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Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee was a Hong Kong and American martial artist, actor, and filmmaker. He was the founder of Jeet Kune Do, a hybrid martial arts philosophy, which was formed from his experiences in unarmed fighting and self-defense—as well as eclectic, Zen Buddhist, and Taoist philosophies—as a new school of martial arts thought. With a career spanning Hong Kong and the United States, Lee is regarded as the first global Chinese film star and one of the most influential martial artists in the history of cinema. Known for the five feature-length martial arts films that he starred in as an adult, he is credited with helping to popularize martial arts films in the 1970s and promoting Hong Kong action cinema.
entertainment · Martial artist and actor (1940–1973) · film director · television actor · film actor · writer · film producer · philosopher · screenwriter · actor · martial artist · stunt performer · also Bruce Lee, Lee
Born 27 November 1940 · Died 20 July 1973 · Q16397
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The Times of India: Quote of the day by Bruce Lee: ‘Research your own experience, absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own,’ life lesson by 'Enter The ...
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Revista Merca2.0: Quote of the day by Bruce Lee: “Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one”
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University of North Dakota (UND): Bruce Lee retirement ceremony is Aug. 28
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The Economic Times: Quote of the Day by Bruce Lee: “Adapt what is useful, reject what is… – Inspiring lessons ...
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Yahoo: USPS to commemorate Bruce Lee in 2026. Here's what the stamp looks like
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The Guardian: Bruce Lee statue in San Francisco to honor ‘a story for all Americans’
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collider: The Wild, Weird World of Bruce Lee Exploitation Movies
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The Guardian: Life without Bruce and Brandon: Shannon Lee on losing her superstar father and brother
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There was a proposal to erect a statue of Bruce Lee in San Francisco
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The Guardian: ‘They should be called Bruce-’em-ups’ – how Bruce Lee shaped fighting games
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The Guardian: Enter the Dragon review – Bruce Lee classic still delivers a lethal blow
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CBS News: Honoring Bruce Lee
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The Guardian: Unseen ‘log fight’ footage from Bruce Lee film Game of Death to be released
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The Guardian: Tom Cruise, anti-imperialism and zero body-fat: Bruce Lee’s legacy 50 years after his death
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News Mobile rated the claim “Bruce Lee Playing Table Tennis Using 'Nunchucks'” False.
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BOOM Fact Check rated the claim “Video shows Bruce Lee playing 2v1 table tennis with nunchakus.” False.
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The Guardian: Ang Lee casts son Mason to play Bruce Lee in biopic
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Snopes rated the claim “Martial arts and film icon Bruce Lee died from drinking too much water.” Unproven.
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Snopes rated the claim “Bruce Lee once said: "Instead of buying your children all the things you never had, you should teach them all the things you were never taught. Material wears out but knowledge stays."” Unproven.
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Snopes rated the claim “Bruce Lee was an American citizen, as he was born in San Francisco, California.” True.
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The Guardian: Bruce Lee was the unlikely hero of 70s Noongar kids. Now he's helping us share our language | Barry McGuire
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The Guardian: Will the Kung Fu remake right the wrongs suffered by Bruce Lee?
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Alt News rated the claim “Video of Bruce Lee playing ping pong with a Nunchaku” False.
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FACTLY rated the claim “Bruce Lee playing table tennis with nunchucks.” FALSE.
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AFP Fact Check rated the claim “Late actor and martial artist Bruce Lee playing table tennis with a set of nunchucks?” False.
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PolitiFact rated the claim “Bruce Lee said, "You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing everything with logic. If words control you that means everyone else can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass."” False.
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The Guardian: Bruce Lee's daughter on resurrecting his lost TV epic: 'We righted the wrong'
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The Guardian: Bruce Lee's daughter hits out at father's portrayal in Tarantino film
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Africa Check rated the claim “You may be cool, but you’ll never be Bruce Lee, Jim Morrison, and Jimi Hendrix all hangin’ at the same freakin’ party” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “A photograph captures a selfie Jimi Hendrix took with Jim Morrison and Bruce Lee.” False.
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In the 2018 biography Bruce Lee: A Life, Matthew Polly identifies Lee's maternal grandfather as Ho Kom-tong, who had often been reported as his adoptive grandfather.
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Yu's grandson, Pang Chi-ping, said: "We will convert the mansion into a centre for Chinese studies next year, which provides courses like Mandarin and Chinese music for children
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Snopes rated the claim “A photograph shows Elvis Presley posing with Bruce Lee.” False.
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Awarded California Hall of Fame (2015).
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Perfect Storm Entertainment and Bruce Lee's daughter, Shannon Lee, announced that the series The Warrior would be produced and would air on Cinemax
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Released album “Небо это не космос”.
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Won: Statue of Bruce Lee (Los Angeles) (2013).
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Lee's relative Eric Peter Ho, in his 2010 book Tracing My Children's Lineage, suggests that Grace was born in Shanghai to a Eurasian woman named Cheung King-sin.
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Producer Paul Maslansky was reported to have planned and received funding for a film based on the original script for The Silent Flute
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It was announced that Lee's Hong Kong home (41 Cumberland Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong) would be preserved and transformed into a tourist site by Yu Pang-lin
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With staged "documentary-looking" footage of Bruce Lee playing ping-pong with his nunchaku and also igniting matches as they are thrown toward him
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On what would have been his 65th birthday
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Won: Statue of Bruce Lee (Hong Kong) (2005).
