David Patrick Kelly
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Compact, feisty and fierce character actor David
Patrick Kelly was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Margaret Elizabeth
(Murphy) and Robert Corby Kelly, Sr., an accountant. He burst onto the
acting scene in 1979, playing the devious leader of the
leather-clad gang "The Rogues" in
Walter Hill's controversial New York
City gang film The Warriors (1979).
Kelly's tight-lipped expressions and attitude that made him appear like
a grenade with the pin pulled, got him plenty of roles playing defiant
young men, often in trouble with authority. He locked horns with
Eddie Murphy and
Nick Nolte in
Walter Hill's fast-paced
48 Hrs. (1982), was dropped over a cliff
by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the
violent Commando (1985), was a member of
a trio of killers after
Harry Dean Stanton in
David Lynch's'
Wild at Heart (1990), and
played, T Bird, the leader of a gang of arsonist murderers in
The Crow (1994). His range of roles in a wide variety of genres has earned him great respect in Hollywood as he is a wonderfully
captivating actor. One of his most popular and influential performances came with the
unsettling screeching cries of "Warriors, come out to plaaayyy",
from his debut on-screen role!
