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   James Milton Kelly (May 5, 1946 – June 29, 2013) was an American athlete, martial artist, and actor. After winning several karate championships, Kelly rose to fame in the early 1970s appearing in various action films within the martial arts and blaxploitation genres.

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3. www.imdb.com › name › nm0446485Jim Kelly - IMDb

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   Jim Kelly. Actor: Enter the Dragon. With his funky Afro hairstyle, super cool attitude and superb karate skills, Jim Kelly was instantly identifiable, and one of the top martial arts film stars of the early 1970s.

   • Birth Date: January 1, 1
   • Birth Place: Paris, Kentucky, USA

   • Death Date: January 1, 1
   • Death Place: San Diego, California, USA

4. serp.media › movies › all-jim-kelly-movies-in-orderAll 20 Jim Kelly Movies (in Order) - serp.media

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   Mar 25, 2024 · Dive into the world of legendary martial artist and actor Jim Kelly with our comprehensive roundup of his movies. From his early roles in karate movies to his Hollywood appearances, we explore the career of this iconic figure and the impact his films have had on the world of martial arts cinema.

5. www.imdb.com › name › nm0446485Jim Kelly - Biography - IMDb

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   Jim Kelly. Actor: Enter the Dragon. With his funky Afro hairstyle, super cool attitude and superb karate skills, Jim Kelly was instantly identifiable, and one of the top martial arts film stars of the early 1970s.

   • Birth Date: May 5, 1946

   • Death Date: June 29, 2013

6. www.themoviedb.org › person › 82832-jim-kellyJim Kelly — The Movie Database (TMDB)

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   Jun 29, 2013 · James M. "Jim" "the Dragon" Kelly (1946-2013) was an American athlete, actor, and martial artist who came to prominence in the early 1970s. He is best known from his performance as Williams in the 1973 Bruce Lee film Enter the Dragon.

7. en.kinorium.com › name › 335643Jim Kelly - actor - biography, photo, best movies and TV shows

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   Jun 29, 2013 · He also made three films with black action heroes Jim Brown and Fred Williamson: Three the Hard Way (1974), in which he plays a martial artist who helps Brown and Williamson stop a black genocide plot, Take a Hard Ride (1975), a Spaghetti Western in which he plays a mute Indian scout skilled in martial arts, and One Down, Two to Go (1982), in ...

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   Was Jim Kelly a karate star?

   • With his funky Afro hairstyle, super cool attitude and superb karate skills, Jim Kelly was instantly identifiable, and one of the top martial arts film stars of the early 1970s. After appearing in a minor film role, Kelly's second screen effort was as one of the invited guests to the deadly Han's ...

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   Who is Jim Kelly?

   • Film and television director and producer Reginald Hudlin described Kelly's enduring identity: “The iconography that Jim Kelly established as the cool martial artist with the giant ‘fro resonates to this day. If within only a few films you can create an image that lasts over 30 years, you must have done something really right.

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   Who was the first black martial arts star?

   • Kelly was the first black martial arts film star. His first film role was a martial arts instructor in the thriller feature film Melinda (1972). He got it after being asked by the film's writer, to whom he was introduced by one of his karate students, to teach martial arts to its star, Calvin Lockhart.

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   Which martial arts movies influenced blaxploitation?

   • Kelly quickly cropped up in several more martial arts influenced "blaxploitation" films including Three the Hard Way (1974), Golden Needles (1974) and Black Belt Jones (1974), with its interesting fight finale in a soap filled car wash!

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9. www.rogerebert.com › features › his-own-man-jimHis own man: Jim Kelly, 1946-2013 | Features | Roger Ebert

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   Jul 2, 2013 · With his perfectly styled Afro, cool bop walk and smart-aleck mouth, martial artist and actor Jim Kelly, who died from cancer on Saturday at the age of 67, was a seventies screen sensation who became an icon. Michael A. Gonzales appreciates cinema's first African-American martial arts star.