Brandon Lee

Birthday: 1 February 1965, Oakland, California, USA

Birth Name: Brandon Bruce Lee

Height: 183 cm

Born on February 1, 1965 to Bruce Lee (Martial Arts idol) and Linda Lee Cadwell. Brother to Shannon Lee. In 1970-71, 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 misbehavior, but received his diploma at Miraleste High School. He was in Rapid Fire (1992), Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991) and a few more films, including The Crow (1994). He turned down offers to be in Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993). Bruce died (while filming) at the age of 32, of what is to be believed, a brain hemorrhage. Brandon died at the age of 28 on the set of The Crow (1994). The film crew shot a scene in which it was decided to use a gun without consent from the weapons coordinator, who had been sent home early that night. They handed Michael Massee the gun loaded with full power blanks and shot the scene, unaware that a bullet had become dislodged from a previous shot and had lodged itself in the barrel. Upon shooting of the scene the blank round forced the bullet out the barrel striking Brandon Lee. The crew only noticed when Lee was slow getting up. The doctors worked desperately for five hours, but it was no use. The bullet had lodged itself in Mr Lee's lower spine. He was pronounced dead at 1:04 P.M. the next day. He was supposed to marry Eliza Hutton on April 17, 1993. His body was flown to Seattle to be buried beside his father in Lake View Cemetery. Show less «

"It's either in the genes, or I watched too many of his movies as a kid" (on why his film roles echo...Show more »

"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) Show less «

[About The Crow (1994)] "It's a story about justice for victims".

Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet e...Show more »

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. Show less «

[About The Crow (1994)] "I've done other films with violence in them, but I must say I've never done...Show more »

[About The Crow (1994)] "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". Show less «

[on why moving on after grief is important to realize your own dreams and purpose] Sometimes a perso...Show more »

[on why moving on after grief is important to realize your own dreams and purpose] Sometimes a personal tragedy provides the impetus we need to move on in life. It's easy to become stuck. We get lazy and we don't want to change. Change can be such a hassle. That's not to say that everyone requires a tragedy in their lives in order to get their ass moving, to take some kind of action or make some kind of decision: but if it happens, it can be definitely open your eyes. It can make you look at life differently, it can change your whole world, 'Why did this have to happen? What have I done? Why couldn't it have been somebody else?' Sometimes it can make you a better person, Or a different person. Show less «

A fight can express things people might not be able to say with words.

I don't want to be remembered as the son of Bruce Lee.

You only have the burdens on you that you choose to put there.

"It's such an intensely personal thing for me.. I'd probably have been a little too crazy" (On why h...Show more »

"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 (1993)). Show less «

"The trip reinforced my suspicions that, despite my Pacific Rim heritage, I'm about as American as y...Show more »

"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) Show less «

"It's funny, [...] for that sequence the director just said, say something insulting to him, it does...Show more »

"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 Rapid Fire (1992)) Show less «

All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career, either career choices or choi...Show more »

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. Show less «

[About Eric Draven] He has something he has to do and he is forced to put aside his own pain long en...Show more »

[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." Show less «

"I don't know if I was destined to play this role, but I feel very fortunate to be doing so." (on hi...Show more »

"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 (1994)). Show less «

I always had a pretty good knack for raising hell.

I've done my work and I'm happy with it...I respect my father very much, but I'm a very different pe...Show more »

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. Show less «

Brandon Lee

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