Who is it? | Opera Singer, Actor |
Birth Day | February 04, 1901 |
Birth Place | Shunde District, China, Chinese |
Age | 119 YEARS OLD |
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 was born in Jun'an, Guangdong on 4 February 1901, he moved to Hong Kong and became a Cantonese Opera actor.
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.
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.
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.