Bruce Lee

 Bruce Lee

The beginnings of Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee was born on November 27, 1940 in San Francisco, California. His parents named him "Lee Jun Fan". His father, Lee Hwi-chin, who worked as an opera singer in Hong Kong, moved to the United States in 1939 with his wife, Grace, and three children. Hwi-chin's fourth child was born while he was on tour in San Francisco.

A nurse at the hospital gave him the name "Bruce", but his family had never used that name before he attended school. The star made his film debut at the age of 3 months, playing an American baby in the 1941 Golden Gate Girl.

In the early 1940s, Lee returned to Hong Kong, which was then occupied by the Japanese. Looking natural and familiar in front of the camera, Bruce Lee has appeared in nearly 20 films as a child actor, since 1946. He also studied dance, won a Hong Kong cha-cha competition, and became known for his haircut, too.

As a teenager, he was persecuted by British students for his Chinese background. Then he joined a street gang. In 1953, he began his discipline when studying kung fu. By the end of the 1950s, Lee had returned to the United States to live with family friends outside of Seattle, Washington, and was initially a dance teacher.

Bruce Lee was a famous martial arts and martial arts player, actor and director. Born in San Francisco, California in 1940, Bruce Lee made his first movie appearance when he was 3 months old. He moved to the United States, where he studied kung fu, then returned to the United States, where he studied philosophy in Washington. Lee married Linda Emery in 1964 and became a father to Brandon and Shannon.

Bruce Lee became a leading movie star in the picture 'The Green Hornet', which featured him as 'Kato'. He brought his family back to Hong Kong where he shot two of his most famous films, Fists of Fury (1971) and Return of the Dragon (1972). Bruce Lee's success helped encourage many Asian artists to make their way in the world of American cinema. Bruce Lee died in 1973 and the exhibition “Bruce Lee: Kung Fu. Art. Life.” At the Hong Kong Heritage Museum in 2013.

Bruce Lee had some amazing skills, like being able to take a coin out of your palm before you could close it and he was a skilled cha cha dancer. Bruce Lee is considered one of the greatest martial arts and film icons and his legacy is still alive in this generation.

Biography of Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee is a professional martial arts and martial arts player.

Born November 27, 1940 in San Francisco, California. He appeared in his first film at the age of 3 months, as an American child in the movie Golden Gate Girl in 1941. He opened martial arts training schools, but soon headed towards the world of cinema. He participated in the TV series “The Green Hornet”, and then starred in his famous movie “Fists of Fury”.

Lee passed away in 1973, just a month before the release of his movie, “Enter The Dragon.”

Bruce Lee's personal life

During his studies, Lee met a girl named Linda Emery, and they married in 1964, and they had a son named Brandon in 1965 and a girl named Shannon in 1969.

Facts about Bruce Lee

One of his skill is that he can take a coin from your palm before you can close it.

His kicks were so fast they had to re-shoot his scenes in slow motion.

He was known to be a skilled cha-cha dancer.

Bruce Lee's achievements

Lee finished high school in Edison, Washington, after which he attended the University of Washington to study philosophy. He also gets a job teaching martial arts that he had learned in Hong Kong earlier. During his studies, Lee met a girl named Linda Emery, and they married in 1964. By that time, Lee had opened a martial arts school in Seattle.

He and Linda soon moved to California, where Lee opened two more schools in Oakland and Los Angeles. He often taught a style called Jeet Kune Do, or the "usual fist method." It was known that he preferred his job as a coach as he treated his students as he treated his children, but in the end the world of cinema was a better choice than teaching. Lee and his wife, Linda, had a son, Brandon, in 1965 and a girl, Shannon, in 1969.

Lee gained further fame with his participation in the TV series "The Green Hornet" where the series was broadcast over the course of 26 episodes in the years 1966-1967. Lee played the role of a young boy named "Kato" and used his martial and acrobatic skills in the role. Then, many talk shows hosted him, as he became famous for his participation in many well-known films.

Because he was devoting his time to training and exercising hard, he received a back injury from which he gradually recovered. But he had plenty of time to devote himself to writing and enjoying his private life away from work and hard training.

After that, he participated in the "Kung Fu" series, but several problems occurred, as a result of which he decided to leave Los Angeles and return to Hong Kong in 1971.

Lee signed two contracts for the film, and eventually moved his family back to Hong Kong. The Big Boss, or Fists of Fury, was released in the US in 1971 and stars Lee (the film's protagonist) as a factory worker facing a drug-smuggling operation. In this film, Lee combined his smooth 'Jeet Kune Do' fighting style with his acrobatic and physical skills for the role, and broke records at the Hong Kong box office.

By the end of 1972, Lee was a big movie star in Asia, and then co-founded his own film production company with his friend Raymond Chow, and released his first movie, "Return of the Dragon".

With the release of "Enter The Dragon," Bruce Lee became known as an international and box office star. The film's budget was $1 million, and the film's earnings amounted to more than $200 million. Lee's cinematic legacy helped pave the way for many Asian artists to enter the world of American cinema, and this led to the emergence of many international actors such as Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Steven Seagal and Jackie Chan.

In 1993, Lee's life story was adapted into a movie entitled "The Bruce Lee Story" based on his wife Linda Lee's 1975 memoir "Bruce Lee: The only Man I knew".

A 2009 documentary was also released about him: How Bruce Lee Changed the World. And in the summer of 2013, the Hong Kong Heritage Museum opened the exhibition "Bruce Lee: Kung Fu. Art. Life."

The death of Bruce Lee

On July 20, 1973, Bruce Lee passed away in Hong Kong, just one month before the release of his movie "Enter The Dragon". They announced that the official reason behind his sudden and unexpected death was a brain stroke, and they concluded that from the autopsy, as the stroke was the result of taking painkillers with medical advice for a back injury. His death sparked controversy from the start, with some claiming that he was murdered. Some also had the belief that someone cast a curse on him that would cause his death at a young age.

Further rumors of the curse spread in 1993 when his son, Brandon Lee, was mysteriously murdered during the filming of "The Crow". The 28-year-old actor was only hit by gunshot wounds from a gun that was supposedly empty.