Brandon Lee
Brandon Bruce Lee was an American actor and a martial artist. Lee is also known for being the only son of Bruce Lee and for his accidental death during the production of his breakthrough film The Crow. Lee followed his father into both of the fields, trained martial arts with some of his father’s students and studied acting at Emerson College.
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Brandon Bruce Lee was an American actor and a martial artist. Lee is also known for being the only son of Bruce Lee and for his accidental death during the production of his breakthrough film The Crow. Lee’s father, who died in 1973, was iconic in the field of martial arts both as a practitioner and leading man in their films. Lee followed his father into both of the fields, trained martial arts with some of his father’s students and studied acting at Emerson College. In 1986, Lee made his screen debut opposite David Carradine in the television film Kung Fu: The Movie. In 1992, he landed his most notable role as Eric Draven in Alex Proyas’s The Crow, based on the comic book of the same name. On March 31, 1993, only a few days away from completing the film, Lee was accidentally killed after being shot on the set by a prop gun. He is buried alongside his father in Seattle’s Lake View Cemetery. The Crow was completed by re-writing the script, using early CGI technology and stunt doubles. It was generally well reviewed and considered to demonstrate Lee’s dramatic abilities, It was a commercial success and is now considered a cult classic. In the 1990s, he started working with major Hollywood studios. His first American theatrical release was the Warner Bros buddy cop action film Showdown in Little Tokyo, co-starring Dolph Lundgren. This was followed by a leading role in Rapid Fire produced by 20th Century Fox.
Afterwards, Lee went to Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, where he majored in theater. After his studies, Lee did local theater, joined the Eric Morris American New Theatre, and acted in John Lee Hancock’s Full fed beast. During this period, he returned to Los Angeles and worked as a script reader and reader. In 1985, he auditioned for his first credited acting role in Kungfu: The Movie: The Next Generation. He was a follow-up to the television series Kung Fu, with David Car radine returning as the lead. Lee said he wanted to be introduced as an actor who was not Bruce Lee’s son, however he was talked into doing it due to the martial arts nature of the film. In 1970, Lee met his former stunt instructor Jeff Imada who happened to work in the stunt department of the show Kung Fu. He would later work as stunt and fight coordinator in several of Lee’s upcoming films. In 1983, four months prior to his graduation Lee was asked to leave the Chadwick School for misbehavior. That year Lee received his GED from Miraleste high school. Following this, Lee moved to New York City, where he took acting lessons at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. He said the family lived between Hong Kong and the United States, following his father’s martial arts movie star. In his teens, he was struggling with his identity, and having to train in dojos which included large photos of his dad troubled him.
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