Height, weight, age. How old is Bruce Lee
Fans of the actor were interested in any information about their idol, they were especially interested in his height, weight, and age. How old Bruce Lee was at the time of his death is not a difficult question. It is enough to know the dates of birth and death of the legendary actor. By simple calculations we find out that Bruce Lee died at the age of 32. Photos of him in his youth are still a popular search on the Internet.
The actor's height was 171 centimeters and he weighed 59 kilograms. Bruce Lee had phenomenal physical abilities. He began to train Kung Fu, constantly practicing his strikes to perfection. Later he introduced more techniques from other martial arts. By putting together the best strength training exercises, he was able to develop his muscular system and cardiovascular endurance.
Sportsmanship
As a teenager, Lee decided to practice kung fu. His parents approved of their son's aspirations, and soon after this, Master Ip Man began teaching him the art of Wing Chun. His passion for dancing helped the young man master a new skill - he had remarkable coordination of movements. Bruce quickly adopted the basics of Tai Chi technique and has not stopped training since then. The style, which the athlete began to study during his school years, involves fighting without weapons, although he later mastered them too - Lee was especially skillful with the nunchaku.
Biography and personal life of Bruce Lee
The biography and personal life of Bruce Lee began in Chinatown in San Francisco. The future actor was born on November 27, 1940. His name was the nurse who delivered the baby.
By the standards of that time, his family was quite wealthy. Father: Lee Hong Chuen, Chinese opera artist. Mother - Grace Lee, was half German
Bruce Lee began acting in films from early childhood. This first happened when he was 3 months old. In the film The Golden Gate Girl, Bruce Lee got the role of a baby girl.
As a child, Bruce Lee was a rather frail child. At school I was not particularly diligent. In 1954 he began dancing. He later participates and wins dance competitions.
The actor also developed an interest in martial arts as a child. He diligently practiced kung fu, boxing, judo, and jiu-jitsu. Later, Bruce Lee, having collected the best strength exercises and techniques, developed his own style - Jeet Kune Do. In 1961, the actor opened his own school, in which everyone could study, regardless of their age and nationality. Let us note that in those days it was prohibited. The school was closed several times. The famous Bruce Lee demonstrated a 1-inch punch to his students. Many people would still like to know how Bruce Lee makes a one-inch punch. Video of this technique has been preserved only on old videotapes.
All the film actor’s roles were related to martial arts. He has always been a positive hero. It's interesting to know that Bruce Lee was too fast for the cameras. The video did not have time to capture the kick. The directors even asked the actor to slow down.
Bruce Lee's personal life was quite calm and happy. He was married once and had two children - a son and a daughter.
Biography of Bruce Lee
The boy was named Bruce by a nurse at the hospital where he was born. In preschool age, this name was not used in the family, although the name Bruce Lee was listed on the birth certificate issued at the Chinese hospital in San Francisco.
When the boy grew up, he was given the name Lee Yen Kam (“never sits still”), after the first filming the name Lee Sui Lung (“little dragon”) appeared.
In the early 1940s, the family returned to Hong Kong.
Bruce Lee made his film debut at the age of three months in the American film Golden Gate Girl (1941). In Hong Kong, the boy starred in 20 films, including “The Birth of Mankind” (1946), “Baby” (Xi lu xiang, 1950), “Tears of a Mother” (Ci mu lei, 1953).
At the age of 12, he began attending La Salle College in Hong Kong.
Encounters with street thugs prompted Bruce to take up martial arts under the tutelage of master Ip Man, who taught him kung fu for five years.
At the same time, he was engaged in dancing, and in 1958 he won the cha-cha-cha dancing championship in Hong Kong.
In 1959, he sent two of the three offenders to the hospital, who, as it turned out, were members of the ancient Asian criminal community, the Triads. The parents, not unreasonably worried about their son’s life, collected and sent him to the USA to their friends almost in one day. Bruce's American citizenship played an important role.
In April 1959, Bruce Lee went first to San Francisco, then to Seattle. He studied art, graduated from the Edison Technical School, and entered the University of Washington, where he studied for three years, specializing in the study of philosophy.
While attending university in Seattle, he opened his own school to study the martial art of kung fu, which was unknown in America at the time. He taught his own style of kung fu - “Jeet Kune Do” (“Way of the Leading Fist”), which he developed and improved throughout his life. His students included such famous people as actors Steve McQueen, James Coburn, James Garner, basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and screenwriter Stirling Silliphant.
