Actor
George Kennedy
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), Mave ...

Known For
Acting
2014 -- The Gambler | Ed
2011 -- Another Happy Day | Joe Baker
2010 -- 2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift | (archive footage)
2008 -- A Natural Born World-Shaker: The Making of 'Cool Hand Luke' | Self
2008 -- The Man Who Came Back | Judge Duke
2008 -- The Boneyard Collection | Professor Zebediah Jones (segment "The Devil's Due at Midnight")
2007 -- Sands of Oblivion | John Tevis
2006 -- Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen' | Self
2005 -- Don't Come Knocking | Director
2005 -- Three Bad Men | Ed Fiske
2005 -- Truce | Dr. Peter Gannon
2003 -- Monster Makers | Dexter Brisbane
2003 -- View from the Top | Passenger Requesting Vodka (uncredited)
1998 -- Men in White | Army
1998 -- Dennis the Menace Strikes Again! | Mr. Johnson
1998 -- Small Soldiers | Brick Bazooka (voice)
1998 -- Dallas: War of The Ewings | Carter McKay
1998 -- Hollyweird | George Kennedy
1997 -- Cats Don't Dance | L.B. Mammoth (voice)
1996 -- Dallas: J.R. Returns | Carter McKay
1994 -- WWE SummerSlam 1994 | Himself
1994 -- Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult | Ed Hocken
1992 -- Distant Justice | Tom Bradfield
1992 -- Final Shot: The Hank Gathers Story | Father Dave Hagan
1991 -- Intensive Care | Dr. Bruckner
1991 -- The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear | Ed Hocken
1991 -- Driving Me Crazy | John McCready
1991 -- Hangfire | Warden Barles
1990 -- The Cops Are Robbers |
1990 -- Hired to Kill | Thomas
1990 -- Mayumi: Virgin Terrorist | Bahraini Investigator
1990 -- Brain Dead | Vance
1989 -- Ministry of Vengeance | Rev. Hughes
1989 -- Esmeralda Bay | Wilson
1989 -- The Terror Within | Hal
1988 -- The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! | Ed Hocken
1988 -- Uninvited | Mike Harvey
1988 -- Top Line | Heinrich Holzmann
1988 -- Nightmare at Noon | Sherrif Hanks
1988 -- Private Road: No Trespassing | Sam Milshaw
1988 -- Demonwarp | Bill Crafton
1988 -- Counterforce | Vince Colby
1988 -- Born to Race | Vincent Duplain
1988 -- What Price Victory | Big Buck Brayton
1987 -- The Gambler, Part III: The Legend Continues | General Nelson Miles
1987 -- Creepshow 2 | Ray Spruce
1987 -- The Gunfighters | Deke Turner
1986 -- Radioactive Dreams | Spade Chandler
1986 -- Liberty | Seamus Reilly
1986 -- The Delta Force | Father O'Malley
1985 -- Savage Dawn | Tick Rand
1985 -- International Airport | Rudy Van Leuven
1985 -- Rigged | Ben
1985 -- Half Nelson | Parsons
1984 -- Rare Breed |
1984 -- Bolero | Cotton
1984 -- The Jesse Owens Story | Charles 'Charley' Riley
1984 -- Chattanooga Choo Choo | Bert
1982 -- The Jupiter Menace | Himself
1982 -- Wacko | Mr. Doctor Graves
1981 -- Just Before Dawn | Roy McLean
1981 -- The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire | Brakus
1981 -- Modern Romance | George Kennedy / Zeron
1980 -- Hotwire | Farley & Harley Fontenot
1980 -- Virus | Admiral Conway
1980 -- Death Ship | Captain Ashland
1979 -- Steel | Big Lew Cassidy
1979 -- The Concorde... Airport '79 | Joe Patroni
1979 -- Search and Destroy | Anthony Fusqua
1979 -- The Double McGuffin | Chief Talasek
1978 -- Brass Target | Gen. George S. Patton
1978 -- Death on the Nile | Andrew Pennington
1978 -- Mean Dog Blues | Captain Omar Kinsman
1977 -- Proof of the Man | Ken Shuftan
1977 -- Airport '77 | Joe Patroni
1975 -- The Human Factor | John Kinsdale
1975 -- The Eiger Sanction | Ben Bowman
1975 -- The Blue Knight | Bumper Morgan
1975 -- The Lion Roars Again | Self
1974 -- Earthquake | Sgt. Lew Slade
1974 -- Airport 1975 | Joe Patroni
1974 -- Thunderbolt and Lightfoot | Red Leary
1974 -- A Cry in the Wilderness | Sam Hadley
1974 -- Sonic Boom | Ben Dover
1973 -- Deliver Us from Evil | Walter 'Cowboy' McAdams
1973 -- Cahill: United States Marshal | Abe Fraser
1973 -- Lost Horizon | Sam Cornelius
1972 -- A Great American Tragedy | Brad Wilkes
1972 -- The Bull of the West | 'Bear' Suchette
1971 -- The Priest Killer | Father Samuel Cavanaugh
1971 -- Fools' Parade | Dallas 'Doc' Council
1971 -- Sarge: The Badge or the Cross | Sarge Swanson
1970 -- Dirty Dingus Magee | Herkimer 'Hoke' Birdsill
1970 -- Zig Zag | Paul R. Cameron
1970 -- Airport | Joe Patroni
1970 -- Tick... Tick... Tick... | John Little
1969 -- Gaily, Gaily | Axel P. Johanson
1969 -- The Good Guys and the Bad Guys | McKay
1969 -- Guns of the Magnificent Seven | Chris
1968 -- The Pink Jungle | Sammy Ryderbeit
1968 -- The Boston Strangler | Det. Phil DiNatale
1968 -- The Legend of Lylah Clare | Matt Burke
1968 -- Bandolero! | Sheriff July Johnson
1968 -- The Ballad of Josie | Arch Ogden
1967 -- Cool Hand Luke | Dragline
1967 -- The Dirty Dozen | Major Max Armbruster
1967 -- Hurry Sundown | Sheriff Coombs
1965 -- The Flight of the Phoenix | Bellamy
1965 -- Mirage | Willard
1965 -- The Sons of Katie Elder | Curley
1965 -- Shenandoah | Col. Fairchild
1965 -- In Harm's Way | Colonel Gregory
1964 -- Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte | Foreman
1964 -- See How They Run | Rudy
1964 -- Island of the Blue Dolphins | Aleut Captain
1964 -- McHale's Navy | Henri Le Clerc
1964 -- Strait-Jacket | Leo Krause
1963 -- Charade | Herman Scobie
1963 -- The Man from the Diners' Club | George
1962 -- Lonely are the Brave | Deputy Sheriff Gutierrez
1961 -- Gunfight at Black Horses Canyon | Hawk
1961 -- The Little Shepherd Of Kingdom Come | Nathan Dillon
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