Bruce Lee Filmography

Linda Lee Cadwell is an American teacher and the widow of martial arts master and actor Bruce Lee. Cadwell was born in Everett, Washington, the daughter of Vivian and Everett Emery. Her family was Baptist and 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. Eventually, she became one of his Kung Fu students when she was attending the University of Washington as a pre-medical student. She continued to take Kung Fu lessons from him while attending college. They married on August 17, 1964; Linda was a few credits short of graduation from the University of Washington. They had two children together, Brandon Lee and Shannon Lee. Bruce Lee had opened his own Kung Fu school at the time and was teaching Jun Fan. Jeet Kune Do came later. Bruce Lee died suddenly on July 20, 1973 of cerebral edema. Linda was remarried to Tom Bleecker in 1988, but they divorced in 1990. She married stockbroker Bruce Cadwell in 1991 and they live in Rancho Mirage, CA.
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