Bruce Junfan Lee (November 27, 1940 — July 20, 1973) was a Chinese American martial artist and martial arts actor who is widely regarded as one of the most influential martial artists of the 20th century. Lee's movies, especially his performance in the Hollywood-produced Enter the Dragon, elevated the traditional Hong Kong martial arts film to a new level of popularity, paving the way for future martial artists and martial arts actors such as Jackie Chan, Jet Li, and Chuck Norris. Bruce Lee sparked the first major surge of in ...

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• Bruce Lee - Early Life
• Bruce Lee - Names
• Bruce Lee - Education and Martial Arts Training
• Bruce Lee - Early acting career
• Bruce Lee - Success in Hong Kong
• Bruce Lee - Martial Arts Training and Development
• Bruce Lee - Wing Chun
• Bruce Lee - Jeet Kune Do
• Bruce Lee - Beyond Jeet Kune Do
• Bruce Lee - Physical Training Fitness and Nutrition
• Bruce Lee - 1964 Long Beach International Karate Championships
• Bruce Lee - Nutrition
• Bruce Lee - Bruce Lee's Feats
• Bruce Lee - Quotes From Bruce Lee's Friends about his Feats
• Bruce Lee - Death by misadventure
• Bruce Lee - Martial Arts Lineage
• Bruce Lee - Filmography
• Bruce Lee - Philosophy
• Bruce Lee - Books authored
• Bruce Lee - Awards and honors
• Bruce Lee - Characters based on Lee
• Bruce Lee - Anime and manga
• Bruce Lee - Videogames
• Bruce Lee - Film references
• Bruce Lee - CG Resurrection
• Bruce Lee - List of people influential to Bruce Lee's career
• Bruce Lee - Footnotes

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Bruce Lee, Bruce Lee - Early Life, Bruce Lee - Names, Bruce Lee - Education and Martial Arts Training, Bruce Lee - Early acting career, Bruce Lee - Success in Hong Kong, Bruce Lee - Martial Arts Training and Development, Bruce Lee - Wing Chun, Bruce Lee - Jeet Kune Do, Bruce Lee - Beyond Jeet Kune Do, Bruce Lee - Physical Training Fitness and Nutrition, Bruce Lee - 1964 Long Beach International Karate Championships, Bruce Lee - Nutrition, Bruce Lee - Bruce Lee's Feats, Bruce Lee - Quotes From Bruce Lee's Friends about his Feats, Bruce Lee - Death by misadventure, Bruce Lee - Martial Arts Lineage, Bruce Lee - Filmography, Bruce Lee - Philosophy, Bruce Lee - Books authored, Bruce Lee - Awards and honors, Bruce Lee - Characters based on Lee, Bruce Lee - Anime and manga, Bruce Lee - Videogames, Bruce Lee - Film references, Bruce Lee - CG Resurrection, Bruce Lee - List of people influential to Bruce Lee's career, Bruce Lee - Footnotes

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Although Bruce Lee is best known as a martial artist and actor, Lee majored in philosophy at the University of Washington. Lee's books on martial arts and fighting philosophy are well-known both for their philosophical insight both inside and outside of martial arts circles. His philosophy often mirrored his fighting beliefs, though he was quick to claim that his martial arts were solely a metaphor for such teachings. His influences include Taoism and Buddhism. One of Lee's passion was martial arts philosophy and his knowledge of both Easte ...

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Bruce Lee, Bruce Lee - Early Life, Bruce Lee - Names, Bruce Lee - Education and Martial Arts Training, Bruce Lee - Early acting career, Bruce Lee - Success in Hong Kong, Bruce Lee - Martial Arts Training and Development, Bruce Lee - Wing Chun, Bruce Lee - Jeet Kune Do, Bruce Lee - Beyond Jeet Kune Do, Bruce Lee - Physical Training Fitness and Nutrition, Bruce Lee - 1964 Long Beach International Karate Championships, Bruce Lee - Nutrition, Bruce Lee - Bruce Lee's Feats, Bruce Lee - Quotes From Bruce Lee's Friends about his Feats, Bruce Lee - Death by misadventure, Bruce Lee - Martial Arts Lineage, Bruce Lee - Filmography, Bruce Lee - Philosophy, Bruce Lee - Books authored, Bruce Lee - Awards and honors, Bruce Lee - Characters based on Lee, Bruce Lee - Anime and manga, Bruce Lee - Videogames, Bruce Lee - Film references, Bruce Lee - CG Resurrection, Bruce Lee - List of people influential to Bruce Lee's career, Bruce Lee - Footnotes

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No single figure was more responsible for this international profile than Bruce Lee, a San Francisco-born, Hong Kong-raised actor and martial artist. As a young man in America, Lee assayed a few small roles in Hollywood movies and a supporting part on the Green Hornet TV series, as well as working as a noted martial arts instructor whose students included stars like Steve McQueen. In 1971, frustrated by the lack of opportunities for performers of Asian descent, he came back to Hong Kong . Unwilling to settle for the standard starting ...

