- Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee (November 27, 1940 - July 20, 1973) was a martial artist, philosopher, instructor, and martial arts actor widely regarded as the most influential martial artist of the 20th century. Born in San Francisco and raised in Hong Kong, Lee is best remembered for the presentation of Chinese martial arts to the non-Chinese world. - Jackie Chan
Chan Kong-Sang, also known as Sing Lung or Jackie Chan SBS, (born on April 7, 1954) is a Chinese actor, director, martial artist, film producer, screenwriter, singer and stunt performer. Chan is one of the best known names in kung fu and action movies worldwide for his acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, usage of improvised weapons and his innovative stunts. - David Carradine
David Carradine (born John Arthur Carradine on December 8, 1936 in Hollywood, California) is an American actor. - Michelle Yeoh
Dato' Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng (Cantonese (Yale romanization): yèuhng jí kìhng; born August 6, 1962) is a Hong Kong-based actress and dancer, sometimes billed as "Michelle Khan". Yeoh is a Chinese Malaysian born in Ipoh, Malaysia. Yeoh was chosen by People magazine as one of the "50 Most Beautiful People in the World" in 1997. - Sammo Hung
Sammo Hung (Cantonese: Hung4 Gam1 Bou2) (born January 7, 1952) is a Chinese actor, producer and director known for his work in many Kung fu films and Hong Kong action cinema. He has choreographed fight scenes for, amongst others, Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, King Hu, Stephen Chow and John Woo. Hung was among the pivotal figures who, spearheading the Hong Kong New Wave movement of the 1980s, helped reinvent the martial arts genre and started the Jiang Shi (hopping vampire) genre. - Wesley Snipes
Wesley Trent Snipes (born July 31, 1962) is an American actor, martial artist and film producer. He may be best known for his role as the vampire hunter in the "Blade" trilogy of movies. Snipes has starred in action-adventures, thrillers, comedies, and dramatic feature films opposite such actors as Robert De Niro and Sean Connery. On April 24, 2008, he was sentenced to three years in prison for three misdemeanor convictions for willful failure to file federal income tax returns. - Gordon Liu
Gordon Liu (born November 30, 1955) is a Chinese martial arts film actor. He was born in Guangdong Province, China and is the adopted brother of famed Shaw Brothers director and actor Lau Kar-leung (Liu Chia-Liang). Best known by Western moviegoers for his role as Pai Mei in "Kill Bill: Volume 2" (2004), and as Johnny Mo in "Kill Bill: Volume 1", the head general of the Crazy 88, O-Ren Ishii's (Lucy Liu) personal army. - Brandon Lee
Brandon Bruce Lee (李國豪 Cantonese: "Léi Gwokhòu" Pinyin: "Lǐ Guóháo"; February 1, 1965 - March 31, 1993) was an American actor of Chinese, German, English and Swedish descent. He was the son of the late legendary martial arts film star Bruce Lee - James Hong
James Hong is an American actor and the ex-president of the Association of Asian/Pacific American Artists (AAPAA). - Keye Luke
Keye Luke (June 18, 1904–January 12, 1991) was a Chinese-born American actor. Luke was born in Canton, China to a father who owned an art shop, and grew up in Seattle. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1944. Before becoming an actor he was a local artist in Hollywood and worked on several of the murals inside Grauman's Chinese Theater. Luke made his film debut in "The Painted Veil" in 1934, and the following year gained his first big role, … - Mark Dacascos
Mark Dacascos (born February 26, 1964, Honolulu, Hawaii) is an actor and martial arts expert, winning numerous karate and kung fu championships between the ages of 9 and 18. He has been featured in many action films such as "Only The Strong", "Double Dragon", "Crying Freeman" and "Cradle 2 the Grave". - Philip Ahn
Philip Ahn was a Korean-American actor. Ahn was born 안필립 安必立 AHN Pil-rip in Highland Park, California, believed to be the first American citizen of Korean parents born in the United States. - Angela Mao
Angela Mao (born 20 September 1950 in Taiwan) is a martial arts film actress best known for the string of kung fu films in which she starred during the 1970s. She is also known as Mao Ying, Angela Mao Ying, and Mao Fu Ying. - Keith Carradine
Keith Carradine (born August 8, 1949, in San Mateo, California) is an actor and Academy Award-winning songwriter born into a family of actors. His father is John Carradine, his half-brother is David Carradine, and his full brother is Robert Carradine. All three Carradine brothers appeared together as the Younger brothers in Walter Hill's 1980 film "The Long Riders", with Keith playing Jim Younger. Carradine appeared again for Hill in 1981's "Southern Comfort". - William Cheung
