The Legend of Bruce Lee
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The Legend of Bruce Lee is a Chinese biographic television series based on the life story of martial artist and actor Bruce Lee
. The 50 episodes long series was produced and broadcast by CCTV
and had been aired since 12 October 2008. It starred Hong Kong actor Danny Chan as Bruce Lee and American actress Michelle Lang as Lee's wife Linda Lee Cadwell
. The production period spanned nine months, with filming taking place in China, Hong Kong, Macau, the United States, Italy and Thailand, with a budget of 50 million yuan (US$7.3 million).
Lee's daughter, Shannon Lee
was credited as the executive producer. Other martial artists such as Mark Dacascos
, Ray Park
, Gary Daniels
, Ernest Miller
and Michael Jai White
are also featured in the series as well, playing the roles of familiars throughout Bruce Lee's life and career.
The Legend of Bruce Lee has seen increasing viewership since its debut in 2008. The first 14 episodes broke China's former record held by Chuang Guan Dong. According to the CSM survey held on 26th October 2008, the first 30 episodes of the series received viewership ratings above 10.35%. The finale episode attained a viewership rating of 14.87%; breaking CCTV's all time high record set in 2003.
Also, in the United States, Lions Gate Entertainment
edited the series into a 183 minutes long film and released it on DVD on September 21, 2010.
Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee was a Chinese American, Hong Kong actor, martial arts instructor, philosopher, film director, film producer, screenwriter, and founder of the Jeet Kune Do martial arts movement...
. The 50 episodes long series was produced and broadcast by CCTV
China Central Television
China Central Television or Chinese Central Television, commonly abbreviated as CCTV, is the major state television broadcaster in mainland China. CCTV has a network of 19 channels broadcasting different programmes and is accessible to more than one billion viewers...
and had been aired since 12 October 2008. It starred Hong Kong actor Danny Chan as Bruce Lee and American actress Michelle Lang as Lee's wife Linda Lee Cadwell
Linda Lee Cadwell
Linda Lee Cadwell is an American teacher and the widow of martial arts master and actor Bruce Lee.-Life and career:...
. The production period spanned nine months, with filming taking place in China, Hong Kong, Macau, the United States, Italy and Thailand, with a budget of 50 million yuan (US$7.3 million).
Lee's daughter, Shannon Lee
Shannon Lee
Shannon Emery Lee is an American actress. She is the daughter of martial artist and actor Bruce Lee and Linda Lee Cadwell, and the younger sister of Brandon Lee.-Personal life:...
was credited as the executive producer. Other martial artists such as Mark Dacascos
Mark Dacascos
Mark Alan Dacascos is an American actor and martial artist. He won numerous karate and various styles of kung fu championships between the ages of 7 and 18....
, Ray Park
Ray Park
Raymond Park is a Scottish actor, stuntman and martial artist, best known for his playing the physical part of Darth Maul in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, Toad in X-Men, Snake-Eyes in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, and Edgar on Heroes.-Early life:Park was born in Glasgow, Scotland...
, Gary Daniels
Gary Daniels
Gary Edward Daniels is a British kickboxer and martial arts actor. Daniels appears mostly in action-oriented B-movies. Daniels has been in over 50 films since his start as an extra in an episode of the 1980s television series Miami Vice. He is best known for playing Kenshiro in the live-action...
, Ernest Miller
Ernest Miller
Ernest Clifford Miller is an American actor and former professional wrestler who worked for World Championship Wrestling and World Wrestling Entertainment better known by his ring name, Ernest "The Cat" Miller....
and Michael Jai White
Michael Jai White
Michael Jai White is an American actor and martial artist who has appeared in numerous films and television series. He is the first African American to portray a major comic book superhero in a major motion picture, having starred as Al Simmons, the protagonist in the 1997 film Spawn...
are also featured in the series as well, playing the roles of familiars throughout Bruce Lee's life and career.
The Legend of Bruce Lee has seen increasing viewership since its debut in 2008. The first 14 episodes broke China's former record held by Chuang Guan Dong. According to the CSM survey held on 26th October 2008, the first 30 episodes of the series received viewership ratings above 10.35%. The finale episode attained a viewership rating of 14.87%; breaking CCTV's all time high record set in 2003.
International syndications
- Brazil: "Bruce Lee - A Lenda" began airing on Rede CNTCentral Nacional de TelevisãoCNT or Central Nacional de Televisão is a Brazilian television network based in Curitiba/Paraná...
on May 02, 2011. - Italy: "La Leggenda di Bruce Lee" began airing on RAI 4 from April 4.
- United States: began airing on KTSFKTSFKTSF is an independent television station serving the San Francisco Bay Area. Although licensed to San Francisco, the station's studio building is located in south suburban Brisbane, California. It is owned by Lincoln Broadcasting Company, and broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 27 from a...
on weeknights at 9:00 pm from April 2009. - Vietnam: aired on HTV2Ho Chi Minh City TelevisionHo Chi Minh City Television is the official televised channel of Ho Chi Minh City. HTV broadcasts in three channels: entertainment & advertisement service and gameshow on HTV7, information, propaganda-trend, official and analog-digital on HTV9, and HTV4. HTV also has several specific cable and...
and DN1-RTV with a translated name Huyền thoại Lý Tiểu Long in 2009. - South Korea: 이소룡 전기 began airing on SBS from May 2009.
