Arthur Kennedy

Arthur Kennedy

Birthday: 1914-02-17

Place of Birth: Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

Biography: John Arthur Kennedy (February 17, 1914 – January 5, 1990) was an American stage and film actor known for his versatility in supporting film roles and his ability to create "an exceptional honesty and naturalness on stage", especially in the original casts of Arthur Miller plays on Broadway. He won the 1949 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for Miller's Death of a Salesman. He also won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for the 1955 film Trial, and was a five-time Academy Award nominee.

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Lawrence of Arabia
Lawrence of Arabia

During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the div...

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Fantastic Voyage
Fantastic Voyage

In order to save an assassinated scientist, a submarine and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size ...

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Murder She Said
Murder She Said

Miss Marple believes she's seen a murder in a passing-by train, yet when the police find no evidence...

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Shark
Shark

A gunrunner loses his cargo near a small coastal Sudanese town so he's stuck there. When a woman hir...

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Nevada Smith
Nevada Smith

Nevada Smith is the young son of an Indian mother and white father. When his father is killed by thr...

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Elmer Gantry
Elmer Gantry

A charismatic charlatan begins a business — and eventually romantic — relationship with a roadside e...

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City for Conquest
City for Conquest

The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and strug...

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Barabbas
Barabbas

Epic account of the thief Barabbas, who was pardoned for his crimes and spared crucifixion when Pila...

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The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue
The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue

When a series of murders hit the remote English countryside, a detective suspects a pair of traveler...

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The Window
The Window

An imaginative boy who frequently makes things up witnesses a murder, but can't get his parents or t...

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Champion
Champion

An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who help...

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Too Late for Tears
Too Late for Tears

Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and i...

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Day of the Evil Gun
Day of the Evil Gun

Two men on a desperate search to save a woman only one of them could have!...

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Crashout
Crashout

Convict Van Duff engineers a large-scale prison break; the six survivors hide out in a forgotten min...

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High Sierra
High Sierra

Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort....

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Chicago Deadline
Chicago Deadline

On Chicago's South Side reporter Ed Ames finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a ...

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Cheyenne Autumn
Cheyenne Autumn

A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyenne....

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Anzio
Anzio

American troops land unopposed on Italian beaches during World War II, but instead of pushing on to ...

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Rancho Notorious
Rancho Notorious

A man in search of revenge infiltrates a ranch, hidden in an inhospitable region, where its owner, A...

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The Memphis Belle
The Memphis Belle

This WW2 documentary centers on the crew of the American B-17 Flying Fortress Memphis Belle as it pr...

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Cyclone
Cyclone

An airplane goes down in the ocean during a storm and a few survivors find refuge on a small tour bo...

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Impulse
Impulse

An American realtor living in England is dissatisfied with what he believes to be his humdrum life. ...

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The Lusty Men
The Lusty Men

Retired rodeo champion Jeff McCloud agrees to mentor novice rodeo contestant Wes Merritt against the...

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Peyton Place
Peyton Place

In the outwardly respectable New England community of Peyton Place, shopkeeper Constance McKenzie tr...

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Air Force
Air Force

The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and ...

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Some Came Running
Some Came Running

A former novelist returns to his small Midwest town after serving in the Army during WWII, to the ch...

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Bend of the River
Bend of the River

Two men with questionable pasts, Glyn McLyntock and his friend Cole, lead a wagon-train load of home...

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They Died with Their Boots On
They Died with Their Boots On

The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death...

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Highway West
Highway West

A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber....

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The Desperate Hours
The Desperate Hours

Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage....

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The Sentinel
The Sentinel

As a young girl, Alison Parker attempted suicide after being traumatized by her father's sexual expl...

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The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie

An aging Southern Belle makes life horrible for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of h...

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The Man from Laramie
The Man from Laramie

Will Lockhart arrives in Coronado, an isolated town in New Mexico, in search of someone who sells ri...

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A Summer Place
A Summer Place

A self-made businessman rekindles a romance with a former flame while their two teenage children beg...

