Edgar Kennedy

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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.

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  • wc Gender: Male
  • calendar_month Birth Date: 1890-04-25
  • event Death Date 1948-11-09
  • school Known for: Acting
  • star Popularity: 2.6
  • info Birth Place Monterey, California, USA
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Edgar Kennedy

7.3

Duck Soup

1933-11-12

6.8

It Happened Tomorrow

1944-03-31

0

The Ghosts

1930-04-05

7.4

Blondie in Society

1941-07-17

6.5

Double Wedding

1937-10-15

6.1

Dough and Dynamite

1914-10-26

5.1

Cruel, Cruel Love

1914-03-26

6.2

The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

1947-04-04

3.5

King Kelly of the U.S.A.

1934-09-15

5.9

Li'l Abner

1940-11-09

6.5

My Dream Is Yours

1949-04-15

7.2

A Star Is Born

1937-04-27

6.8

Twentieth Century

1934-05-11

0

The Rural Third Degree

1913-03-06

5.6

Caught in a Cabaret

1914-04-27

0

The Trouble With Wives

1925-09-28

5

In Old California

1942-05-31

7.1

Air Raid Wardens

1943-04-04

5.4

Hollywood Hotel

1938-01-15

5.6

The Falcon Strikes Back

1943-04-01

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The Our Gang Story

1994-01-01

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The Chinese Parrot

1927-10-23

0

Mabel’s Awful Mistakes

1913-05-12

6.4

It's a Wonderful World

1939-05-19

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Whose Baby?

1917-07-08

0

The Fight Pest

1928-05-12

0

The Family Group

1928-02-18

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The Booster

1928-11-24

0

All Parts

1928-10-27

0

Imagine My Embarrassment

1928-09-01

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Is Everybody Happy?

1928-09-29

0

Chasing Husbands

1928-12-22

0

Off to Buffalo

1929-02-16

0

Great Gobs!

1929-12-28

7.4

Night Owls

1930-01-04

0

The Love Thief

1914-10-22

7

Perfect Day

1929-08-10

6.4

Should Married Men Go Home?

1928-09-08

6.8

The Finishing Touch

1928-02-25

6

Leave 'Em Laughing

1928-01-28

6.3

Bacon Grabbers

1929-10-19

6.6

Two Tars

1928-11-03

6.8

Unaccustomed as We Are

1929-05-04

5.7

The Knockout

1914-06-11

5.1

The Star Boarder

1914-04-04

5.6

Twenty Minutes of Love

1914-04-20

5.7

Gentlemen of Nerve

1914-10-29

5.3

Getting Acquainted

1914-12-05

4.9

A Thief Catcher

1914-02-19

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Giggle Water

1932-06-27

5.5

Penguin Pool Murder

1932-12-09

4.7

Robin Hood of El Dorado

1936-03-17

6

Little Big Shot

1935-09-07

9

Son of the Border

1933-05-05

6.7

When Comedy Was King

1960-03-29

6.2

Small Town Girl

1936-04-10

5.8

Little Orphan Annie

1932-11-04

5.7

Fatty's Tintype Tangle

1915-07-26

0

Racing for Life

1924-08-08

7.6

Tillie and Gus

1933-10-13

6

The Cowboy Millionaire

1935-04-25

5.8

True Confession

1937-12-24

5

Flirting with Danger

1934-12-01

6.2

Three Men on a Horse

1936-11-21

5.6

Making a Living

1914-02-02

5.4

Fatty Joins the Force

1913-11-23

6

Mad Holiday

1936-11-13

0

The Girl from Monterrey

1943-10-04

4.2

Leading Lizzie Astray

1914-11-30

4.5

The Marines Are Coming

1934-11-19

0

Good Housewrecking

1933-06-15

1

Art in the Raw

1933-02-23

0

The Golden Princess

1925-10-05

0

The Sky Pirate

1914-07-18

0

Love and Bullets

1914-07-04

5

Super-Sleuth

1937-07-16

4

Money Means Nothing

1934-06-14

0

A Blasted Event

1934-09-06

6.9

Thieves

1930-01-07

0

The Late Lamented

1917-09-23

0

A Merchant of Menace

1933-04-20

0

Algy on the Force

1913-05-05

6.9

Hey! Hey! USA

1938-10-01

4

Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher

1943-01-29

5.6

Fatty’s Plucky Pup

1915-06-27

0

Will Power

1936-03-05

0

Dumb Daddies

1928-02-03

4.3

Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus

1938-12-02

5.5

Moan & Groan, Inc.

1929-12-07

4.3

Who Killed Aunt Maggie?

