George Kennedy

George Kennedy

Birthday: 1925-02-18

Deathday: 2016-02-28

Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA

Also known as: George Harris Kennedy Jr., جورج کندی

imdb_id: nm0001421

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.

Played in movies:

Rigged

Score: 9.7

The Jesse Owens Story

Score: 7.9

Charade

Score: 7.7

Cool Hand Luke

Score: 7.7

The Dirty Dozen

Score: 7.6

Proof of the Man

Score: 7.5

Zig Zag

Score: 7.5

Lonely are the Brave

Score: 7.4

Deliver Us from Evil

Score: 7.3

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

Score: 7.3

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

Score: 7.3

Cats Don't Dance

Score: 7.2

The Flight of the Phoenix

Score: 7.2

Death on the Nile

Score: 7.1

Mirage

Score: 7.0

The Sons of Katie Elder

Score: 7.0

Shenandoah

Score: 6.9

Search and Destroy

Score: 6.8

The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear

Score: 6.8

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

Score: 6.8

Modern Romance

Score: 6.7

A Great American Tragedy

Score: 6.7

The Boston Strangler

Score: 6.7

The Pink Jungle

Score: 6.6

Small Soldiers

Score: 6.6

In Harm's Way

Score: 6.6

… tick… tick… tick…

Score: 6.5

Fools' Parade

Score: 6.5

Bandolero!

Score: 6.5

Strait-Jacket

Score: 6.5

Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult

Score: 6.5

Airport

Score: 6.5

Hurry Sundown

Score: 6.4

Virus

Score: 6.3

Island of the Blue Dolphins

Score: 6.2

Creepshow 2

Score: 6.2

Don't Come Knocking

Score: 6.2

Cahill: United States Marshal

Score: 6.1

Earthquake

Score: 6.1

The Eiger Sanction

Score: 6.1

2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift

Score: 6.1

The Gambler

Score: 6.0

A Cry in the Wilderness

Score: 6.0

Just Before Dawn

Score: 6.0

The Delta Force

Score: 6.0

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

Score: 6.0

The Legend of Lylah Clare

Score: 5.9

The Gambler: The Legend Continues

Score: 5.9

Airport 1975

Score: 5.7

WWE SummerSlam 1994

Score: 5.7

The Ballad of Josie

Score: 5.7

The Human Factor

Score: 5.7

Brain Dead

Score: 5.6

The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire

Score: 5.6

Gunfight at Black Horses Canyon

Score: 5.6

View from the Top

Score: 5.6

Airport '77

Score: 5.6

Another Happy Day

Score: 5.5

The Jupiter Menace

Score: 5.5

Steel

Score: 5.5

Dallas: J.R. Returns

Score: 5.4

The Bull of the West

Score: 5.4

Lost Horizon

Score: 5.4

Dennis the Menace Strikes Again!

Score: 5.4

Brass Target

Score: 5.4

The Good Guys and the Bad Guys

Score: 5.4

The Boneyard Collection

Score: 5.3

Counterforce

Score: 5.3

Dallas: War of The Ewings

Score: 5.3

Guns of the Magnificent Seven

Score: 5.3

Radioactive Dreams

Score: 5.3

Death Ship

Score: 5.2

Mayumi: Virgin Terrorist

Score: 5.0

Chattanooga Choo Choo

Score: 5.0

International Airport

Score: 5.0

Liberty

Score: 5.0

Hotwire

Score: 5.0

The Man from the Diners' Club

Score: 5.0

Wacko

Score: 5.0

The Double McGuffin

Score: 5.0

Uninvited

Score: 4.8

Born to Race

Score: 4.8

The Concorde... Airport '79

Score: 4.7

McHale's Navy

Score: 4.6

Hired to Kill

Score: 4.6

Sonic Boom

Score: 4.5

Nightmare at Noon

Score: 4.5

Sands of Oblivion

Score: 4.5

Mean Dog Blues

Score: 4.4

Esmeralda Bay

Score: 4.4

The Terror Within

Score: 4.4

The Man Who Came Back

Score: 4.4

Dirty Dingus Magee

Score: 4.3

Savage Dawn

Score: 4.1

Hangfire

Score: 4.0

See How They Run

Score: 4.0

Private Road: No Trespassing

Score: 4.0

Top Line

Score: 4.0

The Gunfighters

Score: 4.0

Demonwarp

Score: 3.8

Driving Me Crazy

Score: 3.7

Truce

Score: 3.7

Gaily, Gaily

Score: 3.7

Men in White

Score: 3.4

The Little Shepherd Of Kingdom Come

Score: 3.3

Bolero

Score: 3.3

The Cops Are Robbers

Score: 3.0

Distant Justice

Score: 3.0

Ministry of Vengeance

Score: 3.0

Monster Makers

Score: 3.0

Hollyweird

Score: 2.8

Intensive Care

Score: 2.0

Three Bad Men

Score: 1.0

Airports

Score: 0.0

Bayou Ghost

Score: 0.0

The Priest Killer

Score: 0.0

The Lion Roars Again

Score: 0.0

Rare Breed

Score: 0.0

What Price Victory

Score: 0.0

Final Shot: The Hank Gathers Story

Score: 0.0

Half Nelson

Score: 0.0

The Blue Knight

Score: 0.0

Sarge: The Badge or the Cross

Score: 0.0

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

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Score: 7.9

Perry Mason

Score: 7.7

The Andy Griffith Show

Score: 7.6

Bonanza

Score: 7.5

Bonanza

Score: 7.5

Have Gun, Will Travel

Score: 7.3

Have Gun, Will Travel

Score: 7.3

Have Gun, Will Travel

Score: 7.3

Have Gun, Will Travel

Score: 7.3

Rawhide

Score: 7.2

The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest

Score: 7.2

The Rogues

Score: 7.2

Duckman

Score: 7.1

The Commish

Score: 7.1

The Phil Silvers Show

Score: 7.0

Daniel Boone

Score: 7.0

The Oscars

Score: 7.0

Saturday Night Live

Score: 6.9

Maverick

Score: 6.9

Wings

Score: 6.9

Dallas

Score: 6.8

Ironside

Score: 6.8

Tarzan

Score: 6.7

77 Sunset Strip

Score: 6.7

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Thriller

Score: 6.6

The Virginian

Score: 6.4

The Virginian

Score: 6.4

Peter Gunn

Score: 6.4

The Virginian

Score: 6.4

Laredo

Score: 6.3

The Tall Man

Score: 6.3

Route 66

Score: 6.3

The Merv Griffin Show

Score: 6.2

Riverboat

Score: 6.2

Outlaws

Score: 6.2

The Big Valley

Score: 6.1

Bat Masterson

Score: 6.1

Cheyenne

Score: 6.0

Kraft Mystery Theatre

Score: 6.0

Backstairs at the White House

Score: 5.9

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Score: 5.7

Going My Way

Score: 5.7

Lawman

Score: 5.6

Dr. Kildare

Score: 5.5

Dr. Kildare

Score: 5.5

Grindl

Score: 5.5

The Mike Douglas Show

Score: 5.4

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts

Score: 5.4

Surfside 6

Score: 5.0

The Asphalt Jungle

Score: 5.0

Sarge

Score: 5.0

Sugarfoot

Score: 4.8

Sugarfoot

Score: 4.8

The Legend of Jesse James

Score: 4.8

The Blue Knight

Score: 2.0

Santo Bugito

Score: 0.0

The Great Adventure

Score: 0.0