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David Patrick Kelly
Highest Rated: 100% Fugitive Dreams (2020)
Lowest Rated: 22% Asking for It (2021)
Birthday: Jan 23, 1951
Birthplace: Detroit, Michigan, USA
Stage-trained character player of film and TV whose beady-eyed intensity and small wiry physique made him perfect for playing ferret-like punks and psychos in Hollywood genre films. Kelly trained with Stella Adler, studied mime with Marcel Marceau, and racked up NYC stage credits in musicals, dramas, and experimental theater. But film producer Joel Silver looked at him and saw a rat and cast him accordingly in Walter Hill's "The Warriors" (1979) and "48 Hrs." (1982), "Commando" (1985), and "The Adventures of Ford Fairlane" (1990). As Luther in "The Warriors" ("Warriors ... come out to play!" he crooned), Kelly committed the assassination for which the heroes are blamed and chased across the city. As Sully in "Commando," Arnold Schwarzenegger's character likes him so much that he promises to kill him last. (He lied.)
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 100% | Adieu Lacan | Lacan (Character) | - | 2022 |
| 22% | 60% | Asking for It | Unknown (Character) | - | 2021 |
| 100% | 70% | Fugitive Dreams | Henri Gatien (Character) | - | 2020 |
| 83% | 62% | VFW | Doug McCarthy (Character) | - | 2019 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Metronome (In Time) | Old Man (Character) | - | 2019 |
| 89% | 67% | O.G. | Larry (Character) | - | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | To Keep the Light | Brackett (Character) | - | 2016 |
| 82% | 53% | Chi-Raq | Major King Kong (Character) | $2.6M | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | 7% | Madso's War | Danny Driscoll (Character) | - | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | Gardener of Eden | Pa Harris (Character) | - | 2007 |
| 76% | 69% | Flags of Our Fathers | Harry S. Truman (Character) | $33.6M | 2006 |
| 31% | 62% | The Longest Yard | Unger (Character) | $158.1M | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Justice | Marty (Character) | - | 2003 |
| 69% | 61% | Personal Velocity: Three Portraits | Peter (Character) | $763.2K | 2002 |
| 42% | 74% | K-PAX | Howie (Character) | $50.3M | 2001 |
| 74% | 77% | Songcatcher | Earl Giddens (Character) | $3.1M | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Twelfth Night, or What You Will | Feste (Character) | - | 1998 |
| 88% | 69% | Flirting With Disaster | Fritz Boudreau (Character) | $14.8M | 1996 |
| 42% | 51% | Last Man Standing | Doyle (Character) | $18.1M | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cafe Society | J. Roland Sala (Character) | - | 1995 |
| 79% | 90% | Crooklyn |
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$12.8M | 1994 |
| 84% | 90% | The Crow | T-Bird (Character) | $47.3M | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Exterior Night | Biff (Character) | - | 1993 |
| 25% | 67% | The Adventures of Ford Fairlane | Sam (Character) | $19.9M | 1990 |
| 25% | 58% | Penn & Teller Get Killed | The Fan (Character) | - | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cheap Shots | Arnold Posner (Character) | $1.4K | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | 39% | Wheels of Terror | The Legionnaire (Character) | - | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Misfit Brigade | The Legionnaire (Character) | - | 1987 |
| 67% | 68% | Commando | Sully (Character) | $34.9M | 1985 |
| 79% | 46% | Dreamscape | Tommy Ray Glatman (Character) | - | 1984 |
| 77% | 62% | Hammett | The Punk (Character) | - | 1982 |
| 92% | 69% | 48 HRS. | Luther (Character) | - | 1982 |
| 88% | 88% | The Warriors | Luther (Character) | - | 1979 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 94% | 83% | Twin Peaks: The Return | Jerry Horne (Guest Star) | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | 80% | Blue Bloods | Donald Berry (Guest Star) | 2015 |
| 78% | 81% | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Orville Underwood (Guest Star) | 2011 |
| 93% | 95% | Louie | Therapist (Guest Star) | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | 71% | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Bo Levy (Guest Star) | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | 83% | Law & Order | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2008 |
| 20% | No Score Yet | Hack | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2002 |
| 78% | 92% | Twin Peaks | Jerry Horne (Guest Star) | 1990-1991 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Spenser: For Hire | Unknown (Character) | 1987 |
| 71% | 85% | Miami Vice | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1985 |
| 92% | No Score Yet | The Beat | Unknown (Guest Star) |