Lee, Bruce

PERSONAL DATA:
NAME:	Bruce Lee
DATE OF BIRTH:	11/27/1940
PLACE OF BIRTH:	San Francisco, California, United States
DATE OF DEATH:	07/20/1973

Career:

Bruce Lee, (born Lee Jun-Fan) was an American actor and martial artist.
He is still considered by many to be the icon of martial arts movies today.
At the age of only 3 months he was already in front of a camera.
However, he did not play his first leading role until 1960 in "The Orphan", which marked his career
just started rolling.
The young Bruce Lee improved his martial arts by often having fights in the schoolyard,
which was caused by rivalries between Chinese and British students.
His parents funded his martial arts training at his request. Due to a
Training Incident In Which Bruce Lee Seriously Injured His Opponent, His Parents Sent Him
to San Francisco to make sure he doesn`t go to jail for another offense
must serve.

Although screen greats like James Coburn or Steve McQueen gave him a lot of support, the
Breakthrough to Hollywood actress did not succeed. In training centers he learned various
Know actors(Louis Delgado, Chuck Norris,Joe Lewis, Mike Stone) who work at Bruce Lee
Took private lessons. The TV series "Longstreet", but also films like "Die Todesfaust
of Cheng Li" partly brought him his breakthrough in China and the USA. Warner Brothers
were then interested in him and offered him promising, lucrative role offers,
However, Bruce Lee only fulfilled his signed contracts and in Hong Kong his
film productions completed. Bruce Lee`s popularity grew steadily thereafter and he was able to
record one film success after another in Asia. Although he has no American films
he also had increased success in the USA. Burce Lee`s unique fighting style played
finally raised more than five million Hong Kong dollars in China`s capital. In the middle of the
He broke film production with "The Man with the Deathclaw" on the afternoon of May 10, 1973
together unexpectedly in Hong Kong. The cause was cerebral edema, from which he recovered
and was able to continue filming. After another collapse on July 20, 1973,
at the age of only 32 Bruce Lee suffered another breakdown, whereby he did not
could be revived. The cause of death was diagnosed as brain swelling caused by an allergy to an administered painkiller. Bruce Lee was born on
Buried on July 30, 1973 in Lake View Cemetery, Seattle. Jackie Chan is the
Pioneer of many martial arts actors such as Jet Li and Jackie Chan.

On August 17, 1964, Bruce Lee and Linda Emery married and moved to Oakland together.

From this marriage came Shannon Lee and Brandon, who also entered the acting business get in. His son died while filming at the age of 28.

A quote from Bruce Lee was:

"The most valuable thing in life is time - life means working with time!"

Honors

April 28, 1993

20 years after his death, Bruce Lee received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
• 
  July 21, 2003
On the 30th anniversary of his death, "Things Asian" wrote an article that his legend
• still unforgotten after 30 years and he has a place in the community of
  martial artist as the greatest martial artist of all time.
  
  November 26, 2005
A statue of Bruce Lee was unveiled in Mostar to mark his 65th birthday.
• 
  November 27, 2005
Unveiling of another statue inscribed "Star of the Century" honoring Bruce
• Lee unveiled on the Avenue of Stars in Kowloon Harbour, Hong Kong.
  
  

Filmography

1941: Golden Gate Girl 1946: The Birth of Mankind

1948: Wealth Is Like a Dream
1949: Sai See in the Dream
1950: My Son, Ah Chung
1951: The Birth of Mankind
1953: In the Face of Demolition
1953: Qian wan renjia
1953: It`s Father`s Fault
1953: The Guiding Light
1953: A Mother`s Tears
1955: Gu xing xue lei
1955: Gu er xing
1955: Love Part 2
1955: We Owe It to Our Children
1956: Zha dian na fu
1956: Zao zhi dang cu wo bu jia
1957: The Thunderstorm
1960: The Orphan
1966: Bruce Lee - The Mystery of the Green Hornet (TV Series)
1969: The Third Ambush
1971: Long Street (TV)
1971: The Death Fist of Cheng Li (also Screenplay, Producer)
1972: Kung Fu (TV) (screenplay only)
1972: Bruce Lee and I
1972: From Shanghai (also Screenplay, Producer)
1972: The Deathclaw Strikes Again (also Screenplay, Producer, Director)
1973: The Man With The Deathclaw (also Producer)
1976: Fury of the Dragon
1978: Bruce Lee: My Last Fight (also Screenplay, Producer, Director)
1978: The Mystery of the Blue Master (Screenplay only)
1980: The Dragon and the Cobra
1981: The Last Stand of the Deathclaw