Bruce Lee

Hong Kong–American martial artist and actor (1940–1973)

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Born

27 November 1940, San Francisco Chinese Hospital

Died

20 July 1973, Kowloon Tong

Citizenship

British Hong Kong, United States

Sport

martial arts

Occupation

film director, television actor, film actor, writer, film producer

Height

172 cm (5 ft 8 in)

Bruce Lee (born Lee Jun-fan; November 27, 1940 – July 20, 1973) was a Hong Kong and American martial artist, actor, and filmmaker. He was the founder of Jeet Kune Do, a hybrid martial arts philosophy, which was formed from his experiences in unarmed fighting and self-defense—as well as eclectic, Zen Buddhist, and Taoist philosophies—as a new school of martial arts thought. With a career spanning Hong Kong and the United States, Lee is regarded as the first global Chinese film star and one of the most influential martial artists in the history of cinema. Known for the five feature-length martial arts films that he starred in as an adult, he is credited with helping to popularize martial arts films in the 1970s and promoting Hong Kong action cinema.

Awards and honours

• California Hall of Fame 2015
• Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Films

Teachers

• Ip Man
• Jeff Corey

Students

• Jesse Glover
• Jerry Poteet

External links

• Wikipedia
• Wikiquote
• IMDb
• Wikidata

Facts from Wikidata Q16397 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.

Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.