Edgar Kennedy
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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- Born:
- Apr 26, 1890 In Monterey, California, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 276
- First Appeared:
- In the movie The Rural Third Degree 1913-03-06
- Latest Project:
- Movie The Our Gang Story 1994-01-01
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | The Our Gang Story | Officer (archive footage) | 1994-01-01 |
| Movie | When Comedy Was King | edited from 'A Pair of Tights' (archive footage) | 1960-03-29 |
| Movie | The Golden Age of Comedy | archive footage | 1957-12-26 |
| Movie | My Dream Is Yours | Uncle Charlie | 1949-04-15 |
| Movie | Variety Time | Edgar Kennedy (footage from 'I'll Build It Myself') (archive footage) | 1948-08-21 |
| Movie | Unfaithfully Yours | Sweeney | 1948-12-10 |
| Movie | The Sin of Harold Diddlebock | Jake the Bartender | 1947-04-04 |
| Movie | Heaven Only Knows | Judd | 1947-09-12 |
| Movie | What, No Cigarettes | Edgar Kennedy | 1945-07-13 |
| Movie | It's Your Move | Edgar Kennedy | 1945-08-10 |
| Movie | Anchors Aweigh | Police Captain | 1945-08-13 |
| Movie | The Big Beef | Edgar Kennedy | 1945-10-19 |
| Movie | You Drive Me Crazy | Edgar | 1945-09-07 |
| Movie | Prunes and Politics | Edgar | 1944-01-07 |
| Movie | Radio Rampage | Edgar | 1944-03-28 |
| Movie | The Great Alaskan Mystery | Bosun Higgins | 1944-04-25 |
| Movie | It Happened Tomorrow | Insp. Mulrooney | 1944-03-31 |
| Movie | Feather Your Nest | Edgar | 1944-10-23 |
| Movie | The Falcon Strikes Back | Smiley Dugan | 1943-04-01 |
| Movie | Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher | Police Chief Murphy | 1943-01-29 |
| Movie | Hold Your Temper | Edgar | 1943-02-05 |
| Movie | Air Raid Wardens | Joe Bledsoe | 1943-04-04 |
| Movie | Hot Foot | Edgar | 1943-05-15 |
| Movie | The Girl from Monterrey | Doc Hogan, Fight Promoter | 1943-10-04 |
| Movie | Crazy House | Judge | 1943-10-08 |
| Movie | Hitler's Madman | Nepomuk - the Hermit | 1943-06-10 |
| Movie | Pardon My Stripes | Warden Bingham | 1942-01-26 |
| Movie | In Old California | Kegs McKeever | 1942-05-31 |
| Movie | Rough on Rents | Edgar Kennedy | 1942-01-01 |
| Movie | Private Snuffy Smith | Sgt. Ed Cooper | 1942-01-16 |
| Movie | Cooks and Crooks | Edgar | 1942-06-05 |
| Movie | Hillbilly Blitzkrieg | Sgt. Homer Gatling | 1942-08-14 |
| Movie | Duck Soup | Edgar | 1942-12-18 |
| Movie | There's One Born Every Minute | Mayor Moe Carson | 1942-06-26 |
| Movie | An Apple in His Eye | Edgar Kennedy | 1941-06-06 |
| Movie | Blondie in Society | Dr. Glenn | 1941-07-17 |
| Movie | Westward Ho-Hum | Edgar | 1941-09-15 |
| Movie | A Quiet Fourth | Edgar | 1941-12-19 |
| Movie | Gangs Of The City | Biff | 1941-10-30 |
| Movie | I'll Fix It | Edgar | 1941-10-07 |
| Movie | Sunk by the Census | Edgar | 1940-08-06 |
| Movie | Dr. Christian Meets the Women | George Browning | 1940-08-05 |
| Movie | Sandy Is a Lady | Officer Rafferty | 1940-05-21 |
| Movie | Mutiny in the County | Edgar Kennedy | 1940-05-03 |
| Movie | The Quarterback | Pops | 1940-10-15 |
| Movie | 'Taint Legal | Edgar | 1940-05-25 |
| Movie | Margie | Chauncey | 1940-09-01 |
| Movie | Drafted in the Depot | Edgar Kennedy | 1940-12-20 |
| Movie | A Trailer Tragedy | Edgar Kennedy | 1940-10-17 |
| Movie | Li'l Abner | Cornelius Cornpone | 1940-11-09 |