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Boomerang!
Boomerang!

When a kindly priest is murdered while waiting at a street corner in a quiet Connecticut town, the c...

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Rome, Armed to the Teeth
Rome, Armed to the Teeth

A tough, violent cop who doesn't mind bending the law goes after a machine-gun-carrying, hunchbacked...

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Strange Alibi
Strange Alibi

An undercover cop finds himself on the wrong side of the law when the mob discovers his true identit...

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Devotion
Devotion

In Victorian England, literary siblings Emily and Charlotte Brontë vie for the affection of the Rev....

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A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die
A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die

A famous gunman decides to change his life around and turn himself in when amnesty is declared by th...

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The Humanoid
The Humanoid

Hoping to overthrow his brother as ruler of the planet Metropolis, the evil Graal enlists the help o...

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Desperate Journey
Desperate Journey

During WWII, when an allied bomber is shot down over Germany, the five surviving crew are captured b...

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Signs of Life
Signs of Life

The closing of a small shipbuilder in New England places stresses on the people involved....

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The Man from Independence
The Man from Independence

The Story of Harry S. Truman as he begins his political career in 1929....

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Twilight for the Gods
Twilight for the Gods

An alcoholic captain sails a two-master through danger with a call girl and others on board....

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The Antichrist
The Antichrist

An Italian nobleman seeks help after his paralyzed daughter becomes possessed by the spirit of a mal...

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Killer Cop
Killer Cop

In a crowded hotel in the center of Milan a bomb has been planted. The time device on its detonator ...

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Crawlspace
Crawlspace

A childless middle-age couple adopt a troubled youth they find living in their crawlspace and attemp...

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Murieta
Murieta

The fictionalized story of Joaquin Murrieta, a real life Mexican bandit who terrorized California wi...

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The Rawhide Years
The Rawhide Years

Ben Matthews gives up the flashy life of a riverboat gambler, hoping to settle down in Galena with h...

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Bright Victory
Bright Victory

A soldier blinded in war returns home and attempts to adjust to civilian life....

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The Naked Dawn
The Naked Dawn

Santiago, a jolly modern bandito, has just lost his partner when he happens on the isolated farm of ...

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Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man

Young and restless Nick Adams, the only son of a domineering mother and a weak but noble doctor fath...

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Covert Action
Covert Action

Janssen plays an ex-CIA agent who has become an author, writing both non-fiction exposes (Phillip Ag...

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Trial
Trial

A Mexican boy accused of rape and murder becomes a pawn for Communists and red-baiters. A courtroom ...

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Claudelle Inglish
Claudelle Inglish

A young daughter of poor farmers is forced by her mother to ditch her young boyfriend in order to ma...

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Resisting Enemy Interrogation
Resisting Enemy Interrogation

A downed American bomber crew quickly falls prey to the clever interrogation techniques of the Germa...

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Joy in the Morning
Joy in the Morning

Carl Brown and Annie McGairy are in love. Their Irish immigrant parents knew each other in the old c...

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Red Mountain
Red Mountain

Towards the end of the American Civil War, a rebel captain flees to Colorado to join a band of South...

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Bad Men of Missouri
Bad Men of Missouri

The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of Wi...

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Knockout
Knockout

Johnny Rocket (Arthur Kennedy) needs to fight one more match to have enough money to get married to ...

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Cheyenne
Cheyenne

Slick gambler James Wylie is apprehended by the law and given the option to forgo a prison sentence ...

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The Girl in White
The Girl in White

The first female doctor in New York City comes up against prejudice from male counterparts who feel ...

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Monday's Child
Monday's Child

The daughter of an American marriage in Puerto Rico forces her parents to find a doll that her fathe...

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Dirty World
Dirty World

Senator Alberici tries to approach the secretariat of his party with a campaign against immorality. ...

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The Battle of the Bulge... The Brave Rifles
The Battle of the Bulge... The Brave Rifles

Hitler's last offensive in 1944 in the Ardennes, with which he desperately tried to stop the allies ...

