Biography of Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee: Though his aggressive arts aesthetics was controversial, Lee is broadly advised to be the greatest aggressive arts blur amateur of the 20th century.

Iconic actor, administrator and martial-arts able Bruce Lee was built-in Lee Jun Fan on November 27, 1940, in San Francisco, California, in both the hour and year of the Dragon. His father, Lee Hoi Chuen, a Hong Kong opera singer, confused with his wife, Grace Ho, and three accouchement to the United States in 1939; Hoi Chuen's fourth child, a son, was built-in while he was on bout in San Francisco.

Lee accustomed the name "Bruce" from a assistant at his bearing hospital, and his ancestors never acclimated the name during his preschool years. The approaching brilliant appeared in his aboriginal blur at the age of 3 months, if he served as the amateur for an American babyish in Golden Gate Girl (1941).

In the aboriginal 1940s, the Lees confused aback to Hong Kong, again active by the Japanese. Apparently a accustomed in foreground of the camera, Bruce Lee appeared in almost 20 films as a adolescent actor, alpha in 1946. He aswell advised dance, acceptable Hong Kong's cha-cha competition, and would become accepted for his balladry as well.

As a teenager, he was taunted by British acceptance for his Chinese accomplishments and after abutting a artery gang. In 1953, he began to hone his passions into a discipline, acceptance kung fu (referred to as "gung fu" in Cantonese) beneath the administration of Adept Yip Man. By the end of the decade, Lee confused aback to the U.S. to reside with ancestors accompany alfresco Seattle, Washington, initially demography up plan as a ball instructor.

Lee accomplished top academy in Edison, Washington, and after enrolled as a aesthetics above at the University of Washington. He aswell got a job teaching the Wing Chun appearance of aggressive arts that he had abstruse in Hong Kong to his adolescent acceptance and others. Through his teaching, Lee met Linda Emery, whom he affiliated in 1964. By that time, Lee had opened his own martial-arts academy in Seattle.

He and Linda anon confused to California, area Lee opened two added schools in Oakland and Los Angeles. He accomplished mostly a appearance he alleged Jeet Kune Do, or "The Way of the Intercepting Fist." Lee was said to accept acutely admired getting an adviser and advised his acceptance like a clan, ultimately allotment the apple of cinema as a career so as not to disproportionately commercialize teaching.

Lee and Linda aswell broadcast their actual family, accepting two accouchement -- Brandon, built-in in 1965, and Shannon, built-in in 1969.

Lee acquired a admeasurement of celebrity with his role in the television alternation The Green Hornet, which aired in 26 episodes from 1966 to '67. In the show, which was based on a 1930s radio program, the agile Lee displayed his acrobatic and affected angry appearance as the Hornet's sidekick, Kato. He went on to accomplish bedfellow appearances in such TV shows as Ironside and Longstreet, while a notable blur role came in 1969's Marlowe, starring James Garner as the notable detective created by Raymond Chandler. (The biographer for the film, Stirling Silliphant, was one of Lee's aggressive arts students. Other Lee acceptance included James Coburn, Steve McQueen and Garner himself.)

Lee, who was adherent to a array of workouts and concrete training activities, suffered a above aback abrasion that he gradually recovered from, demography time for self-care and writing. He aswell came up with the abstraction that became the base for the Buddhist abbot TV alternation Kung Fu; however, David Carradine would get the starring role initially slated for Lee due to the acceptance that an Asian amateur wouldn't cull in audiences as the lead. Confronted with a absence of compact roles and the prevalence of stereotypes apropos Asian performers, Lee larboard Los Angeles for Hong Kong in the summer of 1971.

Lee active a two-film contract, eventually bringing his ancestors over to Hong Kong as well. Fists of Fury was appear in backward 1971, featuring Lee as a antagonistic fighter block the villains who had dead his kung fu master. Combining his bland Jeet Kune Do athleticism with the high-energy theatrics of his achievement in The Green Hornet, Lee was the absorbing centermost of the film, which set new box appointment annal in Hong Kong.

Those annal were torn by Lee's next film, The Chinese Connection (1972), which, like Fists of Fury, accustomed poor reviews from critics aloft the U.S. release.

By the end of 1972, Lee was a above cine brilliant in Asia. He had co-founded with Raymond Chow his own company, Concord Productions, and had appear his aboriginal authoritative feature, Return of the Dragon. Though he had not yet acquired distinction in America, he was assertive on the border with his aboriginal above Hollywood project, Enter the Dragon.

On July 20, 1973, just one ages afore the premiere of Enter the Dragon, Bruce Lee died in Hong Kong, China, at the age of 32. The official could cause of his abrupt and absolutely abrupt afterlife was a academician edema, begin in an dissection to accept been acquired by a aberrant acknowledgment to a decree painkiller he was reportedly demography for a aback injury. Controversy amidst Lee's afterlife from the beginning, as some claimed he had been murdered. There was aswell the acceptance that he ability accept been cursed, a cessation apprenticed by Lee's attraction with his own aboriginal death.

More rumors of the alleged anathema broadcast in 1993, if Brandon Lee was dead beneath abstruse affairs during the filming of The Crow. The 28-year-old amateur was fatally attempt with a gun that allegedly independent blanks but somehow had a reside annular lodged abysmal aural its barrel.

With the following absolution of Enter the Dragon, Lee's cachet as a blur figure was confirmed. The film, said to accept a account of $1 million, went on to gross added than $200 million. Lee's bequest helped pave the way for broader depictions of Asian Americans in cinema and created a accomplished new brand of activity hero -- a cast abounding with capricious degrees of success by actors like Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Steven Seagal and Jackie Chan.

Lee's activity has been depicted in the 1993 blur Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, based on the 1975 Linda Lee account Bruce Lee: The Man Only I Knew, and the 2009 documentary 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."

Lee's bequest as a arch aggressive artisan continues to be admired as well. Daughter Shannon Lee was abundantly complex in the 2011 amend of her father's advisory adviser Tao of Jeet Kune Do.