George Kennedy

George Kennedy (February 18, 1925 — February 28, 2016) was an American actor. A World War II veteran, 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 the buddy/road film Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) as vicious bank robber Red Leary. The 1980s saw Kennedy appear in a mishmash of roles, playing various characters; however, Kennedy and Leslie Nielsen surprised everyone with their comedic talents in the hugely successful The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988), and the two screen veterans hammed it up again in, The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991), plus Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994). Kennedy remained busy in Hollywood and lent his distinctive voice to the animated Cats Don't Dance (1997) and the children's action film Small Soldiers (1998). A Hollywood stalwart for nearly 50 years, he is one of the most enjoyable actors to watch on screen. His last role was in the film The Gambler (2014), as Mark Wahlberg's character's grandfather. George Kennedy died on February 28, 2016 in Middleton, Idaho.

Known For: Acting

Born: New York City, New York, USA, 1925-02-18

Died: 2016-02-28

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1961	The Little Shepherd Of Kingdom Come	Nathan Dillon	40
2	1961	Gunfight at Black Horses Canyon	Hawk	56
3	1962	Lonely are the Brave	Deputy Sheriff Gutierrez	74
4	1963	The Man from the Diners' Club	George	50
5	1963	Charade	Herman Scobie	77
6	1964	Strait-Jacket	Leo Krause	66
7	1964	McHale's Navy	Henri Le Clerc	46
8	1964	Island of the Blue Dolphins	Aleut Captain	62
9	1964	See How They Run	Rudy	40
10	1964	Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte	Foreman	73
11	1965	In Harm's Way	Colonel Gregory	66
12	1965	Shenandoah	Col. Fairchild	69
13	1965	The Sons of Katie Elder	Curley	70
14	1965	Mirage	Willard	70
15	1965	The Flight of the Phoenix	Bellamy	72
16	1967	Hurry Sundown	Sheriff Coombs	65
17	1967	The Dirty Dozen	Major Max Armbruster	76
18	1967	Cool Hand Luke	Dragline	77
19	1968	The Ballad of Josie	Arch Ogden	57
20	1968	Bandolero!	Sheriff July Johnson	65
21	1968	The Legend of Lylah Clare	Matt Burke	59
22	1968	The Boston Strangler	Det. Phil DiNatale	67
23	1968	The Pink Jungle	Sammy Ryderbeit	61
24	1969	Guns of the Magnificent Seven	Chris	53
25	1969	The Good Guys and the Bad Guys	McKay	55
26	1969	Gaily, Gaily	Axel P. Johanson	40
27	1970	Tick... Tick... Tick...	John Little	65
28	1970	Airport	Joe Patroni	64
29	1970	Zig Zag	Paul R. Cameron	75
30	1970	Dirty Dingus Magee	Herkimer 'Hoke' Birdsill	47
31	1971	Sarge: The Badge or the Cross	Sarge Swanson	0
32	1971	Fools' Parade	Dallas 'Doc' Council	68
33	1971	The Priest Killer	Father Samuel Cavanaugh	0
34	1972	The Bull of the West	'Bear' Suchette	54
35	1972	A Great American Tragedy	Brad Wilkes	67
36	1973	Lost Horizon	Sam Cornelius	54
37	1973	Cahill: United States Marshal	Abe Fraser	61
38	1973	Deliver Us from Evil	Walter 'Cowboy' McAdams	73
39	1974	Sonic Boom	Ben Dover	45
40	1974	A Cry in the Wilderness	Sam Hadley	60
41	1974	Thunderbolt and Lightfoot	Red Leary	68
42	1974	Airport 1975	Joe Patroni	57
43	1974	Earthquake	Sgt. Lew Slade	61
44	1975	The Lion Roars Again	Self	0
45	1975	The Blue Knight	Bumper Morgan	0
46	1975	The Eiger Sanction	Ben Bowman	61
47	1975	The Human Factor	John Kinsdale	57
48	1977	Airport '77	Joe Patroni	56
49	1977	Proof of the Man	Ken Shuftan	74
50	1978	Mean Dog Blues	Captain Omar Kinsman	49
51	1978	Death on the Nile	Andrew Pennington	71
52	1978	Brass Target	Gen. George S. Patton	55
53	1979	The Double McGuffin	Chief Talasek	53
54	1979	Search and Destroy	Anthony Fusqua	68
55	1979	The Concorde... Airport '79	Joe Patroni	47
56	1979	Steel	Big Lew Cassidy	53
57	1980	Death Ship	Captain Ashland	52
58	1980	Virus	Admiral Conway	63
59	1980	Hotwire	Farley & Harley Fontenot	50
60	1981	Modern Romance	George Kennedy / Zeron	68
61	1981	The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire	Brakus	55
62	1981	Just Before Dawn	Roy McLean	60
63	1982	Wacko	Mr. Doctor Graves	51
64	1982	The Jupiter Menace	Himself	55
65	1984	Chattanooga Choo Choo	Bert	50
66	1984	The Jesse Owens Story	Charles 'Charley' Riley	79
67	1984	Bolero	Cotton	33
68	1984	Rare Breed		0
69	1985	Half Nelson	Parsons	0
70	1985	Rigged	Ben	97
71	1985	International Airport	Rudy Van Leuven	50
72	1985	Savage Dawn	Tick Rand	42
73	1986	The Delta Force	Father O'Malley	60
74	1986	Liberty	Seamus Reilly	0
75	1986	Radioactive Dreams	Spade Chandler	52
76	1987	The Gunfighters	Deke Turner	40
77	1987	Creepshow 2	Ray Spruce	63
78	1987	The Gambler: The Legend Continues	General Nelson Miles	59
79	1988	What Price Victory	Big Buck Brayton	0
80	1988	Born to Race	Vincent Duplain	53
81	1988	Counterforce	Vince Colby	53
82	1988	Demonwarp	Bill Crafton	39
83	1988	Private Road: No Trespassing	Sam Milshaw	45
84	1988	Nightmare at Noon	Sherrif Hanks	45
85	1988	Top Line	Heinrich Holzmann	42
86	1988	Uninvited	Mike Harvey	49
87	1988	The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!	Ed Hocken	73
88	1989	The Terror Within	Hal	44
89	1989	Esmeralda Bay	Wilson	44
90	1989	Ministry of Vengeance	Rev. Hughes	30
91	1990	Brain Dead	Vance	57
92	1990	Mayumi: Virgin Terrorist	Bahraini Investigator	50
93	1990	Hired to Kill	Thomas	47
94	1990	The Cops Are Robbers		30
95	1991	Hangfire	Warden Barles	42
96	1991	Driving Me Crazy	John McCready	37
97	1991	The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear	Ed Hocken	68
98	1991	Intensive Care	Dr. Bruckner	20
99	1992	Final Shot: The Hank Gathers Story	Father Dave Hagan	0
100	1992	Distant Justice	Tom Bradfield	30
101	1994	Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult	Ed Hocken	65
102	1994	WWE SummerSlam 1994	Himself	57
103	1996	Dallas: J.R. Returns	Carter McKay	54
104	1997	Bayou Ghost	Officer Lowe	0
105	1997	Cats Don't Dance	L.B. Mammoth (voice)	72
106	1998	Hollyweird	George Kennedy	33
107	1998	Dallas: War of The Ewings	Carter McKay	53
108	1998	Small Soldiers	Brick Bazooka (voice)	65
109	1998	Dennis the Menace Strikes Again!	Mr. Johnson	54
110	1998	Men in White	Army	34
111	2003	View from the Top	Passenger Requesting Vodka (uncredited)	55
112	2003	Monster Makers	Dexter Brisbane	30
113	2005	Truce	Dr. Peter Gannon	37
114	2005	Three Bad Men	Ed Fiske	10
115	2005	Don't Come Knocking	Director	62
116	2006	Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen'	Self	60
117	2007	Sands of Oblivion	John Tevis	45
118	2008	The Boneyard Collection	Professor Zebediah Jones (segment "The Devil's Due at Midnight")	53
119	2008	The Man Who Came Back	Judge Duke	47
120	2008	A Natural Born World-Shaker: The Making of 'Cool Hand Luke'	Self	0
121	2010	2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift	(archive footage)	64
122	2011	Another Happy Day	Joe Baker	56
123	2014	The Gambler	Ed	60

