George Kennedy
Acting
- Nacimiento:
- 1925-02-18
- Fallecimiento:
- 2016-02-28
- Lugar de nacimiento:
- New York City, New York, USA
Biografía
George Kennedy (February 18, 1925 — February 28, 2016) was a European-American businessman, entrepreneur, A World War II veteran, actor, adviser, radio dj, and author. 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.
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Filmografía
Airports
El jugador
Otro día feliz
Six Days in Paradise
2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
A Natural Born World-Shaker: The Making of 'Cool Hand Luke'
The Man Who Came Back
The Boneyard Collection
La maldición del desierto
Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen'
Llamando a las puertas del cielo
Three Bad Men
Truce
Monster Makers
Amor en el aire
Los Hombres de Blanco
Daniel el travieso ataca de nuevo
Pequeños guerreros
Dallas: War of The Ewings
Hollyweird
Los gatos no bailan
Bayou Ghost
Dallas: J.R. Returns
The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest
Santo Bugito
WWE SummerSlam 1994
Agárralo como puedas 33⅓: El insulto final
Duckman
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Distant Justice
Final Shot: The Hank Gathers Story
Intensive Care
The Commish
Agárralo como puedas 2½: El aroma del miedo
Los locos de la carretera
Hangfire
Good Cops, Bad Cops
마유미
Hired to Kill
Wings
En la piel del asesino
Ministry of Vengeance
La bahía esmeralda
Regen: Regeneración Mortal
Agárralo como puedas
El pasajero no invitado
Top Line
Pesadilla en Canyonland
Private Road: No Trespassing
Endemoniados
Escuadrón
Born to Race
What Price Victory
The Gambler, Part III: The Legend Continues
Creepshow 2
The Gunfighters
Sueños radiactivos
Liberty
Delta Force
Amanecer salvaje
International Airport
Rigged
Half Nelson
A Rare Breed
Bolero
The Jesse Owens Story
Chattanooga Choo Choo
The Jupiter Menace
Wacko
Pánico antes del amanecer
The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire
Modern Romance
Hotwire
Exterminio (Virus)
El barco de la muerte
Acero
Aeropuerto 79
Search and Destroy
The Double McGuffin
Backstairs at the White House
Objetivo: Patton
Muerte en el Nilo
Death on the Nile: Making of Featurette
Dallas
Caza sin piedad
人間の証明
Aeropuerto 77
Víctimas del terrorismo
Saturday Night Live
Licencia para matar
The Blue Knight
The Blue Knight
The Lion Roars Again
Terremoto
Aeropuerto 75
Un botín de 500.000 dólares
A Cry in the Wilderness
Sonic Boom
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
Deliver Us from Evil
La soga de la horca
Horizontes perdidos
A Great American Tragedy
Huellas de fuego
The Priest Killer
Cerco de fuego
Sarge: The Badge or the Cross
Sarge
Duelo de pillos
Falso testimonio
Aeropuerto
Tic, tic, tic
Los locos años de Chicago
Un hombre impone la ley
La furia de los siete magníficos
Fiebre de codicia
El Estrangulador De Boston
La leyenda de Lylah Clare
Bandolero!
Desafio en el rancho
La leyenda del indomable
Doce del patíbulo
Ironside
La noche deseada
Tarzan
El vuelo del Fénix
Espejismo
Laredo
The Big Valley
The Legend of Jesse James
Los cuatro hijos de Katie Elder
El valle de la violencia
Primera victoria
Canción de cuna para un cadáver
See How They Run
Daniel Boone
The Rogues
La isla de los delfines azules
McHale's Navy
El caso de Lucy Harbin
Charada
La hora de los famosos
The Great Adventure
Grindl
Solo contra el hampa
Going My Way
The Merv Griffin Show
La hora de Alfred Hitchcock
El Virginiano
Los valientes andan solos
The Mike Douglas Show
Duelo en el cañón
Dr. Kildare
Kraft Mystery Theatre
The Little Shepherd Of Kingdom Come
The Asphalt Jungle
Gunslinger
Route 66
Rompeolas
The Andy Griffith Show
Outlaws
Thriller
The Tall Man
Riverboat
Bonanza
Cuero crudo
77 Sunset Strip
Bat Masterson
Lawman
Peter Gunn
Maverick
Perry Mason
Sugarfoot
Have Gun, Will Travel
Cheyenne
The Phil Silvers Show
La ley del revólver
The Oscars