Name: Brandon Bruce Lee
Born in Oakland, California on February 1, 1965
to legendary film icon Bruce Lee and wife Linda
Died: March 31, 1993 North Carolina USA (Accidental Shooting)
Height: 182 cm
Weight: 76 kg
Father: Bruce Lee (Sai Fon)
Mother: Linda Emery Lee Cadwell
Sister: Shannon Lee Keasler
Fiancée: Eliza Hutton
Educational Background: Lee Strasberg Academy
Emerson College
Man of The Year 1993
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Place of Burial: Seattle, Washington
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As soon as he learned how to walk, his father started training him in the martial arts.
Bruce Lee originated a style called Jeet Kune do.
He trained Brandon in this style while he was alive.
After his father's death at the early age of 32,
Brandon, his mother, and sister moved to Los Angeles.
His mother, Linda, wanted to take her two children out of the limelight,
which gave them a chance at a normal childhood.
Since the beginning, Brandon was drawn towards performing.
He always wanted to be an actor and pursued that from a very young age.
It's all he wanted to do. He wanted to be known for his acting ability
instead of who his father was. He only hoped to be able to invest as much passion
into acting as his father did in martial art.
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After taking high school drama classes,
Brandon Left to attend acting classes with Lee Strasberg,
later going on to study acting at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. He later joined Eric Morris' American New Theater company in New York City and followed the company's relocation to Los Angeles and appeared in their production of Full Fed Beast for playwright John Lee Hancock.
Brandon later returned to training at the Inosanto Academy of Martial Arts in Marina Del Rey, California, which was run by two of Bruce Lee's former students and instructors, Danny Inosanto and Ted Wong.
His first professional acting job came at the age of 20
when he appeared in the CBS television film Kung Fu: The Movie in 1986. He played the long lost and revengeful son of David Carradine's character Caine.
Brandon also made several appearances on Hong Kong television with his father.
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He later landed a role of the evil son of Yakuza godfather
on an episode of O'Hara with Pat Morita.
It bothered Brandon that Asian actors were not consistently getting starring roles in American Films and television. Brandon had to travel to Hong Kong in order to make his feature film debut, starring in Legacy of Rage (1988).
Brandon then landed a role in the 1990 movie Laser Mission which was filmed in Namibia with featured star Ernest Borgnine.
Brandon finally made his American feature film debut in Showdown in Little Tokyo for Warner Brothers in which he played a policeman.
Brandon then landed a major starring role, that of Jake Lo in Rapid Fire for 20th Century Fox, written with Brandon Lee in mind. Brandon also helped work on Rapid Fire's fight choreography to bring some Hong Kong Movie Flair to the film.
20th Century Fox signed Brandon to do two more films for the studio.
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1993 production of The Crow started.
And Tragedy began.
On March 31st, he was injured while filming. A tip from a "dummy round" ( a prop bullet that has no gun powder) had lodged in a gun and was subsequently ejected from the barrel when a blank cartridge was fired. Brandon died hours later at the Wilmington Hospital
"Because we don't know when we will die, We get to think of life as a inexhaustible well. Yet everthing happens a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you Remember a certain afternoon of your childhood? Some afternoon thats so deeply apart of Your being that you can't even conceive your life without it. Perhaps four or five times more, Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty, And yet it all seems limitless."
*For Brandon and Eliza
Ever Joined In True Love's Beauty
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I have searched for pictures of the
young Brandon and his famlily.
Here are a few childhood pictures I found.
Brandon Lee as a Baby
Mother: Linda Emery Lee Cadwell holding baby Brandon
Brandon as a young Child
Brandon With Bruce
The Lee Family Photo
Brandon Lee as a teen-ager
Brandon With Friends
Just a real nice picture of Brandon
Bruce holdin Brandon
Bruce&Brandon Just Hangin Out
Bruce&Brandon Goffin Off
Brandon With Bruce 2
Brandon With Bruce 3
Family Photo 2
The Lee's
The Lee's 2
Brandon B-Day
Name: Brandon Bruce Lee