Bruce Lee

Hi guys! I am Tommy. Today I would like to tell you about one of the most famous actors in the world in 1970’s, he is Bruce Lee.

He was born on November 27, 1940 in San Francisco, California, and grew up in Hong Kong. His father, Lee Hoi Chuen was Chinese, and his mother, Grace was of Chinese and German ancestry. Lee and his parents returned to Hong Kong when he was three months old.

At age 12, Lee entered La Salle College and later he attended St Francis Xavier's College. In 1959, Lee got into a fight and badly beat his opponent, getting into trouble with the police when he was 18 years old. His parents decided to send Bruce to the United States to live with an old friend of his father's. After living in San Francisco, he moved to Seattle to work for Ruby Chow, another friend of his father's. In 1959, Lee completed his high school education in Seattle and received his diploma from Edison Technical School. He enrolled at the University of Washington and studied philosophy, drama, and psychology, among other subjects. It was at the University of Washington that he met his future wife Linda Emery, whom he would marry in 1964.

Lee's father was a famous Cantonese Opera star. Thus, through his father, Bruce was introduced into films at a very young age. By the time he was 18, he had appeared in twenty films. In 1969, Lee made a brief appearance in his first American film Marlowe and he appeared in four parts of the television series Long street in 1971. In 1973, Lee played the lead role in Enter the Dragon, the first film to be produced jointly by Golden Harvest and Warner Bros. However, only a few months after the film's completion and three weeks before its release, Lee died mysteriously.

Robert Clouse, the director of Enter the Dragon, attempted to finish Lee's incomplete film Game of Death which Lee was also set to write and direct. Lee had shot over forty minutes of footage for Game of Death. The film was released in 1978 with a new storyline and cast. However, the film contained only 15 minutes of actual footage of Lee while the rest had a Lee lookalike. The unused footage Lee had filmed was recovered 22 years later and included in the documentary Bruce Lee: A Warrior’s Journey.