Edgar Kennedy
Age: 58 | From: Monterey, California, USA
Person Details
Birthday: 1890-04-26 16:23:47
Death: 1948-11-09 16:23:47
Aliases: E. Livingston Kennedy , Ed. Kennedy , Edward Kennedy , Ed Kennedy
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Monterey, California, USA
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Movie Involvements: 78
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
Biography
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.
Most Famous Work
A Star Is Born
(1937) Pop Randall
San Francisco
(1936) Sheriff
In Old California
(1942) Kegs McKeever
The Falcon Strikes Back
(1943) Smiley Dugan
The Marines Are Coming
(1934) Sgt. Buck Martin
An Apple in His Eye
(1941) Edgar Kennedy
Robin Hood of El Dorado
(1936) Sheriff Judd
The Girl from Monterrey
(1943) Doc Hogan, Fight PromoterActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Officer (archive footage) | |
| 1960 | edited from 'A Pair of Tights' (archive footage) | |
| 1957 | archive footage | |
| 1949 | Uncle Charlie | |
| 1948 | Sweeney | |
| Edgar | ||
| Edgar Kennedy (footage from 'I'll Build It Myself') (archive footage) | ||
| Edgar Kennedy | ||
| Edgar Kennedy | ||
| 1947 | Judd | |
| Jake the Bartender | ||
| Edgar | ||
| 1946 | Edgar | |
| Edgar Kennedy | ||
| Edgar | ||
| 1945 | Captain Bullwinkle | |
| Edgar Kennedy | ||
| Edgar | ||
| Police Captain | ||
| Edgar Kennedy | ||
| Edgar Kennedy | ||
| 1944 | Edgar | |
| Bosun Higgins | ||
| Insp. Mulrooney | ||
| Edgar | ||
| Edgar | ||
| 1943 | Judge | |
| Doc Hogan, Fight Promoter | ||
| Nepomuk - the Hermit | ||
| Edgar | ||
| Joe Bledsoe | ||
| Smiley Dugan | ||
| Edgar | ||
| Police Chief Murphy | ||
| 1942 | Edgar | |
| Sgt. Homer Gatling | ||
| Mayor Moe Carson | ||
| Edgar | ||
| Kegs McKeever | ||
| Warden Bingham | ||
| Sgt. Ed Cooper | ||
| Edgar Kennedy | ||
| 1941 | Edgar | |
| Biff | ||
| Edgar | ||
| Edgar | ||
| Dr. Glenn | ||
| Edgar Kennedy | ||
| 1940 | Edgar Kennedy | |
| George Browning | ||
| Cornelius Cornpone | ||
| Fire Chief Galvin | ||
| Sheriff Gregory | ||
| Edgar Kennedy | ||
| Pops | ||
| Chauncey | ||
| Edgar | ||
| George Browning | ||
| Edgar | ||
| Officer Rafferty | ||
| Edgar Kennedy | ||
| 1939 | Inspector Dailey | |
| Edgar Kennedy | ||
| Judge John J. McGuinnis | ||
| Paper Hanger | ||
| Joe Barton | ||
| Edgar | ||
| Lieutenant Miller | ||
| Edgar Kennedy | ||
| Edgar | ||
| 1938 | Edgar | |
| Arthur Bailey | ||
| Edgar Kennedy | ||
| Bugs Leary | ||
| Daniel Webster Smith | ||
| Sheriff Renick | ||
| Edgar | ||
| Callaghan | ||
| 1937 | Darsey | |
| Edgar | ||
| Spike | ||
| Edgar | ||
| Police Lt. Garrison | ||
| Edgar Kennedy | ||
| Pop Randall | ||
| Edgar | ||
| Mr. Basscombe | ||
| Four Roles | ||
| 1936 | Harry, the Bartender | |
| Donovan | ||
| Edgar Kennedy | ||
| Bicarbonate | ||
| Edgar | ||
| Sheriff | ||
| Rudolf Hochstetter | ||
| Captain Mack | ||
| Sheriff Judd | ||
| Edgar Kennedy | ||
| Edgar Kennedy | ||
| 1935 | Henry | |
| Police Officer McCarthy | ||
| Onderdonk | ||
| Edgar Kennedy | ||
| Sweeney | ||
| Edgar | ||
| Edgar Kennedy | ||
| Willy 'Persimmon' Bates | ||
| Counterman | ||
| Mahoney | ||
| Edgar | ||
| 1934 | O'Brien | |
| Jimmie Pierson | ||
| Sgt. Buck Martin | ||
| Edgar Kennedy | ||
| Herman Wilson | ||
| Officer Thurston | ||
| Happy Moran | ||
| N/A | ||
| Healy, Process Server | ||
| Detective Donahue | ||
| Herbert Green | ||
| Edgar, Movie Director | ||
| Oscar McGonigle | ||
| Edgar | ||
| Herbert - the Husband | ||
| Guard (uncredited) | ||
| 1933 | Cop | |
| Street Vendor | ||
| Edgar | ||
| Judge | ||
| Edgar Kennedy | ||
| N/A | ||
| Tim Kelsey | ||
| Ed Wimpy | ||
| Windy | ||
| Chairman - Peace Conference | ||
| Edgar | ||
| Sam Gilroy | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1932 | Edgar Kennedy | |
| Officer Donovan | ||
| Water Wagon Driver (uncredited) | ||
| Daddy Warbucks | ||
| Warden Elmer Jones | ||
| Edgar | ||
| N/A | ||
| Elmer | ||
| N/A | ||
| Baldy | ||
| 1931 | Buffington-Doorman | |
| Cop (uncredited) | ||
