Bruce Lee

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Martial Art´s most recognised character is Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee was born in november 27 1940 in San Francisco. He began practice martial arts in China when was 13 years old. His teacher was Yip Man who was Chinas greatest martial art practicionar. Bruce lee won many different fightcontests and became kind of famous in China. Bruce Lee allways wanted to be a moviestar so he moved back to America. But it was kind of hard for a chinese to become a star in hollywood, but Bruce never gave up. At first he was playing small roles in movies like Marlow, The green hornet and the beginning of a boy.
While "The Green Hornet" TV series was in production, Bruce made several promotional appearances as Kato, but made a point to never do the standard martial art stunts like breaking boards which he felt had nothing to do with what the martial arts are about. Bruce had developed his own martial art style called Jeet Kune Do (Way of the Intercepting Fist) which is more of an idea of being flexible and practical with learning martial arts.

His breakthrow came at the age of 31 with the film called Big Boss and Bruce was ofcourse the leading part. After Big Boss he made four more movies, Fist of fury, enter the dragon and game of death, and all of them were kung-fu movies and he became hollywoods greatest actionstar. His dream to become a star came true but unfortunatly he died at the age of 33 during shooting his last movie Game of death. He died in 1973. The circumstances surrounding Lee´s death just one year after his starring d...