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25 Apr 1890
9 Nov 1948 (58)
Monterey, California, USA
Edgar Kennedy
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.
Year | Movie / TV show / Other | Role |
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1994 | The Our Gang Story | Officer (archive footage) |
1968 | The Best of Laurel and Hardy | Officer Kennedy (archive footage) |
1960 | When Comedy Was King | edited from 'A Pair of Tights' (archive footage) |
1957 | The Golden Age of Comedy | archive footage |
1949 | My Dream Is Yours | Uncle Charlie |
1948 | Unfaithfully Yours | Sweeney |
1948 | Dig That Gold | Edgar Kennedy |
1948 | Variety Time | Edgar Kennedy (footage from 'I'll Build It Myself') (archive footage) |
1948 | Brother Knows Best | Edgar Kennedy |
1948 | Contest Crazy | Edgar |
1947 | The Sin of Harold Diddlebock | Jake the Bartender |
1947 | Heaven Only Knows | Judd |
1947 | Do or Diet | Edgar |
1946 | Motor Maniacs | Edgar Kennedy |
1946 | Trouble or Nothing | Edgar |
1946 | I'll Build It Myself | Edgar |
1945 | Anchors Aweigh | Police Captain |
1945 | What, No Cigarettes | Edgar Kennedy |
1945 | Captain Tugboat Annie | Captain Bullwinkle |
1945 | It's Your Move | Edgar Kennedy |
1945 | You Drive Me Crazy | Edgar |
1945 | The Big Beef | Edgar Kennedy |
1944 | It Happened Tomorrow | Insp. Mulrooney |
1944 | The Great Alaskan Mystery | Bosun Higgins |
1944 | Prunes and Politics | Edgar |
1944 | Feather Your Nest | Edgar |
1944 | Radio Rampage | Edgar |
1943 | Air Raid Wardens | Joe Bledsoe |
1943 | The Falcon Strikes Back | Smiley Dugan |
1943 | Hitler's Madman | Nepomuk - the Hermit |
1943 | Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher | Police Chief Murphy |
1943 | Crazy House | Judge |
1943 | The Girl from Monterrey | Doc Hogan, Fight Promoter |
1943 | Hold Your Temper | Edgar |
1943 | Hot Foot | Edgar |
1942 | In Old California | Kegs McKeever |
1942 | Private Snuffy Smith | Sgt. Ed Cooper |
1942 | Hillbilly Blitzkrieg | Sgt. Homer Gatling |
1942 | There's One Born Every Minute | Mayor Moe Carson |
1942 | Rough on Rents | Edgar Kennedy |
1942 | Pardon My Stripes | Warden Bingham |
1942 | Cooks and Crooks | Edgar |
1942 | Duck Soup | Edgar |
1941 | Blondie in Society | Dr. Glenn |
1941 | Gangs Of The City | Biff |
1941 | An Apple in His Eye | Edgar Kennedy |
1941 | I'll Fix It | Edgar |
1941 | Westward Ho-Hum | Edgar |
1941 | A Quiet Fourth | Edgar |
1940 | Li'l Abner | Cornelius Cornpone |
1940 | Dr. Christian Meets the Women | George Browning |
1940 | Remedy for Riches | George Browning |
1940 | Who Killed Aunt Maggie? | Sheriff Gregory |
1940 | Sandy Gets Her Man | Fire Chief Galvin |
1940 | Mutiny in the County | Edgar Kennedy |
1940 | The Quarterback | Pops |
1940 | Margie | Chauncey |
1940 | Sandy Is a Lady | Officer Rafferty |
1940 | Drafted in the Depot | Edgar Kennedy |
1940 | 'Taint Legal | Edgar |
1940 | Sunk by the Census | Edgar |
1940 | A Trailer Tragedy | Edgar Kennedy |
1939 | It's a Wonderful World | Lieutenant Miller |
1939 | Everything's on Ice | Joe Barton |
1939 | Charlie McCarthy, Detective | Inspector Dailey |
1939 | Laugh It Off | Judge John J. McGuinnis |
1939 | Little Accident | Paper Hanger |
1939 | Baby Daze | Edgar Kennedy |
1939 | Clock Wise | Edgar |
1939 | Maid to Order | Edgar |
1939 | Kennedy the Great | Edgar Kennedy |
1938 | Hey! Hey! USA | Bugs Leary |
1938 | Hollywood Hotel | Callaghan |
