David Patrick Kelly

Moby ID: 33002

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Born in Detroit, Michigan, on January 19, 1952, David Patrick Kelly graduated from Bishop Gallagher High School in Harper Woods, Michigan, in 1970.

He is a skilled mandolin and guitar player and appears accompanying himself in Spike Lee's "Crooklyn" (1994) singing a song he improvised for the film and on the CDs for two Broadway shows, "Twelfth Night" and "Working".

He is an avid martial artist with a Second Degree Black Belt (Nidan Rank) in Seido Karate and a practioner of three forms of Tai Chi (Chen, Yang, Palm).

Compact, feisty & slightly crazy looking character actor, he burst onto the acting scene in 1979, playing the homicidal, but cowardly leader of the leather clad hoodlums "The Rogues" in Walter Hill's highly controversial NYC gang film "The Warriors" (1979).

Kelly's tight lipped expressions and looks that made him appear "like a grenade with the pin pulled", saw him score plenty of roles playing angry young men, often in trouble with authority. Kelly locked horns with Eddie Murphy & Nick Nolte in Walter Hill's fast paced "48 Hrs." (1982), was dropped over a cliff by Arnold Schwarzenegger in "Commando" (1985), was a member of a trio of killers after Harry Dean Stanton in David Lynch's "Wild at Heart" (1990), and again played a hoodlum in the ill fated "The Crow" (1994). He has landed a role in the upcoming film "The Longest Yard", scheduled for release in 2005.

[Source: imdb.com]

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