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David Patrick Kelly (born January 23, 1951) is an American
United States

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 actor and musician who has appeared in numerous films, including some major roles.

y, one of seven children, was born in Detroit, Michigan
Detroit, Michigan

Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Wayne County, Michigan. Detroit is a major port city on the Detroit River, in the Midwestern United States of the United States....
, the son of Margaret and Robert Corby Kelly, a painter and art instructor who retired as an accountant for the Avon Tubing Company. He is well-known for playing Luther in the 1979 cult film
Cult film

A 'cult film' is a film that has acquired a highly devoted but relatively small group of fan . Often, cult movies have failed to achieve fame outside of the small fanbases; however, there have been exceptions that have managed to gain fame amongst mainstream audiences, including Carnival of Souls , Easy Rider , 2001: A Space Odyssey...
 The Warriors, where he screeches the famous line, "Warriors...






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David Patrick Kelly (born January 23, 1951) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 actor and musician who has appeared in numerous films, including some major roles.

Biography

Kelly, one of seven children, was born in Detroit, Michigan
Detroit, Michigan

Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Wayne County, Michigan. Detroit is a major port city on the Detroit River, in the Midwestern United States of the United States....
, the son of Margaret and Robert Corby Kelly, a painter and art instructor who retired as an accountant for the Avon Tubing Company. He is well-known for playing Luther in the 1979 cult film
Cult film

A 'cult film' is a film that has acquired a highly devoted but relatively small group of fan . Often, cult movies have failed to achieve fame outside of the small fanbases; however, there have been exceptions that have managed to gain fame amongst mainstream audiences, including Carnival of Souls , Easy Rider , 2001: A Space Odyssey...
 The Warriors, where he screeches the famous line, "Warriors... come out to play-ee-ay!!"; he also played a character named Luther in the 1982 hit film 48 Hrs.
48 Hrs.

48 Hrs. is a 1982 in film Action film comedy film directed by Walter Hill , starring Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy as a cop and convict, respectively, who team up to catch a cop-killer....


His film credits include Commando
Commando (film)

Commando is a 1985 in film Cinema of the United States action film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. The film's use of humor in an action film context became a distinctive element in Schwarzenegger's later roles....
, Crooklyn
Crooklyn

Crooklyn is a 1994 in film semi-autobiographical film screenwriter and film director by Spike Lee. The film takes place in Brooklyn, New York during the 1970s....
, Hammett, Wild at Heart
Wild at Heart (film)

Wild at Heart is a 1990 in film Cinema of the United States written and directed by David Lynch, and based on Barry Gifford's pulp magazine novel Wild at Heart ....
, The Crow
The Crow (film)

The Crow is a 1994 in film Cinema of the United States action film-thriller film film adaptation of the 1989 The Crow by James O'Barr. The film was adapted by David J....
, Dreamscape
Dreamscape (film)

Dreamscape is a 1984 in film science fiction film directed by Joseph Ruben and written by David Loughery, with Chuck Russell and Ruben co-writing....
, The Adventures of Ford Fairlane
The Adventures of Ford Fairlane

The Adventures of Ford Fairlane is a 1990 in film Cinema of the United States action film/comedy film starring comedian Andrew Dice Clay as Ford Fairlane, a private detective whose beat is the music industry in Los Angeles....
, Last Man Standing
Last Man Standing (film)

Last Man Standing is a 1996 in film action film written and directed by Walter Hill , starring Bruce Willis, Christopher Walken, and Bruce Dern....
, "Songcatcher", K-PAX
K-PAX (film)

K-PAX is a 2002 in film science fiction film drama film about a mental patient who claims to be an alien. During his treatment, the patient/alien, "prot", demonstrates an outlook on life that ultimately proves inspirational for his fellow patients and especially for his psychiatrist....
, The Longest Yard
The Longest Yard (2005 film)

The Longest Yard is a 2005 American sports film comedy film, a remake of the 1974 film of the The Longest Yard . The movie features inmates at a prison who play American football against their guards....
, and Flags of Our Fathers
Flags of Our Fathers (film)

Flags of Our Fathers is a 2006 in film Cinema of the United States war film directed, co-produced and scored by Clint Eastwood and written by William Broyles, Jr....
.

His largest television role was Jerry Horne on Twin Peaks
Twin Peaks

Twin Peaks was a television serial drama created by David Lynch and Mark Frost. The series follows the investigation, headed by Special Agent Dale Cooper , of the brutal murder of a popular and respected teenager and homecoming queen, Laura Palmer ....
; his television guest appearances include Miami Vice
Miami Vice

Miami Vice is an United States of America television series produced by Michael Mann for NBC. The show became noted for its heavy integration and use of music and visual effects to tell a story....
, Moonlighting
Moonlighting (TV series)

Moonlighting is an United States television series that first aired on American Broadcasting Company from 1985 to 1989 with a total of 67 episodes....
, Spenser: For Hire
Spenser: For Hire

Spenser: For Hire is a Mystery fiction television program based on Robert B. Parker's "Spenser " novels. As is typical, the series, developed for TV by John Wilder, differs from the novels, mostly in its lesser degree of detail....
, Ghostwriter
Ghostwriter (TV series)

Ghostwriter is a television program co-produced by the Sesame Workshop and the BBC, originally aired on Public Broadcasting Service in the United States from October 1992 to February 1995....
, Third Watch
Third Watch

Third Watch was an NBC television drama set in New York City that ran from September 23, 1999 to May 6, 2005....
, Hack
Hack

Hack may refer to:* Hack , a term used in the technology and computer science fields* Hack , a row of stacked unfired bricks protected from the rain...
, Kidnapped
Kidnapped

Kidnapped may refer to:* the crime of kidnappingIn books:* Kidnapped , a book by Robert Louis Stevenson which has been adapted a number of times in different media...
, and Law & Order
Law & Order

Law & Order is an United States police procedural and legal drama Television program created by Dick Wolf. It has been broadcast on NBC since its debut on September 13, 1990....
.