In the USA, Bruce began acting in small roles in the television series Green Hornet (1968), Ironside (1967-1975), Blondie (1968), and Marlowe (1969). , "Longstreet" (Longstree, 1971).
Bruce dreamed of starring in films; he offered several of his film scripts to American producers, but the projects were rejected.
In 1970, Bruce Lee took a trip to Hong Kong with his five-year-old son Brandon. He was warmly received and invited to several television talk shows.
In 1971, having received another rejection of his project in America, Bruce Lee contacted the director of the new film company Golden Harvest from Hong Kong, Raymond Chow, and offered him two scripts with action scenes. The film The Big Boss, released that same year, starring Bruce Lee, was an unprecedented success.
Bruce Lee’s second film, “Fist of Fury” (Jing wu men), released in 1972, also received a huge response from viewers. For this film, the actor was awarded a special jury prize at the Asian equivalent of the Oscars, the Chinese Golden Horse Film Festival.
In 1972, Bruce Lee and Raymond Chow created their own film studio, Concord Film. In the same year, Lee began filming the film Return of the Dragon, inviting US karate champion Chuck Norris to play one of the roles. The film has become a classic of world cinema, just like the fight scene between the heroes of Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris - a classic of martial art on screen.
In October 1972, Lee began work on the film Game of Death. During the same period, the Warner Brothers television company offered him a lucrative contract - staging fight scenes in the film Enter the Dragon. Bruce Lee accepted the offer, interrupting work on Game of Death. Enter the Dragon (1973) was Bruce Lee's last film, released a few weeks after his death.
The film Game of Death (1978) was released five years after the death of Bruce Lee, it was completed with the help of stunt doubles and caused a new wave of interest in kung fu and oriental martial arts.
On July 20, 1973, Bruce Lee died suddenly in Hong Kong. The official cause of Bruce Lee's death was cerebral edema caused by a reaction to the drug.
The actor was buried at Lake View Cemetery in Seattle, Washington, USA.
Bruce Lee became a martial arts legend and a model for countless imitators in film and television. About 30 films have been made around the world about the life and work of the master.
In 1964, Bruce Lee married Linda Emery, who took kung fu lessons from him and studied with him at university. The couple had two children - son Brandon (1965-1993) and daughter Shannon (1969).
In 1993, the actor’s “star” was unveiled on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
In 1999, Time magazine included Bruce Lee in its list of the world's 100 most influential movie stars and celebrities of the 20th century. Bruce Lee was the only Asian representative on this list.
In March 2005, during the annual Hong Kong Film Festival, Bruce Lee was awarded the honorary title of “Star of the Century.” The actor received the award for his daughter Shannon Lee.
In the same year, the first monument to Bruce Lee was unveiled in Bosnia in the city of Mostar.
In 2005, a two-meter bronze monument to Bruce Lee was erected on the Avenue of Stars in Hong Kong (Hong Kong).
In 2013, a bronze statue of the actor was installed in Los Angeles Chinatown in the United States. In this city, he starred as Kato in the television series The Green Hornet.
The material was prepared based on information from RIA Novosti and open sources
Family and children of Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee's family and children have always been his treasure. The actor was born into an international family: his father is Chinese, and his mother is half German. His parents were creative and artistic and often went on tour.
Bruce Lee loved his children very much. He was always upset that, due to his workload, he did not pay enough attention to them. But still, Bruce Lee gave everything to his children, passed on his experience to them.
Bruce Lee's family and children valued the actor very much and were proud of him. For a long time, relatives and friends could not come to terms with his death.
The actor's childhood and youth
The talent of Western and Eastern cinema was born on November 27, 1940 in the United States of America, in the city of San Francisco. He was born into a family of professional actors. Father - Hoi Chen - was a comedian in Chinese folk opera. He was Chinese by nationality. But the baby’s mother, Grace Lee, was half German, but grew up and was raised in Hong Kong.
At birth, the child received the name Li Xiaolong, which translated from Chinese means Little Dragon. This choice of title is due to the religiosity and traditional upbringing of the actor’s parents, because the boy was born in the Year of the Dragon. When he grew up a little, he was given the name Lee Yen Kam (“not sitting still”), since there was no other such scoundrel in Hong Kong.