1940-11-01

5.4

Living on Velvet

1935-03-02

0

Something for Nothing

1923-07-09

0

The Other Fellow

1937-01-23

0

He's a Honey

1932-04-17

5

Professional Sweetheart

1933-06-09

0

Tramp Trouble

1937-08-07

5.8

Remedy for Riches

1940-11-29

5

The Better 'Ole

1926-10-23

4

We're Rich Again

1934-07-13

0

Now's the Time

1932-06-12

0

The Little Girl Next Door

1923-04-28

5

The Great Alaskan Mystery

1944-04-25

0

Beaux and Errors

1938-10-05

0

Dumb's the Word

1937-06-11

3.3

Gridiron Flash

1934-10-06

4

When's Your Birthday?

1937-02-19

6.7

The Silver Streak

1934-12-21

0

Wrong Direction

1934-05-18

6.1

When the Wind Blows

1930-04-05

6.3

Woman Wanted

1935-08-02

6

Charlie McCarthy, Detective

1939-12-22

7.2

There's One Born Every Minute

1942-06-26

4.8

The Bride Comes Home

1935-12-25

5.7

Limousine Love

1928-04-13

3.8

Private Snuffy Smith

1942-01-16

6.8

Anchors Aweigh

1945-08-13

6

The Gangsters

1913-05-29

5.1

The First Seven Years

1930-03-01

6

Peeping Pete

1913-06-22

4.8

A Muddy Romance

1913-11-19

4.2

The Speed Kings

1913-10-30

8

Safe in Jail

1913-07-07

0

Rastus and the Game Cock

1913-07-03

5

Love and Rubbish

1913-07-14

5.5

A Noise from the Deep

1913-07-17

0

The Riot

1913-08-07

4.9

Mabel's New Hero

1913-08-27

5.4

Mabel's Dramatic Career

1913-09-08

0

A Quiet Little Wedding

1913-10-23

0

Mother's Boy

1913-09-25

0

A Ride for a Bride

1913-12-08

5.4

A Flirt's Mistake

1914-01-12

5

Tango Tangles

1914-03-09

0

Rebecca's Wedding Day

1914-01-24

0

In the Clutches of the Gang

1914-01-17

5.2

His Favorite Pastime

1914-03-16

0

A Bath House Beauty

1914-04-12

4.5

Scarlet River

1933-03-10

0

The Great Vacuum Robbery

1915-01-01

0

The Battling Fool

1924-08-01

0

The Wrong Mr. Wright

1927-02-27

5.3

The Black Doll

1938-01-31

6.6

Going Ga-Ga

1929-01-05

7.3

A Pair of Tights

1929-02-03

7

Diplomaniacs

1933-04-28

0

Trent's Last Case

1929-03-31

5.8

Westward Passage

1932-05-27

0

Fatal Lady

1936-05-15

0

Captain Tugboat Annie

1945-11-17

5.3

Yankee Doodle in Berlin

1919-03-02

0

The Real McCoy

1930-02-01

0

Their First Execution

1913-05-14

6

Dollar Dizzy

1930-10-03

5

Bangville Police

1913-04-24

0

Moonlight and Monkey Business

1930-11-15

5

The Noise of Bombs

1914-11-19

4.2

Ambrose's First Falsehood

1914-12-12

5.3

The Boy Friend

1928-11-10

1

Yours for the Asking

1936-07-23

4

Madcap Ambrose

1916-07-16

5.2

His Bitter Pill

1916-04-30

5.2

Hearts and Flowers

1919-06-22

5.4

A Film Johnnie

1914-03-02

5.7

Mabel's Busy Day

1914-06-13

5.6

Mabel at the Wheel

1914-04-18

6.1

The Rounders

1914-09-07

6.2

Tillie's Punctured Romance

1914-12-21

4.7

Fatty’s Reckless Fling

1915-03-04

5.2

Fatty's New Role

1915-02-01

4.9

Mabel’s Wilful Way

1915-05-01

5.9

Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition

1915-01-23

5.2

Wished on Mabel

1915-04-19

5.1

That Little Band Of Gold

1915-03-14

4

Love Fever

1931-04-11

4

The Head Guy

1930-01-11

3.5

The Big Kick

1930-03-29

6.8

Heat Lightning

1934-03-01

0

Baby Daze

1939-05-18

0

Rendezvous at Midnight

1935-02-11

5.6

They Had to See Paris

1929-09-18

0

Hurdy Gurdy

1929-05-10

6.2

King for a Night

1933-12-09

5

Dr. Christian Meets the Women

1940-08-05

2

Quiet Please!

1933-08-10

0

Gasoloons

1936-01-03

5.7

Shivering Shakespeare

1930-01-25

5

Bigger and Better

1930-10-24

4

Looser Than Loose

1930-11-15

4

Ladies Last

1930-12-06

9

Doctor's Orders

1930-09-12

4.8

Everything's on Ice

1939-10-05

0

Wall Street Blues

1924-08-09

5.2

Feed 'em and Weep

1928-12-08

0

Mutiny in the County

1940-05-03

0

Gangs Of The City

1941-10-30

0

The Big Squawk

1929-05-25

6.5

Kid Millions

1934-11-10

0

Stepping Out

1929-11-02

4.5

Miss Fatty's Seaside Lovers

1915-05-14

0

The Adventures of Daredevil Jack

1920-06-30

5

Little Billy's Triumph

1914-01-28

6.5

Angora Love

1929-12-14

0

Cross Fire

1933-05-28

0

Oh! What a Nurse!

