Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee was born in San Francisco, California at a Chinese Hospital. On November 27, 1940 to his Chinese father Lee Hoi-Chuen and Chinese-German mother Grace Lee, where his parents were on a one-year U.S. tour with the Cantonese Opera Company. Bruce's Cantonese given name, (Jun Fan Cantonese: Janfàan Pinyin: Zhènfán), literally means "invigorate San Francisco." When he was born, he was given the English name "Bruce" by the doctor that delivered him. His name "Bruce" was never used with his family until he went to highschool (LaSalle College) and then on to college(St. Francis Xavier College).
Education and Fam
When he was just 14 years old, Bruce Lee attended La Salle College in Hong Kong, which was a high school. He then attended St Francis Xavier's College from 1957-1959. Bruce got into a fight with a feared Triad gang member's son in 1959 and his father was worried about his safety and sent Bruce to the United States to live with a good friend of his father's. All he had was $100 and the title of 1958 Crown Colony Cha Cha Champion of Hong Kong. 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 as a philosophy major. There he met his future wife Linda Emery. Bruce and Linda married in 1964 and had two children together, Brandon Lee (born 1965) and Shannon Lee (born 1969). Brandon, an actor like his father, died on a movie set while filming The Crow on March 31, 1993. Brandon Lee was killed by a piece of shrapnel from a faulty blank bullet. Bruce's character (Billy Lo) was almost killed in a similar way in the movie 'Game Of Death' this is often confused with 'Fist Of Fury' as the movie used previous footage from "fist" to complete the scene after Lee's death.
Acting career
Bruce started to appear in many...
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