Bruce Lee with his wife and children in 1970
Bruce Lee was a Chinese-American martial artist that became a pop culture icon during the 1970s. His movies became cult classics that are still enjoyed today. He is credited with launching the “kung fu craze” and with changing the way Asian people were presented in American films.
Here he is pictured with his wife Linda and their two children, Brandon and Shannon. This photo was taken in 1970, only three years before his sudden death because of brain swelling in 1973. Twenty years later, his son, Brandon, would also die young after being accidentally shot on the set of the movie The Crow.