| Movie | Remedy for Riches | George Browning | 1940-11-29 |
| Movie | Who Killed Aunt Maggie? | Sheriff Gregory | 1940-11-01 |
| Movie | Sandy Gets Her Man | Fire Chief Galvin | 1940-11-08 |
| Movie | It's a Wonderful World | Lieutenant Miller | 1939-05-19 |
| Movie | Clock Wise | Edgar | 1939-03-24 |
| Movie | Maid to Order | Edgar | 1939-09-27 |
| Movie | Baby Daze | Edgar Kennedy | 1939-05-18 |
| Movie | Laugh It Off | Judge John J. McGuinnis | 1939-12-01 |
| Movie | Everything's on Ice | Joe Barton | 1939-10-05 |
| Movie | Kennedy the Great | Edgar Kennedy | 1939-12-08 |
| Movie | Charlie McCarthy, Detective | Inspector Dailey | 1939-12-22 |
| Movie | Little Accident | Paper Hanger | 1939-10-26 |
| Movie | Ears of Experience | Edgar | 1938-01-28 |
| Movie | Scandal Street | Daniel Webster Smith | 1938-02-11 |
| Movie | Hollywood Hotel | Callaghan | 1938-01-15 |
| Movie | The Black Doll | Sheriff Renick | 1938-01-31 |
| Movie | Hey! Hey! USA | Bugs Leary | 1938-10-01 |
| Movie | Beaux and Errors | Edgar Kennedy | 1938-10-05 |
| Movie | A Clean Sweep | Edgar | 1938-12-02 |
| Movie | Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus | Arthur Bailey | 1938-12-02 |
| Movie | Bad Housekeeping | Edgar | 1937-03-05 |
| Movie | When's Your Birthday? | Mr. Basscombe | 1937-02-19 |
| Movie | The Other Fellow | Four Roles | 1937-01-23 |
| Movie | A Star Is Born | Pop Randall | 1937-04-27 |
| Movie | Dumb's the Word | Edgar Kennedy | 1937-06-11 |
| Movie | True Confession | Darsey | 1937-12-24 |
| Movie | Double Wedding | Spike | 1937-10-15 |
| Movie | Edgar & Goliath | Edgar | 1937-11-19 |
| Movie | Tramp Trouble | Edgar | 1937-08-07 |
| Movie | Super-Sleuth | Police Lt. Garrison | 1937-07-16 |
| Movie | Small Town Girl | Captain Mack | 1936-04-10 |
| Movie | Robin Hood of El Dorado | Sheriff Judd | 1936-03-17 |
| Movie | Gasoloons | Edgar Kennedy | 1936-01-03 |
| Movie | Fatal Lady | Rudolf Hochstetter | 1936-05-15 |
| Movie | Will Power | Edgar Kennedy | 1936-03-05 |
| Movie | Three Men on a Horse | Harry, the Bartender | 1936-11-21 |
| Movie | San Francisco | Sheriff | 1936-06-26 |
| Movie | Vocalizing | Edgar Kennedy | 1936-10-23 |
| Movie | Mad Holiday | Donovan | 1936-11-13 |
| Movie | Yours for the Asking | Bicarbonate | 1936-07-23 |
| Movie | Dummy Ache | Edgar | 1936-07-10 |
| Movie | The Cowboy Millionaire | Willy 'Persimmon' Bates | 1935-04-25 |
| Movie | A Night at the Biltmore Bowl | Edgar Kennedy | 1935-06-21 |
| Movie | Edgar Hamlet | Edgar | 1935-07-04 |
| Movie | Brick-a-Brac | Edgar | 1935-01-18 |
| Movie | Living on Velvet | Counterman | 1935-03-02 |
| Movie | Rendezvous at Midnight | Mahoney | 1935-02-11 |
| Movie | The Bride Comes Home | Henry | 1935-12-25 |
| Movie | Woman Wanted | Sweeney | 1935-08-02 |
| Movie | $1,000 a Minute | Police Officer McCarthy | 1935-10-21 |
| Movie | Little Big Shot | Onderdonk | 1935-09-07 |
| Movie | In Love at 40 | Edgar Kennedy | 1935-08-29 |
| Movie | Operator 13 | Confederate Officer Jealous of Artilleryman (uncredited) | 1934-06-08 |
| Movie | Murder on the Blackboard | Detective Donahue | 1934-06-15 |
| Movie | Money Means Nothing | Herbert Green | 1934-06-14 |
| Movie | Heat Lightning | Herbert - the Husband | 1934-03-01 |
| Movie | All of Me | Guard (uncredited) | 1934-02-01 |
| Movie | We're Rich Again | Healy, Process Server | 1934-07-13 |
