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Bruce Li
Born
Ho Chung-Tao (何宗道)

(1950-06-05) 5 June 1950 (age 73)
NationalityTaiwan, Hong Kong
Years active1973–1990
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese黎小龍
Simplified Chinese黎小龙
Musical career
Also known asJames Ho[1]

Bruce Li (Chinese: ; pinyin: Hé Zōngdào; born Ho Chung-Tao; 5 June 1950) is a Taiwanese martial artist and actor who starred in martial arts films from the Bruceploitation movement.[2][3]

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Career

Ho Chung-Tao went to play a stuntman in Taiwan and Hong Kong under the name of James Ho.

After the death of popular actor and martial artist Bruce Lee, Li's acting career began. Hong Kong studios believed that he had the ability to pick up where Lee left off and cast him in similar types of martial arts films. They first cast him in Conspiracy. Afterwards, the producers of Game of Death asked him to finish their movie in Lee's role, but he declined the offer.[4]

After this, he was employed by producer/actor Jimmy Shaw who gave him the name of Bruce Li.[citation needed]

While Ho was finishing his military service, he appeared in Goodbye Bruce Lee: His Last Game of Death. He would star in other Bruceploitation pictures in 1976 with The Young Bruce Lee and Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth.

Under the name Bruce Li, some Taiwanese and Hong Kong producers[who?] decided to directly credit him as Bruce Lee, even going so far as to use the real Bruce Lee's picture on posters. Li even appeared in Bruce Lee Against Supermen where he stars as "Carter", a role loosely based on the Green Hornet's Kato depicted by the late Bruce Lee.[5]

In 1975, Dragon Dies Hard became a hit in Japan, where it earned ¥2 billion ($6.7 million) at the box office.[6]

The producers really wanted to show Li as the "official" successor of Bruce Lee. In the 1976 movie Exit the Dragon, Enter the Tiger, Li meets Lee who points to him as the one who shall replace him. The film's title relates to Lee being dubbed the Dragon, and Li being the Tiger. Li appeared in Return of the Tiger, starring Angela Mao. In it, Bruce Li fights Paul L. Smith.

Li carried on by playing in two unofficial sequels to Bruce Lee's classic Fist of Fury.

In 1976, Li reprised his role as Bruce Lee in Bruce Lee: The True Story (also known as Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth), a biography film. Li choreographed the combat sequences himself. Being very successful, fans recognize it as one of the best biopics of Bruce Lee.[citation needed]

Li kept shooting martial arts movies until the 1980s. He also directed movies, including the 1981 film The Chinese Stuntman.

Li eventually ran into trouble separating himself from these Bruce Lee roles, along with standing out from other impersonators in the Bruceploitation genre. In the mid-1980s, he become a physical education instructor at Taipei's Ping Chung University. He also has taught martial arts for comedian apprentices. Since then, he has appeared only briefly in martial arts cinema or Bruce Lee documentaries.

In 1990, Li retired from acting at the age of 40.[citation needed]

Bruce Li's career was the focus of a segment of the 1995 documentary Top Fighter. In the segment, Li had stated that he was unhappy that the studios wanted to turn him into a Bruce Lee marketing gimmick, saying "I could act like him but I could never be him", although at the time, Li did willingly accept the roles.

Filmography

Movies

  • Rickshaw Man (1974)
    • a.k.a. Rickshaw Driver, Shaolin Kung Fu
  • Bruce Lee: A Dragon Story (1974)
    • a.k.a. Super Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
    • a.k.a Bruce Lee Story: Super Dragon
  • Chinese Iron Man (1975)
    • a.k.a. Young Hero of the Shaolin II
  • Goodbye Bruce Lee: His Last Game of Death (1975)
    • a.k.a. The New Game of Death
    • a.k.a. Legend of Bruce Lee
  • Bruce Lee Against Supermen (1975)
    • a.k.a. Superdragon vs. Superman
  • Bruce Lee, We Miss You (1975)
    • a.k.a. Dragon Dies Hard
  • Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth (1976)
    • a.k.a. Bruce Lee: The True Story
  • Exit the Dragon, Enter the Tiger (1976)
    • Bruce Lee: The Star of Stars
  • Enter the Panther (1976)
    • a.k.a. Conspiracy
  • Bruce Lee's Secret (1976)
    • a.k.a. Bruce Lee's Deadly Kung Fu
    • a.k.a. Story of the Dragon
  • The Ming Patriots (1977)
    • a.k.a. Revenge of the Patriots
  • Bruce Li in New Guinea (1977)
    • a.k.a. Last Fist of Fury
  • Bruce Li the Invincible Chinatown Connection (1977)
    • a.k.a. Game of the Dragon
    • a.k.a. Bruce Lee the Invincible
  • The Dragon Lives (1977)
    • a.k.a. He's a Legend, He's a Hero
  • Fist of Fury II (1977)
    • a.k.a. Chinese Connection 2
    • a.k.a. Fist of Fury Part II
  • Bei Po: Soul Brothers of Kung Fu (1977)
    • a.k.a. Kung-Fu Avengers
    • a.k.a. The Tiger Strikes Again
  • The Image of Bruce Lee (1978)
    • a.k.a. Storming Attacks
  • Fists of Bruce Lee (1978)
  • Edge of Fury (1978)
    • a.k.a. Blood on His Hands
  • Dynamo (1978)
  • Deadly Strike (1978)
    • (a.k.a. Wanted! Bruce Li, Dead or Alive)
  • Bruce Li's Magnum Fist (1978)
  • Bruce Lee vs. the Iron Dragon (1978)
  • Return of the Tiger (1978)
  • Bruce Against Iron Hand (1979)
  • The Lama Avenger (1979)
    • a.k.a. The Three Avengers
  • Fist of Fury III (1979)
    • a.k.a. Chinese Connection III
  • The Iron Dragon Strikes Back (1979)
  • Blind Fist of Bruce (1979)
    • prior title Mang quan gui shou
  • The Chinese Stuntman (1982)
  • Powerforce (1982)

Documentary

References

  1. ^ "Bruce Li Interview". Youtube. June 22, 2014. Archived from the original on 2017-02-05. Retrieved January 24, 2017.
  2. ^ Block, Alex Ben (April 22, 2010). "Lee remembered for more than movies". The Hollywood Reporter. bworldonline.com. Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2010-12-17.
  3. ^ "Bruce Li". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. 2015. Archived from the original on 2015-11-17.
  4. ^ "Who sought to take Bruce Lee's crown after he died? Meet Bruce Li". South China Morning Post. 2018-07-14. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  5. ^ Spinegrinder: The Movies Most Critics Won't Write about at Google Books
  6. ^ "'Disasters' Most Successful". Japan Report. 22 (3). Japan Information Center, Consulate General of Japan: 2. February 1, 1976.

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