Lee Hoi-chuen

About Lee Hoi-chuen

Who is it?: Opera Singer, Actor
Birth Day: February 04, 1901
Birth Place: Shunde District, China, Chinese
Died On: 7 February 1965(1965-02-07) (aged 64)\nSt. Teresa's Hospital, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Birth Sign: Pisces
Chinese name: 李海泉 (simplified)
Pinyin: Lǐ Hǎiquán (Mandarin)
Jyutping: Lei5 Hoi2 Cyun4 (Cantonese)
Resting place: Hong Kong
Spouse(s): Grace Ho (1907–1965) (his death)
Children: Phoebe Lee Agnes Lee Peter Lee Bruce Lee Robert Lee
Ancestry: Jun'an, Guangdong, China

Lee Hoi-chuen Net Worth

Lee Hoi-chuen was born on February 04, 1901 in Shunde District, China, Chinese, is Opera Singer, Actor. Lee Hoi-chuen was a famous Cantonese opera singer and film actor. He is known worldwide as the father of the legendary film star Bruce Lee. Hoi-Chuen was born in China and worked for over a year in San Francisco around the time of Bruce Lee’s birth. He was also the father of Robert Lee, the founder and lead singer of a popular band called ‘Thunderbirds’. His life as a star and performer greatly influenced the life of both his sons, turning them into indelible and successful superstars. Hoi-Chuen worked in more than seventy films spanning thirty years of his acting career. Some of his earlier films include – ‘Robbing the Dead’, ‘Christams Tree’ and ‘Hundreds of Birds Adoring a Phoenix’. Towards the prime of his career he was signed for several movies, almost working in five to six films simultaneously. Hoi-Chuen breathed his last in 1965, a couple of days after his sixty-fourth birthday. His last few performances were in the films - ‘The Idiot Husband’, ‘Black Punch 4000’ and Ong Bak 4’. In a Posthumous film ‘My Brother’, Tony Leung Ka-fai played the character of Hoi-Chuen. The film was produced by his youngest son, Robert Lee.
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Biography/Timeline

1901

Lee Hoi-chuen was born in Jun'an, Guangdong on 4 February 1901, he moved to Hong Kong and became a Cantonese Opera actor.

1940

Lee and his wife Grace Ho, were in San Francisco in 1940 when their second son Bruce Lee was born. The couple were traveling for a one-year US tour with the Cantonese Opera Company. They returned to Hong Kong when Bruce Lee was three months old. Their youngest son Robert Lee, was famous in Hong Kong during the 1960s as the lead singer and founder of a popular beat band, The Thunderbirds.

1965

Lee died in Hong Kong on the 7th of February, 1965, three days after his 64th birthday and six days after the birth of his grandson Brandon Lee.

1993

Lee Hoi-chuen was portrayed by Ric Young in the 1993 film Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story and by Tony Leung Ka-fai in the 2010 film Bruce Lee, My Brother.