Norris said Lee had been taking the muscle relaxant for a ruptured disc in his back. Norris believed that Bruce had died due to an adverse reaction between a muscle relaxant & an antibiotic. In just a few short years, the martial arts icon had become a huge global star and box office gold. Lee’s confidant Chuck Norris disclosed his opinion at the 1975 San Diego Comic-Con.
He also made Enter The Dragon with Warner Brothers. Now a star throughout Asia, and with Hollywood calling, Lee made 1972's Way of the Dragon, tapping American karate champ Chuck Norris to co-star, and began work on his next film, Game of Death. However, he aspired for more than sidekick work, and found it with the one-two punch of The Big Boss (1971) and Fist of Fury (1972), martial arts actioners that flaunted Lee's furiously propulsive fighting moves.
raised in Hong Kong," and his career in showbiz started when he was kid. By 1966, he was known as Kato on The Green Hornet. Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy - Cosmo Cinematic. Lee was the best ever, and a titan of 20th century popular culture.Īs the Bruce Lee website notes, Lee "was born in 1940 in San Francisco, CA while his parents were on tour with the Chinese Opera. From the big business world of MMA tournaments and enduring game system titles like Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat (or even Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), to the Matrix movies and Uma Thurman's jumpsuit in Kill Bill: Volume 1, so many martial arts threads tie together at the flying feet of one man: Bruce Lee, "The Dragon," who in the 1970s displayed his prodigious martial arts talents in a string of films that largely introduced the ancient combat disciplines of East Asia to Western audiences. In the 21st century, fighting is in the firmament.