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:
- 256
- First Appeared:
- In the movie The Rural Third Degree 1913-03-06
- Latest Project:
- Movie When Comedy Was King 1960-03-29
Known For
Filmography
| 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 | 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 | It Happened Tomorrow | Insp. Mulrooney | 1944-03-31 |
| Movie | The Great Alaskan Mystery | Bosun Higgins | 1944-04-25 |
| Movie | Feather Your Nest | Edgar | 1944-10-23 |
| Movie | Hold Your Temper | Edgar | 1943-02-05 |
| Movie | Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher | Police Chief Murphy | 1943-01-29 |
| Movie | The Falcon Strikes Back | Smiley Dugan | 1943-04-01 |
| Movie | Air Raid Wardens | Joe Bledsoe | 1943-04-04 |
| Movie | Crazy House | Judge | 1943-10-08 |
| Movie | Hitler's Madman | Nepomuk - the Hermit | 1943-06-10 |
| Movie | The Girl from Monterrey | Doc Hogan, Fight Promoter | 1943-10-04 |
| Movie | Hot Foot | Edgar | 1943-05-15 |
| Movie | In Old California | Kegs McKeever | 1942-05-31 |
| Movie | Private Snuffy Smith | Sgt. Ed Cooper | 1942-01-16 |
| Movie | Cooks and Crooks | Edgar | 1942-06-05 |
| Movie | Rough on Rents | Edgar Kennedy | 1942-01-01 |
| Movie | There's One Born Every Minute | Mayor Moe Carson | 1942-06-26 |
| Movie | Duck Soup | Edgar | 1942-12-18 |
| Movie | Hillbilly Blitzkrieg | Sgt. Homer Gatling | 1942-08-14 |
| Movie | An Apple in His Eye | Edgar Kennedy | 1941-06-06 |
| Movie | Westward Ho-Hum | Edgar | 1941-09-15 |
| Movie | Blondie in Society | Dr. Glenn | 1941-07-17 |
| Movie | I'll Fix It | Edgar | 1941-10-07 |
| Movie | Gangs Of The City | Biff | 1941-10-30 |
| Movie | A Quiet Fourth | Edgar | 1941-12-19 |
| 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 | The Quarterback | Pops | 1940-10-15 |
| Movie | Mutiny in the County | Edgar Kennedy | 1940-05-03 |
| 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 | Little Accident | Paper Hanger | 1939-10-26 |
| Movie | Everything's on Ice | Joe Barton | 1939-10-05 |
| Movie | Charlie McCarthy, Detective | Inspector Dailey | 1939-12-22 |
| Movie | Laugh It Off | Judge John J. McGuinnis | 1939-12-01 |
| Movie | The Black Doll | Sheriff Renick | 1938-01-31 |
| Movie | Hollywood Hotel | Callaghan | 1938-01-15 |
| Movie | Scandal Street | Daniel Webster Smith | 1938-02-11 |
| Movie | Ears of Experience | Edgar | 1938-01-28 |
| Movie | Hey! Hey! USA | Bugs Leary | 1938-10-01 |
| Movie | Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus | Arthur Bailey | 1938-12-02 |
| Movie | Beaux and Errors | Edgar Kennedy | 1938-10-05 |
| 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 | Tramp Trouble | Edgar | 1937-08-07 |
| Movie | Double Wedding | Spike | 1937-10-15 |
| 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 | Will Power | Edgar Kennedy | 1936-03-05 |
| Movie | Fatal Lady | Rudolf Hochstetter | 1936-05-15 |
| Movie | Gasoloons | Edgar Kennedy | 1936-01-03 |
| Movie | San Francisco | Sheriff | 1936-06-26 |
| Movie | Mad Holiday | Donovan | 1936-11-13 |
| Movie | Three Men on a Horse | Harry, the Bartender | 1936-11-21 |
| Movie | Yours for the Asking | Bicarbonate | 1936-07-23 |
| Movie | Dummy Ache | Edgar | 1936-07-10 |
| Movie | A Night at the Biltmore Bowl | Edgar Kennedy | 1935-06-21 |
| Movie | Living on Velvet | Counterman | 1935-03-02 |
| Movie | Rendezvous at Midnight | Mahoney | 1935-02-11 |
| Movie | Edgar Hamlet | Edgar | 1935-07-04 |
| Movie | Brick-a-Brac | Edgar | 1935-01-18 |
| Movie | The Cowboy Millionaire | Willy 'Persimmon' Bates | 1935-04-25 |
| Movie | Woman Wanted | Sweeney | 1935-08-02 |
| Movie | $1,000 a Minute | Police Officer McCarthy | 1935-10-21 |