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Hong Kong action cinema, Hong Kong action cinema - The kung fu wave, Hong Kong action cinema - Bruce Lee, Hong Kong action cinema - The Post Bruce Lee Void, Hong Kong action cinema - Jackie Chan and the kung fu comedy, Hong Kong action cinema - Reinventing Action Cinema, Hong Kong action cinema - Jackie Chan and the modern kung fu film, Hong Kong action cinema - Tsui Hark and Cinema City, Hong Kong action cinema - John Woo and the gangster film, Hong Kong action cinema - The wire fu wave, Hong Kong action cinema - Influence in the West, Hong Kong action cinema - Exit of many Leading Figures

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Bruce Lee - Anime and manga. Lee Bailong (Lee Pai-Long) in the anime and manga Shaman King, especially the manga resembles Bruce Lee. The character was killed so that his body could be made into a Jiang Shi in service to the Tao family. Rock Lee from Naruto, resembles and is a tribute to Bruce Lee (as does his teacher Gai). In the anime and manga, the character is a martial arts master with a similar fighting style as Bruce Lee. Rock Lee is a very spirited taijutsu speciali ...

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Bruce Lee, Bruce Lee - Early Life, Bruce Lee - Names, Bruce Lee - Education and Martial Arts Training, Bruce Lee - Early acting career, Bruce Lee - Success in Hong Kong, Bruce Lee - Martial Arts Training and Development, Bruce Lee - Wing Chun, Bruce Lee - Jeet Kune Do, Bruce Lee - Beyond Jeet Kune Do, Bruce Lee - Physical Training Fitness and Nutrition, Bruce Lee - 1964 Long Beach International Karate Championships, Bruce Lee - Nutrition, Bruce Lee - Bruce Lee's Feats, Bruce Lee - Quotes From Bruce Lee's Friends about his Feats, Bruce Lee - Death by misadventure, Bruce Lee - Martial Arts Lineage, Bruce Lee - Filmography, Bruce Lee - Philosophy, Bruce Lee - Books authored, Bruce Lee - Awards and honors, Bruce Lee - Characters based on Lee, Bruce Lee - Anime and manga, Bruce Lee - Videogames, Bruce Lee - Film references, Bruce Lee - CG Resurrection, Bruce Lee - List of people influential to Bruce Lee's career, Bruce Lee - Footnotes

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Yip Man (葉問 in pinyin: ye4 wen4; in Jyutping: jip6 man6 aka 葉繼問 1893-1972) was the first master (sifu) to teach the martial art of Wing Chun openly. He had several students who later became martial arts masters in their own right, including Bruce Lee. Yip Man was the last Wing Chun student of Chan Wah-shun when he was 70-year-old. He was the second son of a very wealthy family in Foshan, Guangdong, and received ...

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• Yip Man - Source
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• Yip Man - Lineage

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Chow Yun-Fat (Chinese: 周潤發; Hanyu Pinyin: Zhōu Rùnfā) (born May 18, 1955 on Lamma Island, Hong Kong) is among a handful of internationally recognized screen actors that Hong Kong has produced, along with Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan. A charismatic actor, he has been likened to a grittier, more intense version of Cary Grant. Raised on the tiny offshore island of Lamma, Chow spent his childhood in poverty. His life started to ch ...

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• Chow Yun-Fat - Selected filmography
• Chow Yun-Fat - Selected TV Series

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Batman Art by Jim Lee The DC Comics hero Batman (originally and still sometimes referred to as The Batman or The Bat-Man) is a fictional character who first appeared in Detective Comics #27 in May 1939. He has since become, along with Superman, one of the world's most well-known comic-book characters, with The Guardian lauding him as "the perfect cultural artifact for the 21st century." [1] Although co-created by artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger, only Kan ...

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• Batman - Gotham City
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• Batman - The Batcave
• Batman - Costume
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• Batman - Enemies of Batman
• Batman - Crossovers
• Batman - Homosexual interpretations
• Batman - Awards
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• Batman - Batman in other media
• Batman - Trivia
• Batman - Notes
• Batman - Additional Batman information
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On 20 July 1973, Betty unwittingly hit the headlines when Bruce died in her apartment at 67, Beacon Hill Road, Kowloon Tong. According to press reports, Bruce Lee was going over the script of Game of Death in Betty's apartment, a Golden Harvest movie in which she was reported to have a lead role, when he complained of a headache. She gave him a single tablet of Equagesic, a strong aspirin-based drug that she often used herself. He then went to sleep, but when she could not wake him up for a dinner appointment with Raymon ...