1926-03-07

6.8

Hold 'Em Jail

1932-08-19

4.5

The Gusher

1913-12-14

0

My Old Dutch

1926-05-23

10

Rough on Rents

1942-01-01

5.4

$1,000 a Minute

1935-10-21

0

The Quarterback

1940-10-15

0

Margie

1940-09-01

0

Sandy Is a Lady

1940-05-21

0

It's Your Move

1945-08-10

2

Hillbilly Blitzkrieg

1942-08-14

7.2

Unfaithfully Yours

1948-12-10

5

Carnival Boat

1932-03-19

3

All Teed Up

1930-04-16

6.2

Madame Q

1929-06-08

0

Dad's Day

1929-07-06

7.1

Quick Millions

1931-04-17

2

High Gear

1931-02-28

2

Fifty Million Husbands

1930-05-23

0

The Best of Laurel and Hardy

1968-12-14

0

Next Door Neighbors

1931-01-28

0

Poisoned Ivory

1934-11-16

0

Edgar Hamlet

1935-07-04

0

An Apple in His Eye

1941-06-06

0

Drafted in the Depot

1940-12-20

0

High and Dry

1922-12-24

0

In Love at 40

1935-08-29

2

Laugh It Off

1939-12-01

5.3

Murder on the Blackboard

1934-06-15

5.5

Paths to Paradise

1925-06-28

0

Variety Time

1948-08-21

0

The Guide

1921-05-11

0

Hotter Than Hot

1929-08-17

0

He Loved the Ladies

1914-09-21

6

All of Me

1934-02-01

0

Puppets of Fate

1921-03-28

0

Hold Your Temper

1943-02-05

0

I'll Fix It

1941-10-07

0

Westward Ho-Hum

1941-09-15

6

Heaven Only Knows

1947-09-12

5.6

Hitler's Madman

1943-06-10

6.6

San Francisco

1936-06-26

6.2

Rockabye

1932-11-25

5

'Curses!' They Remarked

1914-11-05

0

'Taint Legal

1940-05-25

0

Girl Shock

1930-08-23

6

A Night at the Biltmore Bowl

1935-06-21

4.5

Dummy Ache

1936-07-10

0

Ears of Experience

1938-01-28

0

Sunk by the Census

1940-08-06

0

Clock Wise

1939-03-24

1

Love on a Ladder

1934-03-18

5

Prunes and Politics

1944-01-07

0

A Quiet Fourth

1941-12-19

0

Scandal Street

1938-02-11

0

Crazy Feet

1929-09-07

0

Vocalizing

1936-10-23

0

Fish Feathers

1932-12-16

0

A Clean Sweep

1938-12-02

0

Brick-a-Brac

1935-01-18

0

A Trailer Tragedy

1940-10-17

0

Bad Housekeeping

1937-03-05

3

His Luckless Love

1915-03-18

5

A Scoundrel's Toll

1916-09-17

0

Cooks and Crooks

1942-06-05

0

Duck Soup

1942-12-18

0

Help Wanted, Female

1931-01-11

5.1

Welcome Danger

1929-10-12

0

Four Times Foiled

1920-01-11

0

Hot Foot

1943-05-15

5

Crazy House

1943-10-08

4.6

Bad Company

1931-10-16

0

Going Crooked

1926-12-12

0

Feather Your Nest

1944-10-23

0

Radio Rampage

1944-03-28

4.5

Across the Pacific

1926-10-02

4

Sandy Gets Her Man

1940-11-08

6

Pardon My Stripes

1942-01-26

0

Finger Prints

1927-01-08

6.8

The Golden Age of Comedy

1957-12-26

0

Maid to Order

1939-09-27

0

Edgar & Goliath

1937-11-19

0

Kennedy the Great

1939-12-08

6

What, No Cigarettes

1945-07-13

0

Why Is a Plumber?

1929-03-30

0

You Drive Me Crazy

1945-09-07

0

The Big Beef

1945-10-19

5.6

Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day

1915-01-14

0

The Gas Station

1930-03-29

0

Motor Maniacs

1946-07-26

0

Trouble or Nothing

1946-01-25

0

I'll Build It Myself

1946-10-18

5

Bombs!

1916-10-07

2

Little Accident

1939-10-26

0

The Bowling Match

1913-09-29

0

Do or Diet

1947-02-10

0

An Incompetent Hero

1914-11-12

0

Zuzu, the Band Leader

1913-12-24

0

Brother Knows Best

1948-01-02

9.5

Dig That Gold

1948-06-25

0

Contest Crazy

1948-10-01

5

She Loved Him Plenty

1918-08-11

0

What Fur

1933-11-03

0

The Wandering Two

1923-05-28

0

Inferior Decorator

1943-04-13

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