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Jim Kelly, right, with John Saxon in "Enter the Dragon."
Jim Kelly, an African American actor and martial arts expert who starred opposite Bruce Lee in “Enter the Dragon,” has died at the age of 67.
Kelly, whose credits also included the "blaxploitation" films “Black Belt Jones” and “Three the Hard Way,” died Saturday in San Diego, said his ex-wife, Marilyn Dishman. No cause of death was disclosed.
"I broke down the color barrier -- I was the first black martial artist to become a movie star," Kelly told the Los Angeles Times in 2010. “It's amazing to see how many people still remember that, because I haven't really done much, in terms of movies, in a long time."
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