Jim Kelly

Jim Kelly

  • Born: 1946-5-5
  • Birthplace: Kentucky, U.S.
  • Height: 6' 2" (1.88 m)
  • Profession: Martial artist, actor, athlete
  • Nationality: America
  • Graduate School: University of Louisville
  • Representative Works: Fight against each other
  • Jim Kelly (Jim Kelly), born in Kentucky on May 5, 1946 , is a martial artist, actor, and athlete.
    Before joining the industry, he was an active athlete. He participated in American football, baseball and track and field teams. He began martial arts training in 1964 and moved to State of California after obtaining a black belt in karate. After winning a karate competition, he turned to join the film world and entered the end of the 1970s. As he wished, "Dragon Fighting Tiger Fighting" was his second work, in which he played against Bruce Lee and Shi Jian. Jim Kelly once said in an interview that being able to work with Bruce Lee is one of the best experiences in his life and praised him for being a very good martial artist. In addition to "Dragon Fighting Tiger Fighting", Jim Kelly starred in "Black Belt Raptors Brave Girl" and "Iron King Kong Dragon Tiger Leopard" have also been screened in Hong Kong.
    Passed away at home due to cancer on June 29, 2013.
    On July 19, 2018, Jim Kelly won the 26th ESPY Jimmy V Perseverance Award. [1] 

    Performing Experience

    As an actor, he became famous in the collaboration with Bruce Lee in "Dragon Fight and Tiger Fight", and then starred in a series of blaxploitation movies with martial arts themes. After filming "One Down, Two to Go" in 1982, he faded out of the film industry. Then became a professional tennis player.
    In 2004, he filmed the Nike commercial "Chamber of Fear" with NBA star James (the old man with nunchakus ). Kelly lives in the southern State of California and is a professional tennis coach.

    Personal Life

    On July 2, 2013, according to Hong Kong's Ming Pao news, Hollywood martial arts actor Jim Kelly (Jim Kelly), who performed Bruce Lee's masterpiece "Dragon Fight", died of cancer at his home in State of California on the 29th of last month at the age of 67. The news of his death was confirmed to the media by her ex-wife Marilyn Dishman. She also announced the news on her personal homepage, "Jim Kelly, formerly known as James Milton Kelly, passed away on June 29. He was my first husband, karate expert, actor, and My daughter's father". 
    Extended Reading
    • Alivia 2021-12-08 08:01:43

      Bruce Lee's Kung Fu Philosophy: I am the only one in heaven and on earth!

      Hong Kong films in the 1970s divided traditional Chinese philosophy into two, with martial arts films represented by Zhang Che and Chu Yuan on the one hand, and kung fu films represented by Bruce Lee, Liu Jialiang, and even Yuan Heping, Sammo Hung, and Jackie Chan on the other. Martial arts movies...

    • Ayla 2021-12-08 08:01:43

      [Film Review] Enter the Dragon (1973) 7.1/10

      Released posthumously after Bruce Lee's untimely death at 32, ENTER THE DRAGON is an American and Hong Kong co-production that canonizes Lee's screen immortality, patterning after the au courant James Bond template, it whisks Lee, a Shaolin martial artist, under the aegis of British Intelligence...

    • Johnathan 2021-12-08 08:01:43

      Bruce Lee really succeeded in the era, but also failed in the era. If he was born twenty years later, his movie and action scenes would be far more exciting than now, and his life span would probably be extended. This should be Bruce Lee's film with the most mature acting skills, the highest degree of completion, and the best storytelling during his lifetime. From the current point of view, his movie can only be regarded as a semi-finished product, but it still does not affect his height. His legend and my relish-women's parkour street fighting, mirror house duel, Wolverine style metal claw (King Kong Wolf debuted in 1974), these are the novel feelings that this movie brought to the audience.

    • Yolanda 2022-03-27 09:01:06

      This movie is very good, except that the two settings of revenge and killing traitors are too old-fashioned

    Enter the Dragon quotes

    • Han: We are all ready to win, just as we are born knowing only life. It is defeat that you must learn to prepare for.

      Williams: I don't waste my time with it. When it comes, I won't even notice.

      Han: Oh? How so?

      Williams: I'll be too busy looking gooood.

    • Han: It is difficult to associate these horrors with the proud civilizations that created them: Sparta, Rome, The Knights of Europe, the Samurai... They worshipped strength, because it is strength that makes all other values possible. Nothing survives without it. Who knows what delicate wonders have died out of the world, for want of the strength to survive.