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When Comedy Was King

as edited from 'A Pair of Tights' (archive footage)

1960
My Dream Is Yours

as Uncle Charlie

1949
Unfaithfully Yours

as Sweeney

1948
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

as Jake the Bartender

1947
It Happened Tomorrow

as Insp. Mulrooney

1944
The Great Alaskan Mystery

as Bosun Higgins

1944
The Falcon Strikes Back

as Smiley Dugan

1943
Hitler's Madman

as Nepomuk - the Hermit

1943
Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher

as Police Chief Murphy

1943
Private Snuffy Smith

as Sgt. Ed Cooper

1942
Gangs Of The City

as Biff

1941
Li'l Abner

as Cornelius Cornpone

1940
Who Killed Aunt Maggie?

as Sheriff Gregory

1940
It's a Wonderful World

as Lieutenant Miller

1939
The Black Doll

as Sheriff Renick

1938
Double Wedding

as Spike

1937
A Star Is Born

as Pop Randall

1937
Super-Sleuth

as Police Lt. Garrison

1937
San Francisco

as Sheriff

1936
Robin Hood of El Dorado

as Sheriff Judd

1936
Mad Holiday

as Donovan

1936
Fatal Lady

as Rudolf Hochstetter

1936
Yours for the Asking

as Bicarbonate

1936
Little Big Shot

as Onderdonk

1935
The Cowboy Millionaire

as Willy 'Persimmon' Bates

1935
Living on Velvet

as Counterman

1935
Woman Wanted

as Sweeney

1935
Rendezvous at Midnight

as Mahoney

1935
Twentieth Century

as Oscar McGonigle

1934
The Marines Are Coming

as Sgt. Buck Martin

1934
Edgar Kennedy Edgar Kennedy

Birthday

1890-04-26

Place of Birth

Monterey, California, USA

Biography

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.
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