Known For
Acting
Born
Apr 25, 1890
Died
Nov 09, 1948
Place of Birth
Monterey, California, USA
Credits
335 titles
Edgar Kennedy
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.
Known For
Filmography
Laurel & Hardy: Year Two
(archive footage) (uncredited)
The Our Gang Story
Officer (archive footage)
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
Self - Tribute Montage (archive footage)
The Best of Laurel and Hardy
Officer Kennedy (archive footage)
When Comedy Was King
(archive footage) (uncredited)
The Golden Age of Comedy
archive footage
My Dream Is Yours
Uncle Charlie
Unfaithfully Yours
Sweeney
Contest Crazy
Edgar
Variety Time
Edgar Kennedy (footage from 'I'll Build It Myself') (archive footage)
Dig That Gold
Edgar Kennedy
Brother Knows Best
Edgar Kennedy
Heaven Only Knows
Judd
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
Jake the Bartender
Do or Diet
Edgar
I'll Build It Myself
Edgar
Motor Maniacs
Edgar Kennedy
Trouble or Nothing
Edgar
Captain Tugboat Annie
Captain Bullwinkle
The Big Beef
Edgar Kennedy
You Drive Me Crazy
Edgar
Anchors Aweigh
Police Captain
It's Your Move
Edgar Kennedy
What, No Cigarettes
Edgar Kennedy
Feather Your Nest
Edgar
The Great Alaskan Mystery
Bosun Higgins
It Happened Tomorrow
Insp. Mulrooney
Radio Rampage
Edgar
Prunes and Politics
Edgar
Crazy House
Judge
The Girl from Monterrey
Doc Hogan, Fight Promoter
Hitler's Madman
Nepomuk - the Hermit
Hot Foot
Edgar
Inferior Decorator
Edgar
Air Raid Wardens
Joe Bledsoe
The Falcon Strikes Back
Smiley Dugan
Hold Your Temper
Edgar
Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher
Police Chief Murphy
Duck Soup
Edgar
Hillbilly Blitzkrieg
Sgt. Homer Gatling
There's One Born Every Minute
Mayor Moe Carson
Cooks and Crooks
Edgar
In Old California
Kegs McKeever
Pardon My Stripes
Warden Bingham
Private Snuffy Smith
Sgt. Ed Cooper
Rough on Rents
Edgar Kennedy
A Quiet Fourth
Edgar
Gangs Of The City
Biff
I'll Fix It
Edgar
Westward Ho-Hum
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