<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d3c04953-aa13-459d-94d0-c3b6404b4377/1FEC2555-A696-442A-9FA9-09E3BE00BEDF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_lee" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_lee" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_lee"><H1 class="firstHeading" id="firstHeading">Bruce Lee</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_lee"><P><B>Bruce Jun Fan Lee</B> (李振藩; pinyin: Lǐ Zhènfān; 27 November 1940 – 20 July 1973) was a <A title="Chinese people" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_people">Chinese</A> <A class="mw-redirect" title="Martial artist" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_artist">martial artist</A>, <A class="mw-redirect" title="Philosopher" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosopher">philosopher</A>, <A title="Instructor" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructor">instructor</A>, <A class="mw-redirect" title="Martial arts actor" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_arts_actor">martial arts actor</A> and the founder of the <A title="Jeet Kune Do" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeet_Kune_Do">Jeet Kune Do</A> combat form. He is widely regarded as the most influential <A class="mw-redirect" title="Martial artist" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_artist">martial artist</A> of the twentieth century and a <A title="Cultural icon" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_icon">cultural icon</A>.<SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-time_0-0"><A title="" href="#cite_note-time-0"><SPAN>[</SPAN>1<SPAN>]</SPAN></A></SUP> He was also the father of actor <A title="Brandon Lee" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Lee">Brandon Lee</A> and of actress <A title="Shannon Lee" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_Lee">Shannon Lee</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_lee"><P>Lee was born in <A class="mw-redirect" title="San Francisco, California" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco,_California">San Francisco</A>, <A title="California" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California">California</A>, and raised in <A title="Hong Kong" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong">Hong Kong</A> until his late <A class="mw-redirect" title="Teens" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teens">teens</A>. His Hong Kong and <A class="mw-redirect" title="Hollywood" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood">Hollywood</A>-produced <A title="Film" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film">films</A> elevated the traditional <A title="Hong Kong action cinema" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_action_cinema">Hong Kong martial arts film</A> to a new level of popularity and acclaim, and sparked the first major surge of interest in <A title="Chinese martial arts" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_martial_arts">Chinese martial arts</A> in the <A title="Western world" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world">West</A>. The direction and tone of his films changed and influenced <A title="Martial arts" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_arts">martial arts</A> and <A title="Martial arts film" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_arts_film">martial arts films</A> in Hong Kong and the rest of the world as well.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_lee"><TH class="fn summary" colspan="2">Bruce Lee</TH></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_lee"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/en.wikipedia.org/img/50347055-80AF-4EA1-8D60-DE41C333B58F" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_lee"><TH width="85">Chinese name</TH></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_lee"><BIG>李小龍</BIG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_lee"><TH width="85">Chinese name</TH></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_lee"><BIG>李小龙</BIG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_lee"><TH width="85">Pinyin</TH></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_lee"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD>Lǐ Xiǎolóng <SMALL>(<A title="Mandarin Chinese" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_Chinese">Mandarin</A>)</SMALL></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_lee"><TH width="85">Birth name</TH></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_lee"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD>Lee Jun-Fan (李振藩; pinyin: Lǐ Zhènfān)</TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_lee"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/en.wikipedia.org/img/811B15F9-C353-4DF4-B1B6-D501766811F8" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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