1938 | Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus | Arthur Bailey |
1938 | The Black Doll | Sheriff Renick |
1938 | Beaux and Errors | Edgar Kennedy |
1938 | Ears of Experience | Edgar |
1938 | Scandal Street | Daniel Webster Smith |
1938 | A Clean Sweep | Edgar |
1937 | A Star Is Born | Pop Randall |
1937 | Double Wedding | Spike |
1937 | True Confession | Darsey |
1937 | Super-Sleuth | Police Lt. Garrison |
1937 | When's Your Birthday? | Mr. Basscombe |
1937 | The Other Fellow | Four Roles |
1937 | Tramp Trouble | Edgar |
1937 | Dumb's the Word | Edgar Kennedy |
1937 | Bad Housekeeping | Edgar |
1937 | Edgar & Goliath | Edgar |
1936 | San Francisco | Sheriff |
1936 | Small Town Girl | Captain Mack |
1936 | Mad Holiday | Donovan |
1936 | Three Men on a Horse | Harry, the Bartender |
1936 | Robin Hood of El Dorado | Sheriff Judd |
1936 | Dummy Ache | Edgar |
1936 | Yours for the Asking | Bicarbonate |
1936 | Will Power | Edgar Kennedy |
1936 | Fatal Lady | Rudolf Hochstetter |
1936 | Gasoloons | Edgar Kennedy |
1936 | Vocalizing | Edgar Kennedy |
1935 | $1,000 a Minute | Police Officer McCarthy |
1935 | Woman Wanted | Sweeney |
1935 | Living on Velvet | Counterman |
1935 | The Bride Comes Home | Henry |
1935 | Little Big Shot | Onderdonk |
1935 | The Cowboy Millionaire | Willy 'Persimmon' Bates |
1935 | A Night at the Biltmore Bowl | Edgar Kennedy |
1935 | Rendezvous at Midnight | Mahoney |
1935 | Edgar Hamlet | Edgar |
1935 | In Love at 40 | Edgar Kennedy |
1935 | Brick-a-Brac | Edgar |
1934 | Twentieth Century | Oscar McGonigle |
1934 | Heat Lightning | Herbert - the Husband |
1934 | Kid Millions | Herman Wilson |
1934 | The Silver Streak | O'Brien |
1934 | The Marines Are Coming | Sgt. Buck Martin |
1934 | Gridiron Flash | Officer Thurston |
1934 | Murder on the Blackboard | Detective Donahue |
1934 | King Kelly of the U.S.A. | Happy Moran |
1934 | Flirting with Danger | Jimmie Pierson |
1934 | Money Means Nothing | Herbert Green |
1934 | We're Rich Again | Healy, Process Server |
1934 | All of Me | Guard (uncredited) |
1934 | Love on a Ladder | Edgar |
1934 | A Blasted Event | |
1934 | Wrong Direction | Edgar, Movie Director |
1934 | Poisoned Ivory | Edgar Kennedy |
1933 | Duck Soup | Street Vendor |
1933 | Tillie and Gus | Judge |
1933 | Professional Sweetheart | Tim Kelsey |
1933 | Scarlet River | Sam Gilroy |
1933 | Diplomaniacs | Chairman - Peace Conference |
1933 | King for a Night | Cop |
1933 | Son of the Border | Windy |
1933 | Quiet Please! | Edgar Kennedy |
1933 | Good Housewrecking | |
1933 | Art in the Raw | |
1933 | A Merchant of Menace | Edgar |
1933 | Cross Fire | Ed Wimpy |
1933 | What Fur | Edgar |
1932 | Penguin Pool Murder | Officer Donovan |
1932 | Rockabye | Water Wagon Driver (uncredited) |
1932 | Westward Passage | Elmer |
1932 | Little Orphan Annie | Daddy Warbucks |
1932 | Hold 'Em Jail | Warden Elmer Jones |
1932 | Carnival Boat | Baldy |
1932 | Giggle Water | Edgar |
1932 | He's a Honey | |
1932 | Now's the Time | |
1932 | Fish Feathers | Edgar Kennedy |
1931 | Quick Millions | Cop (uncredited) |
1931 | Bad Company | Buffington-Doorman |
1931 | Love Fever | Thelma's Last Rescuer |
1931 | High Gear | Cop |
1931 | Next Door Neighbors | Howard J. Green |
1931 | Help Wanted, Female | |
1930 | Night Owls | Officer Kennedy |
1930 | The First Seven Years | Kennedy the Cop (uncredited) |
1930 | Thieves | |
1930 | When the Wind Blows | Kennedy the Cop (uncredited) |
