Recent Shows: Crow, The
Biography:
He was born on February 1, 1965 to 'Bruce Lee (I)' (Martial Arts idol) and
Linda Lee. Brother to Shannon Lee. In 1965 they moved to Hong Kong
where Brandon became fluent in Cantonese by the age of 8. He attended
Boston's Art-Oriented Emerson College in M ...(read more)
He was born on February 1, 1965 to 'Bruce Lee (I)' (Martial Arts idol) and
Linda Lee. Brother to Shannon Lee. In 1965 they moved to Hong Kong
where Brandon became fluent in Cantonese by the age of 8. He attended
Boston's Art-Oriented Emerson College in Massachusetts. He studied
Martial Arts and drama, like his father. In 1983 he was expelled from
school because of misbehaviour, but received his diploma at Miraleste
High school. He was in "Rapid Fire", "Showdown Little Tokyo", and a few
more films, including "The Crow". He turned down offers to be in
"Dragon: The Bruce Lee story". Bruce died (while filming) at the age of
32, of what is to be believed, a brain hemmorage. Brandon died at the
age of 28 on the set of "The Crow". While filming one scene, where he
gets shot repetitively, the cap of a blank (which shoots harmlessly)
accidently got lodged in his spine after penetrating his abdomen. The
doctors worked desperately for five hours, but it was no use. He was
pronounced dead at 1:04 pm the next day. He was supposed to marry Eliza
Hutton on April 17. His body was flown to Seattle to be buried beside
his father in Lake View Cemetery.
Caryn Liles
Born in Oakland, California, USA, Brandon Lee spent the first eight
years of his life in Hong Kong. By the time he was able to walk, he was
already involved in learning about martial arts from his father,
martial arts expert and famed actor Bruce Lee. After Bruce Lee's
untimely death, Brandon, his mother Linda (an American of Swedish
heritage), and his sister Shannon moved to Los Angeles. He attended
high school in Los Angeles, where he realized that he had also
inherited acting ability along with his martial arts skills. He
continued his education and interest in acting at Emerson College in
Massachusetts, where he majored in theatre. Having chosen an acting
career, Lee took his work seriously. He studied at the Strasberg
Academy, with Eric Morris in New York and in Los Angeles, and in
Lynette Katselas' class in Los Angeles. His first professional job as
an actor came at age twenty, when casting director Lynn Stalmaster
asked him to read for a CBS television film, "Kung Fu: The Movie."
Lee's first role in a feature film was "Legacy of Rage" for D.M. Films
of Hong Kong, followed by a co-starring role in "Showdown in Little
Tokyo."
Anonymous
Was born to 'Bruce Lee (I)' and 'Linda Lee Cadwell' , on 1st February 1965. When his father
died he moved to Seattle with his mother and Sister 'Shannon Lee' . He
attended several high schools but was expelled due to bad behavior --
on one occasion he drove his car in reverse through oncoming traffic.
While at one school he was president of the student union. Upon finding
out about the death of Beatle 'John Lennon (I)' in December 1980, Brandon
dismissed all of his grade out of respect to Lennon, however the
principal didn't share his good nature and expelled Brandon from the
school. He restarted his Martial Arts at age 18 where he met fellow
stunt choreographer and future best friend 'Jeff Imada' . It upset Brandon to
see all the posters of his Dad in the Dan Insano Academy and so he
quit. For the next couple of years Brandon was more interested in
soccer and basketball than Martial Arts. But once again at age 20 he
took up and excelled in certain types of Martial Arts including Thai
Kick-Boxing, Jeet Kune Do, and Yee Chuen Tao. His first movie role was
in the 'David Carridine' movie Kung Fu: The Movie (1986) (TV) , followed by Cantonese film Long zai jiang hu (1986) . Next
was a movie fimed in Africa, Laser Mission (1990) , which was follwed by his American
Movie Debut as a co-star to 'Dolph Lundgren' in Showdown in Little Tokyo(1991) . His first movie as the
star was Rapid Fire (1992) where his co-stars were 'Powers Booth' and 'Nick Mancuso' . Brandon
played a guy on the wrong side of two different gangs each wanting him
for a murder he witnessed, and the FBI. But his breakthrough movie was
next, the movie that was to catapult him to stardom and onto better
things, the Gothic Thriller Crow, The (1994) , where he plays a murdered rockstar
back from the dead to avenge his and his fiances' murder. Apart from
all the darkness and violence in the movie there is actually a romantic
theme to it -- Brandon played the role beautifully and this is where he
really began to shine as a promising actor. He was to be married on
April 17th 1993 to his fiance Eliza Hutton in New Mexico Two weeks
