The transcript below is from the video “Bruce Lee’s Family From 1964 To 2021 Wife, Son, Daughter, Granddaughter” by TV CHANNEL.
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Lee Jun-Fan was a Chinese-American martial artist, actor, director, martial arts instructor, and philosopher.
that is often credited with paving the way for modern mixed martial arts (MMA).
Lee is considered by commentators, critics, media, and other martial artists to be the most influential martial artist of all-time and a pop culture icon of the 20th century, who breached the gap between East and West.
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He is credited with helping to change the way Asians were presented in American films.
Best known for: Having starred in a number of commercially successful movies such as The Big Boss (1971), Fist of Fury (1971) and Enter the Dragon (1973).
Being one of the most enduring pop icons of the 20th century. Creating the notorious one-inch punch with which he could hit a brutal blow while his fist only travelled one inch.
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Bruce Lee first met his wife Linda Lee Cadwell at the University of Washington, where she was studying to become a teacher.
She started taking these martial arts classes and soon after they had started dating. In August 1964, they got married in a
small and intimate wedding ceremony.
In 1965, she gave her to a son, Brandon Lee their daughter Shannon Lee was born in 1969.
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After his death, she worked tirelessly to promote his martial arts style and to make his legacy popular.
Linda Lee Cadwell is an American teacher, martial artist, and writer. She is the author of Bruce Lee biography Bruce Lee: The Man Only I Knew, upon which the film Dragon: The Bruce Lee’s Story is based, as well as the founder, a former trustee of, and an unpaid advisor of the Bruce Lee Foundation.
Linda Lee Cadwell is the widow of martial arts master and actor Bruce Lee (1940 – 1973) and the mother of actors.
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Brandon Lee (1965 to 1993) and Shannon Lee (born 1969).
Brandon Bruce Lee was an American actor and martial artist. He is also known for being the only son of Bruce Lee and for his accidental death during the production of his breakthrough film The Crow (1994).
Lee’s father, who died in 1973, was an iconic in the field of martial arts both as a practitioner and leading men in their films. Lee followed his father into both other fields, trained martial arts with some of his father’s students and studied acting at Emerson College and the Lee Srasbourg Theatre and Film Institute.
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In 1986, Lee made his screen debut opposite David Carradine in the television film Kung Fu: The Movie, where he received second billing and starred his first leading break in the Hong kong action film Legacy Of Rage.
Shannon Emery Lee is a American actress, martial artist, and businesswoman. She is the daughter of late martial arts
film star Bruce Lee and retired martial arts teacher Linda Lee Cadwell, the granddaughter of Cantonese oprah singer Lee Hoi-Cheun, and the younger sister of Brandon Lee.