1930 | Shivering Shakespeare | Kennedy the Cop (uncredited) |
1930 | Dollar Dizzy | Quimby the Lawyer |
1930 | The Head Guy | Station Master Kennedy (uncredited) |
1930 | The Big Kick | Detective |
1930 | All Teed Up | Thelma's Father |
1930 | Bigger and Better | Uncle Ed Sutton |
1930 | Looser Than Loose | Night Club Patron |
1930 | Ladies Last | Man in Phone Booth |
1930 | Doctor's Orders | Mary's Father / Gertie's Uncle |
1930 | Fifty Million Husbands | Officer Kennedy |
1930 | The Ghosts | Kennedy |
1930 | The Real McCoy | Cicero the Cop |
1930 | Moonlight and Monkey Business | Detective |
1930 | Girl Shock | Fiancee's Father |
1930 | The Gas Station | Detective |
1929 | Perfect Day | Uncle Edgar |
1929 | Unaccustomed as We Are | Officer Kennedy |
1929 | Angora Love | Landlord |
1929 | Bacon Grabbers | Collis P. Kennedy |
1929 | Welcome Danger | SFPD Desk Sergeant (uncredited) |
1929 | A Pair of Tights | Marion's Boyfriend's Boss |
1929 | Going Ga-Ga | Cop |
1929 | They Had to See Paris | Ed Eggers |
1929 | Madame Q | Judge Kennedy |
1929 | Moan & Groan, Inc. | Kennedy the Cop (uncredited) |
1929 | Off to Buffalo | |
1929 | Great Gobs! | 2nd Sailor |
1929 | Trent's Last Case | Inspector Murch |
1929 | Hurdy Gurdy | Officer Ed Kennedy |
1929 | The Big Squawk | Orchestra Leader |
1929 | Stepping Out | Diner's Owner |
1929 | Dad's Day | Michael Kennedy |
1929 | Hotter Than Hot | |
1929 | Crazy Feet | Policeman |
1929 | Why Is a Plumber? | |
1928 | Two Tars | Motorist |
1928 | The Finishing Touch | Cop (as Ed Kennedy) |
1928 | Leave 'Em Laughing | Cop |
1928 | Should Married Men Go Home? | Golfer (uncredited) |
1928 | The Boy Friend | The Cop |
1928 | Feed 'em and Weep | |
1928 | Limousine Love | The Husband, Mr Glenders |
1928 | The Fight Pest | |
1928 | The Family Group | A Photographer |
1928 | The Booster | |
1928 | All Parts | |
1928 | Imagine My Embarrassment | |
1928 | Is Everybody Happy? | |
1928 | Chasing Husbands | |
1928 | Dumb Daddies | The Cop |
1927 | The Chinese Parrot | Maydorf |
1927 | The Wrong Mr. Wright | Trayguard |
1927 | Finger Prints | O.K. McDuff (as Ed Kennedy) |
1926 | The Better 'Ole | Corporal Austin |
1926 | Across the Pacific | Cpl. Ryan |
1926 | Oh! What a Nurse! | |
1926 | My Old Dutch | Bill Sproat |
1926 | Going Crooked | Detective |
1925 | Paths to Paradise | Detective (uncredited) |
1925 | The Trouble With Wives | Detective (as Edward Kennedy) |
1925 | The Golden Princess | Gewilliker Hay |
1924 | Racing for Life | Tom Grady |
1924 | The Battling Fool | Dan O'Leary (as Ed Kennedy) |
1924 | Wall Street Blues | The Crook |
1923 | Something for Nothing | Ptomaine Tommy |
1923 | The Little Girl Next Door | Hank Hall |
1923 | The Wandering Two | |
1922 | High and Dry | |
1921 | The Guide | An American Tourist |
1921 | Puppets of Fate | Mike Reynolds |
1920 | The Adventures of Daredevil Jack | |
1920 | Four Times Foiled | |
1919 | Yankee Doodle in Berlin | German Prison Guard (uncredited) |
1919 | Hearts and Flowers | Pete |
1918 | She Loved Him Plenty | |
1917 | Whose Baby? | The Detective |
1917 | The Late Lamented | Art Gallery Operator |
1916 | His Bitter Pill | Diamond Dan - Jim's Rival |
1916 | Bombs! | Tony Peanutty - Italian Ward Leader |
1916 | Madcap Ambrose | A City Chap |
1916 | A Scoundrel's Toll | Peter X. Bush - Streetcar Superintendent |
1915 | Fatty's Tintype Tangle | Edgar |
1915 | That Little Band Of Gold | Diner / Man in Audience (uncredited) |
1915 | Fatty’s Plucky Pup | Shell Game Operator |
