He subsequently moved to Los Angeles to teach, where his students included Chuck Norris, Sharon Tate, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. After later adding a second school in Oakland, he once drew significant attention at the 1964 Long Beach International Karate Championships of California by making demonstrations and speaking. He opened his first martial arts school, operated out of home in Seattle. It was during this time in the United States that he began considering making money by teaching martial arts even though he aspired to an acting career. In 1961, he enrolled in the University of Washington. citizenship due to his birth, was able to move to Seattle. His early martial arts experience included Wing Chun (trained under Yip Man), tai chi, boxing (winning a Hong Kong boxing tournament), and apparently frequent street fighting (neighbourhood and rooftop fights). However these were not martial art films. He was introduced to the Hong Kong film industry as a child actor by his father. The family returned to Hong Kong a few months later.

He was born in San Francisco in 1940 while his parents were visiting the city for his father's concert tour abroad. Lee was the son of Grace Ho and Lee Hoi-chuen, a Cantonese opera star based in Hong Kong.

He is credited with promoting Hong Kong action cinema and helping to change the way Asians were presented in American films. Lee is considered by critics, media, and other martial artists to be the most influential martial artist of all time and a pop culture icon of the 20th century, who bridged the gap between East and West. He was the founder of Jeet Kune Do, a hybrid martial arts philosophy drawing from different combat disciplines that is often credited with paving the way for modern mixed martial arts (MMA). Bruce Lee ( Chinese: 李小龍 born Lee Jun-fan, 李振藩 Novem– July 20, 1973) was a Hong Kong and American martial artist, martial arts instructor, actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and philosopher.

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