Bruce ran around the metropolis, snatched apples from market stalls and disobeyed his parents, which the Chinese, honoring their old age, looked at with obvious reproach. The mischievous boy did not want to pore over mathematics and English and regularly intervened in street brawls. In this regard, at the Jesuit school, where the boy’s father and mother enrolled him, he had plenty of problems. Frequent filming did not contribute to good academic performance. Ultimately, Bruce was expelled from school. However, he was not upset: he was already familiar to all of Asia, since by that time he had played more than 20 roles.
The actor spent his childhood and youth in Hong Kong. At the age of 14, Bruce began to get involved in sports. At first it was dancing, and he mastered the Cha-cha-cha to perfection, even took part and won the championship in this sport. It was then that he showed his first interest in oriental martial arts.
According to popular belief, Bruce Lee came to one of the first Kung Fu studios in Hong Kong, to master Ip Man, and invited him to exchange knowledge: Kung Fu in exchange for Cha-cha-cha. It is not known whether the master accepted such an offer, but he began to teach the talented boy.
Ip Man was one of the first Kung Fu teachers in the world. Before him, the art of eastern combat could not be learned; this knowledge was available only to clan members and was passed on from generation to generation. When Ip Man began training with Bruce Lee, he made him promise that he would not teach the art of Kung Fu to others. The boy promised, but many years later he broke his word.
Bruce Lee proved himself to be a talented student. In a matter of days, he mastered the Tai Chi technique, while others took weeks to do so. Later he mastered other fighting techniques. Among them were the following :
- Winchun;
- judo;
- Jiu-Jitsu and others.
As a result of such mastery, a new style of martial arts was born - Jeet Kune Do. Lee actively applied the acquired skills in cinema.
Bruce Lee's son - Brandon Lee
Bruce Lee's son is Brandon Lee, the actor's eldest child. The boy was born on February 1, 1965. Brandon Lee was a fairly developed and capable boy. He went in for sports, played the guitar and wrote poetry. His son was trained by his father, so he achieved a lot in the field of martial arts.
Brandon Lee graduated from classical Chinese school. He studied at the military school of arts. He was also a student at Emerson College and took acting classes.
Brandon Lee has starred in nine films. One of the films became tragic for him. Brandon Lee died while filming The Crow in 1993. He was accidentally shot by his co-star Michael Massey.
Happy life
Quite quickly, Lee became one of the highest paid coaches in the country. Hollywood stars sought to study with him. The cost of a single training exceeded two hundred dollars.
At the same time, Bruce starred in films and television films, however, in minor or episodic roles. A fairly ambitious person was not satisfied with this situation. Later in Hong Kong, Lee was offered the main role in the film “Big Bruce”. All the fight scenes in the film were choreographed by the master himself.
The success was huge. Lee has become a sought-after and popular actor. However, even the constantly growing popularity did not become a reason for him to leave karate. Bruce began developing his own style, Jeet Kune Do, the “way of the leading fist.” It consisted of combinations of elements of various combat systems.
Linda and Bruce had two children in their marriage. The son became the eldest. They named him Brandon. The youngest is a daughter, Shannon. Children Brandon was born in 1965. Four years later his younger sister was born.
From a very early age, the father began training his son. Growing up, Brandon continued his father's path. He was excellent at martial arts and became a great actor. Unfortunately, his life was cut short just as tragically early as that of Lee Sr. Brandon died during the filming of The Crow in 1993 at the age of twenty-eight.
Shannon was a baby when her father died. But this did not become an obstacle to preserving his memory. At first, the girl took up vocals. However, later she repeated the path of her brother and father. There are about a dozen paintings on her list.
Some of them are biographical. However, there are exclusively box office films, such as “Cage”, “Blade”, “High Voltage”. Currently, Shannon heads a non-profit foundation named after her father. The organization is busy promoting his philosophy and popularizing martial arts.
Bruce Lee's daughter - Shannon Emery Lee
Bruce Lee's daughter is Shannon Emery Lee, the second child in the actor's family. The girl was born in 1969 in California. The girl studied at the Chadwick School in the USA and graduated from Tulane University.
Shannon Emiri Lee is also a film actress. She starred in several films that made her famous. The girl sings very well, writes songs, and also stars in videos. After her father's death, she produced films about him. He often takes part in various television shows.
