吉姆-凯利1946年5月生于肯塔基州，入行前是活跃的运动员，曾参加美式足球、棒球及田径队伍，1964年开始习武，考获空手道黑带后移居加州，赢得空手道比赛即转而希望加入影坛，踏入19...
可能人们更多认识他是从他出现在电影闪灵里的男配角。他还曾在影片飞越疯人院里饰演夜间看守，再度与杰克尼尔克森演对手戏。
Armed with an acid dry wit and a full arsenal of sarcasm and sass, African-American character comedienne Marla Gibbs showed up on 70s TV with a bang in middle age (44). Landing the feisty maid role on the popular ground-breaking CBS comedy, The Jeffersons (1975), eventually led to her very own sitcom, 227 (1985), a decade later and international celebrity. A divorced mother with three children (Angela Elayne Gibbs, Dorian, Joseph) at the time of her initial success, it was a job transfer from Detroit to Los Angeles, while working as a United Airlines reservation clerk, that set up this more-than-welcome surprise and change of destiny.
