Acting
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.
Filmography
Laurel & Hardy: Year Two
Film · 2024
The Our Gang Story
Film · 1994
The Muppets Go to the Movies
Film · 1981
The Best of Laurel and Hardy
Film · 1968
When Comedy Was King
Film · 1960
The Golden Age of Comedy
Film · 1957
My Dream Is Yours
Film · 1949
Unfaithfully Yours
Film · 1948
Variety Time
Film · 1948
Brother Knows Best
Film · 1948
Dig That Gold
Film · 1948
Contest Crazy
Film · 1948
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
Film · 1947
Heaven Only Knows
Film · 1947
Do or Diet
Film · 1947
Motor Maniacs
Film · 1946
Trouble or Nothing
Film · 1946
I'll Build It Myself
Film · 1946
Anchors Aweigh
Film · 1945
Captain Tugboat Annie
Film · 1945
It's Your Move
Film · 1945
What, No Cigarettes
Film · 1945
You Drive Me Crazy
Film · 1945
The Big Beef
Film · 1945
It Happened Tomorrow
Film · 1944
The Great Alaskan Mystery
Film · 1944
Prunes and Politics
Film · 1944
Feather Your Nest
Film · 1944
Radio Rampage
Film · 1944
Air Raid Wardens
Film · 1943
The Falcon Strikes Back
Film · 1943
The Girl from Monterrey
Film · 1943
Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher
Film · 1943
Hold Your Temper
Film · 1943
Hitler's Madman
Film · 1943
Hot Foot
Film · 1943
Crazy House
Film · 1943
Inferior Decorator
Film · 1943
In Old California
Film · 1942
There's One Born Every Minute
Film · 1942
Private Snuffy Smith
Film · 1942
Rough on Rents
Film · 1942
Hillbilly Blitzkrieg
Film · 1942
Cooks and Crooks
Film · 1942
Duck Soup
Film · 1942
Pardon My Stripes
Film · 1942
Blondie in Society
Film · 1941
Gangs Of The City
Film · 1941
An Apple in His Eye
Film · 1941
I'll Fix It
Film · 1941
Westward Ho-Hum
Film · 1941
A Quiet Fourth
Film · 1941
Mad About Moonshine
Film · 1941
Li'l Abner
Film · 1940
Who Killed Aunt Maggie?
Film · 1940
Remedy for Riches
Film · 1940
Dr. Christian Meets the Women
Film · 1940
Mutiny in the County
Film · 1940
The Quarterback
Film · 1940
Margie
Film · 1940
Sandy Is a Lady
Film · 1940
Drafted in the Depot
Film · 1940
'Taint Legal
Film · 1940
Sunk by the Census
Film · 1940
A Trailer Tragedy
Film · 1940
Sandy Gets Her Man
Film · 1940
The Bride Wore Crutches
Film · 1940
It's a Wonderful World
Film · 1939
Charlie McCarthy, Detective
Film · 1939
Baby Daze
Film · 1939
Everything's on Ice
Film · 1939
Laugh It Off
Film · 1939
Clock Wise
Film · 1939
Maid to Order
Film · 1939
Kennedy the Great
Film · 1939
Little Accident
Film · 1939
Act Your Age
Film · 1939
Hollywood Hotel
Film · 1938
Hey! Hey! USA
Film · 1938
Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
Film · 1938
Beaux and Errors
Film · 1938
The Black Doll
Film · 1938
Ears of Experience
Film · 1938
Scandal Street
Film · 1938
A Clean Sweep
Film · 1938
Double Wedding
Film · 1937
A Star Is Born
Film · 1937
True Confession
Film · 1937
Super-Sleuth
Film · 1937
The Other Fellow
Film · 1937
Tramp Trouble
Film · 1937
Dumb's the Word
Film · 1937
When's Your Birthday?
Film · 1937
Bad Housekeeping
Film · 1937
Edgar & Goliath
Film · 1937
Robin Hood of El Dorado
Film · 1936
Small Town Girl
Film · 1936
Three Men on a Horse
Film · 1936
Mad Holiday
Film · 1936
Will Power
Film · 1936
Fatal Lady
Film · 1936
Yours for the Asking
Film · 1936
Gasoloons
Film · 1936
San Francisco
Film · 1936
Dummy Ache
Film · 1936
Vocalizing
Film · 1936
The Return of Jimmy Valentine
Film · 1936
Little Big Shot
Film · 1935
The Cowboy Millionaire
Film · 1935
Living on Velvet
Film · 1935
Woman Wanted
Film · 1935
The Bride Comes Home
Film · 1935
Rendezvous at Midnight
Film · 1935
$1,000 a Minute
Film · 1935
Edgar Hamlet
Film · 1935
In Love at 40
Film · 1935
A Night at the Biltmore Bowl
Film · 1935
Brick-a-Brac
Film · 1935
Sock Me to Sleep
Film · 1935
King Kelly of the U.S.A.
