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Bruce’s death effectively put the kibosh on Game Of Death’s proposed plot, so an alternate version was put into production, where Lee was replaced by stand-ins wearing wigs and beards to mask their faces – Bruce only appears in 11 minutes of footage. Bruce Lee’s career, however, would continue in Game Of Death, Lee’s final movie but one of which he only managed to shoot the first half. When Bruce Lee was killed by a deadly reaction to an over-the-counter headache tablet, it ended the life of the most spectacular martial arts superstar cinema had ever seen. (Concord Productions Inc./Golden Harvest Company/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Bruce Lee on the set of Game of Death.