“I always saw that character as not being gung-ho to get himself involved in those situations. I wanted to keep that throughout the film, that sarcastic edge. So he”
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Brandon Lee
Brandon Bruce Lee was an American actor and martial artist. Establishing himself as a rising action star in the early 1990s, Lee landed what was to be his breakthrough role as Eric Draven in the supernatural superhero film The Crow (1994). However, Lee's career and life were cut short by his accidental death during the film's production.
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entertainment · American actor and martial artist (1965–1993) · television actor · film actor · actor · martial artist · Thai boxer · also Brandon Lee, Brandon Bruce Lee, Li Guohao, Lee
Born 1 February 1965 · Died 31 March 1993 · Q211462
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2026· 2 entries
“s career. While visiting his father”
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2025· 2 entries
Purdue Athletics: Brandon Lee and Jake Trump Named to 247Sports 30Under30 List
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247Sports.com: Player Outlook: Brandon Lee
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1998· 1 entry
Legacy of Rage was released in the US to Home media, and Australia the next year
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1997· 1 entry
Snopes.com rated the claim “The scene in which actor Brandon Lee was fatally wounded was left in the final cut of "The Crow."” False.
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1994· 1 entry
The Crow opened at number one in the United States in 1,573 theaters grossing $11
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1993· 5 entries
A week after Lee was to complete filming on The Crow
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Died 1993-03-31.
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Lee was filming a scene for the film The Crow in which his character is shot and killed by thugs
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His fiancée Eliza Hutton and his mother supported director Proyas' decision to complete The Crow
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They planned to get married in Ensenada, Mexico, on April 17, 1993, a week after Lee was to complete filming on The Crow.
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1991· 2 entries
Lee was certified by the Thai Boxing Association
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Lee and Hutton moved in together in early 1991 and became engaged in October 1992.
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1990· 1 entry
Lee met Eliza Hutton at director Renny Harlin's office, where she was working as his personal assistant
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1988· 1 entry
Lee had a role in "What's In a Name", an episode of the American television series Ohara, starring Pat Morita, He portrayed the main villain, the son of a yakuza
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1987· 1 entry
Lee starred in another spin-off of Kung Fu, the unsold television pilot Kung Fu: The Next Generation
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1986· 1 entry
Lee said that he was training in Yee Chuan Tao, a relaxation-based martial art, with a trainer named Mike Vendrell
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1983· 1 entry
Four months prior to his graduation, Lee was asked to leave the Chadwick School for misbehavior
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1973· 1 entry
Leaving a legacy that made him an icon of martial arts and cinema
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1965· 2 entries
Born 1965-02-01.
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At East Oakland Hospital in Oakland, California, the son of martial artist and actor Bruce Lee (1940–1973) and Linda Lee Cadwell (née Emery)
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