Film · 1934
Twentieth Century
Film · 1934
Flirting with Danger
Film · 1934
The Marines Are Coming
Film · 1934
Money Means Nothing
Film · 1934
A Blasted Event
Film · 1934
We're Rich Again
Film · 1934
Gridiron Flash
Film · 1934
Wrong Direction
Film · 1934
The Silver Streak
Film · 1934
Heat Lightning
Film · 1934
Kid Millions
Film · 1934
Poisoned Ivory
Film · 1934
Murder on the Blackboard
Film · 1934
All of Me
Film · 1934
Love on a Ladder
Film · 1934
Duck Soup
Film · 1933
Son of the Border
Film · 1933
Tillie and Gus
Film · 1933
Art in the Raw
Film · 1933
Good Housewrecking
Film · 1933
A Merchant of Menace
Film · 1933
Professional Sweetheart
Film · 1933
Scarlet River
Film · 1933
Diplomaniacs
Film · 1933
King for a Night
Film · 1933
Quiet Please!
Film · 1933
Cross Fire
Film · 1933
What Fur
Film · 1933
Giggle Water
Film · 1932
The Penguin Pool Murder
Film · 1932
Little Orphan Annie
Film · 1932
He's a Honey
Film · 1932
Now's the Time
Film · 1932
Westward Passage
Film · 1932
Hold 'Em Jail
Film · 1932
Carnival Boat
Film · 1932
Rockabye
Film · 1932
Fish Feathers
Film · 1932
Never the Twins Shall Meet
Film · 1932
The Spot on the Rug
Film · 1932
Love Fever
Film · 1931
Quick Millions
Film · 1931
High Gear
Film · 1931
Next Door Neighbors
Film · 1931
Help Wanted, Female
Film · 1931
Bad Company
Film · 1931
The Ghosts
Film · 1930
Night Owls
Film · 1930
Thieves
Film · 1930
When the Wind Blows
Film · 1930
The First Seven Years
Film · 1930
The Real McCoy
Film · 1930
Dollar Dizzy
Film · 1930
Moonlight and Monkey Business
Film · 1930
The Big Kick
Film · 1930
The Head Guy
Film · 1930
Shivering Shakespeare
Film · 1930
Doctor's Orders
Film · 1930
Bigger and Better
Film · 1930
Ladies Last
Film · 1930
Looser Than Loose
Film · 1930
All Teed Up
Film · 1930
Fifty Million Husbands
Film · 1930
Girl Shock
Film · 1930
The Gas Station
Film · 1930
Off to Buffalo
Film · 1929
Great Gobs!
Film · 1929
Perfect Day
Film · 1929
Bacon Grabbers
Film · 1929
Unaccustomed as We Are
Film · 1929
Moan & Groan, Inc.
Film · 1929
A Pair of Tights
Film · 1929
Going Ga-Ga
Film · 1929
Trent's Last Case
Film · 1929
They Had to See Paris
Film · 1929
Hurdy Gurdy
Film · 1929
The Big Squawk
Film · 1929
Stepping Out
Film · 1929
Angora Love
Film · 1929
Madame Q
Film · 1929
Dad's Day
Film · 1929
Hotter Than Hot
Film · 1929
Crazy Feet
Film · 1929
Welcome Danger
Film · 1929
Why Is a Plumber?
Film · 1929
The Family Group
Film · 1928
The Fight Pest
Film · 1928
Imagine My Embarrassment
Film · 1928
Is Everybody Happy?
Film · 1928
Chasing Husbands
Film · 1928
The Booster
Film · 1928
All Parts
Film · 1928
Should Married Men Go Home?
Film · 1928
The Finishing Touch
Film · 1928
Leave 'Em Laughing
Film · 1928
Two Tars
Film · 1928
Dumb Daddies
Film · 1928
Limousine Love
Film · 1928
The Boy Friend
Film · 1928
Feed 'em and Weep
Film · 1928
The Chinese Parrot
Film · 1927
The Wrong Mr. Wright
Film · 1927
Finger Prints
Film · 1927
The Gay Old Bird
Film · 1927
Wedding Bills
Film · 1927
The Better 'Ole
Film · 1926
Oh! What a Nurse!
