George Kennedy
Birthday: 1925-02-18
Deathday: 2016-01-27
Birthplace: New York City, New York, USA
Gender: Male
Drafted: 0
Drafted By: Unowned
Owned By: Unowned
Owned Wins: 0
Owned Noms: 0
Win Bonus: 3
Nom Bonus: 0
Total Points: 0
Sandy-haired, tall and burly George Harris Kennedy, Jr. was born in New York City, to Helen A. (Kieselbach), a ballet dancer, and George Harris Kennedy, an orchestra leader and musician. He had German, Irish, and English ancestry. 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.
Career Statisics
| Season | Age | Movie | Role | Result | Points | |
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| 1968 | 43 | Cool Hand Luke (1967) | Supporting Actor | Win | 0 | |
| Career | 0 |
Transaction History
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Credits
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2014-12-25 | The Gambler | Ed |
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2011-11-18 | Another Happy Day | Joe Baker |
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2008-02-08 | The Man Who Came Back | Judge Duke |
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2008-01-01 | The Boneyard Collection | Professor Zebediah Jones (segment "The Devil's Due at Midnight") |
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2007-07-28 | Sands of Oblivion | John Tevis |
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2005-08-25 | Don't Come Knocking | Director |
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2005-01-15 | Three Bad Men | Ed Fiske |
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2005-01-01 | Truce | Dr. Peter Gannon |
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2003-10-26 | Monster Makers | Dexter Brisbane |
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2003-03-21 | View from the Top | Passenger Requesting Vodka (uncredited) |
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1998-08-16 | Men in White | Army |
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1998-07-14 | Dennis the Menace Strikes Again! | Mr. Johnson |
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1998-07-10 | Small Soldiers | Brick Bazooka (voice) |
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1998-04-23 | Dallas - War of The Ewings | Carter McKay |
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1998-01-01 | Hollyweird | George Kennedy |
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1997-03-26 | Cats Don't Dance | L.B. Mammoth (voice) |
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1996-11-14 | Dallas: J.R. Returns | Carter McKay |
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1994-03-18 | Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult | Ed Hocken |
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1992-12-01 | Distant Justice | Tom Bradfield |
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1992-04-01 | Final Shot: The Hank Gathers Story | Father Dave Hagan |
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1991-10-31 | Intensive Care | Dr. Bruckner |
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1991-06-28 | The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear | Ed Hocken |
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1991-05-16 | Driving Me Crazy | John McCready |
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1991-01-11 | Hangfire | Warden Barles |
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1990-12-09 | The Cops Are Robbers | |
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1990-11-10 | Hired to Kill | Thomas |
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1990-06-09 | Mayumi: Virgin Terrorist | Bahraini Investigator |
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1990-01-16 | Brain Dead | Vance |
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1989-11-03 | Ministry of Vengeance | Rev. Hughes |
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1989-05-18 | Esmeralda Bay | Wilson |
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1989-01-20 | The Terror Within | Hal |
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1988-12-02 | The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! | Ed Hocken |
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1988-08-24 | Uninvited | Mike Harvey |
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1988-08-16 | Top Line | Heinrich Holzmann |
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1988-06-29 | Nightmare at Noon | Sherrif Hanks |
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1988-06-15 | Private Road: No Trespassing | Sam Milshaw |
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1988-03-01 | Demonwarp | Bill Crafton |
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1988-02-05 | Counterforce | Vince Colby |
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1988-01-29 | Born to Race | Vincent Duplain |
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1988-01-18 | What Price Victory | Big Buck Brayton |
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1987-11-22 | The Gambler, Part III: The Legend Continues | General Nelson Miles |
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1987-05-01 | Creepshow 2 | Ray Spruce |
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1987-01-01 | The Gunfighters | Deke Turner |
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1986-09-19 | Radioactive Dreams | Spade Chandler |
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1986-06-23 | Liberty | Seamus Reilly |
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1986-05-22 | Savage Dawn | Tick Rand |
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1986-02-14 | The Delta Force | Father O'Malley |
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1985-05-25 | International Airport | Rudy Van Leuven |
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1985-05-15 | Rigged | Ben |
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1985-03-24 | Half Nelson | Parsons |
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1984-10-10 | Rare Breed | |
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1984-08-31 | Bolero | Cotton |
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1984-07-09 | The Jesse Owens Story | Charles 'Charley' Riley |
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1984-05-18 | Chattanooga Choo Choo | Bert |
