Bruce Le | |
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Chinese name | 呂小龍 (traditional) |
Chinese name | 吕小龙 (simplified) |
Pinyin | lú xiǎolóng (Mandarin) |
Jyutping | leoi5 siu2 lung4 (Cantonese) |
Birth name | Wong Kin Lung 黃建龍 |
Born |
Burma |
June 5, 1950
Occupation | actor, director, martial artist |
Years active | 1974–2000 |
Bruce Le (real name Huang Jian Long, a.k.a. Wong Kin Lung) (born June 5, 1950, Burma) is a martial artist and actor known for his martial arts film of the 1970s and '80s. Most of these were inexpensively produced and were made to capitalize on the martial arts phenomenon started by Bruce Lee, whose death in 1973 left a large box office void (hence the name change to "Bruce Le").
Bruce Le was a contract player for the Shaw Brothers, where he appeared in the science fiction opus Infra-Man. He is better known, however, for his Bruce Lee inspired "tribute" films, also known as "Bruceploitation".
Bruce Le has been credited by some video companies as appearing in the films Cobra, Return of Fist of Fury, ''Bruce is Loose, but this is untrue.