
George Kennedy
Born February 18, 1925 · New York City, New York, USA
George Kennedy (February 18, 1925 — February 28, 2016) was a European-American businessman, entrepreneur, A World War II veteran, actor, adviser, radio dj, and author. 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.
Movies

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult

Small Soldiers

The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear

Death on the Nile

Cool Hand Luke

The Gambler

The Dirty Dozen

The Delta Force

View from the Top

Charade

Cats Don't Dance

Creepshow 2

The Concorde... Airport '79

The Flight of the Phoenix

Airport 1975

The Sons of Katie Elder

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

The Eiger Sanction

Dennis the Menace Strikes Again!

Guns of the Magnificent Seven

Bandolero!

Airport

Earthquake

In Harm's Way

Another Happy Day

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

Virus

Lonely are the Brave

Cahill: United States Marshal

Airport '77

The Boston Strangler

Don't Come Knocking

The Good Guys and the Bad Guys

The Legend of Lylah Clare

Hurry Sundown

The Ballad of Josie

Good Cops, Bad Cops

Sands of Oblivion

Fools' Parade

Mirage

Demonwarp

The Gambler: The Legend Continues

Dallas: War of The Ewings

Savage Dawn

Brass Target

Death Ship
TV Shows

Bonanza

The Merv Griffin Show

Ironside

The Andy Griffith Show

Dallas

Have Gun, Will Travel

Maverick

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Dr. Kildare

Wings

The Virginian

Cheyenne

Daniel Boone

Route 66

The Big Valley

Rawhide

The Oscars

Gunsmoke

Duckman

Lawman

Bat Masterson

77 Sunset Strip

Thriller

The Commish

Peter Gunn

Surfside 6

Sugarfoot

Laredo

The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest

Outlaws

The Phil Silvers Show

Tarzan

The Tall Man

Riverboat

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts

The Great Adventure

The Rogues

The Legend of Jesse James

Going My Way

Kraft Mystery Theatre

Santo Bugito

Gunslinger

Backstairs at the White House

The Asphalt Jungle

Sarge

Grindl

The Blue Knight
More Movies

Shenandoah

Strait-Jacket

Bolero

Lost Horizon

2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift

Dallas: J.R. Returns

The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire

The Bull of the West

Airports

The Man Who Came Back

The Blue Knight

Brain Dead

Driving Me Crazy

Dirty Dingus Magee

The Jesse Owens Story

Hired to Kill

The Man from the Diners' Club

McHale's Navy

Modern Romance

Just Before Dawn

Radioactive Dreams

Top Line

… tick… tick… tick…

Half Nelson

The Double McGuffin

Final Shot: The Hank Gathers Story

Nightmare at Noon

Sarge: The Badge or the Cross

The Little Shepherd Of Kingdom Come

See How They Run

A Cry in the Wilderness

Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen'

Gunfight at Black Horses Canyon

Proof of the Man

Men in White

Island of the Blue Dolphins

A Great American Tragedy

Bayou Ghost

Intensive Care

Wacko

Deliver Us from Evil

WWE SummerSlam 1994

The Terror Within

The Boneyard Collection

A Natural Born World-Shaker: The Making of 'Cool Hand Luke'

The Human Factor

Gaily, Gaily

Uninvited

Steel

The Priest Killer

Hotwire

Ministry of Vengeance

Sonic Boom

Six Days in Paradise

Mayumi: Virgin Terrorist

Private Road: No Trespassing

Liberty

Mean Dog Blues

The Pink Jungle

Zig Zag

Distant Justice

What Price Victory

Esmeralda Bay

Three Bad Men

Born to Race

International Airport

Hangfire

Monster Makers

Counterforce

Chattanooga Choo Choo

A Rare Breed

Hollyweird

The Gunfighters

Truce

Rigged

The Jupiter Menace