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Betty Ting Pei, Betty Ting Pei - Relationship with Bruce Lee, Betty Ting Pei - Filmography

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The following are principles that Bruce Lee incorporated into Jeet Kune Do. He felt these were universal combat truths that were self evident and would lead to combat success if followed. The "4 Combat Ranges" in particular are what he felt were instrumental in becoming a "total" martial artist. This is also the principle that is most related to Mixed Martial Arts. The "5 Ways of Attack" are attacking categories that help Jeet Kune Do practitioners organize t ...

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Jeet Kune Do, Jeet Kune Do - Jeet Kune Do Principles, Jeet Kune Do - Jeet Kune Do Branches, Jeet Kune Do - Bruce Lee, Jeet Kune Do - Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do Quotes

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Jeet Kune Do advocates may utilize techniques from any martial art; the trapping and short-range punches of Wing Chun, the kicks of northern Chinese styles as well as Savate, the footwork found in Western fencing and the techniques of Western boxing, to list but a few. Bruce Lee stated that his concept is not an "adding to" of more and more things on top of each other to form a system, but rather, a winnowing out. The metaphor Lee borrowed from Chan Buddhism was of constantly filling a cup with water, and then emptying it, used for describin ...

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Jeet Kune Do, Jeet Kune Do - The 'Style', Jeet Kune Do - Jeet Kune Do Principles, Jeet Kune Do - Jeet Kune Do Branches, Jeet Kune Do - Bruce Lee, Jeet Kune Do - Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do Quotes

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Kick - Calf Kick. This kick strikes with the backside of the calf. A variation which is known as the jumping calf kick is when the user jumps before performing the kick. Kick - Hook Kick. In Japanese, ura mawashi-geri. The hook kick strikes with the heel from the side. It is executed similar to a side kick. However, the kick is intentionally aimed slightly off target in the direction of the kicking foot's toes. At full extension, the knee is bent and the foot snapped to the side, impacting the target with the heel.

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Kick, Kick - Kick Variations, Kick - Basic Kicks, Kick - Front Kick, Kick - Side Kick, Kick - Back Kick, Kick - More Advanced Kicks, Kick - Calf Kick, Kick - Hook Kick, Kick - Crescent Kick, Kick - Vertical kick, Kick - Axe Kick, Kick - Butterfly Kick, Kick - Roundhouse Kick, Kick - Reverse Roundhouse Kick, Kick - Sources

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During questioning - and to the complete surprise and horror of the police - Lee then went on to confess to starting nine more fatal fires in Hull over the previous seven years. None of the fires was treated with suspicion at the time; inquests recorded misadventure verdicts and arson was never considered. A total of 23 people had died in the blazes, ranging from a six-month-old baby, through a young mother a ...

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Bruce George Peter Lee, Bruce George Peter Lee - The Hastie fire, Bruce George Peter Lee - Confessions of an Arsonist, Bruce George Peter Lee - The Killer's Background, Bruce George Peter Lee - Guilty to Manslaughter, Bruce George Peter Lee - Prolific - but poor publicity, Bruce George Peter Lee - Aftermath, Bruce George Peter Lee - The Victims of Bruce Lee

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The detective in charge of Lee’s case, Superintendent Ronald Sagar, later launched a libel action against the Sunday Times after they published articles suggesting Lee’s statements had been not entirely voluntary. The paper later withdrew the allegations and offered an apology, with the case finally settling out of court in 1987. Mr. Sagar, now retired and awarded with an MBE, publicly stated in his critically-acclaimed book on the case, Hull, Hell & Fire, his hope that Lee will one day be deemed fit and safe enough to be freed. That said, it ...

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Bruce George Peter Lee, Bruce George Peter Lee - The Hastie fire, Bruce George Peter Lee - Confessions of an Arsonist, Bruce George Peter Lee - The Killer's Background, Bruce George Peter Lee - Guilty to Manslaughter, Bruce George Peter Lee - Prolific - but poor publicity, Bruce George Peter Lee - Aftermath, Bruce George Peter Lee - The Victims of Bruce Lee

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After the death of Bruce Lee, Hong Kong suddenly found its biggest hope yet for global success gone. But Westerners, given their first taste of kung fu movies, had a huge appetite for more and Hong Kong tried to provide. A number of performers adopted similar-sounding screen names, including Bruce Li, Bruce Le, Bruce Lei (a.k.a. Dragon Lee) and Bruce Lai. Their Chinese screen names were also chosen to echo Lee's. A major "Bruceploitation" film was The Clones of Bruce Lee (1977), wherein a professor makes three Bruce Lee clones ...