| Movie | Love on a Ladder | Edgar | 1934-03-18 |
| Movie | Twentieth Century | Oscar McGonigle | 1934-05-11 |
| Movie | Wrong Direction | Edgar, Movie Director | 1934-05-18 |
| Movie | The Marines Are Coming | Sgt. Buck Martin | 1934-11-19 |
| Movie | The Silver Streak | O'Brien | 1934-12-21 |
| Movie | Bachelor Bait | (scenes deleted) | 1934-07-27 |
| Movie | Poisoned Ivory | Edgar Kennedy | 1934-11-16 |
| Movie | Flirting with Danger | Jimmie Pierson | 1934-12-01 |
| Movie | A Blasted Event | 1934-09-06 | |
| Movie | Kid Millions | Herman Wilson | 1934-11-10 |
| Movie | King Kelly of the U.S.A. | Happy Moran | 1934-09-15 |
| Movie | Gridiron Flash | Officer Thurston | 1934-10-06 |
| Movie | Diplomaniacs | Chairman - Peace Conference | 1933-04-28 |
| Movie | Son of the Border | Windy | 1933-05-05 |
| Movie | A Merchant of Menace | Edgar | 1933-04-20 |
| Movie | Art in the Raw | 1933-02-23 | |
| Movie | Cross Fire | Ed Wimpy | 1933-05-28 |
| Movie | Scarlet River | Sam Gilroy | 1933-03-10 |
| Movie | Tillie and Gus | Judge | 1933-10-13 |
| Movie | King for a Night | Cop | 1933-12-09 |
| Movie | Professional Sweetheart | Tim Kelsey | 1933-06-09 |
| Movie | Duck Soup | Street Vendor | 1933-11-12 |
| Movie | Quiet Please! | Edgar Kennedy | 1933-08-10 |
| Movie | Good Housewrecking | 1933-06-15 | |
| Movie | Hold 'Em Jail | Warden Elmer Jones | 1932-08-19 |
| Movie | Carnival Boat | Baldy | 1932-03-19 |
| Movie | He's a Honey | 1932-04-17 | |
| Movie | Westward Passage | Elmer | 1932-05-27 |
| Movie | Little Orphan Annie | Daddy Warbucks | 1932-11-04 |
| Movie | Fish Feathers | Edgar Kennedy | 1932-12-16 |
| Movie | Penguin Pool Murder | Officer Donovan | 1932-12-09 |
| Movie | Rockabye | Water Wagon Driver (uncredited) | 1932-11-25 |
| Movie | Help Wanted, Female | 1931-01-11 | |
| Movie | High Gear | Cop | 1931-02-28 |
| Movie | Next Door Neighbors | Howard J. Green | 1931-01-28 |
| Movie | Love Fever | Thelma's Last Rescuer | 1931-04-11 |
| Movie | Quick Millions | Cop (uncredited) | 1931-04-17 |
| Movie | Bad Company | Buffington-Doorman | 1931-10-16 |
| Movie | The Real McCoy | Cicero the Cop | 1930-02-01 |
| Movie | The Big Kick | Detective | 1930-03-29 |
| Movie | The First Seven Years | Kennedy the Cop (uncredited) | 1930-03-01 |
| Movie | Shivering Shakespeare | Kennedy the Cop (uncredited) | 1930-01-25 |
| Movie | Thieves | 1930-01-07 | |
| Movie | When the Wind Blows | Kennedy the Cop (uncredited) | 1930-04-05 |
| Movie | Night Owls | Officer Kennedy | 1930-01-04 |
| Movie | The Head Guy | Station Master Kennedy (uncredited) | 1930-01-11 |
| Movie | Fifty Million Husbands | Officer Kennedy | 1930-05-23 |
| Movie | Looser Than Loose | Night Club Patron | 1930-11-15 |
| Movie | All Teed Up | Thelma's Father | 1930-04-16 |
| Movie | Ladies Last | Man in Phone Booth | 1930-12-06 |
| Movie | Moonlight and Monkey Business | Detective | 1930-11-15 |
| Movie | Bigger and Better | Uncle Ed Sutton | 1930-10-24 |
| Movie | Doctor's Orders | Mary's Father / Gertie's Uncle | 1930-09-12 |
| Movie | Girl Shock | Fiancee's Father | 1930-08-23 |
| Movie | Dollar Dizzy | Quimby the Lawyer | 1930-10-03 |
| Movie | Hurdy Gurdy | Officer Ed Kennedy | 1929-05-10 |
| Movie | Madame Q | Judge Kennedy | 1929-06-08 |
| Movie | The Big Squawk | Orchestra Leader | 1929-05-25 |
| Movie | Unaccustomed as We Are | Officer Kennedy | 1929-05-04 |
