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Edgar Kennedy
Born · April 25, 1890
Died · November 9, 1948 (58 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Monterey, California, USA
Bio
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.
The Our Gang Story
Officer (archive footage)
0.0
1994
The Best of Laurel and Hardy
Officer Kennedy (archive footage)
0.0
1968
When Comedy Was King
edited from 'A Pair of Tights' (archive footage)
6.7
1960
The Golden Age of Comedy
archive footage
6.9
1957
My Dream Is Yours
Uncle Charlie
6.5
1949
Unfaithfully Yours
Sweeney
7.2
1948
Contest Crazy
Edgar
0.0
1948
Variety Time
Edgar Kennedy (footage from 'I'll Build It Myself') (archive footage)
0.0
1948
Dig That Gold
Edgar Kennedy
9.5
1948
Brother Knows Best
Edgar Kennedy
0.0
1948
Heaven Only Knows
Judd
6.0
1947
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
Jake the Bartender
6.3
1947
Do or Diet
Edgar
0.0
1947
I'll Build It Myself
Edgar
0.0
1946
Motor Maniacs
Edgar Kennedy
0.0
1946
Trouble or Nothing
Edgar
0.0
1946
Captain Tugboat Annie
Captain Bullwinkle
0.0
1945
The Big Beef
Edgar Kennedy
0.0
1945
You Drive Me Crazy
Edgar
0.0
1945
Anchors Aweigh
Police Captain
6.8
1945
It's Your Move
Edgar Kennedy
0.0
1945
What, No Cigarettes
Edgar Kennedy
6.0
1945
Feather Your Nest
Edgar
0.0
1944
The Great Alaskan Mystery
Bosun Higgins
5.0
1944
It Happened Tomorrow
Insp. Mulrooney
6.7
1944
Radio Rampage
Edgar
0.0
1944
Prunes and Politics
Edgar
5.0
1944
Crazy House
Judge
5.0
1943
The Girl from Monterrey
Doc Hogan, Fight Promoter
0.0
1943
Hitler's Madman
Nepomuk - the Hermit
5.6
1943
Hot Foot
Edgar
0.0
1943
Inferior Decorator
Edgar
0.0
1943
Air Raid Wardens
Joe Bledsoe
7.1
1943
The Falcon Strikes Back
Smiley Dugan
5.6
1943
Hold Your Temper
Edgar
0.0
1943
Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher
Police Chief Murphy
4.0
1943
Duck Soup
Edgar
0.0
1942
Hillbilly Blitzkrieg
Sgt. Homer Gatling
2.0
1942
There's One Born Every Minute
Mayor Moe Carson
7.2
1942
Cooks and Crooks
Edgar
0.0
1942
In Old California
Kegs McKeever
5.0
1942
Pardon My Stripes
Warden Bingham
6.0
1942
Private Snuffy Smith
Sgt. Ed Cooper
3.8
1942
Rough on Rents
Edgar Kennedy
10.0
1942
A Quiet Fourth
Edgar
0.0
1941
Gangs Of The City
Biff
0.0
1941
I'll Fix It
Edgar
0.0
1941
Westward Ho-Hum
Edgar
0.0
1941
Blondie in Society
Dr. Glenn
7.4
1941
An Apple in His Eye
Edgar Kennedy
0.0
1941
Drafted in the Depot
Edgar Kennedy
0.0
1940
Remedy for Riches
George Browning
5.8
1940
Li'l Abner
Cornelius Cornpone
5.9
1940
Sandy Gets Her Man
Fire Chief Galvin
4.0
1940
Who Killed Aunt Maggie?
Sheriff Gregory
4.3
1940
A Trailer Tragedy
Edgar Kennedy
0.0
1940
The Quarterback
Pops
0.0
1940
Margie
Chauncey
0.0
1940
Sunk by the Census
Edgar
0.0
1940
Dr. Christian Meets the Women
George Browning
5.0
1940
'Taint Legal
Edgar
0.0
1940
Sandy Is a Lady
Officer Rafferty
0.0
1940
Mutiny in the County
Edgar Kennedy
0.0
1940
Charlie McCarthy, Detective
Inspector Dailey
6.0
1939
Kennedy the Great
Edgar Kennedy
0.0
1939
Laugh It Off
Judge John J. McGuinnis
2.0
1939
Little Accident
Paper Hanger
2.0
1939
Everything's on Ice
Joe Barton
4.8
1939
Maid to Order
Edgar
0.0
1939
It's a Wonderful World
Lieutenant Miller
6.4
1939
Baby Daze
Edgar Kennedy
0.0
1939
Clock Wise
Edgar
0.0
1939
Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
Arthur Bailey
4.3
1938
A Clean Sweep
Edgar
0.0
1938
Beaux and Errors
Edgar Kennedy
0.0
1938
Hey! Hey! USA
Bugs Leary
6.9
1938
Scandal Street
Daniel Webster Smith
0.0
1938
The Black Doll
Sheriff Renick
5.3
1938
Ears of Experience
Edgar
0.0
1938
Hollywood Hotel
Callaghan
5.4
1938
True Confession
Darsey
5.8
1937
Edgar & Goliath
Edgar
0.0
1937
Double Wedding
Spike
6.5
1937
Tramp Trouble
Edgar
0.0
1937
Super-Sleuth
Police Lt. Garrison
5.0
1937
Dumb's the Word
Edgar Kennedy
0.0
1937
A Star Is Born
Pop Randall
7.1
1937
Bad Housekeeping
Edgar
0.0
1937
When's Your Birthday?
