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George Kennedy

George Kennedy

Actor · Born 1925-02-18 · New York City, New York, USA

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Biography

George Kennedy (February 18, 1925 — February 28, 2016) was a European-American businessman, entrepreneur, A World War II veteran, actor, adviser, radio dj, and author. Kennedy at one stage in his career cornered the market at playing tough, no-nonsense characters who were either quite crooked or possessed hearts of gold. Kennedy notched up an impressive 200+ appearances in both TV and film, and was well respected within the Hollywood community. He started out in TV westerns in the late 1950s and early 1960s: Have Gun - Will Travel (1957), Rawhide (1959), Maverick (1957), Colt .45 (1957), among others; before scoring minor roles in films including Lonely Are the Brave (1962), The Sons of Katie Elder (1965) and The Flight of the Phoenix (1965). The late 1960s was a very busy period for Kennedy, and he was strongly in favor with casting agents, appearing in Hurry Sundown (1967), The Dirty Dozen (1967) and scoring an Oscar win as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Cool Hand Luke (1967). The disaster film boom of the 1970s was kind to Kennedy, too, and his talents were in demand for Airport(1970) and the three subsequent sequels, as a grizzled cop in Earthquake (1974), plus t…

Movies & TV Shows

  1. The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) — Ed Hocken
  2. The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991) — Ed Hocken
  3. Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994) — Ed Hocken
  4. Small Soldiers (1998) — Brick Bazooka (voice)
  5. Cool Hand Luke (1967) — Dragline
  6. The Gambler (2014) — Ed
  7. Charade (1963) — Herman Scobie
  8. The Dirty Dozen (1967) — Major Max Armbruster
  9. Death on the Nile (1978) — Andrew Pennington
  10. Creepshow 2 (1987) — Ray Spruce
  11. Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) — Red Leary
  12. View from the Top (2003) — Passenger Requesting Vodka (uncredited)
  13. The Delta Force (1986) — Father O'Malley
  14. Saturday Night Live (1975) — Self - Host
  15. Bonanza (1959) — Waldo Watson
  16. The Eiger Sanction (1975) — Ben Bowman
  17. Airport (1970) — Joe Patroni
  18. The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) — Bellamy
  19. Earthquake (1974) — Sgt. Lew Slade
  20. Airport '77 (1977) — Joe Patroni
  21. The Sons of Katie Elder (1965) — Curley
  22. Airport 1975 (1974) — Joe Patroni
  23. Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) — Foreman
  24. The Boston Strangler (1968) — Det. Phil DiNatale
  25. Dallas (1978) — Carter McKay
  26. Dennis the Menace Strikes Again! (1998) — Mr. Johnson
  27. The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979) — Joe Patroni
  28. Cats Don't Dance (1997) — L.B. Mammoth (voice)
  29. Lonely are the Brave (1962) — Deputy Sheriff Gutierrez
  30. The Andy Griffith Show (1960) — State Police Detective
  31. Shenandoah (1965) — Col. Fairchild
  32. Death Ship (1980) — Captain Ashland
  33. In Harm's Way (1965) — Colonel Gregory
  34. Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993) — Self - Guest
  35. Cahill: United States Marshal (1973) — Abe Fraser
  36. Just Before Dawn (1981) — Roy McLean
  37. Don't Come Knocking (2005) — Director
  38. Wings (1990) — George Kennedy
  39. Perry Mason (1957) — George Spangler
  40. Brain Dead (1990) — Vance