| Movie | Going Ga-Ga | Cop | 1929-01-05 |
| Movie | Dad's Day | Michael Kennedy | 1929-07-06 |
| Movie | A Pair of Tights | Marion's Boyfriend's Boss | 1929-02-03 |
| Movie | Why Is a Plumber? | 1929-03-30 | |
| Movie | Trent's Last Case | Inspector Murch | 1929-03-31 |
| Movie | They Had to See Paris | Ed Eggers | 1929-09-18 |
| Movie | Angora Love | Landlord | 1929-12-14 |
| Movie | Great Gobs! | 2nd Sailor | 1929-12-28 |
| Movie | Perfect Day | Uncle Edgar | 1929-08-10 |
| Movie | Stepping Out | Diner's Owner | 1929-11-02 |
| Movie | Moan & Groan, Inc. | Kennedy the Cop (uncredited) | 1929-12-07 |
| Movie | Hotter Than Hot | 1929-08-17 | |
| Movie | Bacon Grabbers | Collis P. Kennedy | 1929-10-19 |
| Movie | Crazy Feet | Policeman | 1929-09-07 |
| Movie | Welcome Danger | SFPD Desk Sergeant (uncredited) | 1929-10-12 |
| Movie | Limousine Love | The Husband, Mr Glenders | 1928-04-13 |
| Movie | Should Married Men Go Home? | Golfer (uncredited) | 1928-09-08 |
| Movie | Dumb Daddies | The Cop | 1928-02-03 |
| Movie | Leave 'Em Laughing | Cop | 1928-01-28 |
| Movie | The Finishing Touch | Cop (as Ed Kennedy) | 1928-02-25 |
| Movie | Two Tars | Motorist | 1928-11-03 |
| Movie | Chasing Husbands | 1928-12-22 | |
| Movie | Feed 'em and Weep | 1928-12-08 | |
| Movie | The Boy Friend | The Cop | 1928-11-10 |
| Movie | Finger Prints | O.K. McDuff (as Ed Kennedy) | 1927-01-08 |
| Movie | The Chinese Parrot | Maydorf | 1927-10-23 |
| Movie | The Wrong Mr. Wright | Trayguard | 1927-02-27 |
| Movie | Across the Pacific | Cpl. Ryan | 1926-10-02 |
| Movie | My Old Dutch | Bill Sproat | 1926-05-23 |
| Movie | The Better 'Ole | Corporal Austin | 1926-10-23 |
| Movie | Going Crooked | Detective | 1926-12-12 |
| Movie | Paths to Paradise | Detective (uncredited) | 1925-06-28 |
| Movie | The Trouble With Wives | Detective (as Edward Kennedy) | 1925-09-28 |
| Movie | The Battling Fool | Dan O'Leary (as Ed Kennedy) | 1924-08-01 |
| Movie | Wall Street Blues | The Crook | 1924-08-09 |
| Movie | Puppets of Fate | Mike Reynolds | 1921-03-28 |
| Movie | The Guide | An American Tourist | 1921-05-11 |
| Movie | Four Times Foiled | 1920-01-11 | |
| Movie | The Adventures of Daredevil Jack | 1920-06-30 | |
| Movie | Yankee Doodle in Berlin | German Prison Guard (uncredited) | 1919-03-02 |
| Movie | Hearts and Flowers | Pete | 1919-06-22 |
| Movie | Whose Baby? | The Detective | 1917-07-08 |
| Movie | The Late Lamented | Art Gallery Operator | 1917-09-23 |
| Movie | His Bitter Pill | Diamond Dan - Jim's Rival | 1916-04-30 |
| Movie | Madcap Ambrose | A City Chap | 1916-07-16 |
| Movie | A Scoundrel's Toll | Peter X. Bush - Streetcar Superintendent | 1916-09-17 |
| Movie | Bombs! | Tony Peanutty - Italian Ward Leader | 1916-10-07 |
| Movie | Fatty’s Reckless Fling | Neighbor | 1915-03-04 |
| Movie | Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition | 1st Street Crowd Participant (uncredited) | 1915-01-23 |
| Movie | The Great Vacuum Robbery | 2nd Thief | 1915-01-01 |
| Movie | That Little Band Of Gold | Diner / Man in Audience (uncredited) | 1915-03-14 |
| Movie | Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day | The cafe waiter (uncredited) | 1915-01-14 |
| Movie | Fatty's New Role | Handout-Giver (uncredited) | 1915-02-01 |
| Movie | Fatty’s Plucky Pup | Shell Game Operator | 1915-06-27 |