| Thelma's Last Rescuer | ||
| Cop | ||
| Howard J. Green | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1930 | Man in Phone Booth | |
| Night Club Patron | ||
| Detective | ||
| Uncle Ed Sutton | ||
| Quimby the Lawyer (uncredited) | ||
| Mary's Father / Gertie's Uncle | ||
| Fiancee's Father | ||
| Officer Kennedy | ||
| Thelma's Father | ||
| Kennedy | ||
| Kennedy the Cop (uncredited) | ||
| Detective | ||
| Detective | ||
| Kennedy the Cop (uncredited) | ||
| Cicero the Cop | ||
| Kennedy the Cop (uncredited) | ||
| Station Master Kennedy (uncredited) | ||
| N/A | ||
| Officer Kennedy | ||
| 1929 | 2nd Sailor | |
| Landlord | ||
| Kennedy the Cop (uncredited) | ||
| Diner's Owner | ||
| Collis P. Kennedy | ||
| SFPD Desk Sergeant (uncredited) | ||
| Ed Eggers | ||
| Policeman | ||
| N/A | ||
| Uncle Edgar | ||
| Michael Kennedy | ||
| Judge Kennedy | ||
| Orchestra Leader | ||
| Officer Ed Kennedy | ||
| Officer Kennedy | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Marion's Boyfriend's Boss | ||
| Cop | ||
| 1928 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| The Cop | ||
| Motorist | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Golfer (uncredited) | ||
| N/A | ||
| Inspector Murch | ||
| N/A | ||
| The Husband, Mr Glenders | ||
| Cop (as Ed Kennedy) | ||
| A Photographer | ||
| The Cop | ||
| Cop | ||
| 1927 | Maydorf | |
| Trayguard | ||
| O.K. McDuff (as Ed Kennedy) | ||
| 1926 | Detective | |
| Corporal Austin | ||
| Cpl. Ryan | ||
| Bill Sproat | ||
| 1925 | N/A | |
| Detective (as Edward Kennedy) | ||
| Detective (uncredited) | ||
| 1924 | The Crook | |
| Tom Grady | ||
| Dan O'Leary (as Ed Kennedy) | ||
| 1923 | Ptomaine Tommy | |
| Hank Hall | ||
| 1921 | An American Tourist | |
| 1920 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| 1919 | Pete | |
| German Prison Guard (uncredited) | ||
| 1918 | N/A | |
| 1917 | Art Gallery Operator | |
| The Detective | ||
| 1916 | Tony Peanutty - Italian Ward Leader | |
| Peter X. Bush - Streetcar Superintendent | ||
| A City Chap | ||
| Diamond Dan - Jim's Rival | ||
| 1915 | Edgar | |
| Shell Game Operator | ||
| Suitor | ||
| Fatty's Pal | ||
| Cop | ||
| The Maid's Boyfriend | ||
| Diner / Man in Audience (uncredited) | ||
| Neighbor | ||
| Handout-Giver (uncredited) | ||
| 1st Street Crowd Participant (uncredited) | ||
| The cafe waiter (uncredited) | ||
| 2nd Thief | ||
| 1914 | Restaurant Owner / Banks' Butler (uncredited) | |
| Café Proprietor | ||
| Policeman (uncredited) | ||
| The Slicker's Chauffeur | ||
| Police Chief | ||
| Fatty's Neighbor | ||
| Ethel's Former Boyfriend | ||
| Policeman | ||
| Striking Baker | ||
| The Rival | ||
| The Wife's Brother | ||
| (uncredited) | ||
| The Sky Pirate | ||
| The Trouble Mender | ||
| Tough Hot Dog Customer (uncredited) | ||
| Cyclone Flynn (uncredited) | ||
| Cafe Proprietor (uncredited) | ||
| Lover | ||
| Spectator in Grandstand (uncredited) | ||
| Jealous Boyfriend | ||
| Landlady's Husband (uncredited) | ||
| Butler | ||
| Tough Guy in Bar | ||
| Dance Hall Manager (uncredited) | ||
| Director (uncredited) | ||
| Crook (uncredited) | ||
| Wreck Bystander (uncredited) | ||
| N/A | ||
| The Groom | ||
| Cop | ||
| Rajah | ||
| 1913 | Caesar - Zuzu's Rival | |
| Cop (uncredited) | ||
| Mustached Man | ||
| Jealous Cop | ||
| Water Policeman | ||
| Laughing Spectator | ||
| Wedding Guest | ||
| Bowling Alley Operator | ||
| Mug | ||
| Audience Member / Cop in Movie | ||
| Cop | ||
| Cop | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1st Cop | ||
| 1st Crook | ||
| Spectator | ||
| The Cop | ||
| Henchman | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Cop | ||
| 3rd Deputy | ||
| Cop | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Directing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1930 | Director | |
| Director | ||
| Director | ||
| Director | ||
| Director | ||
| 1928 | Director | |
| Director | ||
| 1925 | Director | |
| 1924 | Director | |
| 1922 | Director | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
