David Patrick Kelly

David Patrick Kelly ( born January 23, 1951 in Detroit ) is an American actor.

Biography

Kelly was born in 1951 in Detroit. He grew up in Michigan and graduated in 1970 at the Bishop Gallagher High School in Harper Woods, Michigan also. He played his first role in 1979 in Walter Hill 's controversial gang war film The Warriors. 1982 we see him in the hit movie 48 Hrs in a supporting role as a hoodlum and 1985 in a brief role as a gangster in the action movie Commando with Arnold Schwarzenegger. In the cult series Twin Peaks by David Lynch he played Jerry Horne. His most famous roles are the possibly of the T- Bird in the comic book adaptation The Crow and the former as gang leader " Doyle " in Last Man Standing. In addition, he starred in Flags of Our Fathers with. In 2001, he was next to Kevin Spacey in the science fiction film K -PAX - Everything is possible to see.

Kelly is also known as a theater actor. At some of the most famous in the United States Kelly played roles in classic plays. He played among other things, the main role in Woyzeck and Tartuffe and Iago in Othello. In 1998 he received an Obie Award for excellent long-lasting performance.

Kelly is an experienced mandolin and guitar player and occurs as a musician on the New York cabaret scene.

Since the 15th of August 2005 he is married to the writer and actress Juliana Francis.

Characteristics

He usually plays the role of a killer or a gang leader. In many of his films, he dies at the hands of the protagonist.

Miscellaneous

He holds the rank of Nidan - in Seido Karate and martial art practiced three forms of Taijiquan (Chen, Yang, Palm).