Mr. Basscombe
4.0
1937
The Other Fellow
Four Roles
0.0
1937
Three Men on a Horse
Harry, the Bartender
6.2
1936
Mad Holiday
Donovan
6.0
1936
Vocalizing
Edgar Kennedy
0.0
1936
Yours for the Asking
Bicarbonate
1.0
1936
Dummy Ache
Edgar
4.8
1936
San Francisco
Sheriff
6.6
1936
Fatal Lady
Rudolf Hochstetter
0.0
1936
Small Town Girl
Captain Mack
6.2
1936
Robin Hood of El Dorado
Sheriff Judd
4.7
1936
Will Power
Edgar Kennedy
0.0
1936
Gasoloons
Edgar Kennedy
0.0
1936
The Bride Comes Home
Henry
4.8
1935
$1,000 a Minute
Police Officer McCarthy
5.5
1935
Little Big Shot
Onderdonk
6.0
1935
In Love at 40
Edgar Kennedy
0.0
1935
Woman Wanted
Sweeney
6.3
1935
Edgar Hamlet
Edgar
0.0
1935
A Night at the Biltmore Bowl
Edgar Kennedy
6.0
1935
The Cowboy Millionaire
Willy 'Persimmon' Bates
6.0
1935
Living on Velvet
Counterman
5.4
1935
Rendezvous at Midnight
Mahoney
0.0
1935
Brick-a-Brac
Edgar
0.0
1935
The Silver Streak
O'Brien
6.7
1934
Flirting with Danger
Jimmie Pierson
5.0
1934
The Marines Are Coming
Sgt. Buck Martin
4.5
1934
Poisoned Ivory
Edgar Kennedy
0.0
1934
Kid Millions
Herman Wilson
6.5
1934
Gridiron Flash
Officer Thurston
3.3
1934
King Kelly of the U.S.A.
Happy Moran
3.5
1934
A Blasted Event
0.0
1934
We're Rich Again
Healy, Process Server
4.0
1934
Murder on the Blackboard
Detective Donahue
5.7
1934
Money Means Nothing
Herbert Green
4.0
1934
Wrong Direction
Edgar, Movie Director
0.0
1934
Twentieth Century
Oscar McGonigle
6.8
1934
Love on a Ladder
Edgar
1.0
1934
Heat Lightning
Herbert - the Husband
6.8
1934
All of Me
Guard (uncredited)
6.0
1934
King for a Night
Cop
6.2
1933
Duck Soup
Street Vendor
7.3
1933
What Fur
Edgar
0.0
1933
Tillie and Gus
Judge
7.6
1933
Quiet Please!
Edgar Kennedy
2.0
1933
Good Housewrecking
0.0
1933
Professional Sweetheart
Tim Kelsey
5.0
1933
Cross Fire
Ed Wimpy
6.0
1933
Son of the Border
Windy
9.0
1933
Diplomaniacs
Chairman - Peace Conference
7.0
1933
A Merchant of Menace
Edgar
0.0
1933
Scarlet River
Sam Gilroy
4.5
1933
Art in the Raw
1.0
1933
Fish Feathers
Edgar Kennedy
0.0
1932
Penguin Pool Murder
Officer Donovan
5.6
1932
Rockabye
Water Wagon Driver (uncredited)
6.2
1932
Little Orphan Annie
Daddy Warbucks
5.8
1932
Hold 'Em Jail
Warden Elmer Jones
6.8
1932
Giggle Water
Edgar
0.0
1932
Now's the Time
0.0
1932
Westward Passage
Elmer
5.8
1932
He's a Honey
0.0
1932
Carnival Boat
Baldy
5.0
1932
Bad Company
Buffington-Doorman
4.6
1931
Quick Millions
Cop (uncredited)
7.1
1931
Love Fever
Thelma's Last Rescuer
4.0
1931
High Gear
Cop
2.0
1931
Next Door Neighbors
Howard J. Green
0.0
1931
Help Wanted, Female
0.0
1931
Ladies Last
Man in Phone Booth
4.0
1930
Moonlight and Monkey Business
Detective
0.0
1930
Looser Than Loose
Night Club Patron
4.0
1930
Bigger and Better
Uncle Ed Sutton
5.0
1930
Dollar Dizzy
Quimby the Lawyer
6.0
1930
Doctor's Orders
Mary's Father / Gertie's Uncle
9.0
1930
Girl Shock
Fiancee's Father
4.0
1930
Fifty Million Husbands
Officer Kennedy
3.3
1930
All Teed Up
Thelma's Father
3.3
1930
The Ghosts
Kennedy
0.0
1930
When the Wind Blows
Kennedy the Cop (uncredited)
6.1
1930
The Big Kick
Detective
3.5
1930
The Gas Station
Detective
0.0
1930
The First Seven Years
Kennedy the Cop (uncredited)
5.3
1930
The Real McCoy
Cicero the Cop
6.5
1930
Shivering Shakespeare
Kennedy the Cop (uncredited)
5.7
1930
The Head Guy
Station Master Kennedy (uncredited)
4.0
1930
Thieves
6.9
1930
Night Owls
Officer Kennedy
7.4
1930
Great Gobs!