1915 | Mabel’s Wilful Way | Fatty's Pal |
1915 | Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition | 1st Street Crowd Participant (uncredited) |
1915 | Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day | The cafe waiter (uncredited) |
1915 | Fatty's New Role | Handout-Giver (uncredited) |
1915 | Wished on Mabel | Cop |
1915 | Miss Fatty's Seaside Lovers | Suitor |
1915 | Fatty’s Reckless Fling | Neighbor |
1915 | His Luckless Love | The Maid's Boyfriend |
1915 | The Great Vacuum Robbery | 2nd Thief |
1914 | Making a Living | Wreck Bystander (uncredited) |
1914 | Tillie's Punctured Romance | Restaurant Owner / Banks' Butler (uncredited) |
1914 | A Film Johnnie | Director (uncredited) |
1914 | The Rounders | (uncredited) |
1914 | Twenty Minutes of Love | Lover |
1914 | Tango Tangles | Dance Hall Manager (uncredited) |
1914 | Cruel, Cruel Love | Butler |
1914 | Caught in a Cabaret | Cafe Proprietor (uncredited) |
1914 | Dough and Dynamite | Striking Baker |
1914 | The Knockout | Cyclone Flynn (uncredited) |
1914 | His Favorite Pastime | Tough Guy in Bar |
1914 | Getting Acquainted | Policeman (uncredited) |
1914 | Gentlemen of Nerve | Policeman |
1914 | The Star Boarder | Landlady's Husband (uncredited) |
1914 | Mabel's Busy Day | Tough Hot Dog Customer (uncredited) |
1914 | Mabel at the Wheel | Spectator in Grandstand (uncredited) |
1914 | A Thief Catcher | Crook (uncredited) |
1914 | A Flirt's Mistake | Rajah |
1914 | Ambrose's First Falsehood | Café Proprietor |
1914 | Leading Lizzie Astray | The Slicker's Chauffeur |
1914 | The Noise of Bombs | Police Chief |
1914 | Little Billy's Triumph | |
1914 | 'Curses!' They Remarked | Ethel's Former Boyfriend |
1914 | The Love Thief | The Rival |
1914 | The Sky Pirate | The Sky Pirate |
1914 | Love and Bullets | The Trouble Mender |
1914 | Rebecca's Wedding Day | The Groom |
1914 | In the Clutches of the Gang | Cop |
1914 | A Bath House Beauty | Jealous Boyfriend |
1914 | He Loved the Ladies | The Wife's Brother |
1914 | An Incompetent Hero | Fatty's Neighbor |
1913 | Bangville Police | 3rd Deputy |
1913 | Fatty Joins the Force | Jealous Cop |
1913 | A Muddy Romance | Water Policeman |
1913 | Mabel's Dramatic Career | Audience Member / Cop in Movie |
1913 | The Speed Kings | Laughing Spectator |
1913 | Mabel's New Hero | Cop |
1913 | The Gusher | Cop (uncredited) |
1913 | A Noise from the Deep | |
1913 | The Gangsters | Henchman |
1913 | Peeping Pete | The Cop |
1913 | Safe in Jail | 1st Crook |
1913 | Love and Rubbish | 1st Cop |
1913 | The Rural Third Degree | Cop |
1913 | Mabel’s Awful Mistakes | |
1913 | Algy on the Force | Cop |
1913 | Rastus and the Game Cock | Spectator |
1913 | The Riot | Cop |
1913 | A Quiet Little Wedding | Wedding Guest |
1913 | Mother's Boy | Mug |
1913 | A Ride for a Bride | Mustached Man |
1913 | Their First Execution | |
1913 | The Bowling Match | Bowling Alley Operator |
1913 | Zuzu, the Band Leader | Caesar - Zuzu's Rival |
Year | Movie / TV show / Other | Role |
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1930 | All Teed Up | Director |
1930 | Bigger and Better | Director |
1930 | Fifty Million Husbands | Director |
1930 | The golfer | Director |
1930 | The golf player | Director |
1928 | You're Darn Tootin' | Director |
1928 | From Soup to Nuts | Director |
1925 | The Marriage Circus | Director |
1924 | Three Foolish Weeks | Director |
1922 | Step Lively, Please | Director |