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Ryan James originally burst onto the movie scene as a sinewy and lean martial arts hero via two low budget South African financed martial arts movies titled Kill or Be Killed (1980), and the sequel Kill and Kill Again (1981). Both films were rather shoddy, mechanical productions...however the acrobatic Ryan had a certain appeal, and the movies were loaded with plenty of kicks and punches, plus they featured 8th Dan Shotokan karate expert Stan Schmidt and fellow South African 8th Dan judo / karate exponent Norman Robinson .....both members of the South African Martial Arts Hall of Fame.

Trivia

Author of "Screenwriting From The Heart." Raise on Long

Island, he began his acting career at the Williamstown

Theater Festival. He is a recepient of fellowships from

the National Endowement for the Arts, New York Foundation

for the Arts, McKnight Foundation, and the Drama League

Award. He is a Professor of Playwriting at the Actors

Studio School of Drama at the New School University.

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