Peter Lee Jung-sum (23 October 1939 – 3 September 2008), was a former assistant director of

Hong Kong Observatory The Hong Kong Observatory is a weather forecast agency of the government of Hong Kong. The Observatory forecasts the weather and issues warnings on weather-related hazards. It also monitors and makes assessments on radiation levels in Ho ...

. He was the elder brother of

Bruce Lee Bruce Lee (; born Lee Jun-fan, ; November 27, 1940 – July 20, 1973) was a Hong Kong and American martial artist and actor. He was the founder of Jeet Kune Do, a hybrid martial arts philosophy drawing from different combat disciplines that ...

Background

Born in

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

on 23 October 1939, Lee was the eldest son of

Lee Hoi-chuen Lee Moon-shuen (; 4 February 1901 – 7 February 1965) known professionally as Lee Hoi-chuen, was a Chinese opera singer and film actor in Hong Kong. He was the father of Bruce Lee, the father-in-law of Linda Lee Cadwell, and also the paternal g ...

and

Grace Ho Grace Ho (; 1907 – 24 June 1996) was the mother of Bruce Lee. She and her husband Lee Hoi-chuen were the parents of Bruce as well as Peter Lee Jung-sum, Peter Lee, Robert Lee Jun-fai, Robert Lee, Phoebe Lee, and Agnes Lee. Biography Grace H ...

. He attended the

La Salle College La Salle College (LSC) (, Demonym: Lasallian) is a boys' secondary school in Hong Kong. It was established in 1932 by the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, a Roman Catholic religious teaching order founded by St. John Ba ...

where he excelled in his studies and sports. He started

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and influenced his brother Bruce to take up fencing lessons with him when Bruce was around 11 to 14. Lee was a world-class fencer and in March 1958 won the championship in the first Inter-School Fencing Competition. In July 1958 he joined Jose Marçal, Pedro Marçal, Reuben Lynn, and Hung Hak-yau on the

fencing team for the

1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games The 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games (Welsh: Gemau Ymerodraeth Prydain a'r Gymanwlad 1958) were held in Cardiff, Wales, from 18–26 July 1958. Thirty-five nations sent a total of 1,130 athletes and 228 officials to the Cardiff Games ...

. He won in round 1 but did not reach the quarter-finals, while Hung became a finalist in the individual foil event. In May 1959, Lee joined Bruce in

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for a short stay and proceeded to

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to further his studies. He later graduated from the

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and returned to Hong Kong. In 1983, Lee completed his PhD at the Department of Electrical Engineering at the

University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong (HKU) (Chinese: 香港大學) is a public research university in Hong Kong. Founded in 1887 as the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese, it is the oldest tertiary institution in Hong Kong. HKU was also the fi ...

. The title of his doctoral thesis was "A ground clutter processor for the Royal Observatory's 10-cm meteorological radar". In the 1960s, Lee taught for a while at La Salle College and joined the

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as its assistant director, where he contributed significantly to the technical development of the observatory's detection of tropical

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s. He was also the coach of the La Salle Fencing Team beginning 1968, with eleven Inter-School Fencing Championship wins in thirteen years.

Retirement and death

Upon his retirement, Lee moved his family first to

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, and later to

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. He died of a heart attack in his home on 3 September 2008. Lee was cremated and his ashes were brought back to Hong Kong.

Personal life

Lee's younger brothers are martial artist and actor

and musician Robert Lee. Through the marriage of Bruce and

Linda Lee Cadwell Linda Emery Lee Cadwell (born March 21, 1945) is a retired American teacher and writer. She is the author of the Bruce Lee biography '' Bruce Lee: The Man Only I Knew'', upon which the film '' Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story'' is based, as well as th ...

, he is the uncle of American actors

Brandon Lee Brandon Bruce Lee (February 1, 1965 – March 31, 1993) was an American actor and martial artist. Establishing himself as a rising action star in the early 1990s, he landed his breakthrough role as Eric Draven in the dark fantasy film ''The ...

and

Shannon Lee Shannon Emery Lee Keasler (born April 19, 1969) is an American actress and businesswoman. She is the only living child of martial artist Bruce Lee and retired martial arts teacher Linda Lee Cadwell, the granddaughter of Cantonese opera singer L ...

. Lee married Eunice Lam in 1966, and had a son Lee Hoi-ho (). Lee and Lam divorced in 1971 due to personality differences. He later earned a PhD from the

. In 1980 he married

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1975 winner

Mary Cheung Mary Cheung (born 11 August 1952) is a former Miss Hong Kong winner (1975), image consultant, host, painter, photographer and retired actress. She is the founder of the image consultancy and media-relations training company ''Mary Cheung & Associa ...

, and they had a son Lee Wai-ho () and a daughter Lee Yuk-yee (). Lee and Cheung divorced in 1995.

Portrayals

Lee was portrayed by Wang Gongyi in the 2008 television series ''

The Legend of Bruce Lee ''The Legend of Bruce Lee'' ('' Chinese'': 李小龍傳奇) is a 2008 Chinese biographical television series based on the life story of martial artist and actor Bruce Lee. The 50-episode series was produced and broadcast by CCTV and began airing ...

''. The adult Lee was portrayed by Hong Kong singer Charles Ying, and ten-year-old Peter was portrayed by the child actor Wei Zi-li in the 2010 Hong Kong film ''

Bruce Lee, My Brother ''Bruce Lee, My Brother'' (, also known in the United Kingdom as ''Young Bruce Lee'') is a 2010 Hong Kong biographical martial arts drama film directed by Raymond Yip, and also written, produced and directed by Manfred Wong, and also storied, pr ...

''.

References

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