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Bruce Lee
Life Time
27 November 1940 - 20 July 1973
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November 27, 1940 in San Francisco in the family of a Chinese and ethnic German was born a boy named Lee Yong Fang. A few decades later, the whole world recognized him as Bruce Lee. When the child was young, the family moved to Hong Kong. Since childhood, the guy was touchy and painful, often conflicted with classmates. At the age of 18, he began practicing kung fu, and later mastered such martial arts as boxing, jiu-jitsu and judo.
At the age of 19, Bruce returned to the States and entered the
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November 27, 1940 in San Francisco in the family of a Chinese and ethnic German was born a boy named Lee Yong Fang. A few decades later, the whole world recognized him as Bruce Lee. When the child was young, the family moved to Hong Kong. Since childhood, the guy was touchy and painful, often conflicted with classmates. At the age of 18, he began practicing kung fu, and later mastered such martial arts as boxing, jiu-jitsu and judo.
At the age of 19, Bruce returned to the States and entered the Edison High School of Technology. Then he studied at the University of Washington. In 1961 he began teaching martial arts. His first students were engaged in the park, practicing receptions on cloth-wound trees - there was no money to rent the hall. In parallel, the novice actor starred in American TV series as a fighter who owns martial arts. By the way, the first experience of filming Bruce Lee acquired at the age of three months, playing a baby girl in the film “Golden Gate of a Girl” (1941).
The popularity of the Lee actor in the United States is gradually growing, while the cost of studying at his martial arts school increases. The paintings and TV series with his participation “Blondie” (1968-1969) became very popular.
Fist of rage (1972), The Way of the Dragon (1972). In total, the actor starred in 31 films.
In 1964, Bruce Lee married one of his pupils, Linda Emerley, who bore him a son, Brandon, and a daughter, Shannon. At the age of 33, the actor died suddenly from swelling of the brain. Viewers of the idol are reminded of his work in cinema, as well as two stars of his name on the Walks of Fame in Hollywood and Hong Kong.