| Movie | His Luckless Love | The Maid's Boyfriend | 1915-03-18 |
| Movie | Mabel’s Wilful Way | Fatty's Pal | 1915-05-01 |
| Movie | Miss Fatty's Seaside Lovers | Suitor | 1915-05-14 |
| Movie | Wished on Mabel | Cop | 1915-04-19 |
| Movie | Fatty's Tintype Tangle | Edgar | 1915-07-26 |
| Movie | Cruel, Cruel Love | Butler | 1914-03-26 |
| Movie | His Favorite Pastime | Tough Guy in Bar | 1914-03-16 |
| Movie | The Star Boarder | Landlady's Husband (uncredited) | 1914-04-04 |
| Movie | Twenty Minutes of Love | Lover | 1914-04-20 |
| Movie | Tango Tangles | Dance Hall Manager (uncredited) | 1914-03-09 |
| Movie | Mabel at the Wheel | Spectator in Grandstand (uncredited) | 1914-04-18 |
| Movie | A Bath House Beauty | Jealous Boyfriend | 1914-04-12 |
| Movie | Making a Living | Wreck Bystander (uncredited) | 1914-02-02 |
| Movie | A Flirt's Mistake | Rajah | 1914-01-12 |
| Movie | Caught in a Cabaret | Cafe Proprietor (uncredited) | 1914-04-27 |
| Movie | In the Clutches of the Gang | Cop | 1914-01-17 |
| Movie | Rebecca's Wedding Day | The Groom | 1914-01-24 |
| Movie | A Thief Catcher | Crook (uncredited) | 1914-02-19 |
| Movie | Little Billy's Triumph | 1914-01-28 | |
| Movie | A Film Johnnie | Director (uncredited) | 1914-03-02 |
| Movie | Mabel's Busy Day | Tough Hot Dog Customer (uncredited) | 1914-06-13 |
| Movie | The Noise of Bombs | Police Chief | 1914-11-19 |
| Movie | An Incompetent Hero | Fatty's Neighbor | 1914-11-12 |
| Movie | Getting Acquainted | Policeman (uncredited) | 1914-12-05 |
| Movie | Ambrose's First Falsehood | Café Proprietor | 1914-12-12 |
| Movie | The Knockout | Cyclone Flynn (uncredited) | 1914-06-11 |
| Movie | Tillie's Punctured Romance | Restaurant Owner / Banks' Butler (uncredited) | 1914-12-21 |
| Movie | 'Curses!' They Remarked | Ethel's Former Boyfriend | 1914-11-05 |
| Movie | Leading Lizzie Astray | The Slicker's Chauffeur | 1914-11-30 |
| Movie | The Sky Pirate | The Sky Pirate | 1914-07-18 |
| Movie | Gentlemen of Nerve | Policeman | 1914-10-29 |
| Movie | Love and Bullets | The Trouble Mender | 1914-07-04 |
| Movie | He Loved the Ladies | The Wife's Brother | 1914-09-21 |
| Movie | The Rounders | (uncredited) | 1914-09-07 |
| Movie | Dough and Dynamite | Striking Baker | 1914-10-26 |
| Movie | The Love Thief | The Rival | 1914-10-22 |
| Movie | Rastus and the Game Cock | Spectator | 1913-07-03 |
| Movie | Safe in Jail | 1st Crook | 1913-07-07 |
| Movie | Love and Rubbish | 1st Cop | 1913-07-14 |
| Movie | Peeping Pete | The Cop | 1913-06-22 |
| Movie | The Rural Third Degree | Cop | 1913-03-06 |
| Movie | A Noise from the Deep | 1913-07-17 | |
| Movie | Bangville Police | 3rd Deputy | 1913-04-24 |
| Movie | Their First Execution | 1913-05-14 | |
| Movie | The Gangsters | Henchman | 1913-05-29 |
| Movie | A Ride for a Bride | Mustached Man | 1913-12-08 |
| Movie | A Muddy Romance | Water Policeman | 1913-11-19 |
| Movie | Fatty Joins the Force | Jealous Cop | 1913-11-23 |
| Movie | The Gusher | Cop (uncredited) | 1913-12-14 |
| Movie | The Speed Kings | Laughing Spectator | 1913-10-30 |
| Movie | A Quiet Little Wedding | Wedding Guest | 1913-10-23 |
| Movie | Mabel's New Hero | Cop | 1913-08-27 |
| Movie | Mabel's Dramatic Career | Audience Member / Cop in Movie | 1913-09-08 |
| Movie | Mother's Boy | Mug | 1913-09-25 |
| Movie | The Riot | Cop | 1913-08-07 |