- Japan: ブルース・リー伝説 began airing on BS NTVNippon Televisionis a television network based in the Shiodome area of Minato, Tokyo, Japan and is controlled by the Yomiuri Shimbun publishing company. Broadcasting terrestrially across Japan, the network is commonly known as , contracted to , and abbreviated as "NTV" or "AX".-Offices:*The Headquarters : 6-1,...
from October 3, 2009. It was released on DVD by VAP in 2010. - Canada: The Legend of Bruce Lee began airing on Fairchild Television on March 15, 2010.
- Hong Kong: began airing on ATV HomeATV HomeATV Home , also call aTV1, is one of the free-to-air Cantonese language television channels in Hong Kong, the other being its arch-rival TVB Jade. Its sister station, ATV World, broadcasts in English...
on May 14th, 2010 but with episodes trimmed from 45 minutes to just 30 minutes. The first four episodes included interviews with Danny Chan at the start of each episode. Also, the opening theme was replaced by the ending theme and vice versa. - Philippines: Begin airing on Q on June 28, 2010 replacing Idol World: Super Junior.
- Taiwan: Begin airing on TTVTaiwan TelevisionTaiwan Television Enterprise, Ltd. , commonly known as TTV is launched), is the first television broadcast station in Taiwan...
on September 27, 2010.
Also, in the United States, Lions Gate Entertainment
Lions Gate Entertainment
Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation is a North American entertainment company. The company was formed in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1997, and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California...
edited the series into a 183 minutes long film and released it on DVD on September 21, 2010.
Cast
| Cast | Role |
| Danny Chan | Bruce Lee Bruce Lee Bruce Lee was a Chinese American, Hong Kong actor, martial arts instructor, philosopher, film director, film producer, screenwriter, and founder of the Jeet Kune Do martial arts movement... 李小龍 |
| Michelle Lang | Linda Lee Linda Lee Cadwell Linda Lee Cadwell is an American teacher and the widow of martial arts master and actor Bruce Lee.-Life and career:... 琳達.埃莫瑞 |
| Giulio Taccon | Brandon Lee Brandon Lee Brandon Bruce Lee was an American actor and martial artist. He was the son of martial arts film star Bruce Lee... 李國豪 |
| Ray Park Ray Park Raymond Park is a Scottish actor, stuntman and martial artist, best known for his playing the physical part of Darth Maul in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, Toad in X-Men, Snake-Eyes in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, and Edgar on Heroes.-Early life:Park was born in Glasgow, Scotland... |
Chuck Norris Chuck Norris Carlos Ray "Chuck" Norris is an American martial artist and actor. After serving in the United States Air Force, he began his rise to fame as a martial artist and has since founded his own school, Chun Kuk Do... 勞力士 |
| Michael Jai White Michael Jai White Michael Jai White is an American actor and martial artist who has appeared in numerous films and television series. He is the first African American to portray a major comic book superhero in a major motion picture, having starred as Al Simmons, the protagonist in the 1997 film Spawn... |
Ali 哈里森 |
| Gary Daniels Gary Daniels Gary Edward Daniels is a British kickboxer and martial arts actor. Daniels appears mostly in action-oriented B-movies. Daniels has been in over 50 films since his start as an extra in an episode of the 1980s television series Miami Vice. He is best known for playing Kenshiro in the live-action... |
Fighter 埃里特 |
| Mark Dacascos Mark Dacascos Mark Alan Dacascos is an American actor and martial artist. He won numerous karate and various styles of kung fu championships between the ages of 7 and 18.... |
Thai fighter 察爾王 |
| Tim Storms Tim Storms Tim Storms is an American singer and composer. He holds the Guinness World Records for "lowest note produced by a human" and the "widest vocal range".- Musical career :... |
Wally Jay 威利.傑依 |
| Yannick Van Dam | Hoffman (Robert Wall Robert Wall Robert Alan "Bob" Wall is an American actor and martial artist.- Biography :Wall is a former heavyweight world-champion kickboxer. He is featured in a number of films, most notably three appearances with martial arts master Bruce Lee. Bob Wall appeared in the film Way of the Dragon with Lee,... ) 霍夫曼 |
| Yu Chenghui Yu Chenghui Yu Chenghui , sometimes credited as Yue Sing-wai, is a Chinese actor, action director and martial artist.-Martial arts career:... |
Yip Man Yip Man Yip Man , also spelled as Ip Man, and also known as Yip Kai-Man, was a Chinese martial artist. He had several students who later became martial arts teachers in their own right, including Bruce Lee.-Early life:... 葉問 |
