In 1929, Harry Kelly married Anne O'Brien and they had six children.

One of them was Brian Kelly, a television actor who is remembered for his role as Porter Ricks in the 1964 to 1967 NBC series "Flipper," which starred a bottlenose dolphin in the title role.

Brian Kelly served in the United States Marine Corps during the Korean War and graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1953. He went on to the University of Michigan Law School, but made a career turn into acting.

In a 1963 interview, Brian Kelly said in the days when his father was a prosecutor in Michigan, he had been the target of an assassination plot by a member of Detroit's famous Purple Gang.

"One of the gang escaped from prison, killed the judge who had sent him up and was finally captured near our home with a high-powered rifle trained on our backyard.

"My brother and sister and I were playing in the yard — but he was waiting only for my father to come out. Fortunately, he didn't."

Brian Kelly died Feb. 12, 2005. He was 73.