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Lee Moon-shuen (Chinese: 李 滿 船; 4 February 1901 – 7 February 1965) known professionally as Lee Hoi-chuen, was a Chinese opera singer and film actor in Hong Kong. He was the father of Bruce Lee, the father-in-law of Linda Lee Cadwell, and the paternal grandfather of Brandon Lee and Shannon Lee.
Lee Hoi-chuen was a famous Cantonese opera singer and film actor. He is known worldwide as the father of the legendary film star Bruce Lee. Hoi-Chuen was born in China and worked for over a year in San Francisco around the time of Bruce Lee’s birth.
Lee's father, Lee Hoi-chuen, was one of the leading Cantonese opera and film actors at the time and was embarking on a year-long opera tour with his family on the eve of the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong. Lee Hoi-chuen had been touring the United States for many years and performing in numerous Chinese communities there.
Lee Hoi-chuen was the professional name of Lee Moon-shuen, the father of the legendary martial artist and actor Bruce Lee. The senior Lee led an intriguing and multifaceted life that often finds itself overshadowed by the fame of his son.
Oct 19, 2020 · Lee Hoi-chuen died of a heart attack in 1965 at the age of 64, just six days after the birth of Bruce's son with Linda Lee Caldwell, the actor Brandon Lee. Other than a one-time interview with a young Geraldo Rivera, Grace Ho remained out of the spotlight for the remainder of her life.
Lee Moon-shuen known professionally as Lee Hoi-chuen, was a Cantonese opera singer and actor in Hong Kong. He was the father of Bruce Lee, the father-in-la...
At the age of three months, Lee Hoi Chuen, his wife Grace and baby Bruce returned to Hong Kong where Bruce would be raised until the age of 18. Bruce’s most prominent memory of his early years was the occupation of Hong Kong by the Japanese during World War II (1941-1945).
Hoi-Chuen Lee was born on 4 February 1901 in Hong Kong. He was an actor, known for Qimi Yang Zhuangyuan (1947), Dajie Yinsilu (1939) and Gu ling jing guai (1952). He was married to Grace Ho. He died on 7 February 1965 in Hong Kong.
Oct 21, 2002 · Bruce Lee was born on November 27, 1940, at the Jackson Street Hospital in San Francisco's Chinatown. His father, Lee Hoi Chuen, an actor on tour with Hong Kong's Cantonese Opera Company, was Chinese. His mother, Grace, a Catholic, was the daughter of a German father and a Chinese mother.
Lee was born Lee Jun Fan November 27, 1940 in San Francisco, the son of Lee Hoi Chuen, a singer with the Cantonese Opera. Approximately one year later, the family returned to Kowloon in Hong Kong and at the age of five, a young Bruce begins appearing in children's roles in minor films including The Birth of Mankind (1946) and Fu gui fu yun (1948) .