after filming wrapped. On March 31st 1993, the 52nd day of a 58 day
shoot, Brandon prepared to film his first real scene without make up
on. The scene was to explain how he and his onscreen fiance' were
murdered. It was recalled as a strange day because the way the two
characters were to be killed was changed several times before they
decided that Eric Draven (Lee) was to enter his apartment and come
across his fiance' being beaten by four thugs, upon which one was to
turn and shoot Eric and leave him wounded. The cameras began to role
and Brandon entered the apartment in character. The 'Michael Massee' character,
Fun Boy spots Eric, holds the gun up and shoots as planned, Brandon
held his stomach, motioned to the director to 'Cut' then fell backwards
against the door. Seconds later the director 'Alex Proyas' shouted 'CUT',
Brandon remained on the floor, 'Jeff Imada' ran over to Brandon with a
paramedic to see if he'd hit his head on the door when he fell and
knocked himself out. They discovered a thin slit an inch below to the
right of his navel, but this didn't hold any clues as to what happened.
They removed Brandon's jacket and spotted a hole in his T-shirt. By
this time Brandon had slipped into unconciousness. An ambulance was
called and Brandon was rushed to hospital. He underwent 5 hours of
surgery upon which they discovered a bullet had been the cause of the
damage. Eliza Hutton made it to the hospital just in time, at 1:04pm
Brandon Lee died. His funeral was held days later -- over 400 people
attended, including 'David Carridine' ,'David Hasselhoff' and 'Kiefer Sutherland' . Both Brandon's closest
friends and Fight choreographers 'Jeff Imada' and 'Jeff Cadiente' were so shocked
they couldn't speak, Linda reminded everyone "Brandon would want this
to be a happy occasion, we are here to celebrate his life".
Zackary Lee
Trademarks:
* Usually played a character on the wrong side of the law.
* Usually played a character on the wrong side of the law.
Quotes:
* "I don't want to be remembered as 'the son of Bruce Lee'"
* "I always had a pretty good knack for raising hell."
* "Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an
inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain n ...(read more)
* "I don't want to be remembered as 'the son of Bruce Lee'"
* "I always had a pretty good knack for raising hell."
* "Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an
inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of
times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you
remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so
deeply a part of your being that you cannot conceive of 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."
* [About "The Crow"] "It's a story about justice for victims."
* [About "The Crow"] "I've done other films with violence in them, but I
must say I've never done anything where I felt the violence was as
justified as it is in this...This is justice."
* "I've done my work and I'm happy with it...I respect my father very
much, but I'm a very different person than he was."
* "I don't know if I was destined to play this role, but I feel very
fortunate to be doing so." (on his last film, "The Crow")
* "The trip reinforced my suspicions that, despite my Pacific Rim
heritage, I'm about as American as you get." (explaining that he feels
no particular affinity for Asia and does not want to live there)
* "It's either in the genes, or I watched too many of his movies as a
kid" (on why his film roles echo those of his dad)
* "It's such an intensely personal thing for me.. I'd probably have been
a little too crazy." (on why he refused the role in "Dragon: The Bruce
Lee Story")
* "A fight can express things people might not be able to say with
words."
* "It's funny, [...] for that sequence the director just said, say
something insulting to him, it doesn't matter what. So I said something
pretty insulting, and they didn't subtitle it, and they never asked me
what it meant. [..] (Laughter)" (on the insult he says in Cantonese in
the movie "Rapid Fire")
* "You only have the burdens on you that you choose to put there."
* "All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career,
either career choices or choices when you're actually working as an
actor, based on trying to downplay or live up to a comparison with
somebody else. You just can't do that. You have to do your own work
based on your own gut, your own instincts, and your own life."
* [About "The Crow"] "It's a story about justice for victims."
* [About Eric Draven] He has something he has to do and he is forced to
put aside his own pain long enough to go do what he has to do."
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Posted on 12/28/07 12:13 PM.
cool dude