Stars Who Got Into Real Physical Fights On TV Sets

First appearing in a radio broadcast on the airwaves nearly a century ago, the character of the Green Hornet has made numerous appearances across the vast landscape of media. Donning a green mask and riding around in a tricked-out car known as the Black Beauty with his sidekick Kato in tow, the duo has set off to fight crime in everything from comic books to the silver screen. But way back in 1966, shortly after the Green Hornet's television series first debuted, some of the action in the action-packed series spilled over into the real world.

Starring legendary Hollywood actor and martial artist turned actor Bruce Lee as Kato, it seemed there was no one better suited for the role, and apparently, Lee knew it. As relayed by The Things, he apparently started to get a little too rough with the show's stuntmen, flaunting his real martial arts prowess, when he finally met his match. Enter Gene LeBell, a prolific stuntman and martial artist who picked Lee up, and proceeded to run around the set with him over his shoulders, all while Lee screamed for him to "put me down or I'll kill you!"

Instead of being quickly forgotten like a number of the fights we've looked at, the roughhousing between Bruce Lee and Gene LeBell took on something of a mythical status in the world of cinema. Famously, it inspired a scene in director Quentin Tarantino's "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" where Brad Pitt's Cliff Booth squares up against Bruce Lee (Mike Moh).