Bruce Lee's death was officially attributed to cerebral edema.
On July 20, 1973, Lee was in Hong Kong, due to have dinner with former James Bond star George Lazenby, with whom he intended to make a film. According to Lee's wife Linda, Bruce met producer Raymond Chow at 2 P.M. at home to discuss the making of the movie Game of Death. They worked until 4 P.M. and then drove together to the home of Betty Ting Pei, a Taiwanese actress (claimed by some to be Lee's mistress) who was to have a leading role in the film. The three went over the script at her home, and then Chow left to attend a dinner meeting.
A short time later, Lee complained of a headache, and Ting Pei gave him a prescription analgesic known as Equagesic. At around 7:30 P.M., he lay down for a nap. After Lee didn't turn up for the dinner, Chow came to the apartment but could not wake Lee up. A doctor was summoned, who spent ten minutes attempting to revive him before sending him by ambulance to Queen Elizabeth Hospital. However, Lee was dead by the time he reached the hospital. There was no visible external injury; however, his brain had swollen considerably, from 1,400 to 1,575 grams (13%). Lee was thirty-two years old. The medical staff examining him concluded that the immediate cause of death was a cerebral edema. Dr. R.R. Lycette of Queen Elizabeth Hospital determined that the swelling in the brain, and Lee's untimely death, was the result of an adverse reaction to one of the compounds in the prescription Equagesic tablet. On October 15, 2005, Chow stated in an interview that Lee was allergic to Equagesic. When the doctors announced Bruce Lee's death officially, it was pronounced Death by Misadventure.
However, the exact details of Lee's death were controversial from the moment it was announced. Bruce Lee's iconic status and unusual death at a young age led to several conspiracy theories about Lee's death, such as a murder involving Triads seeking protection money, vengeful rival martial artists, or other enemies — but none of these are supported by any evidence. His sudden death has since passed into the realm of legend, with one legend claiming that Lee has faked his death, and will return when he has perfected his martial arts.
2006-08-24 02:41:59
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answered by Myke BoDean 6
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Bruce Lee (Lee Hsiao Lung), was born in San Fransisco in November 1940 the son of a famous Chinese opera singer. Bruce moved to Hong Kong when he soon became a child star in the growing Eastern film industry. His first film was called The birth of Mankind, his last film which was uncompleted at the time of his death in 1973 was called Game of Death. Bruce was a loner and was constantly getting himself into fights, with this in mind he looked towards Kung Fu as a way of disciplining himself. The famous Yip Men taught Bruce his basic skills, but it was not long before he was mastering the master. Yip Men was acknowledged to be one of the greatest authorities on the subject of Wing Chun a branch of the Chinese Martial Arts. Bruce mastered this before progressing to his own style of Jeet Kune Do.
At the age of 19 Bruce left Hong Kong to study for a degree in philosophy at the University of Washington in America. It was at this time that he took on a waiter's job and also began to teach some of his skills to students who would pay. Some of the Japanese schools in the Seattle area tried to force Bruce out, and there was many confrontations and duels fought for Bruce to remain.
He met his wife Linda at the University he was studying. His Martial Arts school flourished and he soon graduated. He gained some small roles in Hollywood films - Marlowe- etc, and some major stars were begging to be students of the Little Dragon. James Coburn, Steve McQueen and Lee Marvin to name but a few. He regularly gave displays at exhibitions, and it was during one of these exhibitions that he was spotted by a producer and signed up to do The Green Hornet series. The series was quite successful in the States - but was a huge hit in Hong Kong. Bruce visited Hong Kong in 1968 and he was overwhelmed by the attention he received from the people he had left.
He once said on a radio program if the price was right he would do a movie for the Chinese audiences. He returned to the States and completed some episodes of Longstreet. He began writing his book on Jeet Kune Do at roughly the same time.
Back in Hong Kong producers were desperate to sign Bruce for a Martial Arts film, and it was Raymond Chow the head of Golden Harvest who produced The Big Boss. The rest as they say is history.
2006-08-24 09:56:28
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answered by Anonymous
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with such long and precise answere,my doubt was quenched.To see him make such efforts in body perfection was indeed mind blowing to watch.seeing 'enter the dragon' the other day and questioning the same things,I am glad that someone is still around to remember him.But the rumours were that he was killed and that any drug sensitive to a person would be hyper active in such a body as his.If such a gruesome thing has occured,it needs to be investigated .
2006-08-28 00:43:58
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answered by Anonymous
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Bruce lee? Some people said he was murdered and there was a whole conspiracy about it, i don't know but if he was murdered then i hope the truth comes out some day! If it doesn't then someone else will have got away with murder!
2006-08-24 09:43:59
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answered by Anonymous
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No, he died of cerebral edema. He did fight a Chinese champion because they were mad at him for teaching a Chinese martial art to a non-chinese (which took him too long to beat in his opinion). He later ended up in the hospital because he hurt his back doing 'good-mornings'. He wasn't in the hospital because of the fight as the movie says.
Some people say the Chinese champion used Dim-Mak (death touch) on Master Lee.
2006-08-24 09:47:50
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answered by madbaldscotsman 6
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No. Bruce Lee died from an allergic reaction to marijuana that he was smoking with his mistress.
2006-08-24 10:56:15
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answered by moviegirl 6
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to be precise the medical cause of his death was Allergic reaction to Penicillin...
2006-08-25 02:40:39
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answered by Anonymous
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poisoned
2006-08-24 14:08:44
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answered by ? 5
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most probably but some say that he committed suicide ...
2006-08-24 09:42:05
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answered by Anonymous
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No He Died.
2006-08-24 11:28:13
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answered by Nick Carter 4
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