George Kennedy
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.
Fotos
Filmes (127)
Airports
2025
O Apostador
2014 · Ed
Bastidores de um Casamento
2011 · Joe Baker
Six Days in Paradise
2010 · Monty Crenshaw
2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
2010 · (archive footage)
A Natural Born World-Shaker: The Making of 'Cool Hand Luke'
2008 · Self
Terra da Violência
2008 · Judge Duke
The Boneyard Collection
2008 · Professor Zebediah Jones (segment "The Devil's Due at Midnight")
A Maldição do Deserto
2007 · John Tevis
Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen'
2006 · Self
Estrela Solitária
2005 · Director
Three Bad Men
2005 · Ed Fiske
Truce
2005 · Dr. Peter Gannon
Monster Makers
2003 · Dexter Brisbane
Voando Alto
2003 · Passenger Requesting Vodka (uncredited)
Men in White
1998 · Army
Dennis the Menace Strikes Again!
1998 · Mr. Johnson
Small Soldiers
1998 · Brick Bazooka (voice)
Dallas: War of The Ewings
1998 · Carter McKay
Hollyweird
1998 · George Kennedy
Cats Don't Dance
1997 · L.B. Mammoth (voice)
Bayou Ghost
1997 · Officer Lowe
Dallas: J.R. Returns
1996 · Carter McKay
WWE SummerSlam 1994
1994 · Himself
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
1994 · Ed Hocken
Distant Justice
1992 · Tom Bradfield
Final Shot: The Hank Gathers Story
1992 · Father Dave Hagan
Intensive Care
1991 · Dr. Bruckner
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
1991 · Ed Hocken
Driving Me Crazy
1991 · John McCready
Hangfire
1991 · Warden Barles
Good Cops, Bad Cops
1990
Mayumi: Virgin Terrorist
1990 · Bahraini Investigator
Hired to Kill
1990 · Thomas
Brain Dead
1990 · Vance
Ministry of Vengeance
1989 · Rev. Hughes
Esmeralda Bay
1989 · Wilson
The Terror Within
1989 · Hal
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
1988 · Ed Hocken
Uninvited
1988 · Mike Harvey
Top Line
1988 · Heinrich Holzmann
Nightmare at Noon
1988 · Sherrif Hanks
Private Road: No Trespassing
1988 · Sam Milshaw
Demonwarp
1988 · Bill Crafton
Counterforce
1988 · Vince Colby
Born to Race
1988 · Vincent Duplain
What Price Victory
1988 · Big Buck Brayton
The Gambler: The Legend Continues
1987 · General Nelson Miles
Creepshow 2
1987 · Ray Spruce
The Gunfighters
1987 · Deke Turner
Radioactive Dreams
1986 · Spade Chandler
Liberty
1986 · Seamus Reilly
The Delta Force
1986 · Father O'Malley
Savage Dawn
1985 · Tick Rand
International Airport
1985 · Rudy Van Leuven
Rigged
1985 · Ben Wheeler
Half Nelson
1985 · Parsons
A Rare Breed
1984
Bolero
1984 · Cotton
The Jesse Owens Story
1984 · Charles 'Charley' Riley
Chattanooga Choo Choo
1984 · Bert
The Jupiter Menace
1982 · Himself
Wacko
1982 · Mr. Doctor Graves
Just Before Dawn
1981 · Roy McLean
The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire
1981 · Brakus
Modern Romance
1981 · George Kennedy / Zeron
Hotwire
1980 · Farley & Harley Fontenot
Virus
1980 · Admiral Conway
Death Ship
1980 · Captain Ashland
Steel
1979 · Big Lew Cassidy
The Concorde... Airport '79
1979 · Joe Patroni
Search and Destroy
1979 · Anthony Fusqua
The Double McGuffin
1979 · Chief Talasek
Brass Target
1978 · Gen. George S. Patton
Death on the Nile
1978 · Andrew Pennington
Death on the Nile: Making of Featurette
1978 · Self
Mean Dog Blues
1978 · Captain Omar Kinsman
Proof of the Man
1977 · Ken Shuftan
Airport '77
1977 · Joe Patroni
The Human Factor
1975 · John Kinsdale
The Eiger Sanction
1975 · Ben Bowman
The Blue Knight
1975 · Bumper Morgan
The Lion Roars Again
1975 · Self
Earthquake
1974 · Sgt. Lew Slade
Airport 1975
1974 · Joe Patroni
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
1974 · Red Leary
A Cry in the Wilderness
1974 · Sam Hadley
Sonic Boom
1974 · Ben Dover
Deliver Us from Evil
1973 · Walter 'Cowboy' McAdams
Cahill: United States Marshal
1973 · Abe Fraser
Lost Horizon
1973 · Sam Cornelius
A Great American Tragedy
1972 · Brad Wilkes
The Bull of the West
1972 · 'Bear' Suchette
The Priest Killer
1971 · Father Samuel Cavanaugh
Fools' Parade
1971 · Dallas 'Doc' Council
Sarge: The Badge or the Cross
1971 · Sarge Swanson
Dirty Dingus Magee
1970 · Herkimer 'Hoke' Birdsill
Zig Zag
1970 · Paul R. Cameron
Airport
1970 · Joe Patroni
… tick… tick… tick…
1970 · John Little
Gaily, Gaily
1969 · Axel P. Johanson
The Good Guys and the Bad Guys
1969 · McKay
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
1969 · Chris
The Pink Jungle
1968 · Sammy Ryderbeit
The Boston Strangler
1968 · Det. Phil DiNatale
The Legend of Lylah Clare
1968 · Matt Burke
Bandolero!
