![]() I said to my wife, ‘I love this kid,'” he said of Lee. He said he was paid $75 a week for Way of the Dragon and $500 a week for Enter the Dragon. Lee, who died in 1973 at age 32, made only five films after 1968, and Wall was in three of them. Wall took up wrestling in high school, attended San Jose State on a scholarship and moved to Los Angeles, where he trained with Al Thomas, Gordon Doversola, Gene LeBell, Joe Lewis, Norris and the Machado Brothers. He left home at 13 but came back three years later and “beat up real bad he never abused anybody in the family after that,” he told stuntman Bruce Willow in a 2020 podcast interview. “He beat me often, gave me no love, but the terrific beatings toughened me up, and I know that I definitely would not be me without his beatings,” he wrote on his website in 2016. 22, 1939, in San Jose, California, Wall said his father, Ray, was an alcoholic. ![]() Lee, who insisted on authenticity in all his movie fights - real bottles were used here, Wall noted - was cut in the sequence and needed stitches.īorn on Aug. In Enter the Dragon (1973), Lee avenges the death of his sister by easily taking care of Wall’s evil O’Hara in competition, then kills his opponent when he comes at him with a broken bottle. Seth Willenson, Marketing Executive and 'Gas Food Lodging' Producer, Dies at 74
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