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Bruce Leung Siu-lung
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Leung Siu-Lung (cantonese) or Liang Hsiao-Lung (mandarin), born in 1948 in Hong Kong, is an actor who has appeared in many Hong Kong martial arts movies. He often appeared billed as "Bruce Leung," "Bruce Liang," "Bruce Leong," or "Bruce Leung Siu-Lung," and is thus generally grouped among the Bruce Lee clones that sprang up after Lee's death in the odd subgenre known as Bruceploitation. Incidentally, his real name, Leung Siu-Lung, sounded very much alike Bruce Lee's chinese monicker, Li Xiaolong. He is a skilled martial artist - he learned martial arts from his father at the Cantonese Opera.[1]
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, he appeared in a large number of martial arts films. Most familiar to Western audiences may be Jim Kelly's The Tattoo Connection (in which he only appeared briefly, but choreographed the action sequences) and Jackie Chan's Magnificent Bodyguards, which was the first Hong Kong film shot in 3D. He is also known for playing Bruce Lee in the notorious Bruceploitation classic, The Dragon Lives Again.
In addition, Leung appeared in his own star vehicles, including
My Kung-Fu 12 Kicks,
Kung Fu: The Invisible Fist, and
Black Belt Karate.
In the 1980s, Leung gradually retired from the big screen and worked as a television actor in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Later in that decade, he made the mistake to make a trip to Mainland China, and was subsequently blacklisted in Taiwanese studios. He had to retire from acting. However, in 2004, he made a triumphant return to the screen as The Beast in Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Hustle (which, incidentally, was his first villainous role).
Supposedly, Leung defeated 13 armed attackers all by himself
[2], although the validity of this statement is questionable.
Filmography as actor includes=