2nd Sailor
0.0
1929
Angora Love
Landlord
6.5
1929
Moan & Groan, Inc.
Kennedy the Cop (uncredited)
5.5
1929
Stepping Out
Diner's Owner
5.0
1929
Bacon Grabbers
Collis P. Kennedy
6.3
1929
Welcome Danger
SFPD Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
5.1
1929
They Had to See Paris
Ed Eggers (uncredited)
5.7
1929
Crazy Feet
Policeman
5.5
1929
Hotter Than Hot
0.0
1929
Perfect Day
Uncle Edgar
7.0
1929
Dad's Day
Michael Kennedy
0.0
1929
Madame Q
Judge Kennedy
6.2
1929
The Big Squawk
Orchestra Leader
0.0
1929
Hurdy Gurdy
Officer Ed Kennedy
0.0
1929
Unaccustomed as We Are
Officer Kennedy
6.8
1929
Trent's Last Case
Inspector Murch
0.0
1929
Why Is a Plumber?
0.0
1929
Off to Buffalo
0.0
1929
A Pair of Tights
Marion's Boyfriend's Boss
7.3
1929
Going Ga-Ga
Cop
6.6
1929
Chasing Husbands
0.0
1928
Feed 'em and Weep
5.2
1928
The Booster
0.0
1928
The Boy Friend
The Cop
5.3
1928
Two Tars
Motorist
6.6
1928
All Parts
0.0
1928
Is Everybody Happy?
0.0
1928
Should Married Men Go Home?
Golfer (uncredited)
6.4
1928
Imagine My Embarrassment
0.0
1928
The Fight Pest
0.0
1928
Limousine Love
The Husband, Mr Glenders
5.7
1928
The Finishing Touch
Cop (as Ed Kennedy)
6.8
1928
The Family Group
A Photographer
0.0
1928
Dumb Daddies
The Cop
0.0
1928
Leave 'Em Laughing
Cop
6.0
1928
The Chinese Parrot
Maydorf
0.0
1927
The Wrong Mr. Wright
Trayguard
0.0
1927
Finger Prints
O.K. McDuff (as Ed Kennedy)
0.0
1927
Going Crooked
Detective
0.0
1926
The Better 'Ole
Corporal Austin
5.0
1926
Across the Pacific
Cpl. Ryan
4.5
1926
My Old Dutch
Bill Sproat
0.0
1926
Oh! What a Nurse!
Eric Johnson
0.0
1926
The Golden Princess
Gewilliker Hay
0.0
1925
The Trouble With Wives
Detective (as Edward Kennedy)
0.0
1925
Paths to Paradise
Detective (uncredited)
5.6
1925
All's Swell on the Ocean
0.0
1924
Wall Street Blues
The Crook
0.0
1924
Racing for Life
Tom Grady
0.0
1924
The Battling Fool
Dan O'Leary (as Ed Kennedy)
0.0
1924
Something for Nothing
Ptomaine Tommy
0.0
1923
The Wandering Two
0.0
1923
The Little Girl Next Door
Hank Hall
0.0
1923
High and Dry
0.0
1922
The Guide
An American Tourist
0.0
1921
Puppets of Fate
Mike Reynolds
0.0
1921
The Adventures of Daredevil Jack
0.0
1920
Four Times Foiled
0.0
1920
Hearts and Flowers
Pete
5.2
1919
Yankee Doodle in Berlin
German Prison Guard (uncredited)
5.3
1919
She Loved Him Plenty
5.0
1918
The Late Lamented
Art Gallery Operator
0.0
1917
Whose Baby?