Film · 1926
My Old Dutch
Film · 1926
Going Crooked
Film · 1926
Across the Pacific
Film · 1926
The Trouble With Wives
Film · 1925
The Golden Princess
Film · 1925
Paths to Paradise
Film · 1925
The People vs. Nancy Preston
Film · 1925
Racing for Life
Film · 1924
The Battling Fool
Film · 1924
Wall Street Blues
Film · 1924
All's Swell on the Ocean
Film · 1924
The Night Message
Film · 1924
Fight and Win
Film · 1924
Something for Nothing
Film · 1923
The Little Girl Next Door
Film · 1923
The Wandering Two
Film · 1923
High and Dry
Film · 1922
The Guide
Film · 1921
Puppets of Fate
Film · 1921
Skirts
Film · 1921
The Adventures of Daredevil Jack
Film · 1920
Four Times Foiled
Film · 1920
Yankee Doodle in Berlin
Film · 1919
Hearts and Flowers
Film · 1919
She Loved Him Plenty
Film · 1918
Watch Your Neighbor
Film · 1918
Whose Baby?
Film · 1917
The Late Lamented
Film · 1917
The Blue Streak
Film · 1917
His Bitter Pill
Film · 1916
Madcap Ambrose
Film · 1916
A Scoundrel's Toll
Film · 1916
Bombs!
Film · 1916
The Stolen Triumph
Film · 1916
Fatty's Tintype Tangle
Film · 1915
Fatty’s Plucky Pup
Film · 1915
The Great Vacuum Robbery
Film · 1915
Fatty's New Role
Film · 1915
Fatty’s Reckless Fling
Film · 1915
Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition
Film · 1915
Mabel’s Wilful Way
Film · 1915
Wished on Mabel
Film · 1915
That Little Band Of Gold
Film · 1915
Miss Fatty's Seaside Lovers
Film · 1915
His Luckless Love
Film · 1915
Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day
Film · 1915
Cruel, Cruel Love
Film · 1914
Dough and Dynamite
Film · 1914
Caught in a Cabaret
Film · 1914
The Love Thief
Film · 1914
The Star Boarder
Film · 1914
The Knockout
Film · 1914
Twenty Minutes of Love
Film · 1914
Gentlemen of Nerve
Film · 1914
Getting Acquainted
Film · 1914
A Thief Catcher
Film · 1914
Making a Living
Film · 1914
Leading Lizzie Astray
Film · 1914
Love and Bullets
Film · 1914
The Sky Pirate
Film · 1914
In the Clutches of the Gang
Film · 1914
His Favorite Pastime
Film · 1914
Tango Tangles
Film · 1914
Rebecca's Wedding Day
Film · 1914
A Flirt's Mistake
Film · 1914
A Bath House Beauty
Film · 1914
The Noise of Bombs
Film · 1914
Ambrose's First Falsehood
Film · 1914
A Film Johnnie
Film · 1914
The Rounders
Film · 1914
Mabel's Busy Day
Film · 1914
Mabel at the Wheel
Film · 1914
Tillie's Punctured Romance
Film · 1914
Little Billy's Triumph
Film · 1914
He Loved the Ladies
Film · 1914
'Curses!' They Remarked
Film · 1914
An Incompetent Hero
Film · 1914
The Rural Third Degree
Film · 1913
Mabel’s Awful Mistakes
Film · 1913
Fatty Joins the Force
Film · 1913
Algy on the Force
Film · 1913
The Gangsters
Film · 1913
The Speed Kings
Film · 1913
Peeping Pete
Film · 1913
A Muddy Romance
Film · 1913
A Noise from the Deep
Film · 1913
Love and Rubbish
Film · 1913
Safe in Jail
Film · 1913
Rastus and the Game Cock
Film · 1913
The Riot
Film · 1913
Mabel's New Hero
Film · 1913
Mabel's Dramatic Career
Film · 1913
Mother's Boy
Film · 1913
A Quiet Little Wedding
Film · 1913
A Ride for a Bride
Film · 1913
Their First Execution
Film · 1913
Bangville Police
Film · 1913
The Gusher
Film · 1913
The Bowling Match
Film · 1913
Zuzu, the Band Leader
Film · 1913
Parlor, Bedroom and Wrath
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