 Kuo Lien Ying was among the first Chinese martial arts masters in America to teach Asian fighting arts to American students, and was often admonished by other Chinese teachers to not teach to Westerners.In 1975 Sam Peckinpah filmed part of "The Killer Elite" in Portsmouth Square, and hired Kuo Lien Ying and many of his students for the scenes of a martial arts school in San Francisco.Kuo and his students gave many demonstrations of T'ai chi ch'uan and Shaolin Kung-Fu at many locations, including schools and banks.