The Detective
0.0
1917
The Stolen Triumph
Edwin Rowley, Jr.
0.0
1916
Bombs!
Tony Peanutty - Italian Ward Leader
5.0
1916
A Scoundrel's Toll
Peter X. Bush - Streetcar Superintendent
5.0
1916
Madcap Ambrose
A City Chap
4.0
1916
His Bitter Pill
Diamond Dan - Jim's Rival
5.2
1916
Fatty's Tintype Tangle
Edgar
5.7
1915
Fatty’s Plucky Pup
Shell Game Operator
5.6
1915
Miss Fatty's Seaside Lovers
Suitor
4.5
1915
Mabel’s Wilful Way
Fatty's Pal
4.9
1915
Wished on Mabel
Cop
5.2
1915
His Luckless Love
The Maid's Boyfriend
3.0
1915
That Little Band Of Gold
Diner / Man in Audience (uncredited)
5.1
1915
Fatty’s Reckless Fling
Neighbor
4.7
1915
Fatty's New Role
Handout-Giver (uncredited)
5.2
1915
Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition
1st Street Crowd Participant (uncredited)
5.9
1915
Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day
The cafe waiter (uncredited)
5.6
1915
The Great Vacuum Robbery
2nd Thief
0.0
1915
Tillie's Punctured Romance
Restaurant Owner / Banks' Butler (uncredited)
6.1
1914
Ambrose's First Falsehood
Café Proprietor
4.2
1914
Getting Acquainted
Policeman (uncredited)
5.3
1914
Leading Lizzie Astray
The Slicker's Chauffeur
4.2
1914
The Noise of Bombs
Police Chief
5.0
1914
An Incompetent Hero
Fatty's Neighbor
0.0
1914
'Curses!' They Remarked
Ethel's Former Boyfriend
5.0
1914
Gentlemen of Nerve
Policeman
5.7
1914
Dough and Dynamite
Striking Baker
6.1
1914
The Love Thief
The Rival
0.0
1914
He Loved the Ladies
The Wife's Brother
0.0
1914
The Rounders
(uncredited)
6.1
1914
The Sky Pirate
The Sky Pirate
0.0
1914
Love and Bullets
The Trouble Mender
0.0
1914
Mabel's Busy Day
Tough Hot Dog Customer (uncredited)
5.6
1914
The Knockout
Cyclone Flynn (uncredited)
5.7
1914
Caught in a Cabaret
Cafe Proprietor (uncredited)
5.6
1914
Twenty Minutes of Love
Lover
5.5
1914
Mabel at the Wheel
Spectator in Grandstand (uncredited)
5.6
1914
A Bath House Beauty
Jealous Boyfriend
0.0
1914
The Star Boarder
Landlady's Husband (uncredited)
5.1
1914
Cruel, Cruel Love
Butler
5.1
1914
His Favorite Pastime
Tough Guy in Bar
5.2
1914
Tango Tangles
Dance Hall Manager (uncredited)
5.0
1914
A Film Johnnie
Director (uncredited)
5.4
1914
A Thief Catcher
Crook (uncredited)
4.9
1914
Making a Living
Wreck Bystander (uncredited)
5.6
1914
Little Billy's Triumph
5.0
1914
Rebecca's Wedding Day
The Groom
0.0
1914
In the Clutches of the Gang
Cop
0.0
1914
A Flirt's Mistake
Rajah
5.4
1914
Zuzu, the Band Leader
Caesar - Zuzu's Rival
0.0
1913
The Gusher
Cop (uncredited)
4.5
1913
A Ride for a Bride
Mustached Man
0.0
1913
Fatty Joins the Force
Jealous Cop
5.4
1913
A Muddy Romance
Water Policeman
4.8
1913
The Speed Kings
Laughing Spectator
4.2
1913
A Quiet Little Wedding
Wedding Guest
0.0
1913
The Bowling Match
Bowling Alley Operator
0.0
1913
Mother's Boy
Mug
0.0
1913
Mabel's Dramatic Career
Audience Member / Cop in Movie
5.4
1913
Mabel's New Hero
Cop
4.9
1913
The Riot
Cop
0.0
1913
A Noise from the Deep
5.5
1913
Love and Rubbish
1st Cop
5.0
1913
Safe in Jail
1st Crook
8.0
1913
Rastus and the Game Cock
Spectator
0.0
1913
Peeping Pete
The Cop
6.0
1913
The Gangsters
Henchman
6.0
1913
Their First Execution
0.0
1913
Mabel’s Awful Mistakes
0.0
1913
Algy on the Force
Cop
0.0
1913
Bangville Police
3rd Deputy
5.0
1913
The Rural Third Degree
Cop
0.0
1913