Filmmakers To Install Plaque Marking Bruce Lee's Chinatown Birthplace

Filmmakers To Install Plaque Marking Bruce Lee's Chinatown BirthplaceChinese Hospital. | Photo: David Pham/Flickr
Bay City News
Published on August 16, 2017

San Francisco native Bruce Lee will be honored this afternoon with a plaque at the Chinatown hospital where he was born, presented by the makers of a new movie about him.

Presented by director George Nolfi and actor Phillip Ng, who is set to play Lee in Birth of the Dragon, the plaque commemorates Lee's birth at Chinese Hospital in 1940.

It will be presented in a ceremony at 3pm in front of the hospital at 845 Jackson St.

Trailer, "Birth Of The Dragon." | YouTube

The film, set to open nationwide August 25th, will be set in 1960s San Francisco and is inspired by a showdown between the young Lee and kung fu master Wong Jack Man.

Chinese Hospital is a nonprofit facility catering to Chinatown's multicultural, multilingual community, with origins dating back to 1899.

The hospital celebrated the opening of a new 88-bed Patient Tower, replacing an original 1925 building, in April 2016.

Lee, who went on to have an influential but brief film career, died in 1973 at the age of 32 in Hong Kong.

— Sara Gaiser, Bay City News