Edgar Kennedy

Acting · 0.7 popularity

Age

136

Movies

328

Born: April 25, 1890 – November 9, 1948
From: 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.

Works

328 films

Duck Soup

19337.3

A Star Is Born

19377.2

It's a Wonderful World

19396.6

In Old California

19425.3

Bacon Grabbers

19296.4

Caught in a Cabaret

19145.8

Anchors Aweigh

19456.8

Westward Passage

19326.3

San Francisco

19366.6

Air Raid Wardens

19437.1

Limousine Love

19286.0

Perfect Day

19297.0

Two Tars

19286.8

Angora Love

19296.5

Ladies Last

19306.5

Peeping Pete

19136.0

Wedding Bills

19278.0

Professional Sweetheart

19336.0

Tramp Trouble

19378.0

Unfaithfully Yours

19487.2

Bob Hope's World of Comedy

1976

Tillie's Punctured Romance

19146.2

Radio Rampage

194410.0

Thieves

19307.1

Diplomaniacs

19337.5

Clock Wise

19399.0

Robin Hood of El Dorado

19365.2

Heaven Only Knows

19476.5

Twentieth Century

19346.8

The Black Doll

19386.5

King Kelly of the U.S.A.

19345.2

Chasing Husbands

19287.0

Dummy Ache

19365.5

Something for Nothing

1923

The Golden Age of Comedy

19577.1

Crazy House

19436.0

The Finishing Touch

19286.9

What Fur

19338.0

Skirts

19218.0

It Happened Tomorrow

19446.8

King for a Night

19337.2

The Chinese Parrot

192710.0

The Knockout

19145.8

Hillbilly Blitzkrieg

19422.7

The Star Boarder

19145.3

Hitler's Madman

19435.5

Captain Tugboat Annie

19458.0

Twenty Minutes of Love

19145.7

The Return of Jimmy Valentine

193610.0

Fatty’s Plucky Pup

19155.6

A Thief Catcher

19145.1

Edgar Hamlet

193510.0

Murder on the Blackboard

19346.4

Double Wedding

19376.4

Dough and Dynamite

19146.1

The Guide

192110.0

Love on a Ladder

19343.7

All Parts

19288.0

The Big Kick

19304.5

Tango Tangles

19145.2

Motor Maniacs

19467.0

The People vs. Nancy Preston

192510.0

Hot Foot

19439.0

My Dream Is Yours

19496.5

Should Married Men Go Home?

19286.5

Love and Bullets

1914

Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day

19155.4

Cruel, Cruel Love

19145.2

Fatty's Tintype Tangle

19155.7

Dr. Christian Meets the Women

19405.6

Making a Living

19145.7

Small Town Girl

19366.0

Giggle Water

19329.0

Tillie and Gus

19337.8

Prunes and Politics

19447.5

When's Your Birthday?

19375.5

Li'l Abner

19406.1

Cross Fire

19336.5

Gangs Of The City

19417.0

When Comedy Was King

19606.5

Good Housewrecking

19338.0

The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

19476.4

Laugh It Off

19396.0

His Favorite Pastime

19145.3

Super-Sleuth

19375.6

Great Gobs!

192910.0

The Bride Wore Crutches

19407.0

The Blue Streak

1917

Yours for the Asking

19365.3

The Gay Old Bird

19278.0

The Rounders

19146.1

Night Owls

19307.4

Little Big Shot

19357.3

We're Rich Again

19346.2

Madame Q

19296.8

The Penguin Pool Murder

19325.9

True Confession

19376.1

A Flirt's Mistake

19145.3

Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher

19434.6

Mabel's Busy Day

19145.7

A Film Johnnie

19145.5

The Bride Comes Home

19355.1

Finger Prints

19277.0

Kid Millions

19346.7

Pardon My Stripes

19426.5

Hearts and Flowers

19196.5

Welcome Danger

19295.0

Poisoned Ivory

19349.0

I'll Build It Myself

19469.0

The Gas Station

19307.0

Westward Ho-Hum

19418.0

Rastus and the Game Cock

1913

Fight and Win

19249.0

Woman Wanted

19356.8

Parlor, Bedroom and Wrath

20269.0

There's One Born Every Minute

19427.9

An Incompetent Hero

1914

Flirting with Danger

19345.8

Whose Baby?

