Brandon Lee

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Brandon Bruce Lee (born February 1, 1965 in Oakland , California , † March 31, 1993 in Wilmington , North Carolina ) was an American actor.

Life

Graves of Bruce and Brandon Lee

Brandon Lee was the son of Bruce Lee and his wife Linda Lee Cadwell, nee Emery. After his father's death when Lee was eight years old, his mother moved to Los Angeles with him and his younger sister Shannon . Linda Lee wanted her children to have a normal childhood, but Brandon Lee wanted to be an actor.

After high school he studied acting at Emerson College in Boston and then joined Eric Morris' American New Theater Company in New York . He got his first role in 1986 at the age of twenty in the television movie Kung Fu , in which he played the son of David Carradine's character Caine.

After his first leading role in Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991) followed Rapid Fire (1992) and finally his last film The Crow (1993), the completion of which he did not live to see due to the accident on the film set.

death

On March 31, 1993, Brandon Lee died in an accident while filming the film The Crow in an EUE / Screen Gems studio . He was hit by a fragment of a dummy pistol bullet that had recently been used for a close-up. This had apparently jammed unnoticed in the barrel, was then thrown out by the explosion pressure of the blank cartridges when the actor Michael Massee shot and hit him. Since production was delayed, no blank cartridges were used for some shooting scenes , but real cartridges from which only the gunpowder but not the primer had been removed. Despite immediate rescue operations, Brandon Lee died twelve hours later at the Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington, North Carolina.

Since it was apparently an accident, no charges were brought. A later civil lawsuit by Lee's mother against Carolco Studios was settled out of court. The Crow was completed at the request of the Lees family and is dedicated to him and his then fiancé Eliza Hutton, whom he planned to marry a few days after the film was completed. Doubles and computer animations took over the scenes that had not yet been shot.

Brandon Lee was buried next to his father in Seattle's Lake View Cemetery .

Filmography (selection)

Trivia

  • Finnish rock band The 69 Eyes dedicated a song to him called Brandon Lee .
  • The Lithuanian gothic rock band Siela also dedicated a song to him called The Crow in reference to his most famous film.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article in the Baltimore Sun
  2. ↑ Conner, Jeff; Zuckerman, Robert (1993), The Crow: The Movie , Kitchen Sink Press Verlag, ISBN 0-87816-285-2
personal data
SURNAME Lee, Brandon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lee, Brandon Bruce (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor; Son of Bruce Lee
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Oakland , California , USA
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1993
Place of death Wilmington , North Carolina