George Kennedy
Birthday: 1925-02-18
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Biography: 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.
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Cool Hand Luke
When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play...
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The Dirty Dozen
12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy châtea...
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The Flight of the Phoenix
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Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
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Airport
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Death on the Nile
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Charade
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The Eiger Sanction
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Earthquake
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Shenandoah
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Bolero
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Brain Dead
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Cahill: United States Marshal
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Small Soldiers
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Sands of Oblivion
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Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
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Airport '77
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The Human Factor
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Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen'
A featurette documentary that looks into the making of "The Dirty Dozen," containing interviews wit...
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Death Ship
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Guns of the Magnificent Seven
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The Boston Strangler
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Airport 1975
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Don't Come Knocking
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Demonwarp
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The Terror Within
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The Concorde... Airport '79
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Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
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Strait-Jacket
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Bandolero!
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Virus
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Another Happy Day
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Lonely are the Brave
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The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
When the bumbling Lieutenant Frank Drebin investigates events following the shooting of his partner,...
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The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
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The Delta Force
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The Sons of Katie Elder
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Dennis the Menace Strikes Again!
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Creepshow 2
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Uninvited
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The Man Who Came Back
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Radioactive Dreams
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Fools' Parade
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Just Before Dawn
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Dirty Dingus Magee
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Mirage
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The Good Guys and the Bad Guys
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The Ballad of Josie
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Nightmare at Noon
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The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire
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Brass Target
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Search and Destroy
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Wacko
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… tick… tick… tick…
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The Gunfighters
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Savage Dawn
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A Natural Born World-Shaker: The Making of 'Cool Hand Luke'
A documentary on the making of 'Cool Hand Luke' (1967)....
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Hired to Kill
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The Double McGuffin
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Lost Horizon
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Steel
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Born to Race
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The Little Shepherd Of Kingdom Come
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Monster Makers
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Top Line
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The Bull of the West
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Gaily, Gaily
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Intensive Care
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Hurry Sundown
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Mean Dog Blues
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The Man from the Diners' Club
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Hotwire
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Private Road: No Trespassing
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Deliver Us from Evil
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The Gambler: The Legend Continues
Brady Hawkes and Billy Montana join forces once again in this new adventure. This time around their ...
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Ministry of Vengeance
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The Jupiter Menace
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A Cry in the Wilderness
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Dallas: War of The Ewings
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Liberty
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The Pink Jungle
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A Great American Tragedy
A middle-aged aerospace engineer has his whole life changed when he is suddenly laid off from his jo...
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See How They Run
Three children are stalked by hired killers after they unknowingly take evidence pointing to the exi...
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Counterforce
A team of specialists is dispatched to protect the leader of a Middle Eastern country from a neighbo...
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Esmeralda Bay
A priest secretly leads rebels in their struggle against the corrupt military dictatorship of the Ce...
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Sarge: The Badge or the Cross
After his wife is murdered, a veteran cop quits the police department and becomes a priest. Several ...
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In Harm's Way
A Naval officer, reprimanded after Pearl Harbor, is later promoted to Rear Admiral and gets a second...
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The Legend of Lylah Clare
A dictatorial film director hires an unknown actress to play the lead role in a planned movie biogra...
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Hangfire
When a large group of escaped convicts take Ike Slayton, a Vietnam veteran's wife hostage, Slayton e...
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The Jesse Owens Story
The Jesse Owens Story is a biographical film about the black athlete Jesse Owens. Dorian Harewood pl...
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
Based on the beloved book by Scott O'Dell, this family movie tells the adventures of a young Native ...
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Proof of the Man
When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of ...
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The Blue Knight
In this pilot film that preceded the short-lived series, a street cop in his last week on the force ...
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International Airport
Manager of a large metropolitan airport tries to deal with the stress of his job, and the various ch...
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The Gambler
Literature professor Jim Bennett leads a secret life as a high-stakes gambler. Always a risk-taker, ...
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Hollyweird
Three reality tv makers film themselves solving murders while trying make a TV show in L.A....
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Half Nelson
Rocky Nelson is a New York cop, who after making a major bust and selling the rights of his story to...
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Final Shot: The Hank Gathers Story
Chronicling the short but eventful life of Hank Gathers (played by Donny B. Lord as a child and Vict...
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Dallas: J.R. Returns
Years after J.R. Ewing lost Ewing Oil and apparently committed suicide, we learn that he is alive an...
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Truce
Modern western detailing the drama of a man struggling to hold on to his ranch and struggling to rai...
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McHale's Navy
The crew of PT-73 get into trouble when they back the wrong horse in a race. Now they have to come u...
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What Price Victory
A television movie about the effect that unscrupulous college football recruiting practices have on ...
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Three Bad Men
Three outlaws on there way across state lines after a bank robbery, decide to fufill a dying mans wi...
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View from the Top
No one thought Donna would go very far. But when she sets her sights on becoming a first-class inter...
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2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
The team of smart-talkin' toddlers known as Everything Is Terrible! have once again emerged from the...
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Distant Justice
After his daughter is kidnapped and his wife murdered by drug dealers, a man finds that the gang is ...
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Driving Me Crazy
An eccentric East German inventor and defector travels to Los Angeles, California to sell a prototyp...
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Chattanooga Choo Choo
The owner of a professional football team must restore the titular train and run it from Tennessee t...
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Men in White
National Lampoon's Men in White is a straight-to-television satirical parody of contemporary science...
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Mayumi: Virgin Terrorist
Two North Korean terrorists posing as Japanese tourists under the names of Shin Icho and Ma Yumi, bl...
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Rigged
As the new partner in an oil-drilling enterprise, Mace Morgan s future looks rosy, until he meets Mo...
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Gunfight at Black Horses Canyon
Feature-length Western based on the hit TV show 'Tales of Wells Fargo,' about a Wells Fargo Company ...
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The Cops Are Robbers
Made-for-TV drama about one of the largest crimes in history—the 1980 robbery of the Boston Deposito...
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Cats Don't Dance
An ambitious singing and dancing cat in 1939 Hollywood overcomes several obstacles to fulfill his dr...
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Rare Breed
A real-life story of a kidnapped horse in Italy, and a young girl's quest to retrieve it....
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Sonic Boom
Comedy short about a supersonic jet that lands in a small town and creates hysteria about an impendi...
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The Boneyard Collection
A quirky anthology, consisting of four separate short films connected by host segments. The first on...
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WWE SummerSlam 1994
Diesel defends the WWE Intercontinental Championship against Razor Ramon. Alundra Blayze defends the...
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The Lion Roars Again
A chronicle of the 1975 International Press Conclave hosted by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer over two days in ...
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The Priest Killer
A police chief, confined to a wheelchair, and a former cop, who is now a priest, team up to discover...
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Bayou Ghost
Young boys go on an adventure to seek out a legendary ghost, but find something far more valuable in...
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Airports
Edited together from all four Airport movies by Academy Award nominated screenwriter Josh Olson (A H...
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