Tom Kennedy

Acting · 0.8 popularity

Age

141

Movies

249

Born: July 14, 1885 – October 6, 1965
From: New York City, New York, USA

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Tom Kennedy (July 15, 1885 – October 6, 1965) was an American actor known for his roles in Hollywood comedies from the silent days, with such producers as Mack Sennett and Hal Roach, mainly supporting lead comedians such as the Marx Brothers, W. C. Fields, Mabel Normand, Shemp Howard, Laurel and Hardy, and the Three Stooges. Kennedy also played dramatic roles as a supporting actor. For over 50 years, from 1915 to 1965, he appeared in over 320 films and television series, often uncredited. His first film was a short black and white comedy, His Luckless Love. Kennedy was in all nine Torchy Blane films as Gahagan, the poetry-spouting cop whose running line was, "What a day! What a day!" He is often erroneously listed in film sources as the brother of slow-burning comedian Edgar Kennedy. Though the two men were not related, they were apparently good friends, with Tom appearing in many of Edgar's domestic two-reel comedy shorts. Tom Kennedy was also paired with Stooge Shemp Howard for several shorts for Columbia Pictures such as Society Mugs, as well as appearing with the Three Stooges in the films Loose Loot and Spooks!. He was also paired with El Brendel for four shorts, such as Phoney Cronies in 1942. His television appearances included episodes of Perry Mason, Maverick, My Favorite Martian, and Gunsmoke. Tom Kennedy continued making films right up until his death, his last film being the western The Bounty Killer.

Works

249 films

Some Like It Hot

19598.1

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

19637.0

Lighthouse Love

1932

Remember the Night

19407.3

Magic Town

19476.7

Where the Pest Begins

19456.5

42nd Street

19336.9

Millionaire Playboy

19404.5

Blondie Johnson

19335.9

Petticoat Larceny

19437.0

The Kid from Brooklyn

19466.3

Wife Savers

19287.0

Pack Up Your Troubles

19326.8

The Princess and the Pirate

19446.9

The Bounty Killer

19656.0

Dixie

19435.0

The Paleface

19486.1

Radio Rampage

194410.0

Stage Door Canteen

19436.3

Havana Rose

19517.0

Triple Trouble

19507.0

Wise Girl

19377.1

Monkey Business

19317.0

Society Mugs

19467.0

Phoney Cronies

19427.0

Penthouse

19336.9

The Cop

19286.7

If I Had a Million

19326.5

Huddle

19327.0

Happy Days

19296.3

Slave Ship

19375.1

Home Work

202610.0

Spooks!

19536.5

Senorita

19278.0

Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl

19998.3

Serenade

19218.0

Breakdowns of 1938

19385.8

Riding High

19506.1

She Couldn't Take It

19355.3

She Done Him Wrong

19335.9

Motor Maniacs

19467.0

The Judge Steps Out

19476.8

The Fall Guy

19306.3

Silver Valley

19279.0

Let's Go Navy!

19518.0

Go Chase Yourself

19385.7

The Pretender

19475.8

Home Work

19429.0

Skirts

19218.0

Blonde Alibi

19464.8

Just Speeding

19368.0

Broadway

19426.4

Sir Lumberjack

19268.0

Torchy Gets Her Man

19385.9

Sporting Blood

19404.2

And the Angels Sing

19447.3

42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage

20066.0

Loose Loot

19537.0

The Burning Cross

19477.0

Voice of the Whistler

19455.8

Free Rent

19367.0

Her Torpedoed Love

19175.0

The Big Game

19366.6

Here Comes Elmer

194310.0

The Country Doctor

19366.5

Whose Baby?

1917

Torchy Blane in Chinatown

19396.8

Fish Feathers

19329.0

Forty Naughty Girls

19375.6

The Mysterious Rider

19278.0

So's Your Uncle

19436.0

Pardon My Stripes

19426.5

Man of the Forest

19336.3

Love Over Night

19287.0

Hollywood Boulevard

19364.5

Hollywood Party

19345.7

Unlucky Strike

1934

Cracked Shots

19349.0

The Dancing Millionaire

1934

Fiddling Around

19388.0

Cross Fire

19336.5

Invasion, U.S.A.

19523.4

The Shannons of Broadway

19298.0

Night After Night

19326.3

Walk Like a Dragon

19606.3

Pretty Dolly

19428.0

Lawyer Man

19326.1

The Great Swindle

19418.0

Fraidy Cat

195110.0

Torchy Runs for Mayor

19395.9

Cutie on Duty

194310.0

These Glamour Girls

19395.9

Mantrap

19266.2

An Angel from Texas

19405.3

The Island of Intrigue

19198.0

Horse Heir

1935

Take It Big

19449.0

Marry the Girl

19376.5

The Adventurous Blonde

19375.3

His Bitter Pill

19165.1

Glad Rag Doll

19299.0

True to Life

19438.0

Jiggers, My Wife

19468.0

Sock Me to Sleep

19359.0

Fly Away Baby

19376.3

Public Pigeon No. 1

19576.3

Young as You Feel

19319.0

Swing It, Sailor!