| Movie | The Bride Comes Home | Henry | 1935-12-25 |
| Movie | In Love at 40 | Edgar Kennedy | 1935-08-29 |
| Movie | Little Big Shot | Onderdonk | 1935-09-07 |
| Movie | Operator 13 | Confederate Officer Jealous of Artilleryman (uncredited) | 1934-06-08 |
| Movie | Money Means Nothing | Herbert Green | 1934-06-14 |
| Movie | Murder on the Blackboard | Detective Donahue | 1934-06-15 |
| Movie | Wrong Direction | Edgar, Movie Director | 1934-05-18 |
| Movie | All of Me | Guard (uncredited) | 1934-02-01 |
| Movie | We're Rich Again | Healy, Process Server | 1934-07-13 |
| Movie | Heat Lightning | Herbert - the Husband | 1934-03-01 |
| Movie | Love on a Ladder | Edgar | 1934-03-18 |
| Movie | Twentieth Century | Oscar McGonigle | 1934-05-11 |
| Movie | The Silver Streak | O'Brien | 1934-12-21 |
| Movie | Poisoned Ivory | Edgar Kennedy | 1934-11-16 |
| Movie | Flirting with Danger | Jimmie Pierson | 1934-12-01 |
| Movie | Bachelor Bait | (scenes deleted) | 1934-07-27 |
| Movie | Kid Millions | Herman Wilson | 1934-11-10 |
| Movie | The Marines Are Coming | Sgt. Buck Martin | 1934-11-19 |
| Movie | Gridiron Flash | Officer Thurston | 1934-10-06 |
| Movie | A Blasted Event | 1934-09-06 | |
| Movie | King Kelly of the U.S.A. | Happy Moran | 1934-09-15 |
| Movie | Son of the Border | Windy | 1933-05-05 |
| Movie | Diplomaniacs | Chairman - Peace Conference | 1933-04-28 |
| Movie | Scarlet River | Sam Gilroy | 1933-03-10 |
| Movie | Cross Fire | Ed Wimpy | 1933-05-28 |
| Movie | Art in the Raw | 1933-02-23 | |
| Movie | A Merchant of Menace | Edgar | 1933-04-20 |
| Movie | Quiet Please! | Edgar Kennedy | 1933-08-10 |
| 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 | Tillie and Gus | Judge | 1933-10-13 |
| Movie | Good Housewrecking | 1933-06-15 | |
| Movie | Westward Passage | Elmer | 1932-05-27 |
| Movie | Carnival Boat | Baldy | 1932-03-19 |
| Movie | He's a Honey | 1932-04-17 | |
| Movie | Hold 'Em Jail | Warden Elmer Jones | 1932-08-19 |
| Movie | Penguin Pool Murder | Officer Donovan | 1932-12-09 |
| Movie | Little Orphan Annie | Daddy Warbucks | 1932-11-04 |
| Movie | Rockabye | Water Wagon Driver (uncredited) | 1932-11-25 |
| Movie | Next Door Neighbors | Howard J. Green | 1931-01-28 |
| Movie | Love Fever | Thelma's Last Rescuer | 1931-04-11 |
| Movie | High Gear | Cop | 1931-02-28 |
| Movie | Bad Company | Buffington-Doorman | 1931-10-16 |
| Movie | Quick Millions | Cop (uncredited) | 1931-04-17 |
| Movie | The Gas Station | Detective | 1930-03-29 |
| Movie | The First Seven Years | Kennedy the Cop (uncredited) | 1930-03-01 |
| Movie | The Big Kick | Detective | 1930-03-29 |
| Movie | The Real McCoy | Cicero the Cop | 1930-02-01 |
| Movie | Night Owls | Officer Kennedy | 1930-01-04 |
| Movie | When the Wind Blows | Kennedy the Cop (uncredited) | 1930-04-05 |
| Movie | Thieves | 1930-01-07 | |
| Movie | The Head Guy | Station Master Kennedy (uncredited) | 1930-01-11 |
| Movie | Shivering Shakespeare | Kennedy the Cop (uncredited) | 1930-01-25 |
| Movie | All Teed Up | Thelma's Father | 1930-04-16 |
| Movie | Bigger and Better | Uncle Ed Sutton | 1930-10-24 |
| Movie | Moonlight and Monkey Business | Detective | 1930-11-15 |
| Movie | Ladies Last | Man in Phone Booth | 1930-12-06 |
| Movie | Dollar Dizzy | Quimby the Lawyer (uncredited) | 1930-10-03 |
| Movie | Looser Than Loose | Night Club Patron | 1930-11-15 |
| Movie | Doctor's Orders | Mary's Father / Gertie's Uncle | 1930-09-12 |
| Movie | Fifty Million Husbands | Officer Kennedy | 1930-05-23 |
| Movie | Girl Shock | Fiancee's Father | 1930-08-23 |
| Movie | Unaccustomed as We Are | Officer Kennedy | 1929-05-04 |
