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李海泉原名李滿船，廣東順德均安上村鄉人，父親李震彪早年做鏢師。年輕時佢曾喺佛山一間酒家當學徒，因具演戲天賦，得茶客粵劇名伶小生奕賞識，收為粵劇學徒，業餘學唱粵曲同做粵劇，慢慢踏上粵劇演員之路。最初加入粵劇新中華劇團，多演小生戲；後來轉投永壽年劇團，開始擔任丑生角色。戰前先後參加國豐年、新生活、勝光明等粵劇名班，主演《千里攜蟬》、《飛渡玉門關》、《甜姐兒》、《烽火霓裳》等名劇。戰亂期間，佢曾喺美加走埠，1939年攜眷到美國，1940年喺美國誕下男嬰李振藩（即日後成為國際電影巨星嘅李小龍），妻子何愛瑜係何甘棠之女。戰後佢為錦添花台柱之一，主演《三盜九龍杯》、《銅網陣》、《兩個煙精掃長堤》等名劇。1958年，佢退出舞台，參演嘅最後一個劇團係梨園樂。佢擅演丑生戲同爛衫戲，更別創「煙喉」唱腔，表演幽默含蓄，唱腔雄渾質樸；同廖俠懷、半日安、葉弗弱合稱「四大名丑」，又喜歡培育後進，如芳艷芬同新海泉，都曾經佢指導同栽培。1939年，佢開始拍電影，主演嘅第一部影片係《打劫陰司路》。1939至1961年間，佢演出超過一百部電影，名作有《乞米養狀元》（1947）、《兩個煙精掃長堤》（1948）、《垃圾天堂》（1949）、《細路祥》（1950）、《火網梵宮十四年》（1958）、《三盜九龍杯》（1959）等，《孤兒救祖》（1961）係佢主演嘅最後一部影片。1965年2月8號，佢因心臟病喺香港聖德肋撒醫院病逝，葬於長沙灣天主教墳場。
English
Lee Hoi-chuen, born Lee Moon-shuen and a native of Shunde, Guangdong, was a Cantonese opera and film actor and the father of Bruce Lee. His father, Lee Chun-piu, had been a bodyguard in his early years. Apprenticed in a Foshan restaurant, Lee was spotted by the opera veteran Siu Sang Yik, who took him on as a pupil; he learned singing and stagecraft in his spare time and began his career with the opera troupe Xin Zhonghua, first in young-man roles, then moved to Yongshounian where he took up the chou-sheng clown parts. Before the war he performed with the Guofengnian, Xin Shenghuo and Sheng Guangming troupes in such celebrated plays as Qian Li Xie Chan, Fei Du Yumen Guan, Sweet Sister and Beacon-Fire Rainbow Garments. Touring America and Canada during the war years, he took his family to the United States in 1939, and his son Lee Jun-fan, the future Bruce Lee, was born there in 1940; his wife, Grace Ho, was a daughter of Ho Kom-tong. After the war he was a mainstay of the Kam Tim Fa company, appearing in San Dao Jiu Long Bei, Tong Wang Zhen and Two Smoky Spirits Sweep the Bund. Adept in chou-sheng and tattered-costume roles and famed for his hoarse 'smoky voice', with a restrained humour and a robust, plain singing style, he was one of the 'Four Great Clowns' of Cantonese opera and mentored younger talents such as Fong Yim-fun and Sun Hoi-chuen. He made his screen debut in 1939 in Robbing the Dead and appeared in more than a hundred films between 1939 and 1961, among them Begging to Raise a Top Scholar (1947), Two Smoky Spirits Sweep the Bund (1948), Rubbish Paradise (1949), The Kid (1950) and Fourteen Years in a Flaming Palace (1958). He retired from the stage in 1958, his last troupe being Lai Yuen Lok, and died of heart disease at St Teresa's Hospital in Hong Kong on 8 February 1965, buried in the Cheung Sha Wan Catholic Cemetery.
