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Bruce Lee Biography, What the Fascinating You don't know about Bruce Lee

Iconic actor, director and martial-arts expert, Bruce LEE was born in November, 27, 1940, in San Francisco, California, in USA, while his parents were on tour with the Chinese Opera. His father, Lee Hoi Chuen, a Hong Kong opera singer, and his mother, Grace Ho. Lee received the name, "Bruce" from a nurse at his birthing hospital, and his family never used the name during his preschool years.


The future star appeared in his first film at the age of 3 months, when he served as the stand-in for an American baby in Golden Gate Girl in 1941. In the early 1940s, the Lees moved back to Hong Kong, then occupied by the Japanese. Apparently a natural in front of the camera, Bruce Lee appeared in roughly more 20 films as a child actor, beginning in 1946. He also studied dance, winning, Hong Kong's cha-cha competition, and would become known for his poetry as well. Bruce Lee was a revered martial artist, actor and filmmaker known for movies like, 'Fists of Fury' and 'Enter the Dragon,' and the technique Jeet Kune Do. At the age of 13, Bruce Lee took up the study of wing, Chun Gung Fu, under renowned wing, Chun Master, Yip Man. Bruce left Hong Kong at the age of 18, came to the United States and made his way to Seattle, Washington where he worked in the restaurant of a family friend.


 He soon enrolled in the University of Washington, where he pursued a degree in philosophy. Bruce Lee, began to teach Gung Fu in Seattle, and soon opened his first school, which name of Jun Fan Gung Fu Institute. Two more schools followed in Oakland, and Los Angeles. Concurrently Bruce Lee married his wife, Linda, and had his two children, Brandon and Shannon.===== In the mid of sixties, Bruce Lee was discovered while doing an exhibition at the Long Beach Internationals, and a role as Kato in the TV series, of The Green Hornet, as soon as many followed.


 During this time, Bruce Lee was also developing his own martial art, which he ultimately named Jeet Kune Do which mean, the way of the intercepting fist. Bruce Lee's art was steeped in a philosophical foundation and did not follow long held martial traditions. Instead it had at its core the ideas of simplicity, directness and personal freedom.


 After The Green Hornet series was canceled, Bruce Lee encountered resistance, while working in Hollywood, and so headed to Hong Kong to pursue a film career. In Hong Kong he made 3 films, which consecutively broke all box office records and showcased martial arts in an entirely new way. Hollywood took notice and soon Bruce Lee was making the first Hollywood in Hong Kong coproduction with a film called Enter the Dragon.


 Unfortunately, Bruce Lee died in 1973 before this film was released. This film catapulted him to international fame. Today Bruce Lee’s legacy of self-expression, equality, and pioneering innovation continues to inspire people all around the world.


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