1917

Duck Soup

19429.0

I'll Fix It

194110.0

Moonlight and Monkey Business

1930

Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition

19155.8

Gentlemen of Nerve

19145.8

Rough on Rents

19429.5

Their First Execution

19137.0

Blondie in Society

19416.4

'Curses!' They Remarked

19145.0

Sock Me to Sleep

19359.0

Unaccustomed as We Are

19297.0

Fish Feathers

19329.0

The Best of Laurel and Hardy

19688.0

Heat Lightning

19347.2

Fatal Lady

193610.0

Feather Your Nest

19449.0

The Cowboy Millionaire

19357.0

Never the Twins Shall Meet

193210.0

Bangville Police

19135.1

Scandal Street

19388.0

Laurel & Hardy: Year Two

202410.0

Charlie McCarthy, Detective

19398.0

Hey! Hey! USA

19387.2

High Gear

19314.3

The Falcon Strikes Back

19435.6

The Sky Pirate

1914

The Bowling Match

1913

A Night at the Biltmore Bowl

19358.0

Little Accident

19395.5

The Real McCoy

19306.4

Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus

19385.4

The Boy Friend

19285.6

His Luckless Love

19153.0

Living on Velvet

19355.9

Cooks and Crooks

194210.0

The Silver Streak

19346.9

Vocalizing

19368.0

A Bath House Beauty

19149.0

Why Is a Plumber?

19298.0

High and Dry

19227.0

All of Me

19347.0

The Head Guy

19304.2

Scarlet River

19335.6

Getting Acquainted

19145.4

A Pair of Tights

19297.8

The Better 'Ole

19265.7

The Night Message

19247.0

Remedy for Riches

19405.5

Hotter Than Hot

192910.0

Variety Time

194810.0

Leading Lizzie Astray

19144.4

Money Means Nothing

19345.8

Everything's on Ice

19395.3

Yankee Doodle in Berlin

19195.7

The Family Group

19287.0

Quick Millions

19317.3

Act Your Age

193910.0

Shivering Shakespeare

19305.9

All's Swell on the Ocean

19248.0

Doctor's Orders

19308.5

A Muddy Romance

19134.8

The Big Beef

19457.0

A Merchant of Menace

193310.0

$1,000 a Minute

19355.8

The Quarterback

194010.0

Carnival Boat

19325.5

Gasoloons

19367.5

Algy on the Force

19139.0

Rendezvous at Midnight

193510.0

Love and Rubbish

19134.5

The Stolen Triumph

19169.0

Mad About Moonshine

20269.0

Brick-a-Brac

193510.0

The Wandering Two

1923

His Bitter Pill

19165.1

Little Orphan Annie

19326.4

A Scoundrel's Toll

19166.5

The Girl from Monterrey

19438.0

Wished on Mabel

19155.3

The Fight Pest

19287.0

Leave 'Em Laughing

19286.0

It's Your Move

19457.0

Next Door Neighbors

193110.0

Going Ga-Ga

19296.9

Hold 'Em Jail

19326.8

Fatty's New Role

19155.1

Puppets of Fate

19218.0

Rockabye

19326.5

Paths to Paradise

19256.2

Across the Pacific

19265.0

Son of the Border

19337.3

Dumb's the Word

19377.0

They Had to See Paris

19296.4

Mad Holiday

19366.4

Three Men on a Horse

19366.3

A Quiet Little Wedding

1913

The Golden Princess

19259.0

The First Seven Years

19305.8

The Gusher

19134.5

Fatty Joins the Force

19135.3

The Spot on the Rug

19329.0

Dad's Day

19297.0

Ambrose's First Falsehood

19144.2

All Teed Up

19304.8

Hollywood Hotel

19385.8

In the Clutches of the Gang

1914

When the Wind Blows

19306.7

Sandy Gets Her Man

19406.5

A Noise from the Deep

19135.5

Who Killed Aunt Maggie?

