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person_profile-Edgar Kennedy

Edgar Kennedy Died at age: 58

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Edgar Kennedy

Date of Birth:

Apr 25, 1890

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Nov 09, 1948

Biography of

Edgar Kennedy

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Edgar Livingston Kennedy (April 26, 1890 – November 9, 1948) was an American comedic film character actor, known as "Slow Burn". A slow burn is an exasperated facial expression, performed very deliberately; Kennedy embellished this by rubbing his hand over his bald head and across his face, in an attempt to hold his temper. Kennedy is best known for a small role as a lemonade vendor in the Marx Brothers film Duck Soup, as well as the many Hal Roach films he appeared in.

    Kennedy became so identified with frustration that practically every studio hired him to play hotheads. He often played dumb cops, detectives, and even a prison warden; sometimes he was a grouchy moving man, truck driver, or blue-collar workman. His character usually lost his temper at least once. In Diplomaniacs, Kennedy presides over an international tribunal, where Wheeler & Woolsey want to do something about world peace. "Well, ya can't do anything about it here", yells Kennedy, "this is a peace conference!" Kennedy, established as the poster boy for frustration, even starred in an instructional film titled The Other Fellow, in which loudmouthed roadhog Edgar always vents his anger on other drivers (each one played by Kennedy as well), little realizing that, to them, he is "the other fellow."

    Perhaps his most unusual roles were as a puppeteer in the detective mystery The Falcon Strikes Back and as a philosophical bartender inspired to create exotic cocktails in Harold Lloyd's last film, The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947). He also played comical detectives opposite two titans of acting: John Barrymore in Twentieth Century (1934) and Rex Harrison in Unfaithfully Yours (1948); in the latter, he tells conductor Harrison that "Nobody handles Handel like you handle Handel."

    Kennedy died of throat cancer at the Motion Picture Hospital, San Fernando Valley on 9 November 1948. His body was interred at the Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California.

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Edgar Kennedy

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Filmography of

Edgar Kennedy

Found 104 Movies in total

The Our Gang Story

Officer (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2001

When Comedy Was King

edited from 'A Pair of Tights' (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1960

The Golden Age of Comedy

archive footage ( Actor )

... 1957

My Dream Is Yours

Uncle Charlie ( Actor )

... 1949

Unfaithfully Yours

Sweeney ( Actor )

... 1948

Variety Time

Edgar Kennedy (footage from 'I'll Build It Myself') (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1948

Heaven Only Knows

Judd ( Actor )

... 1947

The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

Jake the Bartender ( Actor )

... 1947

Captain Tugboat Annie

Captain Bullwinkle ( Actor )

... 1945

Anchors Aweigh

Police Captain ( Actor )

... 1945

The Great Alaskan Mystery

Bosun Higgins ( Actor )

... 1944

It Happened Tomorrow

Insp. Mulrooney ( Actor )

... 1944

Crazy House

Judge ( Actor )

... 1943

The Girl from Monterrey

Doc Hogan, Fight Promoter ( Actor )

... 1943

Hitler's Madman

Nepomuk - the Hermit ( Actor )

... 1943

Air Raid Wardens

Joe Bledsoe ( Actor )

... 1943

The Falcon Strikes Back

Smiley Dugan ( Actor )

... 1943

Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher

Police Chief Murphy ( Actor )

... 1943

There's One Born Every Minute

Mayor Moe Carson ( Actor )

... 1942

In Old California

Kegs McKeever ( Actor )

... 1942

Pardon My Stripes

Warden Bingham ( Actor )

... 1942

Private Snuffy Smith

Sgt. Ed Cooper ( Actor )

... 1942

Blondie in Society

Dr. Glenn ( Actor )

... 1941

Remedy for Riches

George Browning ( Actor )

... 1940

Li'l Abner

Cornelius Cornpone ( Actor )

... 1940

Sandy Gets Her Man

Fire Chief Galvin ( Actor )

... 1940

Who Killed Aunt Maggie?

Sheriff Gregory ( Actor )

... 1940

The Quarterback

Pops ( Actor )

... 1940

Margie

Chauncey ( Actor )

... 1940

Dr. Christian Meets the Women

George Browning ( Actor )

... 1940

Sandy Is a Lady

Officer Rafferty ( Actor )

... 1940

Charlie McCarthy, Detective

Inspector Dailey ( Actor )

... 1939

Little Accident

Paper Hanger ( Actor )

... 1939

Everything's on Ice

Joe Barton ( Actor )

... 1939

It's a Wonderful World

Lieutenant Miller ( Actor )

... 1939

Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus

Arthur Bailey ( Actor )

... 1938

Hey! Hey! USA

Bugs Leary ( Actor )

... 1938

Scandal Street

Daniel Webster Smith ( Actor )

... 1938

The Black Doll

Sheriff Renick ( Actor )

... 1938

Hollywood Hotel

Callaghan ( Actor )

... 1938

True Confession

Darsey ( Actor )

... 1937

Double Wedding

Spike ( Actor )

... 1937

Super-Sleuth

Police Lt. Garrison ( Actor )

... 1937

A Star Is Born

Pop Randall ( Actor )

... 1937

When's Your Birthday?

