Edgar Kennedy
Acting
- Born:
- 1890-04-25
- Died:
- 1948-11-09
- 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.
Known For
Filmography
Laurel & Hardy: Year Two
The Our Gang Story
The Muppets Go to the Movies
The Best of Laurel and Hardy
When Comedy Was King
The Golden Age of Comedy
My Dream Is Yours
Unfaithfully Yours
Contest Crazy
Variety Time
Dig That Gold
Brother Knows Best
Heaven Only Knows
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
Do or Diet
I'll Build It Myself
Motor Maniacs
Trouble or Nothing
Captain Tugboat Annie
The Big Beef
You Drive Me Crazy
Anchors Aweigh
It's Your Move
What, No Cigarettes
Feather Your Nest
The Great Alaskan Mystery
It Happened Tomorrow
Radio Rampage
Prunes and Politics
Crazy House
The Girl from Monterrey
Hitler's Madman
Hot Foot
Inferior Decorator
Air Raid Wardens
The Falcon Strikes Back
Hold Your Temper
Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher
Duck Soup
Hillbilly Blitzkrieg
There's One Born Every Minute
Cooks and Crooks
In Old California
Pardon My Stripes
Private Snuffy Smith
Rough on Rents
A Quiet Fourth
Gangs Of The City
I'll Fix It
Westward Ho-Hum
Blondie in Society
An Apple in His Eye
Mad About Moonshine
Drafted in the Depot
Remedy for Riches
Li'l Abner
Sandy Gets Her Man
Who Killed Aunt Maggie?
A Trailer Tragedy
The Quarterback
The Bride Wore Crutches
Margie
Sunk by the Census
Dr. Christian Meets the Women
'Taint Legal
Sandy Is a Lady
Mutiny in the County
Charlie McCarthy, Detective
Kennedy the Great
Laugh It Off
Little Accident
Act Your Age
Everything's on Ice
Maid to Order
It's a Wonderful World
Baby Daze
Clock Wise
Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
A Clean Sweep
Beaux and Errors
Hey! Hey! USA
Scandal Street
The Black Doll
Ears of Experience
Hollywood Hotel
True Confession
Edgar & Goliath
Double Wedding
Tramp Trouble
Super-Sleuth
Dumb's the Word
A Star Is Born
Bad Housekeeping
When's Your Birthday?
The Other Fellow
Three Men on a Horse
Mad Holiday
Vocalizing
Yours for the Asking
Dummy Ache
San Francisco
Fatal Lady
Small Town Girl
Robin Hood of El Dorado
Will Power
The Return of Jimmy Valentine
Gasoloons
The Bride Comes Home
$1,000 a Minute
Little Big Shot
In Love at 40
Woman Wanted
Edgar Hamlet
A Night at the Biltmore Bowl
Sock Me to Sleep
The Cowboy Millionaire
Living on Velvet
Rendezvous at Midnight
Brick-a-Brac
The Silver Streak
Flirting with Danger
The Marines Are Coming
Poisoned Ivory
Kid Millions
Gridiron Flash
King Kelly of the U.S.A.
A Blasted Event
We're Rich Again
Murder on the Blackboard
Money Means Nothing
Wrong Direction
Twentieth Century
Love on a Ladder
Heat Lightning
All of Me
King for a Night
Duck Soup
What Fur
Tillie and Gus
Quiet Please!
Good Housewrecking
Professional Sweetheart
Cross Fire
Son of the Border
Diplomaniacs
A Merchant of Menace
Scarlet River
Art in the Raw
Fish Feathers
The Penguin Pool Murder
Rockabye
Little Orphan Annie
Hold 'Em Jail
Giggle Water
Now's the Time
Westward Passage
The Spot on the Rug
He's a Honey
Carnival Boat
Never the Twins Shall Meet
Bad Company
Quick Millions
Love Fever
High Gear
Next Door Neighbors
Help Wanted, Female
Ladies Last
Moonlight and Monkey Business
Looser Than Loose
Bigger and Better
Dollar Dizzy
Doctor's Orders
Girl Shock
Fifty Million Husbands
All Teed Up
The Ghosts
When the Wind Blows
The Big Kick
The Gas Station
The First Seven Years
The Real McCoy
Shivering Shakespeare
The Head Guy
Thieves
Night Owls
Great Gobs!
Angora Love
Moan & Groan, Inc.
Stepping Out
Bacon Grabbers
Welcome Danger
They Had to See Paris
Crazy Feet
Hotter Than Hot
Perfect Day
Dad's Day
Madame Q
The Big Squawk
Hurdy Gurdy
Unaccustomed as We Are
Trent's Last Case
Why Is a Plumber?
Off to Buffalo
A Pair of Tights
Going Ga-Ga
Chasing Husbands
Feed 'em and Weep
The Booster
The Boy Friend
Two Tars
All Parts
Is Everybody Happy?
Should Married Men Go Home?
Imagine My Embarrassment
The Fight Pest
Limousine Love
The Finishing Touch
The Family Group
Dumb Daddies
Leave 'Em Laughing
The Chinese Parrot
Wedding Bills
The Wrong Mr. Wright
The Gay Old Bird
Finger Prints
Going Crooked
The Better 'Ole
Across the Pacific
My Old Dutch
Oh! What a Nurse!
The People vs. Nancy Preston
The Golden Princess
The Trouble With Wives
Paths to Paradise
All's Swell on the Ocean
Wall Street Blues
Racing for Life
The Battling Fool
Fight and Win
The Night Message
Something for Nothing
The Wandering Two
The Little Girl Next Door
High and Dry
The Guide
Skirts
Puppets of Fate
The Adventures of Daredevil Jack
Four Times Foiled
Hearts and Flowers
Yankee Doodle in Berlin
She Loved Him Plenty
Watch Your Neighbor
The Late Lamented
Whose Baby?
The Blue Streak
The Stolen Triumph
Bombs!
A Scoundrel's Toll
Madcap Ambrose
His Bitter Pill
Fatty's Tintype Tangle
Fatty’s Plucky Pup
Miss Fatty's Seaside Lovers
Mabel’s Wilful Way
Wished on Mabel
His Luckless Love
That Little Band Of Gold
Fatty’s Reckless Fling
Fatty's New Role
Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition
Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day
The Great Vacuum Robbery
Tillie's Punctured Romance
Ambrose's First Falsehood
Getting Acquainted
Leading Lizzie Astray
The Noise of Bombs
An Incompetent Hero
'Curses!' They Remarked
Gentlemen of Nerve
Dough and Dynamite
The Love Thief
He Loved the Ladies
The Rounders
The Sky Pirate
Love and Bullets
Mabel's Busy Day
The Knockout
Caught in a Cabaret
Twenty Minutes of Love
Mabel at the Wheel
A Bath House Beauty
The Star Boarder
Cruel, Cruel Love
His Favorite Pastime
Tango Tangles
A Film Johnnie
A Thief Catcher
Making a Living
Little Billy's Triumph
Rebecca's Wedding Day
In the Clutches of the Gang
A Flirt's Mistake
Zuzu, the Band Leader
The Gusher
A Ride for a Bride
Fatty Joins the Force
A Muddy Romance
The Speed Kings
A Quiet Little Wedding
The Bowling Match
Mother's Boy
Mabel's Dramatic Career
Mabel's New Hero
The Riot
A Noise from the Deep
Love and Rubbish
Safe in Jail
Rastus and the Game Cock
Peeping Pete
The Gangsters
Their First Execution
Mabel’s Awful Mistakes
Algy on the Force
Bangville Police
The Rural Third Degree
Parlor, Bedroom and Wrath