George Kennedy
Acting
George Kennedy (February 18, 1925 — February 28, 2016) was a European-American businessman, entrepreneur, A World War II veteran, actor, adviser, radio dj, and author. Kennedy at one stage in his career cornered the market at playing tough, no-nonsense characters who were either quite crooked or possessed hearts of gold. Kennedy notched up an impressive 200+ appearances in both TV and film, and was well respected within the Hollywood community. He started out in TV westerns in the late 1950s and early 1960s: Have Gun - Will Travel (1957), Rawhide (1959), Maverick (1957), Colt .45 (1957), among others; before scoring minor roles in films including Lonely Are the Brave (1962), The Sons of Katie Elder (1965) and The Flight of the Phoenix (1965). The late 1960s was a very busy period for Kennedy, and he was strongly in favor with casting agents, appearing in Hurry Sundown (1967), The Dirty Dozen (1967) and scoring an Oscar win as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Cool Hand Luke (1967). The disaster film boom of the 1970s was kind to Kennedy, too, and his talents were in demand for Airport(1970) and the three subsequent sequels, as a grizzled cop in Earthquake (1974), plus the buddy/road film Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) as vicious bank robber Red Leary. The 1980s saw Kennedy appear in a mishmash of roles, playing various characters; however, Kennedy and Leslie Nielsen surprised everyone with their comedic talents in the hugely successful The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988), and the two screen veterans hammed it up again in, The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991), plus Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994). Kennedy remained busy in Hollywood and lent his distinctive voice to the animated Cats Don't Dance (1997) and the children's action film Small Soldiers (1998). A Hollywood stalwart for nearly 50 years, he is one of the most enjoyable actors to watch on screen. His last role was in the film The Gambler (2014), as Mark Wahlberg's character's grandfather. George Kennedy died on February 28, 2016 in Middleton, Idaho.
Airports
The Gambler
Ed
Another Happy Day
Joe Baker
Six Days in Paradise
Monty Crenshaw
2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
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A Natural Born World-Shaker: The Making of 'Cool Hand Luke'
Self
The Man Who Came Back
Judge Duke
The Boneyard Collection
Professor Zebediah Jones (segment "The Devil's Due at Midnight")
Sands of Oblivion
John Tevis
Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen'
Self
Don't Come Knocking
Director
Three Bad Men
Ed Fiske
Truce
Dr. Peter Gannon
Monster Makers
Dexter Brisbane
View from the Top
Passenger Requesting Vodka (uncredited)
Men in White
Army
Dennis the Menace Strikes Again!
Mr. Johnson
Small Soldiers
Brick Bazooka (voice)
Dallas: War of The Ewings
Carter McKay
Hollyweird
George Kennedy
Cats Don't Dance
L.B. Mammoth (voice)
Bayou Ghost
Officer Lowe
Dallas: J.R. Returns
Carter McKay
WWE SummerSlam 1994
Himself
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
Ed Hocken
Distant Justice
Tom Bradfield
Final Shot: The Hank Gathers Story
Father Dave Hagan
Intensive Care
Dr. Bruckner
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
Ed Hocken
Driving Me Crazy
John McCready
Hangfire
Warden Barles
The Cops Are Robbers
Mayumi: Virgin Terrorist
Bahraini Investigator
Hired to Kill
Thomas
Brain Dead
Vance
Ministry of Vengeance
Rev. Hughes
Esmeralda Bay
Wilson
The Terror Within
Hal
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
Ed Hocken
Uninvited
Mike Harvey
Top Line
Heinrich Holzmann
Nightmare at Noon
Sherrif Hanks
Private Road: No Trespassing
Sam Milshaw
Demonwarp
Bill Crafton
Counterforce
Vince Colby
Born to Race
Vincent Duplain
What Price Victory
Big Buck Brayton
The Gambler: The Legend Continues
General Nelson Miles
Creepshow 2
Ray Spruce
The Gunfighters
Deke Turner
Radioactive Dreams
Spade Chandler
Liberty
Seamus Reilly
The Delta Force
Father O'Malley
Savage Dawn
Tick Rand
International Airport
Rudy Van Leuven
Rigged
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Half Nelson
Parsons
Rare Breed
Bolero
Cotton
The Jesse Owens Story
Charles 'Charley' Riley
Chattanooga Choo Choo
Bert
The Jupiter Menace
Himself
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Mr. Doctor Graves
Just Before Dawn
Roy McLean
The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire
Brakus
Modern Romance
George Kennedy / Zeron
Hotwire
Farley & Harley Fontenot
Virus
Admiral Conway
Death Ship
Captain Ashland
Steel
Big Lew Cassidy
The Concorde... Airport '79
Joe Patroni
Search and Destroy
Anthony Fusqua
The Double McGuffin
Chief Talasek
Brass Target
Gen. George S. Patton
Death on the Nile: Making of Featurette
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Death on the Nile
Andrew Pennington
Mean Dog Blues
Captain Omar Kinsman
Proof of the Man
Ken Shuftan
Airport '77
Joe Patroni
The Human Factor
John Kinsdale
The Eiger Sanction
Ben Bowman
The Blue Knight
Bumper Morgan
The Lion Roars Again
Self
Earthquake
Sgt. Lew Slade
Airport 1975
Joe Patroni
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
Red Leary
A Cry in the Wilderness
Sam Hadley
Sonic Boom
Ben Dover
Deliver Us from Evil
Walter 'Cowboy' McAdams
Cahill: United States Marshal
Abe Fraser
Lost Horizon
Sam Cornelius
A Great American Tragedy
Brad Wilkes
The Bull of the West
'Bear' Suchette
The Priest Killer
Father Samuel Cavanaugh
Fools' Parade
Dallas 'Doc' Council
Sarge: The Badge or the Cross
Sarge Swanson
Dirty Dingus Magee
Herkimer 'Hoke' Birdsill
Zig Zag
Paul R. Cameron
Airport
Joe Patroni
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John Little
Gaily, Gaily
Axel P. Johanson
The Good Guys and the Bad Guys
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Guns of the Magnificent Seven
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The Pink Jungle
Sammy Ryderbeit
The Boston Strangler
Det. Phil DiNatale
The Legend of Lylah Clare
Matt Burke
Bandolero!
Sheriff July Johnson
The Ballad of Josie
Arch Ogden
Cool Hand Luke
Dragline
The Dirty Dozen
Major Max Armbruster
Hurry Sundown
Sheriff Coombs
The Flight of the Phoenix
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Mirage
Willard
The Sons of Katie Elder
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Shenandoah
Col. Fairchild
In Harm's Way
Colonel Gregory
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Foreman
See How They Run
Rudy
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Aleut Captain
McHale's Navy
Henri Le Clerc
Strait-Jacket
Leo Krause
Charade
Herman Scobie
The Man from the Diners' Club
George
Lonely are the Brave
Deputy Sheriff Gutierrez
Gunfight at Black Horses Canyon
Hawk
The Little Shepherd Of Kingdom Come
Nathan Dillon