Onstage Kelly has played some of the greatest roles in the World Classical canon on Broadway
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
 and at leading theatres throughout the USA. He has frequently appeared at the Hartford Stage Company
Hartford Stage

Hartford Stage, located in Hartford, Connecticut, is one of the leading resident theatres in the nation, known internationally for entertaining and enlightening audiences with a wide range of the best of world drama, from classics to provocative new plays and musicals and neglected works from the past....
 in Hartford, Connecticut
Hartford, Connecticut

Hartford is the Capital of the Connecticut. It is located in Hartford County, Connecticut on the Connecticut River, north of the center of the state, south of Springfield, Massachusetts....
 starring in the title roles in Woyzeck
Woyzeck

Woyzeck is a stage play written by Georg B?chner. He left the work incomplete at his death, but it has been variously and posthumously "finished" by a variety of authors, editors and translators....
 and Tartuffe
Tartuffe

Tartuffe is a comedy by Moli?re, and arguably his most famous play. It was written and first performed in 1664 at the f?tes held at Versailles, and almost immediately censorship by the outcry of the D?vots , who were very influential in the court of King Louis XIV....
, playing Iago
Iago

Iago is a fictional character in Shakespeare's Othello . The character's source is traced to Cinthio's tale "Un Capitano Moro" in Gli Hecatommithi ....
 in Othello
Othello

Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on the Italian language short story "Un Capitano Moro" by Cinthio first published in 1565....
 and Hoss in Sam Shepard
Sam Shepard

Samuel Shepard Rogers III is an American playwright, and actor, director of stage and film. He is author of several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play, Buried Child....
's Tooth Of Crime. At the American Repertory Theatre
American Repertory Theatre

The American Repertory Theatre is housed in the Loeb Drama Center at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1980 by Robert Brustein as a break off group from the Yale Repertory Theatre after a bitter dispute between Yale University and the long-established Yale company....
 in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England....
, he played the title role in Pirandello's Enrico IV
Enrico IV

Henry IV is a play by Luigi Pirandello, considered by some to be his masterpiece. Written in just two weeks in 1921 and first performed in 1922 in literature#New drama, it studies the comedy and tragedy of madness and is based on Pirandello?s experiences with his wife who struggled with the disease all her life....
 and starred in an adaption of the Yuan Dynasty
Yuan Dynasty

The Yuan Dynasty , or Great Yuan Empire was both the continuation of the Mongol Empire and the Mongol founded historical state in Mongolia and China, lasting officially from 1271 to 1368....
 Chinese classic Snow In June. On Broadway he played Feste
Feste

Feste is a jester in the Shakespeare comedy Twelfth Night . He is attached to the household of the Countess Olivia. Apparently he has been there for quite a while, as he was a "fool that the Lady Olivia's father took much delight in" ....
 in the Lincoln Center production of Twelfth Night. He appeared in four plays by avant garde master Richard Foreman
Richard Foreman

Richard Foreman is an American playwright and avant-garde theater pioneer; he is the founder of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater....
: Pearls For Pigs, The Mind King, Film Is Evil/Radio Is Good, and The Cure. In 1998 he received an Obie Award
Obie Award

The Obie Awards or Off-Broadway Theater Awards are annual awards bestowed by The Village Voice newspaper to theater artists in New York City....
 for Sustained Excellence.

As a composer and musician he participated in New York's rock and cabaret scene playing such legendary venues as Max's Kansas City
Max's Kansas City

Max's Kansas City was a nightclub and restaurant at 213 Park Avenue South, between 17th and 18th Streets, in New York City that was a gathering spot for musicians, poets, artists and politicians in the 1960s and 1970s....
, Reno Sweeney's, CBGB
CBGB

CBGB was a music club at 315 Bowery at Bleecker Street in the Borough of Manhattan in New York City. Founded by Hilly Kristal in 1973, it was originally intended to feature its namesake musical styles, but became a forum for American punk rock and punk-influenced bands like Ramones, Misfits , Television , the Patti Smith, Willy Deville, The...
, and The Lower Manhattan Ocean Club. In May 2008 he released a CD of his original music entitled "David Patrick Kelly : Rip Van Boy Man" containing new songs and live recordings from his club days in 1975.

He married theater actress/writer Juliana Francis
Juliana Francis

Juliana Francis, also known as Julianna Francis or Juliana Francis-Kelly, is an American playwright and actress. She is the recipient of an OBIE award for her performance in Richard Foreman's Maria Del Bosco, and a Dramalogue Award for Reza Abdoh's The Hip-hop Waltz of Eurydice....
 on August 14, 2005. Kelly is an avid martial artist with a Second Degree Black Belt (Nidan Rank) in Seido Karate and a practitioner of three forms of Tai Chi (Chen, Yang, Palm).

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