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1953	The Oscars	Self	71
2	1955	Gunsmoke	Emil	66
3	1955	Gunsmoke	Bayloe	66
4	1955	Gunsmoke	Swarner	66
5	1955	Gunsmoke	Hug	66
6	1955	Gunsmoke	Stark	66
7	1955	Gunsmoke	Cyrus	66
8	1955	Gunsmoke	Ben Payson	66
9	1955	Cheyenne	Lee Nelson	58
10	1955	The Phil Silvers Show	MP Sgt. Kennedy (uncredited)	70
11	1957	Have Gun, Will Travel		74
12	1957	Have Gun, Will Travel	Deke - Killer	74
13	1957	Have Gun, Will Travel	Big Jim	74
14	1957	Have Gun, Will Travel	Sam Tarnitzer	74
15	1957	Sugarfoot	Ross Kuhn	48
16	1957	Perry Mason	George Spangler	77
17	1957	Maverick		68
18	1958	Peter Gunn		65
19	1958	Lawman		56
20	1958	Bat Masterson	Sheriff Zeke Armitage	61
21	1958	77 Sunset Strip		67
22	1959	Rawhide	George Wales	72
23	1959	Bonanza	Waldo Watson	75
24	1959	Bonanza	Peter Long	75
25	1959	Riverboat	Gunner Slagle	62
26	1960	The Tall Man		63
27	1960	Thriller	John Paterson	64
28	1960	Outlaws		62
29	1960	The Andy Griffith Show	State Police Detective	76
30	1960	Surfside 6		50
31	1960	Route 66		63
32	1961	The Asphalt Jungle		50
33	1961	Kraft Mystery Theatre		60
34	1961	Dr. Kildare	Joe Cramer	55
35	1961	Dr. Kildare	Sergeant Hensley	55
36	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	54
37	1962	The Virginian	Jack Marshman	65
38	1962	The Virginian	Tom 'Bear' Suchette	65
39	1962	The Virginian	Huck Harkness	65
40	1962	The Alfred Hitchcock Hour	George Martin	78
41	1962	Going My Way		57
42	1963	Grindl		55
43	1963	The Great Adventure	Sergeant Muldaney	0
44	1963	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre	Der	57
45	1964	The Rogues	Major Vyx	72
46	1964	Daniel Boone	Zach Morgan	69
47	1965	The Legend of Jesse James	Blodgett	48
48	1965	The Big Valley	Thatcher	61
49	1965	Laredo		63
50	1966	Tarzan		67
51	1967	Ironside	Father Samuel Cavanaugh	68
52	1971	Sarge	Father Samuel Cavanaugh	50
53	1973	The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts	Self	54
54	1975	The Blue Knight	Officer Bumper Morgan	20
55	1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Host	70
56	1978	Dallas	Carter McKay	69
57	1979	Backstairs at the White House	Pres. Warren G. Harding	59
58	1990	Wings	George Kennedy	69
59	1991	The Commish	Al Scali	71
60	1995	Santo Bugito	Ralph (voice)	0
61	1996	The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest	General Axton (voice)	72

George Kennedy

Film

Television