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Attack and Retreat
Attack and Retreat

Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during...

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Nakia
Nakia

An American Indian deputy sheriff is caught in the middle of a community dispute when the tribe trie...

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The Walking Hills
The Walking Hills

A study in greed in which treasure hunters seek a shipment of gold buried in Death Valley....

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Blackmail Chase
Blackmail Chase

A couple of friends aspiring to join film land get mixed up in a robbery, ordered by a mafia boss wh...

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Grandpa
Grandpa

The strained relationship between a grandfather and his grandson and the young woman who smooths the...

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Family Killer
Family Killer

Stefano, son of the Mafia Don Angelino Ferrante, is killed by Gaspare Ardizzone (John Saxon) for ref...

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Last Angels
Last Angels

Elisabeth and Massimo have been separated for two years and decide to affirm their independence with...

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A Death of Innocence
A Death of Innocence

A mother travels to New York to see her daughter who is awaiting trial for murder. The mother is tot...

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The Movie Murderer
The Movie Murderer

An experienced arson investigator takes along his young associate as they try to find an arsonist wh...

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Home Is the Hero
Home Is the Hero

This well-acted drama about an Irishman just released from jail is filled with rich characterization...

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Emmanuelle on Taboo Island
Emmanuelle on Taboo Island

Shipwrecked on a tropical island, partying biker Daniel finds an increasingly threatening family liv...

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Hail, Hero!
Hail, Hero!

Carl Dixon decides to quit school and enlist in the Army, even though he's already run afoul of the ...

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Cave of the Sharks
Cave of the Sharks

When Andres and his partner are hired to recover some valuables from an airplane that went down in t...

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The President's Plane Is Missing
The President's Plane Is Missing

When the President's plane mysteriously disappears with him on board, it is left to the seemingly we...

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The Last Bomb
The Last Bomb

Documentary of the planning and delivery of the last great bomber attack on the city of Tokyo by the...

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My Old Man's Place
My Old Man's Place

Two soldiers return from Vietnam with serious PTSD. They decide to go for a couple of days to a peac...

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How to Fly the B-17 (Part 2, Flight Operations)
How to Fly the B-17 (Part 2, Flight Operations)

Military training film in which an instructor trains a new B-17 bomber pilot in proper procedure and...

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How to Fly the B-17 (Part 1, Ground Operations)
How to Fly the B-17 (Part 1, Ground Operations)

Military training film in which an instructor takes a new B-17 bomber pilot through preflight inspec...

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Reconnaissance Pilot
Reconnaissance Pilot

Documentary/training film depicting the duties of a pilot in the Pacific Theatre of the Second World...

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Ditch and Live
Ditch and Live

Lt. Scott Reynolds is co-pilot on a B-17 bomber. When his ship is forced to ditch at sea, only Reyno...

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Troop Carrier Airplanes: Cockpit Procedure
Troop Carrier Airplanes: Cockpit Procedure

This U.S. Army Air Forces documentary short film depicts training methods and instructions for pilot...

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Flight Characteristics of the P-51 Airplane
Flight Characteristics of the P-51 Airplane

U.S. Army Air Force pilot Bob Chilton and North American Aircraft designer Arthur Deeds show an Air ...

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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life....

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Target - Invisible
Target - Invisible

Documentary short film depicting the uses of radar in high-level bombing during World War II. B-29 b...

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Nine Guests for a Crime
Nine Guests for a Crime

Nine members of an extremely rich and hateful family have decided to have a reunion on a remote isla...

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It's Your America
It's Your America

This short--long rumored to have been directed by John Ford--was produced by the US government speci...

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Ricco
Ricco

Fresh out of the joint, young Ricco is eager to get home to see his family. He was cut loose a year ...

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Breakdowns of 1942
Breakdowns of 1942

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942....

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In the Presence of Mine Enemies
In the Presence of Mine Enemies

Rod Serling's teleplay depicting the struggles of Jews living in the Warsaw Ghetto in the months bef...

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