| Wang Luoyong Wang Luoyong Wang Luoyong is an actor from China who appeared in American films. He first appeared in Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story as Grandmaster Yip Man. He had recently appeared in CCTV's The Legend of Bruce Lee as Shao Ruhai, a master of Hung Ga and the first to train Bruce Lee . His character "Shao Ruhai"... |
Shao Ruhai (James Yimm Lee James Yimm Lee James Yimm Lee was an American martial arts pioneer, teacher, author, publisher, and a welder by profession. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army. He was one of Bruce Lee's three personally certified 3rd rank instructors and went on to teach in his absence in Oakland... ) 邵如海 |
| Gai Ke | Mrs. Lee 李太太 |
| Zhou Zhou | Lee Hoi-chuen Lee Hoi-Chuen Lee Hoi-Chuen was Bruce Lee's father and was a Hong Kong Cantonese opera singer and film actor.Lee Hoi-chuen and his wife, Grace Ho, were in San Francisco in 1940 when Bruce Lee was born; they were on a one-year U.S. tour with the Cantonese Opera Company... 李海泉 |
| Bian Xiaoxiao | Qin Xiaoman (Maria Yi Maria Yi Maria Yi is a retired Chinese actress from Shanghai. She appeared in films by Hong Kong's Golden Harvest Productions in the 1970s, most notably in The Big Boss and Fist of Fury, both starring Bruce Lee.-Career:Yi began acting as a teenager, and though she made only a handful of films, she received... , Nora Miao Nora Miao Nora Miao ); born February 8, 1952 ) is a Hong Kong actress who appeared in many kung-fu films in the 1970s. She was contracted to Golden Harvest, and spent her time making films in Hong Kong and in Taiwan, where she starred in several romance movies.... and Betty Ting Betty Ting Betty Ting Pei is a Taiwanese actress who joined Shaw Brothers in 1967. Despite acting in more than 30 movies, nowadays she is known because of the mysterious and controversial death of Bruce Lee in her apartment.-Career:... ) 秦小曼 |
| Hazen Lake MacIntyre | George 喬治 |
| Ted E. Duran | Blair 布萊爾 |
| Natalia Dzyublo Natalia Dzyublo Natalia Dzyublo, born August 21, 1987, is a Russian born actress and model.-References:... |
Jones 瓊斯 |
| Traci Ann Wolfe | Julianna 嘉麗雅娜 |
| Eric Chen | Wong Shun Leung Wong Shun Leung Wong Shun Leung was a Chinese martial artist from Hong Kong who studied wing chun kung fu under Yip Man and is credited with training Bruce Lee. Wong reportedly won at least 60, and perhaps over 100, street fights against martial artists of various styles. Due to his reputation, he came to be... 黃淳梁 |
| Liu Dong | Taky Kimura 木村武之 |
| Ning Li | Dan Inosanto Dan Inosanto Daniel Arca Inosanto is a Filipino-American martial arts instructor from California who is best known as a student of the late Bruce Lee and authority on Jeet Kune Do Concepts.-Martial arts:... 伊諾山度 |
| Gao Daowei | Xu Wenhuai (Raymond Chow Raymond Chow Raymond Chow Man-Wai is a Hong Kong film producer, and presenter and was responsible for successfully launching martial arts and the Hong Kong cinema onto the international stage... ) 許文懷 |
| Zhang Lu | Huang Li (Lo Wei Lo Wei Lo Wei was a famous Hong Kong film director and film actor best known for launching the martial arts film careers of both Bruce Lee, in The Big Boss and Fist of Fury, and Jackie Chan, in New Fist of Fury.... ) 黃黎 |
| Jia Meiying | Xu Diya (Ruby Chow Ruby Chow Ruby Chow Ma Seung-gam was a Chinese American restauratuer and politician in Seattle, Washington.She opened Ruby Chow’s Restaurant in 1948, the first Chinese restaurant outside of Seattle's Chinatown, where her staff subsequently included Bruce Lee. Chow served three terms as a King County... ) 徐迪雅 |
| Lin Yumiao | Ah Lin 阿林 |
| Luc Bendza | Jesse Glover Jesse Glover Jesse Raymond Glover was Bruce Lee's first student and first assistant instructor in the United States. He met Lee in 1959, as they both attended Edison Technical College and was the one who first taught Lee judo. Glover was a psychology major. Glover was a champion judoka... 傑西.格魯夫 |
| Ernest Miller Ernest Miller Ernest Clifford Miller is an American actor and former professional wrestler who worked for World Championship Wrestling and World Wrestling Entertainment better known by his ring name, Ernest "The Cat" Miller.... |
Earnie Shavers 費雷澤 |
| Leslie H. Collins | William Dozier William Dozier William Dozier was an American film and television producer and actor.He began in the film industry... 威廉 |
| Wang Gongyi | Peter Lee 李忠琛 |
| Cheng Yu | Wang Lichao 王力朝 |
| Li Yuan | Yellow-skinned Kid (Wong Jack Man Wong Jack Man Wong Jack Man is a Chinese martial artist and martial arts teacher, best known for a martial arts duel with Bruce Lee in Oakland in 1964.... ) 黃皮小子 |
External links
- The Legend of Bruce Lee (이소룡 전기) - Korean Official Website
- The Legend of Bruce Lee (ブルース・リー伝説) - Japanese Official Website
- Living up to Bruce Lee's Legend)}}