19387.5

Curtain Call

19407.3

Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite

19396.8

Crashing Hollywood

19386.0

Iron Man

19315.7

Old Man Rhythm

19357.0

Joe Palooka in Winner Take All

19487.5

Crime Ring

19385.8

Taxi, Mister

19434.2

Skyscraper Souls

19325.5

Butch Minds the Baby

19428.0

Angels with Broken Wings

19415.3

Smart Blonde

19376.4

The Scarf

19515.7

Behind the Front

19266.2

Flowing Gold

19406.7

The Case of the Stuttering Bishop

19377.2

The Long Shot

19396.0

The Poor Simp

19207.0

Pop Always Pays

19406.7

Square Dance Jubilee

19495.0

Mexican Spitfire's Elephant

19425.4

Dangerous Years

19476.2

That Night

1917

Caught

19317.5

Dixie Dugan

19436.5

Thieves Fall Out

19416.0

The Hat Box Mystery

19474.5

Poppy

19367.0

Big News

19294.5

Living on Love

19376.1

The Man Who Walked Alone

19455.9

The Mighty McGurk

19476.7

Varsity Show

19376.8

Gum Shoes

19359.0

Blondes at Work

19386.3

The Mexican Spitfire's Baby

19414.6

The Flirt

19227.0

The Bride Comes Home

19355.1

See America Thirst

19307.0

Making the Headlines

19388.0

Gobs of Trouble

19359.0

Society Lawyer

19395.4

Calling All Curtains

193710.0

Man Alive

19455.6

Mickey

19186.5

Suits to Nuts

1933

Blondie's Blessed Event

19427.0

Down to Their Last Yacht

19346.5

Torchy Blane in Panama

19385.8

Sailors on Leave

19418.0

Girls! Girls! Girls!

19447.0

The Big Shot

19376.5

The Day the Bookies Wept

19397.5

Halfway to Hollywood

19388.0

The Cohens and Kellys in Atlantic City

19299.0

Grandma's Buoys

1936

Hook a Crook

195510.0

Behind The Headlines

19376.6

The Flaming Hour

19227.0

Hip Zip Hooray

19335.0

How Comedies Are Born

1931

The Gang Buster

19316.2

Danger on the Air

19386.4

Yankee Doodle in Berlin

19195.7

The Mutineers

19497.0

He Couldn't Say No

19386.5

The Devil Is Driving

19325.3

The Crooked Circle

19325.2

The Town Went Wild

19447.0

Quiet, Please

19396.2

Married Before Breakfast

19377.0

Mexican Spitfire Out West

19405.0

None But the Brave

192810.0

Tillie's Punctured Romance

19286.5

Ladies' Day

19435.8

The Officer and the Lady

19418.0

Moonlight and Cactus

19445.5

So's Your Antenna

19467.0

Kismet

19208.3

She Had to Eat

19375.6

Campus Rhythm

19435.7

The Covered Trailer

19397.0

Sweet Spirits of the Nighter

194110.0

Gold Fever

19526.5

Day of Reckoning

19335.1

The Better 'Ole

19265.7

Armored Car

19375.6

We're in the Navy Now

19266.3

The Boudoir Butler

19323.0

Bury the Hatchet

19378.0

Strictly Dynamite

19346.5

Trouble Preferred

19486.0

Midnight Blunders

19365.0

Marked Money

192810.0

Jinx Money

19485.6

Full o' Pep

19229.0

Devil's Cargo

19485.9

The Yankee Señor

192610.0

Flying High

19315.8

It Pays to Advertise

19315.6

The Awful Sleuth

195110.0

Thirst

19176.0

Born to the West

19264.8

The Case of the Baby-Sitter

19476.5

The Promoter

1932

Sunless Sunday

1921

A Schoolhouse Scandal

1919

Wives Never Know

19369.0

Alias The Deacon

19279.0

Oh, My Nerves

19356.3

Double Trouble

19155.7

Ham and Eggs at the Front

19277.0

The Girl in the Case

19446.6

It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog

19458.0

Loving Lies

19249.0

Alibi Bye Bye

19353.7

Fireman, Save My Child

19278.0

Thunder in the Pines

19485.2

The Late Lamented

1917

Hit Parade of 1943

19435.7

Stage Frights

19359.0

Hold 'Em Yale

19286.7

The Best Bad Man

19259.0

Man of the Forest

192610.0

The Pullman Bride

1917

Our Leading Citizen

19229.0

Fatty and the Broadway Stars

1915

Her First Kiss

19196.0

Cupid's Day Off

191910.0

The Egg

19226.6

Wedtime Stories

19439.0

New News

193710.0

Two Crooks

1917

In the Devildog House

19348.0

As Man Desires

19254.5

Strictly Fresh Yeggs

1934

The Speeder

1922

Raised and Called

1935

Odor in the Court

19343.5

Man-I-Cured

19418.0

If You Believe It, It's So

19228.0