Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted (2004) – Self.E yu tou hei sha xing, Black Belt Jones 2) (1978) – Lucas Three the Hard Way (1974) – Mister Keyes.Black Belt Jones (1974) – Black Belt Jones.On June 29, 2013, Kelly died of cancer at his home in San Diego, California.
From 1973 to 1976, Kelly dated film actress Rosalind Miles. Kelly was married twice: from 1967 to 1968, to his college sweetheart Marilyn Dishman, and from 1980 until his death in 2013, to Marcia Bentley. If within only a few films you can create an image that lasts over 30 years, you must have done something really right. If it happens, it happens, but if not, I’m happy with what I’ve accomplished.įilm 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. There’s nothing I really want to do, so I don’t do it. I still get at least three scripts per year, but most of them don’t put forth a positive image. It’s just that after a certain point, I didn’t get the type of projects that I wanted to do. Times, Kelly explained his absence from film: In his last film, Kelly made a cameo appearance as Cleavon Washington in Afro Ninja (2009), produced, directed by, and starring veteran stuntman Mark Hicks. A deleted scene from the film Undercover Brother (2002), included on the DVD extra features, shows him in a cameo appearance with Eddie Griffin.
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He did appear in two episodes of the TV series, Highway to Heaven, in 19. After his appearance in One Down, Two to Go, Kelly rarely appeared in movies. In the late 1970s, he also starred in the low-budget films Black Samurai (1977), Death Dimension (1978), and Tattoo Connection (1978). 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 which he plays a co-owner of an international martial arts dojo. His other two Warner Brothers films were Golden Needles (1974), with Joe Don Baker and Elizabeth Ashley, and Hot Potato (1976), in which he reprises his role as Black Belt Jones and rescues a diplomat's daughter from the jungles of Thailand. This and most of his other roles played up the novelty of an African-American martial arts master. The first was Black Belt Jones (1974), in which he plays a local hero who fights the Mafia and a drug dealer threatening his friend's dojo. This appearance also earned Kelly a three-film contract with Warner Brothers and led to starring roles in a string of martial arts-themed blaxploitation films. Later in life, he became the owner and director of a tennis club in the San Diego area. 2 ranking in senior men's doubles in the state of California and the top ten in the state in senior men's singles. In 1975, he joined the USTA Senior Men's Circuit. He played amateur tennis in the 1970s at Plummer Park in West Hollywood.
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In addition to his martial arts and film careers, Kelly also became a professional tennis player. Kelly opened his own dojo, which was frequented by numerous Hollywood celebrities and which ultimately landed him in the movies. In 1971, he won four prestigious championships that same year, most notably, the World Middleweight Karate title at the 1971 Long Beach International Karate Championships. During the early 1970s, Kelly became one of the most decorated world karate champions in the sport. He trained in Okinawan karate under the direction of Parker Shelton, Nate Patton, and Gordon Doversola. Kelly began his martial arts career under the tutelage of Sin Kwang The' (Shaolin-Do) in Lexington, Kentucky. Instead he began to study Shorin-ryu karate. He attended the University of Louisville on a football scholarship, but left during his freshman year after a coach referred to a black teammate with a racial slur. He began his athletic career at Bourbon County High School in Paris, Kentucky, competing in basketball, football, and track and field. Kelly's father ran a locker-rental service for Navy personnel.
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