1968 · Sheriff July Johnson
The Ballad of Josie
1967 · Arch Ogden
Cool Hand Luke
1967 · Dragline
The Dirty Dozen
1967 · Major Max Armbruster
Hurry Sundown
1967 · Sheriff Coombs
The Flight of the Phoenix
1965 · Bellamy
Mirage
1965 · Willard
The Sons of Katie Elder
1965 · Curley
Shenandoah
1965 · Col. Fairchild
In Harm's Way
1965 · Colonel Gregory
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
1964 · Foreman
See How They Run
1964 · Rudy
Island of the Blue Dolphins
1964 · Aleut Captain
McHale's Navy
1964 · Henri Le Clerc
Strait-Jacket
1964 · Leo Krause
Charade
1963 · Herman Scobie
The Man from the Diners' Club
1963 · George
The Silent Witness
1962 · Gus Jordan
Lonely are the Brave
1962 · Deputy Sheriff Gutierrez
Gunfight at Black Horses Canyon
1961 · Hawk
The Little Shepherd Of Kingdom Come
1961 · Nathan Dillon
Séries (52)
The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest
1996 · General Axton (voice)
Santo Bugito
1995 · Ralph (voice)
Duckman
1994 · Movie Director (voice)
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · Self - Guest
The Commish
1991 · Al Scali
Wings
1990 · George Kennedy
Backstairs at the White House
1979 · Pres. Warren G. Harding
Dallas
1978 · Carter McKay
Saturday Night Live
1975 · Self - Host
The Blue Knight
1975 · Officer Bumper Morgan
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
1973 · Self
Sarge
1971 · Samuel Cavanaugh
Ironside
1967 · Father Samuel Cavanaugh
Tarzan
1966
Laredo
1965
The Big Valley
1965 · Thatcher
The Legend of Jesse James
1965 · Blodgett
Daniel Boone
1964 · Zach Morgan
The Rogues
1964 · Major Vyx
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963 · Der
The Great Adventure
1963 · Sergeant Muldaney
Grindl
1963
Going My Way
1962
The Merv Griffin Show
1962 · Self
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962 · George Martin
The Virginian
1962 · Jack Marshman, Tom 'Bear' Suchette, Huck Harkness
The Mike Douglas Show
1961 · Self
Dr. Kildare
1961 · Joe Cramer, Sergeant Hensley
Kraft Mystery Theatre
1961
The Asphalt Jungle
1961
Gunslinger
1961 · Sheriff
Route 66
1960
Surfside 6
1960 · Gabe Buchanan
The Andy Griffith Show
1960 · State Police Detective
Outlaws
1960
Thriller
1960 · John Paterson
The Tall Man
1960
Riverboat
1959 · Gunner Slagle
Bonanza
1959 · Waldo Watson, Peter Long
Rawhide
1959 · George Wales
77 Sunset Strip
1958
Bat Masterson
1958 · Sheriff Zeke Armitage
Lawman
1958
Peter Gunn
1958
Maverick
1957 · Deputy Jones
Perry Mason
1957 · George Spangler
Sugarfoot
1957 · Ross Kuhn, Sykes
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957 · Deke - Killer, Big Jim, Sam Tarnitzer
Cheyenne
1955 · Lee Nelson
The Phil Silvers Show
1955 · Kennedy (uncredited)
Gunsmoke
1955 · Emil, Swarner, Bayloe, Hug, Stark, Cyrus, Ben Payson
The Oscars
1953 · Self