Bruce Lee
Hong Kong-American martial artist and actor (1940-1973) · United States · Actors · Died at 32
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Something wrong?He turned martial arts into a global film language, then died at 32 before the full wave hit. His five feature roles rewrote how fight scenes moved, what Asian leads could be, and why the West suddenly cared about kung fu.
A life in dates
Fist of FuryFilm, 1972Chen Zhen1971“Nowadays you don't go around on the street kicking people, punching people - because if you do (makes gun shape with hand), well that's it - I don't care how good you are.”In their wordsBruce Lee interview on the Pierre Berton Show (1971)“You know what I want to think of myself? As a human being.”In their wordsBruce Lee: The Lost Interview (1971)“When you're talking about fighting, as it is, with no rules, well then, baby you'd better train every part of your body!”In their wordsBruce Lee: The Lost Interview (1971)
LongstreetSeries, 1971Li Tsung1969
MarloweFilm, Winslow Wong1967
IronsideSeries, Leon Soo1966
BatmanSeries, Kato
The Green HornetSeries, 1966Kato1962
The Pierre Berton ShowSeries1955
An Orphan's TragedyFilm, Wong Fuk-kwan (child)1950
The KidFilm, Kid Cheung1940Born27 November 1940Also in Deutsch
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Lee as a baby with his parents, Grace Ho and Lee Hoi-chuen
The Kid (1950) poster featuring 9-year-old Bruce Lee
Lee and Ip Man in 1958
Publicity photograph of Williams (left) and Lee (right) for The Green Hornet in 1966
Lee in 1971
Poster for Fist of Fury (1972), displayed at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum
Bruce Lee's star at the Avenue of Stars, Hong KongIn their own words 10
, A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come.
Don't think, feel....it is like a finger pointing a way to the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory!
When I look around, I always learn something: to be always yourself, and to express yourself, to have faith in yourself.
Filmography 40
TDThe Final Game of Death
JIJackie Chan: Building an Icon
BWBe Water
JTJay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth
IKIron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
ILI Am Bruce Lee
HWHow Bruce Lee Changed the World
BDBlood and Steel: The Making of Enter the Dragon
TMThe Art of Action: Martial Arts in the Movies
TLThe Unbeatable Bruce Lee
BJBruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey
BDBruce Lee in G.O.D.
TDThe Path of the Dragon
BWBruce Lee: In His Own Words
BDBruce Lee: The Immortal Dragon
CVCinema of Vengeance
TDThe Curse of the Dragon
CSCrazy Safari
TFThe Best of the Martial Arts Films
DHDeath In Hollywood
BLBruce Lee, the Legend
GIGame of Death II
FDFist of Fear, Touch of Death
GDGame of Death
CICircle of Iron
FDFury of the Dragon
ETExit the Dragon, Enter the Tiger
THThe Green Hornet
EDEnter the Dragon
BLBruce Lee: The Man and the Legend
FUFist of UnicornFFFist of Fury
TDThe Way of the Dragon
TBThe Big Boss
BIBruce Lee: The Lost InterviewMAMarlowe
TOThe OrphanATAn Orphan's Tragedy
TLThe Guiding LightTKThe Kid96 credits on file
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APA Life in Ten Pictures
HMHistory's Greatest Mysteries
TDToo Young to Die
MVMentiras verdaderasLOLongstreetIRIronsideBABatmanTHThe Green HornetTSThe Pierre Berton ShowAwards
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Born in San Francisco in 1940, raised in Hong Kong by a film-industry father, Lee trained Wing Chun under Ip Man, won a boxing tournament, and fought on rooftops before moving to Seattle in 1959. He opened martial arts schools while studying at the University of Washington, teaching students like Chuck Norris and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar after relocating to Los Angeles. American TV gave him Kato in The Green Hornet, but Hong Kong gave him leading roles: The Big Boss and Fist of Fury in 1971-72, then The Way of the Dragon, which he wrote and directed. Enter the Dragon, the American co-production, arrived in 1973. He founded Jeet Kune Do, a hybrid philosophy born from street fighting and Taoist thought, and his choreography replaced wuxia fantasy with grounded realism. Brain edema killed him in July 1973, but the films kept moving - commercially, culturally, and into every corner where someone wanted to see a punch land differently.
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