Bruce Lee

QUICK FACTS
NAME
Bruce Lee
OCCUPATION
Film Actor, Martial Arts Expert, Television Actor
BIRTH DATE
November 27, 1940
DEATH DATE
July 20, 1973
EDUCATION
University of Washington
PLACE OF BIRTH
San Francisco, California
PLACE OF DEATH
Hong Kong, China
AKA
Li Jun Fan
Bruce Jun Fan Lee
Bruce Lee
Jun Fan Lee
Jun Fan Li
FULL NAME
Lee Jun Fan

Bruce Lee was a revered martial artist, actor and filmmaker known for films like 'Fists of Fury' and 'Enter the Dragon', and the Jeet Kune Do technique.
Synopsis
Bruce Lee was born on November 27, 1940 in San Francisco, California. He was a child actor in Hong Kong who later returned to the United States and taught martial arts. He starred in the television series The Green Hornet (1966-67) and became a major box office draw in The Chinese Connection and Fists of Fury. Shortly before the premiere of his film Enter the Dragon, he died at the age of 32 on July 20, 1973.

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Background and Early Career
The iconic actor, director and martial arts expert Bruce Lee was born Lee Jun Fan on November 27, 1940 in San Francisco, California, in both the time and the year of the Dragon. His father, Lee Hoi Chuen, an opera singer from Hong Kong, moved with his wife, Grace Ho, and three children to the United States in 1939; The fourth son of Hoi Chuen, a son, was born while on tour in San Francisco.

Lee was given the name "Bruce" by a nurse in his delivery hospital, and his family never used the name during his preschool years. The future star appeared in her first film at the age of 3 months, when she served as a substitute for an American baby in Golden Gate Girl (1941).


In the early 1940s, the Lees returned to Hong Kong, then occupied by the Japanese. Apparently natural in front of the camera, Bruce Lee appeared in approximately 20 films as a child actor, starting in 1946. He also studied dance, won the cha-cha competition from Hong Kong and also became famous for his poetry.

As a teenager, he was mocked by British students because of his Chinese origins and later joined a street gang. In 1953, he began to refine his passions in a discipline, studying kung fu (known as "gung fu" in Cantonese) under the tutelage of Master Yip Man. At the end of the decade, Lee returned to the US. UU To live with family friends outside of Seattle, Washington, and started working as a dance instructor.

Devout teacher
Lee finished high school in Edison, Washington, and subsequently enrolled as a philosophy student at the University of Washington. He also got a job teaching the Wing Chun martial arts style he had learned in Hong Kong from his peers and others. Through his teaching, Lee met Linda Emery, whom he married in 1964. By then, Lee had opened his own martial arts school in Seattle.

He and Linda soon moved to California, where Lee opened two more schools in Oakland and Los Angeles. He taught especially a style that he called Jeet Kune Do, or "The way of the interceptor fist". It was said that Lee loved deeply to be an instructor and treated his students like a clan, in the end he chose the world of cinema as a career so as not to market unduly the teaching.

Lee and Linda also expanded their immediate family, having two children: Brandon, born in 1965, and Shannon, born in 1969.

Action hero
Lee gained a certain measure of celebrity with her role in the television series The Green Hornet, which aired in 26 episodes from 1966 to '67. In the program, which was based on a radio program of the 1930s, Lee and the battleship Lee showed their acrobatic and theatrical fighting style as the Hornet's partner, Kato. He continued making guest appearances on television shows such as Ironside and Longstreet, while a notable cinematographic role was produced in Marlowe in 1969, starring James Garner as the notable detective created by Raymond Chandler. (The screenwriter of the film, Stirling Silliphant, was one of Lee's martial arts students, and other Lee students were James Coburn, Steve McQueen, and Garner himself).

Lee, who devoted himself to a variety of training and physical training activities, suffered a major back injury from which he gradually recovered, taking time to take care of himself and write. He also came up with the idea that became the basis of the television series of Buddhist monks Kung Fu; however, David Carradine would obtain the leading role initially programmed for Lee due to the belief that an Asian actor would not attract audiences as a protagonist. Faced with the lack of substantial roles and the prevalence of stereotypes with respect to Asian artists, Lee left Los Angeles for Hong Kong in the summer of 1971.

Breaking box office records
Lee signed a two-movie contract, and eventually brought his family to Hong Kong as well. The Big Boss, also known as Fists of Fury in the USA. UU., He was released in 1971 and presented Lee as the factory worker hero who has renounced the fighting but who enters into combat to face a murderous narcotics operation