Brandon Bruce Lee was born on February 1 in 1965. He died on 31 March 1993 in the New Hanover Regional Medical Centre in Wilmington, North-Carolina, after a shooting accident on the set of The Crow ... 17 days before he was to be married to his fiancé, Eliza Hutton, in Mexico. On April 3 Brandon Bruce Lee was buried next to his father in Lake View Cemetary, Capitol Hill, Seattle.

Black Belt magazine selected Brandon as their Man of the Year for 1993. At the time of his death, Brandon had a multi-picture deal with Carolco and a three-picture agreement with 20th Century Fox ... and a bright future ahead of him.

Factoid: Brandon's favourite book (at least in 1989) was The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea (1963) by Yukio Mishima. Mishima committed sepukku (ritual suicide) on November 25, 1970, disgusted with Japan's drift away from the old imperial and samurai ideals and way of life. Apart from Mishima Brandon thought highly of James Dean, and loved all his movies.

Factoid: apparently the autopsy recording reveals that had Brandon lived, he would "almost certainly" have died of heart disease. Source: Bruce Lee Reviewed. So it would appear that, like his father's, Brandon's perfect body concealed a fatal flaw.

I have read The Crow: The Story Behind the Film. Once I have time I will include relevant info from it in my Crow and Brandon sections. Suffice it to say for the moment that it is compulsively readable and a must buy for all Brandon and Crow fans. Click here for more info and to buy it.