# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/taky-kimura
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:17:06.549Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/taky-kimura"
name: "Taky Kimura"
slug: "taky-kimura"
description: "Takauki \"Taky\" Kimura was an American martial artist who is famous as being one of Bruce Lee's top students and closest friends - and a certified instructor in Jun Fan Gung Fu, personally certified by Bruce Lee himself. Kimura was also the best man at Lee's wedding, and one of six pallbearers during his funeral, the others including Dan Inosanto, Steve McQueen, James Coburn, Peter Chin and Robert Lee, Bruce's brother."
tagline: "Martial Arts Instructor"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1924-03-12"
deathDate: "2021-01-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.2
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.040325333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1067149/"
    handle:    "nm1067149"
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taky_Kimura"
    title: "Taky Kimura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%89_%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "تاكى كيمورا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%DA%A9%DB%8C_%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "تاکی کیمورا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taky_Kimura"
    title: "Taky Kimura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taky_Kimura"
    title: "Taky Kimura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%83%80%ED%82%A4_%ED%82%A4%EB%AC%B4%EB%9D%BC"
    title: "타키 키무라"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3514398"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2102951"
    title: "Taky Kimura"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump