Early life.
Brandon Lee was born in Oakland, California, the son of legendary martial artist actor Bruce Lee. Only a week after his birth, his grandfather, Lee Hoi-Chuen died. The family moved to Los Angeles, California, where he was three months ago. When the proposal for the film became a limited role for his father, he and his family moved to Hong Kong in 1971.
When Lee was eight, his father died suddenly of a cerebral edema. After her husband's death, Linda Lee moved with his family (including daughter Shannon Lee b.1969) to return to the United States. They lived briefly in the mother of his hometown of Seattle, Washington and Los Angeles, where Lee grew up in the rich areas of the hill.
He attended school at Chadwick School, but was asked to leave for non-specific, driving down the hill back schools, only three months before graduation. I do not know when exactly, but he briefly attended Bishop Montgomery High School, located in Torrance. He received his GED diploma in 1983 at the age of 18, then went to Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, where he majored in theater. After a year, Lee moved to New York where he took over the famous Lee Strasberg Academy and was part of the American Theater New group founded by his friend John Lee Hancock. The bulk of Lee learning martial arts from his father beginning student, Dan Inosanto.
Career.
Lee returned to Los Angeles in 1985, where he worked for Ruddy Morgan Productions as a script reader. He was invited to audition for a role of casting director Lyn Stalmaster and received her first role in Kung Fu: The Movie, a feature film television that followed the TV series of the 1970s Kung Fu. The film aired on ABC on February 1, 1986, Lee was 21 years. In Kung Fu: The Movie, Wang Chung Lee has played, the suspected son of Kwai Chang Caine (played by David Carradine). Lee's father was originally intended to have played the main role in the television series Kung Fu. Bruce Lee also developed the original concept of the TV series.
Lee received his first major movie role later this year in the action-thriller from Hong Kong Legacy of Rage in which he played alongside Michael Wong. The film also made a cameo appearance of Bolo Yeung, who has appeared in the film of his father, Enter the Dragon. The film was made in Cantonese, and directed by Ronny Yu was the only film Lee made in Hong Kong.
In 1987, Lee has played in the unsold television pilot Kung Fu: The Next Generation, which aired on the CBS Summer Playhouse and was followed by another in the television series Kung Fu. In this film, the story moves to present day and focuses on the story of Johnny Caine (played by Lee), the back-grand son of Kwai Chang Caine (played by David Barlow).
In 1988, Lee made an appearance alongside Pat Morita in an episode of the short-lived American television series Ohara plays a nasty character of Kenji. During the summer of 1988, Lee also began shooting his first English language B-grade action film, Laser Mission, it was filmed cheaply in South Africa, and was finally released on European market in 1990.
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