Martial Arts Legend Jim Kelly (1946-2013)

Martial Arts Legend Jim Kelly, best known for his work in Enter The Dragon and several blaxpliotation classics including Black Belt Jones and Three The Hard Way, has passed away on June 29th.

Kelly’s former wife Marilyn Dishman issued the following statement via Facebook:

‘Yesterday, June 29, 2013, James Milton Kelly, better known as Jim Kelly, the Karate expert, actor, my first husband and Sabrena Kelly-Lewis’s biological father died. Sabrena needs all of your good thoughts and prayers. This is a difficult situation to process. Even I am having trouble processing it. Like his mother, there will be no service!’

Jim Kelly was 67.