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Hong Kong action cinema, Hong Kong action cinema - The kung fu wave, Hong Kong action cinema - Bruce Lee, Hong Kong action cinema - The Post Bruce Lee Void, Hong Kong action cinema - Jackie Chan and the kung fu comedy, Hong Kong action cinema - Reinventing Action Cinema, Hong Kong action cinema - Jackie Chan and the modern kung fu film, Hong Kong action cinema - Tsui Hark and Cinema City, Hong Kong action cinema - John Woo and the gangster film, Hong Kong action cinema - The wire fu wave, Hong Kong action cinema - Influence in the West, Hong Kong action cinema - Exit of many Leading Figures

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Chan's clowning may have helped extend the life of the kung fu wave. For all that, he had become a star towards the end of the boom, and would soon help move the colony towards a new type of action. In the 1980s, he and many colleagues would forge a slicker, more spectacular Hong Kong pop cinema that would successfully compete with the post-Star Wars summer blockbusters from America. Hong ...

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Hong Kong action cinema, Hong Kong action cinema - The kung fu wave, Hong Kong action cinema - Bruce Lee, Hong Kong action cinema - The Post Bruce Lee Void, Hong Kong action cinema - Jackie Chan and the kung fu comedy, Hong Kong action cinema - Reinventing Action Cinema, Hong Kong action cinema - Jackie Chan and the modern kung fu film, Hong Kong action cinema - Tsui Hark and Cinema City, Hong Kong action cinema - John Woo and the gangster film, Hong Kong action cinema - The wire fu wave, Hong Kong action cinema - Influence in the West, Hong Kong action cinema - Exit of many Leading Figures

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In October 1980, Lee was charged with a total of 26 murders, along with alternative offences of manslaughter, as well as eleven counts of arson and two of causing grievous bodily harm (he had admitted in interview to starting a fire in which a young mother and her daughter suffered severe burns but survived). At his trial at Leeds Crown Court in January 1981, Lee denied every murder charge but pleaded guilty to 26 counts of manslaughter, as well as the arson attacks. The pleas were accepted. He was ordered to be detained indefinitely under the Mental Health Act, with the judge stating ...

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Bruce George Peter Lee, Bruce George Peter Lee - The Hastie fire, Bruce George Peter Lee - Confessions of an Arsonist, Bruce George Peter Lee - The Killer's Background, Bruce George Peter Lee - Guilty to Manslaughter, Bruce George Peter Lee - Prolific - but poor publicity, Bruce George Peter Lee - Aftermath, Bruce George Peter Lee - The Victims of Bruce Lee

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Bruce Lee's name in Mandarin Chinese is Lǐ Xiǎolóng (李小龍). After his death, many actors by the names such as Bruce Li (黎(Lí)小龍 from his real name Ho Chung Tao (何宗道)), Bronson Lee, Bruce Chen, Bruce Lai, Bruce Le (呂(Lǔ)小龍 from his real name Wong Kin Lung), (黃建龍)), Bruce Lei, Bruce Lie, Bruce Liang, Bruce Thai, Bruce K.A. Lea, Brute Lee, Bruce Leung, Myron Bruce Lee, Lee Bruce and Dragon Lee were ...

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Bruceploitation, Bruceploitation - Actors, Bruceploitation - Movies

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Lee was initially taken to Park Lane Special Hospital in Liverpool. He was later transferred to Rampton Secure Hospital and there he remains to this day. It is not known whether he has been earmarked for release at any time. He became the most prolific killer in the UK yet got next to no national publicity at the time because a) he was convicted of manslaughter rather than murder, and b) the Yorkshire Ripper’s trial, a much more high profile case, was ongoing at precisely the same time. The fact that the Ripper’s existence was known thro ...

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Bruce George Peter Lee, Bruce George Peter Lee - The Hastie fire, Bruce George Peter Lee - Confessions of an Arsonist, Bruce George Peter Lee - The Killer's Background, Bruce George Peter Lee - Guilty to Manslaughter, Bruce George Peter Lee - Prolific - but poor publicity, Bruce George Peter Lee - Aftermath, Bruce George Peter Lee - The Victims of Bruce Lee

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It was only when a fire at a house in Hull, East Yorkshire, killed three young brothers that police began to look for an arsonist. They found their man in Lee, a 19-year-old local youth of a disadvantaged background and a spastic disability, but when he started to confess to countless other fatal fires, a whole new chapter opened. The fire on December 4, 1979, trapped Charles Hastie, who was 15, and his younger brothers Paul, 12, and eight-year-old Peter, as well as their mother, Edith, and another brother, ...

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Bruce George Peter Lee, Bruce George Peter Lee - The Hastie fire, Bruce George Peter Lee - Confessions of an Arsonist, Bruce George Peter Lee - The Killer's Background, Bruce George Peter Lee - Guilty to Manslaughter, Bruce George Peter Lee - Prolific - but poor publicity, Bruce George Peter Lee - Aftermath, Bruce George Peter Lee - The Victims of Bruce Lee

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