Bruce Lee was a Hong Kong and American martial artist, martial arts instructor, actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and philosopher. 

Born: November 27, 1940, Chinese Hospital, San Francisco, California, United States

Died: July 20, 1973, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong

Bruce Lee: The Mystery Surrounding the Martial Artist's Death

The actor was just weeks away from the premiere of 'Exit the Dragon' when he suddenly — and shockingly — died in Hong Kong

Bruce Lee poured himself into everything he did. When he discovered martial arts, he committed to a fitness regime 100 percent, avoiding drinking and smoking, plus taking vitamin supplements — and even drinking raw hamburger meat to build the perfect tone. When he found acting and wasn’t finding success in the United States, he moved to Hong Kong to establish his box office power to attract interest back home.

With that kind of dedication and control, his sudden death on July 20, 1973, in Hong Kong, at age 32 wasn’t just shocking — it was incomprehensible.

Initial investigations to determine the causes of his death were inconclusive and pathologists were flown in from around the world. “He was offered a prescription painkiller called Equagesic. After taking the pill, he went to lie down and lapsed into a coma. He was unable to be revived,” states BruceLee.com, run by The Bruce Lee Family Company. “The determination was that Bruce had a hypersensitive reaction to an ingredient in the pain medication that caused a swelling of the fluid on the brain, resulting in a coma and death.”

Often referred to as cerebral edema, the seemingly conclusive cause still comes under question to this day — more than four decades after his death — with wide-ranging theories. Some believe he was killed by Chinese gangsters, others say that he was poisoned and still others say he died while in the act with a mistress. Other theories even claim it was voodoo or a family curse.

Lee was weeks away from the premiere of his first major American movie

Bruce Jun Fan Lee (or Lee Siu Loong in Cantonese) was born in San Francisco on November 27, 1940 — in the year of the Dragon and the hour of the Dragon (between 6 and 8 a.m). Raised in Hong Kong, he was a child actor in about 20 films and started studying wing chun gung fu at 13.

Returning back to the United States at 18, he studied philosophy at the University of Washington while teaching gung fu and eventually opened his own school, the Jung Fan Gung Fu Institute, with locations in Seattle, Oakland and Los Angeles. He also became a family man, marrying Linda (now Linda Lee Cadwell) and raising son Brandon and daughter Shannon.

Soon showbiz came calling, as he landed the role of the sidekick Kato on the 1966 TV series Green Hornet. When the show was canceled the following year, Hollywood jobs were hard to snag, so he went back to Hong Kong and made three films: The Big Boss in 1971 and Fist of Furyand Way of the Dragon in 1972. With the mega-success of his movies in the box office abroad, the American market finally understood his selling power.

In the autumn of 1972, he was filming Game of Death when Warner Bros. stepped in, offering to make a joint production, the first-ever between Hollywood and Hong Kong. So filming was paused and instead, he focused on Enter the Dragon, set for release with all the Hollywood fanfare at a premiere at Hollywood’s Chinese Theater in August 1973.

But he never made it to his big debut.

Initial reports said he died from a brain edema possibly caused by 'drug intoxication or sensitivity'

The initial Associated Press report on July 20 from Hong Kong said that he died at Queen Elizabeth Hospital “after having been found unconscious in his home here.” It also noted: “Police sources said foul play was not suspected but that an autopsy would be performed.”

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