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1982-11-12 | Wacko | Mr. Doctor Graves |
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1981-10-14 | Just Before Dawn | Roy McLean |
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1981-04-12 | The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire | Brakus |
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1981-03-13 | Modern Romance | George Kennedy / Zeron |
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1980-09-01 | Hotwire | Farley & Harley Fontenot |
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1980-06-26 | Virus | Admiral Conway |
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1980-03-07 | Death Ship | Captain Ashland |
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1979-10-21 | Steel | Big Lew Cassidy |
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1979-08-17 | The Concorde... Airport '79 | Joe Patroni |
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1979-07-05 | Search and Destroy | Anthony Fusqua |
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1979-06-01 | The Double McGuffin | Chief Talasek |
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1978-12-22 | Brass Target | Gen. George S. Patton |
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1978-09-29 | Death on the Nile | Andrew Pennington |
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1978-03-03 | Mean Dog Blues | Captain Omar Kinsman |
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1977-10-08 | Proof of the Man | Ken Shuftan |
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1977-03-11 | Airport '77 | Joe Patroni |
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1975-11-19 | The Human Factor | John Kinsdale |
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1975-05-21 | The Eiger Sanction | Ben Bowman |
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1975-05-09 | The Blue Knight | Bumper Morgan |
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1974-11-15 | Earthquake | Sgt. Lew Slade |
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1974-10-18 | Airport 1975 | Joe Patroni |
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1974-05-23 | Thunderbolt and Lightfoot | Red Leary |
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1974-03-26 | A Cry in the Wilderness | Sam Hadley |
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1974-01-01 | Sonic Boom | Ben Dover |
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1973-09-11 | Deliver Us from Evil | Walter 'Cowboy' McAdams |
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1973-07-11 | Cahill: United States Marshal | Abe Fraser |
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1973-03-14 | Lost Horizon | Sam Cornelius |
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1972-10-18 | A Great American Tragedy | Brad Wilkes |
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1972-05-04 | The Bull of the West | 'Bear' Suchette |
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1971-08-18 | Fools' Parade | Dallas 'Doc' Council |
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1971-02-22 | Sarge: The Badge or the Cross | Sarge Swanson |
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1970-11-18 | Dirty Dingus Magee | Herkimer 'Hoke' Birdsill |
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1970-05-01 | Zig Zag | Paul R. Cameron |
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1970-03-25 | Airport | Joe Patroni |
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1970-01-09 | Tick... Tick... Tick... | John Little |
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1969-12-16 | Gaily, Gaily | Axel P. Johanson |
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1969-10-10 | The Good Guys and the Bad Guys | McKay |
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1969-07-14 | Guns of the Magnificent Seven | Chris |
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1968-10-16 | The Pink Jungle | Sammy Ryderbeit |
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1968-10-08 | The Boston Strangler | Det. Phil DiNatale |
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1968-08-21 | The Legend of Lylah Clare | Matt Burke |
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1968-06-01 | Bandolero! | Sheriff July Johnson |
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1968-02-01 | The Ballad of Josie | Arch Ogden |
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1967-11-01 | Cool Hand Luke | Dragline |
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1967-06-15 | The Dirty Dozen | Major Max Armbruster |
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1967-02-09 | Hurry Sundown | Sheriff Coombs |
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1965-12-15 | The Flight of the Phoenix | Bellamy |
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1965-10-29 | Mirage | Willard |
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1965-06-23 | The Sons of Katie Elder | Curley |
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1965-06-03 | Shenandoah | Col. Fairchild |
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1965-04-06 | In Harm's Way | Colonel Gregory |
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1964-12-15 | Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte | Foreman |
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1964-10-07 | See How They Run | Rudy |
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1964-09-10 | Island of the Blue Dolphins | Aleut Captain |
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1964-06-25 | McHale's Navy | Henri Le Clerc |
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1964-01-19 | Strait-Jacket | Leo Krause |
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1963-12-01 | Charade | Herman Scobie |
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1963-04-17 | The Man from the Diners' Club | George |
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1962-05-24 | Lonely are the Brave | Deputy Sheriff Gutierrez |
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1961-10-17 | Gunfight at Black Horses Canyon | Hawk |
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1961-06-01 | The Little Shepherd Of Kingdom Come | Nathan Dillon |