Brandon's life

Brandon was born in Oakland,California,on February 1,1965 to legendary film icon Bruce Lee and wife Linda Emery.
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 still alive.
    Brandon Lee was only 8 years old when his father Bruce Lee died. After his father's death,Brandon,his mother and
sister Shannon,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 was 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 arts. 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.
    Brandon's 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. 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.
In 1993,the production of The Crow starts. 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.


                                  Brandon Bruce Lee

                               February 1,1965-March 31,1993