19405.5

Four Times Foiled

1920

The Adventures of Daredevil Jack

192010.0

Crazy Feet

19296.8

Looser Than Loose

19306.0

Mabel’s Wilful Way

19154.9

Quiet Please!

19336.0

The Wrong Mr. Wright

192710.0

Miss Fatty's Seaside Lovers

19154.5

The Marines Are Coming

19345.2

Help Wanted, Female

19317.0

Margie

19409.0

The Other Fellow

1937

Love Fever

19314.6

The Gangsters

19136.0

That Little Band Of Gold

19155.1

The Late Lamented

1917

Mabel’s Awful Mistakes

1913

Sandy Is a Lady

19409.0

Maid to Order

193910.0

Now's the Time

1932

The Booster

19287.0

Mabel's New Hero

19135.1

Zuzu, the Band Leader

1913

Watch Your Neighbor

1918

Gridiron Flash

19344.8

Trent's Last Case

19298.0

Safe in Jail

19138.0

Rebecca's Wedding Day

1914

Bad Company

19315.0

Mabel at the Wheel

19145.8

Madcap Ambrose

19165.0

The Great Alaskan Mystery

19446.0

Edgar & Goliath

19378.0

Private Snuffy Smith

19424.3

The Battling Fool

19249.0

The Riot

1913

The Our Gang Story

1994

Mother's Boy

1913

In Love at 40

19357.0

Girl Shock

19305.8

Inferior Decorator

19438.0

Fifty Million Husbands

19305.6

Do or Diet

19478.0

The Noise of Bombs

19145.0

Oh! What a Nurse!

19269.0

Beaux and Errors

19387.0

Hold Your Temper

194310.0

The Love Thief

1914

The Big Squawk

19298.0

Dumb Daddies

19289.0

Dollar Dizzy

19306.8

The Speed Kings

19134.6

Is Everybody Happy?

19288.0

She Loved Him Plenty

19185.0

The Little Girl Next Door

19237.0

The Ghosts

1930

Mabel's Dramatic Career

19135.6

You Drive Me Crazy

19459.0

Art in the Raw

19333.3

Feed 'em and Weep

19286.0

Moan & Groan, Inc.

19296.2

My Old Dutch

19267.0

Stepping Out

19296.0

He Loved the Ladies

19149.0

'Taint Legal

1940

What, No Cigarettes

19457.5

Going Crooked

192610.0

Mutiny in the County

1940

An Apple in His Eye

19419.0

Wall Street Blues

19248.0

A Trailer Tragedy

19407.0

Fatty’s Reckless Fling

19154.7

Dig That Gold

19489.8

Wrong Direction

19349.0

Hurdy Gurdy

19297.0

A Quiet Fourth

19418.0

Bombs!

19165.0

Bad Housekeeping

19378.0

Racing for Life

19249.0

Sunk by the Census

19408.0

Little Billy's Triumph

19146.0

Imagine My Embarrassment

19289.0

Baby Daze

193910.0

A Ride for a Bride

19137.0

Bigger and Better

19307.0

The Trouble With Wives

19257.0

A Blasted Event

193410.0

Contest Crazy

19489.0

Will Power

19367.0

He's a Honey

19327.0

A Clean Sweep

193810.0

Trouble or Nothing

194610.0

The Rural Third Degree

1913

Ears of Experience

193810.0

The Great Vacuum Robbery

1915

Kennedy the Great

19398.0

Off to Buffalo

19298.0

Brother Knows Best

19488.0

Drafted in the Depot

194010.0