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Aaron's Sports History Highlights
Jackie Chan was born in 1954 in Hong Kong. His death-defying stunt work, comic manner, and elaborately choreographed fight sequences have won him an enthusiastic worldwide following. Born Chan Kwong Sang, his Chinese screen name is Sing Lung, which translates as "becoming the dragon." He is known as Jackie Chan outside Asia. For ten years, Chan studied dance, martial arts, music, and acrobatics in the Chinese Opera Research.
During the early 1970s Chan worked as a stuntman and fight choreographer in Hong Kong's expanding film industry. After the death of Chinese American actor Bruce Lee in 1973, film studios searched for a new martial-arts superstar, and Chan was among several young actors who were groomed as potential successors. His first major film role was in Xin Ching-Wu Men (New Fist of Fury, 1976), a sequel to an internationally popular Bruce Lee film, Fist of Fury (also known as The Chinese Connection or The Iron Hand, 1972). In his later films, Chan introduced changes to the martial-arts film style developed by Lee, adding elements of playful misadventure and slapstick comedy. The result, Drunken Monkey in the Tiger's Eye (also known as Drunken Master, 1978), was a major hit throughout East Asia.
Chan subsequently wrote, directed, and starred in numerous Hong Kong action films, becoming the highest-paid movie star in Asia. He also developed a reputation for executing exceptionally risky stunts, many of which have resulted in fractured bones and other injuries. Chan appeared in several American films, including The Big Brawl (1980), The Cannonball Run (1980), and The Protector (1985). He received greater international attention with the release of Police Story (1985), a fast-paced crime film shown at major film festivals. In 1996 one of his most accomplished films, Hong Faan Kui (1995), was released in the United States as Rumble in the Bronx, achieving popular and critical acclaim. In 1998 he appeared in Rush Hour, an action film set in Los Angeles.
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