Bruce's screen test was successful, and The Green Hornet (1966) starring Van Williams aired in 1966-1967 with mixed success. Around this time Bruce also opened a second kung fu school in Oakland, California and relocated to Oakland to be closer to Hollywood. Based on the runaway success of Batman (1966), Dozier was keen to bring the cartoon character the Green Hornet to television and was on the lookout for an East Asian actor to play the Green Hornet's sidekick, Kato. Through one of these tournaments Bruce met Hollywood hair-stylist Jay Sebring who introduced him to television producer William Dozier. He made guest appearances at notable martial arts events including the Long Beach Nationals. During the early half of the 1960s, Lee became associated with many key martial arts figures in the United States, including kenpo karate expert Ed Parker and tae kwon do master Jhoon Rhee. In 1963, Lee met Linda Lee Cadwell (aka Linda Emery) (later his wife) and also opened his first kung fu school at 4750 University Way. His way to Seattle, Washington, where he enrolled at university to study philosophy and found the time to practice his beloved kung fu Lee landed in San Francisco's Chinatown in 1959 and worked in a close relative's restaurant. However, his temper and quick fists got him in trouble with the Hong Kong police on numerous occasions. The talented and athletic Bruce also took up cha-cha dancing and, at age 18, won a major dance championship in Hong Kong. This was the only formalized martial arts training ever undertaken by Lee.
Bruce was later beaten up by a street gang, which inspired him to take up martial arts training under the tutelage of Sifu Yip Man who schooled Bruce in wing chun kung fu for a period of approximately five years. At the age of 12, Bruce commenced attending La Salle College.
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). Lee was born Lee Jun Fan Novemin San Francisco, the son of Lee Hoi Chuen, a singer with the Cantonese Opera.
and they all have their roots in the phenomenon that was Bruce Lee.
The influence of East Asian martial arts cinema can be seen today in so many other film genres including comedies, action, drama, science fiction, horror and animation. North American and European cinema and audiences the way it has over the past four decades. Movies in the early 1970s, it's arguable whether or not the martial arts film genre would have ever penetrated and influenced mainstream Bruce Lee remains the greatest icon of martial arts cinema and a key figure of modern popular media.
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