Jim Kelly

Jim Kelly

Born: May 5, 1946
Died: June 29, 2013
in Paris, Kentucky, USA
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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.

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Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror
Title: Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: February 7, 2019
Type: Movie
Delving into a century of genre films that by turns utilized, caricatured, exploited, sidelined, and finally embraced them, this is the untold history of black Americans in Hollywood through their connection to the horror genre.
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Kings of Cult
Title: Kings of Cult
Character: (archive footage)
Released: September 2, 2015
Type: Movie
Feature Length sit down with Charles Band and Roger Corman.
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Afro Ninja
Title: Afro Ninja
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
This homage to martial arts legend Jim Kelly is based on a hugely successful YouTube video. Reggie's got a dead end job, a cruel boss, and no real prospects. Until he uncovers a pair of magic nun-chucks that gives him karate superpowers and set Reggie up for a battle with the evil Kung Fu Master.
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Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted
Title: Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 2004
Type: Movie
Written, directed, and produced by David Walker, MACKED, HAMMERED, SLAUGHTERED, & SHAFTED is an insightful examination of the blaxploitation film movement of the 1970s. Featuring interviews with key actors and filmmakers, the documentary explores the origins of blaxploitation, and the controversial history of Hollywood's most misunderstood genre.
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BaadAsssss Cinema
Title: BaadAsssss Cinema
Character: Self
Released: August 14, 2002
Type: Movie
With archive film clips and interviews, this brief look at a frequently overlooked historical period of filmmaking acts as an introduction rather than a complete record. It features interviews with some of the genre's biggest stars, like Fred Williamson, Pam Grier, and Richard Roundtree. Director Melvin Van Peebles discusses the historical importance of his landmark film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. For a contemporary perspective, the excitable Quentin Tarantino offers his spirited commentary and author/critic bell hooks provides some scholarly social analysis.
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Bruce Lee: In His Own Words
Title: Bruce Lee: In His Own Words
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: July 1, 1998
Type: Movie
A collection of old interviews with Bruce Lee show us his beliefs, thoughts on fighting and what martial arts means to him.
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Top Fighter
Title: Top Fighter
Character: Himself
Released: June 15, 1995
Type: Movie
Welcome to the world of the martial arts. A voyage for the times of the martial arts cinema, from the beginning in China in the 6th Century A.C. by a Buddhist monk, Bodhidharma, until the actual time and the influence in the world, with interviews to actors and historians, and a review to the most important movies of all times and to the most famous action movies actors. A magnificent jewel of this genre what nobody wouldn't lose.
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Afros, Macks & Zodiacs
Title: Afros, Macks & Zodiacs
Character: (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
A compilation of some of the best Black Action films of the 70s! Hosted by Mr. Dolemite himself... RUDY RAY MOORE!
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Ultimatum
Title: Ultimatum
Character: Executive
Released: February 23, 1994
Type: Movie
Dina Bonnevie played a Filipina working with a US-based chemical company which sent a team to the Philippines to check a branch here. Eddie Garcia played the Chief of Police assigned to protect the chemical company's visiting group which fell victim to a terrorist gang headed by Vernon Wells. Eddie was only too obsessed to save the chemical company group because Dina happened to be his girlfriend, who, against Eddie's wishes, had gone to the U.S.A. for greener pastures.
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Stranglehold
Title: Stranglehold
Character: Executive #4
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Deep inside the nation's top chemical weapons facility, a brilliant terrorist takes a Congresswoman hostage. The Navy can't stop him. The Air Force can't reach him. The Coast Guard can't kill him. Only one man can do the job: special agent Ryan Cooper. He's in a race against time to save the world, facing his greatest challenge yet!
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Death by Misadventure: The Mysterious Life of Bruce Lee
Title: Death by Misadventure: The Mysterious Life of Bruce Lee
Character: Himself
Released: December 31, 1993
Type: Movie
Death by Misadventure: The Mysterious Life of Bruce Lee exposes the truth behind Lee's death and the cover-up that ensued.
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Title: Highway to Heaven
Released: September 19, 1984
Type: TV