| Movie | Hurdy Gurdy | Officer Ed Kennedy | 1929-05-10 |
| Movie | Trent's Last Case | Inspector Murch | 1929-03-31 |
| Movie | The Big Squawk | Orchestra Leader | 1929-05-25 |
| Movie | A Pair of Tights | Marion's Boyfriend's Boss | 1929-02-03 |
| Movie | Madame Q | Judge Kennedy | 1929-06-08 |
| Movie | Going Ga-Ga | Cop | 1929-01-05 |
| Movie | Why Is a Plumber? | 1929-03-30 | |
| Movie | They Had to See Paris | Ed Eggers | 1929-09-18 |
| Movie | Moan & Groan, Inc. | Kennedy the Cop (uncredited) | 1929-12-07 |
| Movie | Angora Love | Landlord | 1929-12-14 |
| Movie | Dad's Day | Michael Kennedy | 1929-07-06 |
| Movie | Welcome Danger | SFPD Desk Sergeant (uncredited) | 1929-10-12 |
| Movie | Bacon Grabbers | Collis P. Kennedy | 1929-10-19 |
| Movie | Hotter Than Hot | 1929-08-17 | |
| Movie | Great Gobs! | 2nd Sailor | 1929-12-28 |
| Movie | Perfect Day | Uncle Edgar | 1929-08-10 |
| Movie | Limousine Love | The Husband, Mr Glenders | 1928-04-13 |
| Movie | Leave 'Em Laughing | Cop | 1928-01-28 |
| Movie | Should Married Men Go Home? | Golfer (uncredited) | 1928-09-08 |
| Movie | Dumb Daddies | The Cop | 1928-02-03 |
| Movie | The Finishing Touch | Cop (as Ed Kennedy) | 1928-02-25 |
| Movie | Two Tars | Motorist | 1928-11-03 |
| Movie | Feed 'em and Weep | 1928-12-08 | |
| Movie | Chasing Husbands | 1928-12-22 | |
| 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 | My Old Dutch | Bill Sproat | 1926-05-23 |
| Movie | Across the Pacific | Cpl. Ryan | 1926-10-02 |
| Movie | The Better 'Ole | Corporal Austin | 1926-10-23 |
| Movie | Paths to Paradise | Detective (uncredited) | 1925-06-28 |
| Movie | Wall Street Blues | The Crook | 1924-08-09 |
| Movie | The Guide | An American Tourist | 1921-05-11 |
| 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 | A Scoundrel's Toll | Peter X. Bush - Streetcar Superintendent | 1916-09-17 |
| Movie | Madcap Ambrose | A City Chap | 1916-07-16 |
| Movie | That Little Band Of Gold | Diner / Man in Audience (uncredited) | 1915-03-14 |
| 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 | His Luckless Love | The Maid's Boyfriend | 1915-03-18 |
| Movie | Fatty's New Role | Handout-Giver (uncredited) | 1915-02-01 |
| Movie | Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day | The cafe waiter (uncredited) | 1915-01-14 |
| Movie | Wished on Mabel | Cop | 1915-04-19 |
| Movie | Fatty’s Plucky Pup | Shell Game Operator | 1915-06-27 |
| Movie | Fatty's Tintype Tangle | Edgar | 1915-07-26 |
| Movie | Miss Fatty's Seaside Lovers | Suitor | 1915-05-14 |
| Movie | Mabel’s Wilful Way | Fatty's Pal | 1915-05-01 |
| Movie | His Favorite Pastime | Tough Guy in Bar | 1914-03-16 |
| Movie | Cruel, Cruel Love | Butler | 1914-03-26 |
| Movie | A Bath House Beauty | Jealous Boyfriend | 1914-04-12 |
| Movie | Twenty Minutes of Love | Lover | 1914-04-20 |
| Movie | Tango Tangle | Dance Hall Manager (uncredited) | 1914-03-09 |
| Movie | The Star Boarder | Landlady's Husband (uncredited) | 1914-04-04 |
| 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 at the Wheel | Spectator in Grandstand (uncredited) | 1914-04-18 |
| 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 | Love and Bullets | The Trouble Mender | 1914-07-04 |
| Movie | Gentlemen of Nerve | Policeman | 1914-10-29 |
| Movie | Mabel's Busy Day | Tough Hot Dog Customer (uncredited) | 1914-06-13 |
| Movie | The Rounders | (uncredited) | 1914-09-07 |
| Movie | The Sky Pirate | The Sky Pirate | 1914-07-18 |
| Movie | Dough and Dynamite | Striking Baker | 1914-10-26 |
| Movie | He Loved the Ladies | The Wife's Brother | 1914-09-21 |
| 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 |