William Cheung (born 1940) is a Wing Chun Kung Fu practitioner and currently the Grandmaster of his lineage of Wing Chun, entitled Traditional Wing Chun (TWC). He also heads the sanctioning body of TWC, the World Wing Chun Kung Fu Association. In 1951, at the age of ten, Cheung started his training in Wing Chun Kung Fu under the late Yip Man. - Kara Hui
Kara Hui Ying Hung is a Hong Kong Kung Fu actress. She was discovered by Kung Fu film director Lau Kar Leung and started her filing career casting in Lau Kar Leung's "Challenge of the Masters" (1976). After that, she has participated various Lau's films. Kara Hui reaches her career climax in "My Auntie" (1982), which she got the Best Actress Award in the 1st Hong Kong Film Awards. Kara Hui is the sister of actor Austin Wai. - Ted Wong
Ted Wong is a martial arts practitioner. Wong's first encounter with "Bruce Lee" was in 1967, in Los Angeles, California, where Lee was giving a Kung Fu seminar. Wong had no martial arts training, and was interested in western boxing and some martial arts. He was so impressed by Lee, however, that he decided to study at Lee's kwoon, the Jun Fan Gung Fu Institute in Los Angeles. Shortly after beginning his studies, Lee accepted Wong as a private student. - Chiu Chi Ling
Chiu Chi Ling is an actor that appears mostly in Kung Fu style movies produced in Hong Kong. He also teaches Hung Gar Kung Fu at Chiu Chi Ling Hung Gar Kung Fu Association, a San Francisco-based martial arts school he founded, and at the old Chiu Family Kwoon in Hong Kong. Every year he visits his students and grand students around the world. He has appeared in over 70 movies, both as an actor and stunt man. - Matt Serra
Matthew John Serra (born June 2, 1974) is a United States based Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner and mixed martial artist, known for winning several martial arts championships. He is the current UFC Welterweight Champion. He began practicing martial arts at an early age, first studying kung fu.In the 1990s, he began studying Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under Renzo Gracie and on May 23, 2000 was awarded his black belt, the first American to do so under Gracie. - Kenneth Tsang
Kenneth Tsang Kong (1938-) is a Hong Kong actor. Tsang's career has spanned 50 years and included a variety of acting roles. Tsang attended high school in Texas, USA and received a degree in architecture from the University of California, Berkeley. He returned to Hong Kong in the early 1960s but was bored by the work. - Leung Jan
Leung Jan (梁贊) (aka Leung Tsan) was a Wing Chun kung fu practitioner. Leung was a Chinese herbal doctor in Foshan. His name became well-known due to his wins in competitive bouts. He was called "Mr. Jan from Foshan" (佛山贊先生). Leung Jan is one of the principle subjects of the 1978 Sammo Hung-directed Hong Kong action film, "Warriors Two". See Chan Wah-shun's article for more. - Tony Anthony
Tony Anthony is a British Christian evangelist. He was born in London of an Italian father and a Chinese mother and raised in Canton, China by his grandparents. His grandfather trained him in Kung Fu and he became three times World Champion ‘master’ in martial arts (1987, 1988, 1989). Then, in his early twenties, Tony worked as an elite bodyguard, traveling the world protecting some of the world's richest, most powerful people. - Herman Miller
Herman Miller (November 10, 1919 - April 18, 1999) was a Hollywood writer and producer. He pursued both undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Southern California, where he received his B.A. in 1950 and M.F.A. in 1952. The television show "Kung Fu" (1972-1975) was developed by Miller. He was a co-producer for the series and wrote the first three episodes ("King of the Mountain," "Dark Angel," and "Blood Brother"). - Betty Ting
Betty Ting Pei was a Taiwanese actress who joined Shaw Brothers in 1967. Despite acting in more than 30 movies, she is remembered today primarily because of the "mysterious" death of Bruce Lee, the world's greatest martial artist and kung fu actor, in her apartment. Born Tang Mei Li, Betty started her acting career with "China Motion Picture Corporation" in Taiwan. In January 1967, after acting in six Taiwanese movies, she was spotted by Shaw Brothers' director, … - Linda Lee Cadwell
Linda Lee Cadwell (born March 21, 1945), a.k.a. Linda Emery, is an American teacher and the widow of martial arts master and actor Bruce Lee, founder of Jeet Kune Do. She was born and raised in Seattle, Washington, USA. She is of Swedish and English descent. Linda met Bruce Lee while she was attending Garfield High School, where Bruce came to give a Kung Fu demonstration; he was attending the University of Washington at the time. - Radames Pera
