Brandon Bruce Lee (February 1, 1965–March 31, 1993) was an American actor, the son of actor Bruce Lee and his wife Linda Emery.
Lee was educated at the Lee Strasberg Academy, Emerson College.
At the age of 28, Brandon Lee was shot and killed while filming the movie The Crow, when an old bullet lodged in the barrel of a .44 Magnum was propelled by the firing of a blank during the scene in which Lee's character Eric Draven is shot by an armed gang. The bullet had become lodged in the gun when it was used in a previous close-up scene, in which a percussion cap was triggered and pushed the bullet free of its empty casing. The footage of Brandon Lee getting hit with the bullet was destroyed without being developed as part of the legal settlement, and the shot of the gun firing the bullet that killed him was not used in the movie, although some urban myths claim it was.
Lee's death took place in Wilmington, North Carolina. Lee was buried next to his father in Lake View Cemetery, Capitol Hill, Seattle, Washington.
The shooting was ruled an accident, though many fans suspected foul play. (Bruce Lee's own death in 1973 at age 32, apparently from a reaction to painkillers, was also considered suspicious.) Oddly, Bruce Lee's character in Game of Death is shot in a similar fashion. Bruce's character, like Brandon's in The Crow, does return ("from the dead," although the character did not actually die) to get revenge on his adversaries.
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