| Some of his clients included Steve McQueen, James Coburn, Stirling Silliphant, Sy Weintraub, Ted Ashley, Joe Hyams, James Garner, Kareem Abdul Jabbar and others | At the university, Bruce majored in philosophy |
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| Bruce was pleased that his father had known about the birth of the first grandchild in the Lee family | In the mid sixties, Bruce was discovered while doing an exhibition at the Long Beach Internationals and a role as Kato in the tv series The Green Hornet soon followed |
His passion for gung fu inspired a desire to delve into the philosophical underpinnings and many of his written essays during those years would relate philosophical principles to certain martial arts techniques.
22| Bruce did not stay long in San Francisco, but traveled to Seattle where a family friend, Ruby Chow, had a restaurant and had promised Bruce a job and living quarters | This film catapulted him to international fame |
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| Concurrently Bruce married his wife, Linda and had his two children, Brandon and Shannon | Now that Bruce had completed his contract with Golden Harvest, and had become a bankable commodity, he could begin to have more input into the quality of his films |
| Bruce Lee remains the greatest icon of martial arts cinema and a key figure of modern popular media | Leaving his Seattle school in the hands of Taky Kimura, Bruce and Linda moved to Oakland where Bruce opened his second school with James Lee |
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| In 1964 Bruce was challenged by some gung fu men from San Francisco who objected to his teaching of non-Chinese students | Even though he had won, he was winded and discouraged about his inability to put the man away in under three minutes |
Having now been in the United States for five years, Bruce had left behind any thought of acting as a career, and devoted himself completely to his choice of martial arts as a profession.
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