Radames Perá is an American actor who is best known for his role as the young Kwai Chang Caine in the 1972-1975 television series "Kung Fu". He was born in New York, New York and is the son of Eugene R. Perá, a renowned painter and originator of Spin Art, and Lisa Perá, a Russian-born actress. They moved to Los Angeles in 1963 so Lisa could pursue a Hollywood acting career, but the marriage suffered and they were shortly divorced. - Jason Delucia
Jason DeLucia (born July 24,1969 in Bellingham, Massachusetts) is an Italian-American mixed martial arts fighter. He has a professional MMA record of 34-21-1 as of Feb 4, 2006. He practices the Five Animals style of Kung Fu and also Aikido. He is known for losing twice to Royce Gracie, once at UFC 2 and another time in a private match, when Gracie was as yet unknown. - Johnny Tri Nguyen
Johnny Tri Nguyen (born February 16 1974 in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam) is a Vietnamese American film and television actor, stunt double, and martial artist. He left Vietnam at the age of 8 with his family, mother, father, older brother, and older sister and moved to Los Angeles, CA. He is half Vietnamese and half Chinese from his mom's side.. Johnny Nguyen comes from a family with deep roots in the Vietnamese entertainment industry. - Hsiao Ho
Hsiao Ho (Cantonese: Siu Hau, Mandarin: Xiao3 Hou2, b. January 1, 1958 in Henan, China) is a Hong Kong martial arts film actor, stunt performer and action choreographer. He has acted in many films directed by Lau Kar-leung, including "Mad Monkey Kung Fu", which was his first starring role. He portrayed legendary kung fu warrior Fong Sai-Yuk in Lau's 1985 action-comedy, "Disciples of the 36th Chamber". - Benson Fong
Benson Fong was a Chinese American character actor. He was born in Sacramento, California. He was from a mercantile family. After graduating from high school in Sacramento, he studied briefly in China before joining relatives in commercial activities in California. He appeared in minor film roles beginning in 1937 and later appeared in many films as the "Flower Drum Song" (1961), "His Majesty O'Keefe", "Our Man Flint", … - David Huddleston
David William Huddleston (born September 17, 1930) is an American actor. - Jim Fung
Jim Fung Jim Fung was a practitioner and teacher of Wing Chun kung fu and founder of the 'International Wing Chun Academy'. He had been training under his master, Tsui Seung Tin (徐尚田), since 1960. Tsui, chairman of the Hong Kong Ving Tsun Athletic Association, was one of the closed door students of Yip Man - Bruce Tegner
Bruce Tegner (1929-1985) was an American author and martial artist who practiced judo and jujjtsu. Bruce authored several books on self-defense, including "Bruce Tegner's Complete Book of Self-Defense Judo, Jiu Jitsu, Karate, Savate, Yawara, Aikido, and Ate-Waza." In all, he published some 80 titles in the United States. Bruce's parents were also martial artists who began teaching Bruce judo and jujutsu at the age of 2. By the age of 21, … - Bosco Wong
Bosco Wong Chung Chak, born December 13, 1980, is a Hong Kong TVB actor. - Fritz Weaver
Fritz Weaver (born January 19, 1926) is a Tony Award-winning American actor and voice actor. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Weaver attended Peabody High School. He served in Civilian Public Service as a conscientious objector during World War II, breaking into acting in the early 1950s. His first television role came in 1956 on an episode of "The United States Steel Hour". He would continue to appear on television during the next four decades, … - Jeff Stone
Jeff Stone is the author of a series of Kung Fu themed books for children called "The Five Ancestors". - Mark Salzman
Mark Salzman is an American writer. Salzman is best known for his 1986 memoir "Iron & Silk", which describes his experiences living in China as an English teacher in the early 1980s. Salzman studied Chinese Language and Literature at Yale University. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude in 1982 and spent the next two years in Changsha, Hunan teaching English at Hunan Medical College (湖南中医学院) and studying martial arts with Pan Qingfu, … - Hwang Kee
Hwang Kee (November 9, 1914 - July 14, 2002) was the founder of the martial arts system known as Soo Bahk Do Tang Soo Do Moo Duk Kwan, a modern Korean martial art. - Mark Houghton
Mark Houghton is an actor and stunt coordinator. He began his career acting in a number of Hong Kong action films. He is currently teaching Hung Gar Kung Fu at the Lau Family Kung Fu School. Mark has recently been confused with a Canadian actor by the same name. - Yuen Siu Tien
Yuen Siu Tien (also known as Yuan Xiao Tian, Simon Yuen, Sam Seed or "Ol' Dirty") was a Kung Fu movie star in the 1970s. He starred in films with actors like Jackie Chan and under the direction of his son Yuen Woo-ping. He died of a heart attack in 1979.
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