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Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) founder Dana White called Lee the "father of mixed martial arts" and stated: "If you look at the way Bruce Lee trained, the way he fought, and many of the things he wrote, he said the
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She retired in 2001 from the family estate.
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Concluding that "the action is as fast and furious as anything in Lee's films
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Bruce Thomas, in his 1994 biography Bruce Lee: Fighting Spirit, suggests that Grace had a Chinese mother and a German father.
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At the age of 28, Brandon Lee died after being accidentally shot by a prop gun on the set of The Crow
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In 1993, at the age of 28, Brandon Lee died after being accidentally shot by a prop gun on the set of The Crow.
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19893 items
In 1989, she wrote the book The Bruce Lee Story.
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Wrote the book The Bruce Lee Story
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Linda Lee, in her 1989 biography The Bruce Lee Story, suggests that Grace had a German father and was a Catholic.
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As a young adult, Brandon Lee found some success acting in action-oriented pictures such as Legacy of Rage (1986), Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991), and Rapid Fire (1992).
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19751 item
She wrote the 1975 book Bruce Lee: The Man Only I Knew, on which the 1993 feature film Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story was based.
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197314 items
Included Taky Kimura, Steve McQueen, James Coburn, Dan Inosanto, Peter Chin, and Lee's brother Robert
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Lee was in Hong Kong planning to have dinner with actor George Lazenby, with whom he intended to make a film
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Died 1973-07-20.
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Lee collapsed during an automated dialogue replacement session for Enter the Dragon at Orange Sky Golden Harvest Film Studio in Hong Kong
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“There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.”
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The equivalent of $4 million adjusted for inflation as of 2007
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Linda continued to promote Bruce Lee's martial art Jeet Kune Do
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“Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.”
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“Sama technika jest niczym, jeżeli nie jest podparta siłą i gibkością.”
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“Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.”
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“Aby wygenerować wielką moc, najpierw trzeba być całkowicie rozluźnionym i zebrać siły, aby nagle skoncentrować cały umysł i całą siłę na uderzeniu w cel.”
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“Nie ograniczaj się do jednej formy, przystosuj ją i buduj na niej coś własnego, pozwól temu wzrastać i bądź jak woda. Opróżnij umysł, bądź bezforemny, bezkształtny – jak woda. Wlewasz teraz wodę do filiżanki, staje się filiżanką; wlewasz do butelki, jest butelką; wlejesz ją do czajniczka, staje się czajniczkiem. Woda może płynąć swobodnie lub niszczyć. Bądź jak woda, mój przyjacielu.”
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Upon's Lee passing in 1973, Linda continued to promote Bruce Lee's martial art Jeet Kune Do.
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“Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life. Do not be concerned with escaping safely — lay your life before him.”
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About his religious affiliation, he replied, "None whatsoever"
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After the success of The Big Boss and Fist of Fury, a third film was planned by Raymond Chow at Golden Harvest to be directed by Lo Wei, titled Yellow-Faced Tiger
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“to be in a modernized type of a thing and that they think the Western idea is out, whereas I want to do the Western”
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Tentatively titled The Warrior, discussions of which were confirmed by Warner Bros
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Lee appeared in four episodes of the television series Longstreet, written by Silliphant
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Landed his first leading role in The Big Boss (1971), directed by Lo Wei
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Lee was responsible for producing the fight choreography of A Walk in the Spring Rain, starring Ingrid Bergman and Anthony Quinn, again written by Silliphant
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19693 items
Lee made a brief appearance in the Silliphant-penned film Marlowe, where he played a hoodlum hired to intimidate private detective Philip Marlowe, played by James Garner, who uses his martial arts abilities to commit act
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The three worked on a script for a film titled The Silent Flute, and they went together on a location-hunt to India
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As stated also by Lee's biographer Matthew Polly
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19671 item
Lee wrote to Dozier thanking him for starting "my career in show business"
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19652 items
Lee changed his approach toward martial arts training
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Lee had two children with Linda: Brandon (1965–1993) and Shannon Lee (born 1969).
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Lee had a controversial private match with Wong Jack-man
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Studied at University of Washington (1961–1964).
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Eventually led to the invitation by television producer William Dozier for an audition for a role in the pilot for "Number One Son" about Lee Chan, the son of Charlie Chan
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At a demonstration in Long Beach, California, Lee met karate champion Chuck Norris
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And 1968, with the latter having higher-quality video footage available
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To continue his high school education, where he also worked for Ruby Chow as a live-in waiter at her restaurant
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Enrolling at the University of Washington in 1961
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Lee started to teach martial arts
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After students from a rival Choy Li Fut martial arts school challenged Lee's Wing Chun school, he engaged in a fight on a rooftop
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While scoring knockdowns against the previous champion Gary Elms in the final
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Lee won the Hong Kong schools boxing tournament, knocking out the previous champion, Gary Elms, in the final
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Due to poor academic performance (and possibly poor conduct), Lee was transferred to St
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Lee's friend William Cheung introduced him to Ip Man
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Which was based on a comic book character, "Kid Cheung", and was his first leading role
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Born 1940-11-27.
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Awarded star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Studied at Seattle Central College.
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