Mr. Basscombe ( Actor )

... 1937

Three Men on a Horse

Harry, the Bartender ( Actor )

... 1936

Mad Holiday

Donovan ( Actor )

... 1936

Yours for the Asking

Bicarbonate ( Actor )

... 1936

San Francisco

Sheriff ( Actor )

... 1936

Fatal Lady

Rudolf Hochstetter ( Actor )

... 1936

Small Town Girl

Captain Mack ( Actor )

... 1936

Robin Hood of El Dorado

Sheriff Judd ( Actor )

... 1936

The Bride Comes Home

Henry ( Actor )

... 1935

$1,000 a Minute

Police Officer McCarthy ( Actor )

... 1935

Little Big Shot

Onderdonk ( Actor )

... 1935

Woman Wanted

Sweeney ( Actor )

... 1935

The Cowboy Millionaire

Willy 'Persimmon' Bates ( Actor )

... 1935

Living on Velvet

Counterman ( Actor )

... 1935

Rendezvous at Midnight

Mahoney ( Actor )

... 1935

The Silver Streak

O'Brien ( Actor )

... 1934

Flirting with Danger

Jimmie Pierson ( Actor )

... 1934

The Marines Are Coming

Sgt. Buck Martin ( Actor )

... 1934

Kid Millions

Herman Wilson ( Actor )

... 1934

Gridiron Flash

Officer Thurston ( Actor )

... 1934

King Kelly of the U.S.A.

Happy Moran ( Actor )

... 1934

We're Rich Again

Healy, Process Server ( Actor )

... 1934

Murder on the Blackboard

Detective Donahue ( Actor )

... 1934

Money Means Nothing

Herbert Green ( Actor )

... 1934

Twentieth Century

Oscar McGonigle ( Actor )

... 1934

Heat Lightning

Herbert - the Husband ( Actor )

... 1934

All of Me

Guard (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1934

King for a Night

Cop ( Actor )

... 1933

Duck Soup

Street Vendor ( Actor )

... 1933

Tillie and Gus

Judge ( Actor )

... 1933

Professional Sweetheart

Tim Kelsey ( Actor )

... 1933

Cross Fire

Ed Wimpy ( Actor )

... 1933

Son of the Border

Windy ( Actor )

... 1933

Diplomaniacs

Chairman - Peace Conference ( Actor )

... 1933

Scarlet River

Sam Gilroy ( Actor )

... 1933

The Penguin Pool Murder

Officer Donovan ( Actor )

... 1932

Rockabye

Water Wagon Driver (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1932

Little Orphan Annie

Daddy Warbucks ( Actor )

... 1932

Hold 'Em Jail

Warden Elmer Jones ( Actor )

... 1932

Westward Passage

Elmer ( Actor )

... 1932

Carnival Boat

Baldy ( Actor )

... 1932

Bad Company

Buffington-Doorman ( Actor )

... 1931

Quick Millions

Cop (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1931

Welcome Danger

SFPD Desk Sergeant (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1929

They Had to See Paris

Ed Eggers ( Actor )

... 1929

Trent's Last Case

Inspector Murch ( Actor )

... 1929

The Chinese Parrot

Maydorf ( Actor )

... 1927

The Wrong Mr. Wright

Trayguard ( Actor )

... 1927

Finger Prints

O.K. McDuff (as Ed Kennedy) ( Actor )

... 1927

Going Crooked

Detective ( Actor )

... 1926

The Better 'Ole

Corporal Austin ( Actor )

... 1926

Across the Pacific

Cpl. Ryan ( Actor )

... 1926

... 1926

The Trouble With Wives

Detective (as Edward Kennedy) ( Actor )

... 1925

Paths to Paradise

Detective (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1925

Racing for Life

Tom Grady ( Actor )

... 1924

The Battling Fool

Dan O'Leary (as Ed Kennedy) ( Actor )

... 1924

Yankee Doodle in Berlin

German Prison Guard (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1919

Tillie's Punctured Romance

Restaurant Owner / Banks' Butler (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1914