, July 7th, 1983, after leaving Clearwater Bay Country Club on the way to film The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter (1984), he was traveling on the passenger side of his Porsche 911 Targa that was driven by his third brother, Chang Zheng Sheng. They suddenly crashed into a cement wall on Clearwater Bay Road after taking a sharp turn too quickly. He suffered a broken back, severe internal injuries and significant blood loss. After 3 hours in the hospital, he died at 3:43am. He was 28 years old.
- It is said that his ghost would walk around and haunt the backlot at Shaw studios. At his makeup booth they set up a shrine, hoping to appease his ghost.
- His funeral was organized by the Shaw Brothers committee. His hearse was a Rolls Royce Silver Phantom that was donated by Run Run Shaw. Over 2,000 actors and 30,000 people attended his funeral. It was said that his funeral rivaled that of Bruce Lee's funeral a decade earlier.
- Was supposed to be the hero in the The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter (1984) before his sudden death. After his death, the script was rewritten so that Chia-Hui Liu became the hero. Fu Sheng's character abruptly disappears.
- Suffered two serious injuries while filming in 1978 and 1979. On Sept 17th 1978, on the set of The Deadly Breaking Sword (1979), he was suspended 8 feet in the air when the wire that held him snapped. He fell 8 feet backwards and crashed his head through a urn, almost breaking his neck. On Sept 19th 1979, on the set of Heroes Shed No Tears (1980), the harness holding him up broke and sent him crashing to the hard floor below, shattering bones in his right leg. He worked hard and recovered from the injuries and he was able to resume his martial arts film career, but he never regained the full extent of his previous abilities. Due to both injuries happening in September, he never filmed during September ever again.
- Bought and lived in the late Bruce Lee's house in Kowloon, Hong Kong until his death in July 1983--almost exactly ten years after Lee's death in July 1973.
- Was the ninth of 11 siblings in his family.
- He was called the "Asian James Dean" by the similarity in his death. Him and James Dean were both young and at the pinnacle of their careers before their sudden deaths in car accidents.
- Some people believed he inherited Bruce Lee's bad luck because he bought the house Bruce Lee owned when he died and had been felled by the same curse. Fu Sheng died almost 10 years after Bruce Lee and the day of their death was only couple of weeks apart.
- His wife Jenny Tseng sang the theme songs to the series "Legend of the Condor Heroes (1982)." He played the lead character Kwok Jing in all four movies of the movie series version of same story called "Brave Archer."
- He had aspirations of becoming a director and having his own production company
- Was suppose to star in film Snake in the Eagle's Shadow (1978), but Run Run Shaw, head of the studio, refused him the part. The was part eventually was given to Jackie Chan.
- He was one of the first graduates of the joint performing arts training course that was created by the Shaw Brothers and TVB in August of 1971. He graduated on September 28th, 1972.
- All of his films were exclusively for Shaw Brothers Studios in Hong Kong.
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