Bruce Lee Research Paper

Bruce Lee was born on November 27, 1940, in San Francisco, California. He was a child actor in Hong Kong who later returned to the U.S. and taught martial arts. He starred in the TV series The Green Hornet 1966-67. Shortly before the release of his film Enter the Dragon, he died at the age of 32 on July 20, 1973. He was an actor, director and martial-arts expert, Bruce Lee was born on November 27, 1940, in San Francisco, California, in both the hour and year of the Dragon. His father, Lee Hoi Chuen, a Hong Kong opera singer, moved with his wife, Grace Ho, and three children to the United States in 1939 Hoi Chuens fourth child, a son, was born while he was on tour in San Francisco. Lee received the name "Bruce" from a nurse at his birthing hospital.

In the show Lee displayed his acrobatic and fighting style as the Hornet's sidekick, Kato. He went on to make guest appearances in such TV shows as Ironside and Longstreet, while a film role came in 1969's Marlowe, starring James Garner as the detective created by Raymond Chandler. Lee, who was devoted to a variety of workouts and physical training activities, suffered a major back injury that he gradually recovered from, taking time for writing. He also came up with the idea that became the basis for the Buddhist monk TV series Kung Fu; however, David Carradine would get the starring role made for Lee. Due to the belief that an Asian actor wouldn't pull in audiences as the lead. Confronted with a role and the prevalence of stereotypes of Asian performers, Lee left Los Angeles for Hong Kong in

The official cause of his sudden and unexpected death was a brain edema, found in an autopsy to have been caused by a reaction to a prescription painkiller he was reportedly taking for a back injury. Talk surrounded Lee's death from the beginning, as some claimed he had been murdered, a conclusion driven by Lee's obsession with his own early death. In 1993 Brandon Lee was killed under mysterious circumstances during the filming of The Crow. The 28 year-old actor was shot with a gun that supposedly contained blanks but somehow had a live round deep in it’s