George Kennedy

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1925-02-18 (91 years old)

Deathday

2016-02-28

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

George Kennedy

Biography

George Kennedy (February 18, 1925 — February 28, 2016) was an American actor. A World War II veteran, 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) ...

Acting

1967

Cool Hand Luke

as Dragline

1967

The Dirty Dozen

as Major Max Armbruster

1970

Airport

as Joe Patroni

1978

Death on the Nile

as Andrew Pennington

1963

Charade

as Herman Scobie

1975

The Eiger Sanction

as Ben Bowman

1974

Earthquake

as Sgt. Lew Slade

1965

Shenandoah

as Col. Fairchild

1984

Bolero

as Cotton

1990

Brain Dead

as Vance

1998

Small Soldiers

as Brick Bazooka (voice)

2007

Sands of Oblivion

as John Tevis

1977

Airport '77

as Joe Patroni

1975

The Human Factor

as John Kinsdale

1980

Death Ship

as Captain Ashland

1968

The Boston Strangler

as Det. Phil DiNatale

1974

Airport 1975

as Joe Patroni

2005

1988

Demonwarp

as Bill Crafton

1979

1964

Strait-Jacket

as Leo Krause

1968

Bandolero!

as Sheriff July Johnson

1980

Virus

as Admiral Conway

2011

Another Happy Day

as Joe Baker

1962

Lonely are the Brave

as Deputy Sheriff Gutierrez

1986

The Delta Force

as Father O'Malley

1987

Creepshow 2

as Ray Spruce

1988

Uninvited

as Mike Harvey

2008

1986

Radioactive Dreams

as Spade Chandler

1971

Fools' Parade

as Dallas 'Doc' Council

1981

Just Before Dawn

as Roy McLean

1970

Dirty Dingus Magee

as Herkimer 'Hoke' Birdsill

1965

Mirage

as Willard

1968

The Ballad of Josie

as Arch Ogden

1988

Nightmare at Noon

as Sherrif Hanks

1978

Brass Target

as Gen. George S. Patton

1970

Zig Zag

as Paul R. Cameron

1979

Search and Destroy

as Anthony Fusqua

1982

Wacko

as Mr. Doctor Graves

1970

1987

The Gunfighters

as Deke Turner

1985

Savage Dawn

as Tick Rand

1990

Hired to Kill

as Thomas

1979

The Double McGuffin

as Chief Talasek

1973

Lost Horizon

as Sam Cornelius

1979

Steel

as Big Lew Cassidy

1988

Born to Race

as Vincent Duplain

2003

Monster Makers

as Dexter Brisbane

1988

Top Line

as Heinrich Holzmann

1972

The Bull of the West

as 'Bear' Suchette

1969

Gaily, Gaily

as Axel P. Johanson

1991

Intensive Care

as Dr. Bruckner

1967

Hurry Sundown

as Sheriff Coombs

1978

Mean Dog Blues

as Captain Omar Kinsman

1980

Hotwire

as Farley & Harley Fontenot

1973

Deliver Us from Evil

as Walter 'Cowboy' McAdams

1987

The Gambler: The Legend Continues

as General Nelson Miles

1989

Ministry of Vengeance

as Rev. Hughes

1982

1974

1998

1986

Liberty

as Seamus Reilly

1968

The Pink Jungle

as Sammy Ryderbeit

1972

1964

1988

Counterforce

as Vince Colby

1989

Esmeralda Bay

as Wilson

1971

1965

In Harm's Way

as Colonel Gregory

1968

1991

Hangfire

as Warden Barles

1984

The Jesse Owens Story

as Charles 'Charley' Riley

1964

1977

Proof of the Man

as Ken Shuftan

1975

The Blue Knight

as Bumper Morgan

1985

International Airport

as Rudy Van Leuven

2014

1998

Hollyweird

as George Kennedy

1985

Half Nelson

as Parsons

1992

1996

Dallas: J.R. Returns

as Carter McKay

1981

Modern Romance

as George Kennedy / Zeron

2005

Truce

as Dr. Peter Gannon

1964

McHale's Navy

as Henri Le Clerc

1988

What Price Victory

as Big Buck Brayton

2005

Three Bad Men

as Ed Fiske

2003

View from the Top

as Passenger Requesting Vodka (uncredited)

2010

1992

Distant Justice

as Tom Bradfield

1991

Driving Me Crazy

as John McCready

1998

1990

Mayumi: Virgin Terrorist

as Bahraini Investigator

1985

Rigged

as Ben

1997

Cats Don't Dance

as L.B. Mammoth (voice)

1974

Sonic Boom

as Ben Dover

2008

The Boneyard Collection

as Professor Zebediah Jones (segment "The Devil's Due at Midnight")

1994

1971

The Priest Killer

as Father Samuel Cavanaugh

1997

Bayou Ghost

as Officer Lowe

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