A probationary angel is sent back to Earth to team up with an ex-cop and help people.
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Bruce Lee: The Legend
Title: Bruce Lee: The Legend
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
The Official Golden Harvest tribute to the Master of the Martial Arts Film, Bruce Lee.
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One Down, Two to Go
Title: One Down, Two to Go
Character: Chuck
Released: November 19, 1982
Type: Movie
A pair of tough cops go after the mob who jinxed the martial arts tournament and injured their buddy.
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The Tattoo Connection
Title: The Tattoo Connection
Character: Lucas
Released: July 27, 1978
Type: Movie
When a diamond is stolen in Hong Kong, the company insuring the diamond sends a former CIA agent to Hong Kong to retrieve it. Meanwhile, one of the thieves begins to have a change of heart because his girlfriend wants him to leave his criminal organization.
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Death Dimension
Title: Death Dimension
Character: Lt. Detective J. Ash
Released: July 1, 1978
Type: Movie
The Pig has a plan to eradicate some people with a freeze bomb that instantly freezes people to death. It is up to Detective Ash to stop him and protect the woman with the secret to the ice bomb embedded in a microdot under the skin of her forehead.
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Mr. No Legs
Title: Mr. No Legs
Released: May 1, 1978
Type: Movie
A double amputee known as Mr. No Legs oversees a drug syndicate while cavorting around in his double shotgun-equipped wheelchair. When one of the syndicate's drug dealers accidentally kills his own girlfriend—whose brother is a cop—after she announces plans to leave him, the game is on to bury the evidence, protect the syndicate and evade the long arm of the law.
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Black Samurai
Title: Black Samurai
Character: Robert Sand
Released: December 22, 1976
Type: Movie
When the daughter of the royal family is held hostage, an agent for "D.R.A.G.O.N." will stop at nothing to destroy the evil organisation which abducted her.
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Hot Potato
Title: Hot Potato
Character: Jones
Released: April 9, 1976
Type: Movie
Martial-arts expert tries to rescue an ambassador's daughter who was kidnapped in Thailand.
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Take a Hard Ride
Title: Take a Hard Ride
Character: Kashtok
Released: October 29, 1975
Type: Movie
After his cattle rancher boss dies, right-hand man Pike is given the job of returning $86,000 to some families who live across the border in Senora, Mexico. Honest Pike is joined on the trip through the wilderness by a dishonest gambler named Tyree.
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Golden Needles
Title: Golden Needles
Character: Jeff
Released: July 17, 1974
Type: Movie
An ancient Asian statue with the power to grant health and long life via secret acupuncture points is being pursued by a wealthy criminal, but his plans are put in peril when a slovenly detective is tasked with protecting the relic.
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Three the Hard Way
Title: Three the Hard Way
Character: Mister Keyes
Released: June 26, 1974
Type: Movie
A record producer, a PR man, and a black belt in karate foil a white supremacist plot to poison the water supply.
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Black Belt Jones
Title: Black Belt Jones
Character: Black Belt Jones
Released: January 28, 1974
Type: Movie
Jones is a secret agent who has gone into semi-retirement, concentrating instead on teaching the martial arts to inner city youths. The karate school is run by a kindly old coot named Pops ,played by Scatman Crothers. His gambling debts, however, bring the local thug, Pinky, down on him. To make matters worse, Pinky is then hired by some white thugs who want to get a hold of the property Pops' school occupies so they can build a shopping mall. When things get heavy, Black Belt Jones leaps into action. Only he's not alone. Pops' daughter, Sidney, shows up to lend a hand, proving herself every bit as agile and powerful a martial artist as Jones.
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Enter the Dragon
Title: Enter the Dragon
Character: Williams
Released: August 17, 1973
Type: Movie
A martial artist agrees to spy on a reclusive crime lord using his invitation to a tournament there as cover.
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Location: Hong Kong with Enter the Dragon
Title: Location: Hong Kong with Enter the Dragon
Character: Self
Released: August 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Promotional film on the making of 'Enter the Dragon.'
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Melinda
Title: Melinda
Character: Charles Atkins
Released: August 6, 1972
Type: Movie
A slick, smooth-talking, womanizing young black DJ falls hard for an enigmatic woman he's just met. Things take a turn for the worse, though, when she is found dead in his apartment. It turns out that she was killed by the local mob, which is trying to frame him for the crime. With the police after him, he calls on some of his old acquaintances to help clear his name and avenge the woman's death.