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.
IMDb Mini Biography By: firehouse44, corrected by SKBAuthor 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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