Kurt McKinney: Kurt McKinney. Actor: No Retreat, No Surrender. Kurt McKinney originally hails from Louisville, Kentucky. At the age of 21 he was already a black belt in Taekwondo and an amateur Kickboxer . He decided to become an actor and moved to Hollywood. He would go on to star in the 1985 film No Retreat No Surrender as the lead. The film, one of the 1st Hong Kong-U.S. crossovers (written by...