Shannon Emira Lee is now married. Her husband is lawyer Jan Kiesler. A daughter is growing in the family.
Funeral
Bruce Lee was the idol of millions of people, and his death came as a real shock to them. The tragic event was discussed not only in Hong Kong, but throughout the world. For a long time, viewers refused to believe the doctors’ version, suggesting that Bruce died because of some other reasons. The media put forward various versions related to mysticism, crime, secret love affairs, but none of them was confirmed. On July 25, 1973, a symbolic funeral of a celebrity was held in Hong Kong, which was attended by more than 25 thousand people - this mournful event became a day of citywide mourning. Subsequently, the body of the popular actor and athlete was sent to Seattle, where he was interred on July 31 at Lake View Cemetery. Among the loved ones who served as pallbearers were actors Chuck Norris and Steve McQueen. After the actor's death, his wife and children moved back to the United States.
Despite the fact that the actor died at a fairly young age, Bruce Lee will certainly remain in history as the popularizer of eastern martial arts in the second half of the 20th century in Western countries, who still has many imitators.
Bruce Lee's wife - Linda Lee Kendwell
Bruce Lee's wife is Linda Lee Kendwell, the only wife of the actor. By education she is a teacher. The young people met completely by chance. The girl came to kung fu training. At that time she was 17 years old.
Bruce Lee and Linda Lee Kendwell dated for about two years. Their romance was quite stormy. And in 1964 they officially registered their relationship. Note that Linda Lee Kendwell's parents were not satisfied with their daughter's choice, primarily because of his Asian appearance. But they could not do anything, since the young people were madly in love with each other. Linda herself was Scandinavian.
Linda Lee Kendwell gave birth to two children to the legendary actor - a boy, Brandon, and a daughter, Shannon.
Acquaintance
The first and only wife of Bruce Lee, the legendary actor and fighter, Linda Emery (Emery was her maiden name) was born in Everett, Washington, in 1945, on March 21. Her Swedish-English family professed Baptists. Their fateful acquaintance with Bruce took place in Seattle, at the Garfield High School, where Linda was studying at that time, and Lee came to give several lectures. This happened in 1962, Miss Emery was only 17 years old at the time. Bruce was 22 at the time and teaching kung fu and philosophy at the University of Washington. She came to him and started studying in his section. The beautiful and purposeful blonde could not leave the master indifferent; they began an affair, which two years later led to a wedding. Linda and Bruce in 1964, on August 17, became legal husband and wife. It must be said that not everyone was happy about this marriage. In particular, Linda's parents were very much against it; they were embarrassed by Lee's nationality. But young people were able to defend their feelings and overcome all interethnic prejudices.
Death of Bruce Lee. Wikipedia cause of death
On July 20, 1973, a tragic event occurred - the death of Bruce Lee. Wikipedia named the cause of death as cerebral edema, which was caused by an allergy to aspirin. It is known that the actor took the pill because of a very severe headache. Bruce Lee's death occurred in a dream. Then he lay down to rest during a break between filming a film with the fatal title “Game of Death.”
There were also rumors that the legendary actor was killed by a kung fu master who was Bruce Lee's rival. But this version has not received official confirmation. More than 25,000 people came to Bruce Lee's funeral. He was an incredible man, dedicated to his work.
Death and what preceded it
Bruce Lee died on the set of the film Game of Death. The official version says that the actor suffered from a severe headache. He took painkillers containing aspirin and meprobamate.
The drug provoked a severe allergic reaction, as a result of which the actor died. An autopsy found the primary cause of death to be massive cerebral edema , but no further toxicology tests were performed.
Millions of people around the world refuse to believe that a legendary man could die in such a prosaic way. The farewell and funeral took place in two stages. In Hong Kong, the ceremony took on the scale of a real citywide mourning. Thousands of fans, comrades, and colleagues of the actor came to pay tribute to his grave. After farewell in his homeland, the actor’s body was transported to Seattle, USA, where the second farewell ceremony took place and the remains of Bruce Lee were buried.
After her husband's funeral, Linda Lee Cadwell published a book about her famous husband. Among other things, she notes in the publication that people cannot accept the fact that the death of their idol occurred suddenly, and therefore they are trying to find mystical and conspiratorial explanations for what happened. In fact, in her opinion, you just need to accept what happened and treat the memory of Bruce Lee with respect and reverence, without interfering with intrigues and scandals.
