Monday, November 27, 2017

Bruce Lee born in 1940

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Martial arts icon Bruce Lee, born November 27, 1940 in San Francisco, has probably been the biggest influence on martial arts in mainstream movies.  He was a year old when his family moved to Hong Kong.  He started appearing in minor films in children’s roles at 5 years old.  He took martial arts lessons for approximately five years.  After getting in trouble with Hong Kong police, his parents shipped him back to San Francisco’s Chinatown. 

Lee continued his martial arts, opening schools in Seattle and, after getting noticed by Hollywood, Oakland.  He landed the part of Kato, the Green Hornet’s sidekick in 1966 in the television series. 
His last film was Enter the Dragon, with John Saxon (a favorite actor of mine, too!) released in 1973.  
On July 20 of that year, he was found unresponsive and later pronounced dead from a cerebral edema. 


He and Chuck Norris trained together at one point, but Lee was never an instructor to Norris.


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