In 1996, New Line Cinema and Golden Harvest jointly released Rumble in the Bronx, Chan's fifth English-language (dubbed) release but his first hit in America.
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Chan was still mostly unknown in the United States by this point, but his profile experienced a meteoric rise during the mid-1990s, when a series of events combined to bring him to the attention of a wider American audience. He also made several sequels to his hits Police Story and Drunken Master. In the early 1990s, Chan broadened his cinematic range, turning in a rare dramatic performance in the melodramatic Crime Story (1993).
In 1986, during the filming of Armor of God, he fractured his skull after falling more than 40 feet while attempting to jump from the top of a building to a tree branch below. Additionally, after numerous stuntmen were injured during the filming of Police Story, the actor founded the Jackie Chan Stuntmen Association, through which he personally trained and provided medical coverage for its members. For his part, Chan claims to have broken every bone in his body at least once while performing stunts. He also founded a modeling/casting agency, Jackie's Angels, in order to recruit talent for his films. In 1986, he formed his own production company, Golden Way. He appeared in his first film, the Cantonese feature Big and Little Wong Tin Bar (1962), when he was only eight, and went on to appear in a number of musical films.īy that time, Chan was far more than a movie star-he was a one-man film industry. For the next 10 years, Chan studied martial arts, drama, acrobatics and singing, and was subjected to stringent discipline, including corporal punishment for poor performance. When his parents moved to Australia to find new jobs, the 7-year-old Chan was left behind to study at the Chinese Opera Research Institute, a Hong Kong boarding school. Early LifeĬhan was born Chan Kong-sang on April 7, 1954, in Hong Kong, China. He became a huge star throughout Asia and went on to have hits in the United States as well. Once considered a likely successor to Bruce Lee in Hong Kong cinema, Chan instead developed his own style of martial arts blended with screwball physical comedy.
Jackie Chan began studying martial arts, drama, acrobatics and singing at age seven. Martial artist and actor Jackie Chan's unique blend of impressive martial arts and screwball physical comedy has helped make him an international film star.
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